User blog comment:Pawn of Atlas/Important Discussion for Rapture Storyline page/@comment-75.36.142.227-20140329223049/@comment-75.36.136.76-20140403055925

"The point he is overall making?"

That crappy fiction is fine and dandy as long as you get to shoot something??

If you are going to HYPE a game based on nostalgia, you might want to get the details about that nostalgia right, dont you think ? Be more honest than just presenting one dimensional characters of the standard run-of the mill games.

Again the dates are just a clue of how the history supposedly played out and why certain people had reasons to do what they did. Make Ryan look despotic long before he was forced into things he would rather not do ? You might want to read up a little about how things like that happen in the real world. You get Audio Diaries where it is not clear WHEN he said them and thus to WHAT he is reacting to. But then know-nothings point to the vague references the game delivers and come to conclusions that could be logically (and on closer examination often are) completely wrong.

Remember they intentionally hide what Atlas actually is, when it would have been more interesting to present some of the later exposures early to make you wonder a bit at motives. Instead you are forcefed and led like cattle by the nose because they think doing otherwise would confuse too many  players and it would spoil that labored plot twist.

How hard would it be to be a little more specific on the details? Especially if it just a matter of changing a few words in what they were going to record anyway? But then one tactic is to MAKE it sound like it says more than it really does -- again less effort (and $$$)  to simply throw the ideas/backstory in vaguely and you have an alibi for not making it cohesive in its details (takes skill/dedication to do that after all, and THIS IS just a FPS game...).

To me it also sounds like it presents alot of writers bias, and ALOT of modern day viewpoint being used instead of accurately representing  people and their motives who lived in the world of 60 years ago.