- mamoru
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"Empathise with stupidity, and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot." - Iain M. Banks
The entire Marathon Trilogy was told through terminals. Granted, this was probably due to technological limitations at the time (Marathon 1 could run on a 68040!). However, it worked quite well. In those games, given that the Pfhor had disabled ships communications for the most part in the first one, and the character was trekking around ruins and derelict space stations for the other two, there was no reason for the games' AIs to be able to communicate directly at any given time.
I imagine a similar situation here. Mombasa has just been hit with a massive EMP. It doesn't seem far-fetched that the supervisor will not have direct means of communication. Unless the player or a npc restores them.
Anyway, the Marathon trilogy was a lot of fun and managed to tell a very interesting and intricate story through terminals alone. I don't think I mind seeing Bungie return to those roots.