You think you have lag?...
...It took Jesus 3 Days to respawn
Posted by: CLOTHIER
I would love to start off the game as a child who is just sitting in the house doing normal things. A few minutes later your house will be broken into by military personel, and you get injected with anistetics and fall asleep.
[i]*Cutscene*
A few days later you open your eyes slowly, blinking, trying to shield the intensity of the light in the room with your hands, but you can't. You are strapped down to a chair...
The military would break into a civilian house SWAT style, inject and then abduct a child in full view of the parents, and then take him into a room and tie him to a chair? What are they expecting from this kid, The Incredible Hulk?
Granted, it may be more interesting than the initiation from the novel, but it's a million miles from what really happened with John playing KoTH and the whole coin flipping with Dr. Halsey. It just wouldn't work, I'm sorry.