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Posted by: RoundHammer117
The scripted death is a contrived plot-device to spark both
false melodrama and a manipulated empathic emotional
response.
It is for the monkey in the back row of the theater to panic
and scream: "Oh, no! Who will be next?! Will they make it?!"
If the series had started with Reach, then it might have some
impact. Yet when this all started, it was made clear Reach had
been a rout, like Operation: Market Garden in 1944.
I did not care, they zapped a character I had been wanting to
shoot myself since the first mission . . . worthless annoying
b*tch . . . Honestly, they cannot regrow limbs from tissue
cultures in the 26th century? Joseph Haldeman did that in The
Forever War, published in 1974. They have to resort to cranky,
primitive prosthetic limbs?
At least it was not the hearty "F**K YOU!!!" modern warfare
delivers when your guy gets killed regardless of how well you
do.
You guys all know the designers laugh at we, the players when
they come up with this nonsense, right? "How many nerd-rage
frenzies can we get with this idea? Do you think it will be
enough to make them break the game so they have to buy
another copy?"
It is all done on purpose. I will not be convinced otherwise.
Good thing I did not pay for my copy.
Hmmm well since everything in a.... script is.... scripted.... yeah, her death was certainly scripted I suppose.
Anyway, since the Forever War really happened, clearly the technology should have advanced since then in a completely separate fictional universe. Regardless of the logic leap in arguing that the rate of technology growth of one sci-fi universe should be the same in another, they CAN flash clone limbs(it's mentioned in Halsey's Journal to account for the number of active Spartans there are as the augmentation washouts had new limbs cloned for them behind the scenes and were eventually put in back into active service as Spartans) but it's not as fast as the name "flash clone" would have you believe. Kat had just lost her arm quite recently (in one of the trailers for the game, also the same event where the previous Noble 6 dies)and for her to keep going out on missions and not have to wait for a new arm (and however long it might be to attatch in and have it working properly, much less for it to successfully receive the same augmentations that the rest of her body and her previous arm would have had) they just stuck a prosthetic on her armor until there was time for the proper surgery.
As for your generalization of all developers acting the same way and having the same kind of disdain for their fans, well, that's a wonderful cynical view you have there, but I doubt most love dealing with the hassle of all the canon questions and complaints that come up when something is contradicted, nor do I think that if Bungie did this kind of thing because they liked to laugh at their fans would they go to all the work of making something as elaborate as Halsey's Journal, that came with the expensive editions of Reach, in order to try and rectify seeming canon discrepancies that their new game was going to create. If they were trying to make discrepancies to get a rise out of fans and laugh at their reactions this would be pretty counterproductive to that.
I'm sure it's hard not to laugh at some of the nerdier questions that come up out of a game's story by some fan. That doesn't mean they're laughing to be malicious towards the fans. I would laugh a bit at the situation too if I spent three years concepting, writing, programming, testing, etc, etc, and I went to so much work to craft an epic dramatic interactive experience to try to impress and exhilarate fans and the first response I heard from said fans was, "Why is Doctor Halsey's hair light brown here when she is clearly said to have auburn hair in an earlier text!!!!!! ARRRRGGGHH!!!!"
But ya know, your unchangeable monolithic view of the entire development community as you say, can't be changed, so I guess it's good you can find a way to justify not paying for your -blam!-.
[Edited on 11.21.2011 7:31 AM PST]