Loose ends in gaming

[Bob_McMillan]

I'm the kind of guy who over thinks things. Like what happens to the dead bodies of main characters in movies or games. Do they get destroyed? Are they left to rot? Does someone find them? Are they buried? Did some animals have a feast that night? Stuff like that.

One death in particular confused me, the SPOILER WARNING WEEEOOOOWEEEOOO death of Tali al Ghul in Arkham City. Batman was all like, "NOOOooo... Meh." I mean, he carried out the body of the Joker, a man who killed thousands, crippled Batgirl, and was bat shit crazy. But he forgot the body of the love of his life? He literally just dumps Joker's body onto the hood of the police car and grapples away. And then in the Harley Quinn's Revenge DLC, it's once AGAIN skipped out on. Why? Maybe they want to focus on it in Arkham Knight?

So, any loose ends you want tied?

 

[Bizzaro Stormy]

I'm the kind of guy who over thinks things. Like what happens to the dead bodies of main characters in movies or games. Do they get destroyed? Are they left to rot? Does someone find them? Are they buried? Did some animals have a feast that night? Stuff like that.

Many folks didn't care for it but Destroy All Humans: Big Willy Unleashed specifically dealt with where all the dead bodies from the previous games went. Pox transported them away and used them for meat in his fast food empire.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I'm the kind of guy who over thinks things. Like what happens to the dead bodies of main characters in movies or games. Do they get destroyed? Are they left to rot? Does someone find them? Are they buried? Did some animals have a feast that night? Stuff like that.

One death in particular confused me, the SPOILER WARNING WEEEOOOOWEEEOOO death of Tali al Ghul in Arkham City. Batman was all like, "NOOOooo... Meh." I mean, he carried out the body of the Joker, a man who killed thousands, crippled Batgirl, and was bat shit crazy. But he forgot the body of the love of his life? He literally just dumps Joker's body onto the hood of the police car and grapples away. And then in the Harley Quinn's Revenge DLC, it's once AGAIN skipped out on. Why? Maybe they want to focus on it in Arkham Knight?

I think there's an understanding that Talia, like her father, can be revived, so death is more of a slap in the wrist for them. Ra's al Ghul's dead body disappears by the end of the game (if you go back to the spiky gates where he got impaled, he's gone now). I assumed that his followers had take the body away to be resurrected, and Talia would probably get the same treatment. Still doesn't excuse Batman's emotional nonchalance though. But then again when has he been anything but that.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

I tend to overthink things too. Two things that immediately come to mind are:

1) A lot of the characters from the FEAR games, like Stokes (yes, I know she was shot in the stomach, but still) and Holiday, but the one that really gets me is Genevieve Aristide. She was a huge behind-the-scenes character in the first game, and a major player in the second game, but then she's just...gone. What happened to her? Was she killed? Did she get away? Is she being held prisoner? Honestly, I was expecting to find out that she was Alma's mother, what with her having the music box and Alma NOT killing the woman responsible for so much of her misery, but she just falls off the face of the planet.

2) Dragon Age II's Band of Three. If you take the time to read all their notes, then at the end of the game you find out that they did unleashed something that makes your current situation seem like a walk in the park. And yet this goes nowhere. There's no mention of it in Inquisition and you are just left wondering what happened.

 

[SajuukKhar]

There's no mention of it in Inquisition

There is actually.

Imshael, one of the forbidden ones, the things the band of three thinks the tiventer were trying to summon, appears in DAI.

Gaxkang and Xebenkeck, two of the other "forbidden ones" appear in DA1 and DA2 respectively.

Only one of the four forbidden ones remains, the formless one.

 

[LaughingAtlas]

I installed a mod in Fallout 3 that turns dead bodies into skeletons after [REDACTED] hours pass. I like to think they're picked clean by the tiny, glowing corpseflies installed by a different mod. Fuck playing vanilla is basically what I'm saying here.

On a more serious note, Naughty Bear makes me wonder. You'll probably go around killing the other teddies or driving them to suicide, but by the next episode, not only are the bodies gone, but everyone is alive again. It makes me wonder if someone goes around putting the stuffing back in and stitching everybody up or if the whole story of the murderous teddy bear that sometimes goes Unibear hunting while a British man tells him to kill is all just some mad delusion.

These are the things that keep me up at night. While I hug my murderous teddy bear.

 

[FPLOON]

The "big one" for me, if you can call it that, is

Spoiler: regarding Jak's future, per se...

the journey/process Jak took to become the "Mar" that ends up creating Heaven City from the ground up... I mean, we already know how Jak's life began and what would his life would basically lead up to, but what did he concretely do to make the future that he was, also, born into...

and the lack of a proper Jak 4 (which could have brought/referred back the villains from Jak & Daxter for all I cared) really bugs me to no fucking end...

Other than that, the other loose end I had was with Kingdom Hearts, in regards to Xehanort, but that was "kinda" answered in Dream Drop Distance, so there's that...

 

[Sniper Team 4]

There's no mention of it in Inquisition

There is actually.

Imshael, one of the forbidden ones, the things the band of three thinks the tiventer were trying to summon, appears in DAI.

Gaxkang and Xebenkeck, two of the other "forbidden ones" appear in DA1 and DA2 respectively.

Only one of the four forbidden ones remains, the formless one.

A fair point, but I wanted to know what happened to the Band of Three themselves. Did the survivor manage to seal whatever it was that they woke up? Did he die? What was the knowledge they discovered, and what does it have to do with Kirkwall being built in a way as if the entire city is meant to be a magical sacrifice area? There was a serious story going on in the background there, and for it to just be left alone in the next game was a downer. I was happy that another one of the Four demons showed up, but even if he just mentioned The Band of Three I would have been happy.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

I don't understand if it's in gaming in general or Batman.

Gaming in general, I mean there have only been three Arkham games. This would have been a very short discussion.

 

[Hairless Mammoth]

There's one that has bugged me for 13 years: the ending to Metroid Fusion.

Spoiler: Spoilers for a GBA game that came out back in 2002, if anyone cares

At the end of Fusion, Samus finally convices her AI Commanding Officer that the x-parasites on both BSL, the expensive research station, and SR388, the planet it is orbiting, are too dangerous to be kept alive. He gives her permission to blow up both the station and the planet, eradicating the X and the last known Metroids, baring Samus's new Metroid DNA.

She not only destroyed Galactic Federation property, but is also probably the only known source of Metroid DNA for both the Space Pirates and the shady GF people who authorized a secret Metroid lab on BSL. She should be the most wanted person in the galaxy after the events of Fusion.

After over a dozen years, we still haven't got a game that expands on the implications of Fusion's events. It is the last chronological game in the series. Everything released afterwards has been a side story or a prequel, and the closest game to Fusion was such a disappointment in both narrative and gameplay that one of my favorite game franchises hasn't been touched in 5 years.

The "big one" for me, if you can call it that, is

Spoiler: regarding Jak's future, per se...

the journey/process Jak took to become the "Mar" that ends up creating Heaven City from the ground up... I mean, we already know how Jak's life began and what would his life would basically lead up to, but what did he concretely do to make the future that he was, also, born into...

and the lack of a proper Jak 4 (which could have brought/referred back the villains from Jak & Daxter for all I cared) really bugs me to no fucking end...

A real Jak 4 that has closure to the mythos would be nice. (Or a reboot with a more The Precursor Legacy mood. Yeah, I'm one of those guys.) I still haven't found the desire to finish The Lost Frontier, but I have read some spoilers on the ending. It is just a lame way to leave the series hanging and leaves more questions than answers.

I thought that was more of a fan theory rather than something that was considered canon. It doesn't really make sense to me since Jak and Damas are descendents of Mar, that would make Jak his own ancestor.

Well, if it is canon, you can expect Daxter to sing "I'm my own granpa" when he hears the news, even if there was adoption involved.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

Well, maybe Batman couldnt find Talia after the fight? IIRC the floor collapsed didnt it?