Talk:The Element Chronicles II: Fall of the Rise/@comment-26135418-20150801144359/@comment-26135418-20150801200754

It is! And the subtitle is cool! A little confusing when I didn't know what the Rise was, but then I found out.

It is interesting to think about how an evolving, progressing world with MAGIC would use magic while advancing technology. Very cool. (I'm getting the feeling I should play Xenoblade, but I'm not a fan of Wii controls. Maybe it will be easier to play on the Wii U.)

But I was thinking: if you DID have the Rise fail, no matter what the player chooses: it would be novel for a game. (And I think most players would choose to help the Element-based Industrial Revolution.) Increasingly in games the player is the one who Decides (for the world), and that doesn't always happen. (Especially with Big Changes that conflict with Religion.)

(That's why I chose to fight for the Imperials in Skyrim, even though I believe in religious freedom. (Also, as a Wood Elf, the Nords were usually rude to me.) In future games (unless they omit the Skyrim history) the Imperials will have had to have won. If a player chose the Imperial side, that would be history. And if the player chose the Stormcloaks, history could still write off the whole affair as "the Stormcloak Rebellion" that was squashed later.)

Wow, I just realized I chose to side with posterity and petty emotions over my own beliefs. I'm a jerk! (In FOTR, I would still chose to fight FOR the advancement, even if I knew it would fail. Probably.) But my Skyrim story does have a point:

If you have a third game, history will have been written, so the Rise had to succeed or fail. And I hope you do have a third game. And I hope I can help Zyr in it. :) (Even if it is only like the Shivering Isles expansion in Oblivion.)

(This really is just a thought, and I know I'm taking it too seriously, sorry.)