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<blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 5276708" data-attributes="member: 151"><p>To Wit: the opening of Arcanum from wikipedia "<em>Arcanum begins with a cut scene of the IFS Zephyr, a luxury zeppelin, on her maiden voyage from Caladon to Tarant. Two monoplanes, piloted by Half-Ogre bandits, close in on the craft and commence attack runs, succeeding in shooting it down. A passenger aboard the Zephyr, an old gnome, now in his death throes under charred debris, tells the player to bring a silver ring to "the boy", and promptly dies. Being the only survivor of the crash, the main character is proclaimed as "The Living One", a holy reincarnate, by the only witness to the crash, Virgil. The story follows the player's path as he searches for the origin of the ring he has to deliver. Over the course of the game, the player uncovers more about the history of the continent, the motivation of the assassins out there to kill him and the identity of the one threatening to end all life on the land.</em>"</p><p></p><p>So, we have humble beginnings shattered by an attack leading to you being named a member of an elite order and being placed on a quest while an evil organization hinders him, just from that summary. </p><p></p><p>Here's Mask of the Betrayer's opening act: "<em>In Act I, the story continues from the defeat of the King of Shadows. The player wakes up, alone, in a cave in Rashemen,[9] and soon meets Safiya, a Red Wizard of Thay.[3] The player arrives at the town of Mulsantir after it has been attacked by several Red Wizards and during which Safiya's mother Nefris was killed. After finding a portal leading to Shadow Mulsantir in the Plane of Shadow which contains a shadow reflection of the Prime Material Plane, the player enters it and helps Safiya to defeat the Red Wizards. Upon returning to the Prime Material Plane, the player's party confronts the spirit god Okku and defeats his army, which leads to the player becoming a spirit eater,[8] a cursed being that hungers for and devours feys and elementals.</em>"</p><p></p><p>Again, a catastrohpic attack a character defies an evil organization who hunts him and he joins an elite force travelling with companions. Looks like there are dream sequences, too.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I would expect most games in the genre use any number of these tropes. And I'm OK with that, since in general the difference between an Obisidian and a Bioware is execution, which I feel the former does OK with and the later is stunningly successful in performing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WizarDru, post: 5276708, member: 151"] To Wit: the opening of Arcanum from wikipedia "[i]Arcanum begins with a cut scene of the IFS Zephyr, a luxury zeppelin, on her maiden voyage from Caladon to Tarant. Two monoplanes, piloted by Half-Ogre bandits, close in on the craft and commence attack runs, succeeding in shooting it down. A passenger aboard the Zephyr, an old gnome, now in his death throes under charred debris, tells the player to bring a silver ring to "the boy", and promptly dies. Being the only survivor of the crash, the main character is proclaimed as "The Living One", a holy reincarnate, by the only witness to the crash, Virgil. The story follows the player's path as he searches for the origin of the ring he has to deliver. Over the course of the game, the player uncovers more about the history of the continent, the motivation of the assassins out there to kill him and the identity of the one threatening to end all life on the land.[/i]" So, we have humble beginnings shattered by an attack leading to you being named a member of an elite order and being placed on a quest while an evil organization hinders him, just from that summary. Here's Mask of the Betrayer's opening act: "[i]In Act I, the story continues from the defeat of the King of Shadows. The player wakes up, alone, in a cave in Rashemen,[9] and soon meets Safiya, a Red Wizard of Thay.[3] The player arrives at the town of Mulsantir after it has been attacked by several Red Wizards and during which Safiya's mother Nefris was killed. After finding a portal leading to Shadow Mulsantir in the Plane of Shadow which contains a shadow reflection of the Prime Material Plane, the player enters it and helps Safiya to defeat the Red Wizards. Upon returning to the Prime Material Plane, the player's party confronts the spirit god Okku and defeats his army, which leads to the player becoming a spirit eater,[8] a cursed being that hungers for and devours feys and elementals.[/i]" Again, a catastrohpic attack a character defies an evil organization who hunts him and he joins an elite force travelling with companions. Looks like there are dream sequences, too. I would expect most games in the genre use any number of these tropes. And I'm OK with that, since in general the difference between an Obisidian and a Bioware is execution, which I feel the former does OK with and the later is stunningly successful in performing. [/QUOTE]
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