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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OB1" data-source="post: 7412763" data-attributes="member: 6796241">Not sure about [MENTION=1125]Tonguez[/MENTION] but what I want is a complete story inside a larger story.Kind of like an adventure that tells a complete story while still being part of a larger campaign.And while you can leave things unresolved, at the end of the adventure, that piece should still have it's own satisfying beginning, middle and end.AIW tries to do this by making Thanos the protagonist of the story, but because his motives are compromised by his insanity, instead of getting an anti-hero that you empathize with even while abhorring their actions (see The Godfather, Wolf of Wall Street, Empire Strikes Back, Dexter), you end up in this weird space where to see things from Thanos' point of view you actually have to think he was RIGHT in killing half the Universe's population as if the idea weren't both completely illogical, insane and evil.  I have no doubt that the creators of AIW wanted people to empathize with Thanos in the same way people do with Darth Vader or Don Corleone, but those movies earn that.  AIW does not.</blockquote>