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Title: General question for BP team (Darius, General Battuta, etc)
Post by: CT27 on January 07, 2013, 08:23:11 pm
I have a general question for the BP/WIH team (though this more specifically concerns WIH):

WIH has the UEF as the protagonist faction.  Just out of curiosity, how do you feel that there's a sizable number of people who are pulling/rooting for the GTVA?
Title: Re: General question for BP team (Darius, General Battuta, etc)
Post by: Useful Dave on January 07, 2013, 08:24:43 pm
Quote from: CT27 on January 07, 2013, 08:23:11 pm
I have a general question for the BP/WIH team (though this more specifically concerns WIH):

WIH has the UEF as the protagonist faction.  Just out of curiosity, how do you feel that there's a sizable number of people who are pulling/rooting for the GTVA?

Considering the rather grey outlook they have been attempting to portray for the war, I think they would be rather chuffed at being able to sustain such a reaction both pre and post WiH thus far.

My two pennies go towards the Tevs still, Steele all the way!
Title: Re: General question for BP team (Darius, General Battuta, etc)
Post by: General Battuta on January 07, 2013, 10:29:39 pm
It's completely intended. The protagonist is a UEF service member because that allows us to tell the story we wanted to tell: a formal inverse of Age of Aquarius that begins in a state of enlightened grace and then must grapple with the needs of war and the difficulties of a morally gray universe. Where Bei reunites and saves his broken family, Laporte must find meaning and purpose in the midst of an enormous shattering.

We don't really view the two factions as protagonist and antagonist. They're two characters with rival agendas and differing conceptions of morality, but they both have good intentions for humanity. We'd be very disappointed if there weren't people rooting for both sides.

More directly put: the developers don't have a team, and if everyone agreed one side had the clear moral high ground, we wouldn't be doing our jobs.
Title: Re: General question for BP team (Darius, General Battuta, etc)
Post by: Klaustrophobia on January 08, 2013, 01:29:54 am
personally, i'm disappointed that there ARE people rooting for gtva  :no:
Title: Re: General question for BP team (Darius, General Battuta, etc)
Post by: Ravenholme on January 08, 2013, 03:01:19 am
Quote from: Klaustrophobia on January 08, 2013, 01:29:54 am
personally, i'm disappointed that there ARE people rooting for gtva  :no:

How I feel about people rooting for the UEF.
Title: Re: General question for BP team (Darius, General Battuta, etc)
Post by: MatthTheGeek on January 08, 2013, 03:38:09 am
There are people rooting for both sides even inside the BP team. That should tell you something :p.
Title: Re: General question for BP team (Darius, General Battuta, etc)
Post by: Phantom Hoover on January 08, 2013, 05:15:11 am
Which side was Darius on before he recruited the rest of the team?
Title: Re: General question for BP team (Darius, General Battuta, etc)
Post by: An4ximandros on January 08, 2013, 06:07:35 am
Obviously the Brahmans :P
Title: Re: General question for BP team (Darius, General Battuta, etc)
Post by: Colonol Dekker on January 08, 2013, 06:30:49 am
There is no Brahman, no Vishnan..............

Only Steele.
Title: Re: General question for BP team (Darius, General Battuta, etc)
Post by: Crybertrance on January 08, 2013, 07:29:14 am
Quote from: Klaustrophobia on January 08, 2013, 01:29:54 am
personally, i'm disappointed that there ARE people rooting for gtva  :no:

Quoted for truth.
Title: Re: General question for BP team (Darius, General Battuta, etc)
Post by: SpardaSon21 on January 08, 2013, 12:26:51 pm
Quote from: Ravenholme on January 08, 2013, 03:01:19 am
Quote from: Klaustrophobia on January 08, 2013, 01:29:54 am
personally, i'm disappointed that there ARE people rooting for gtva  :no:

How I feel about people rooting for the UEF.
Title: Re: General question for BP team (Darius, General Battuta, etc)
Post by: Colonol Dekker on January 08, 2013, 12:38:03 pm
Quote from: SpardaSon21 on January 08, 2013, 12:26:51 pm
Quote from: Ravenholme on January 08, 2013, 03:01:19 am
Quote from: Klaustrophobia on January 08, 2013, 01:29:54 am
personally, i'm disappointed that there ARE people rooting for gtva  :no:

How I feel about people rooting for the UEF.

Quoted for truth ;7
Title: Re: General question for BP team (Darius, General Battuta, etc)
Post by: Mongoose on January 08, 2013, 03:16:14 pm
Weren't we just having a thing about self-determination in that "lovely" Falklands thread?  One side just wants to be free to do their own thing with their own chosen system of government.  The other is forcibly invading the former group in an attempt to overthrow its government.  It's pretty clear-cut to me. :p
Title: Re: General question for BP team (Darius, General Battuta, etc)
Post by: Phantom Hoover on January 08, 2013, 04:07:54 pm
Spoiler:
If you've played Tenebra, the ones in favour of self-determination are in many ways the GTVA.
Title: Re: General question for BP team (Darius, General Battuta, etc)
Post by: Aesaar on January 08, 2013, 04:10:01 pm
Mongoose: Spoilers in case you haven't finished Act 3 yet:
Spoiler:
I think many UEF citizens would have a problem with their government being controlled by aliens.  Laporte does, and she is/was very devoted to Ubuntu.  That's why the GTVA is fighting this war: Humanity's right to self-determination.  The citizens of Sol haven't been allowed to make anything approaching an informed decision about their government.
Title: Re: General question for BP team (Darius, General Battuta, etc)
Post by: Mongoose on January 08, 2013, 04:59:26 pm
Dammit team, stop throwing in more moral ambiguities! :p