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** Like the above tropers said, [[Hide Your Children]] and avoiding [[Infant Immortality]]. But I have something to add: no matter how innovative and realistic a game is, it's not going to avoid every unrealistic trope in existence. Game designers can only do so much. |
** Like the above tropers said, [[Hide Your Children]] and avoiding [[Infant Immortality]]. But I have something to add: no matter how innovative and realistic a game is, it's not going to avoid every unrealistic trope in existence. Game designers can only do so much. |
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*** Like justify it with the animus AKA a video game within a video game. A lot more clever than just saying 'deal with it'. |
*** Like justify it with the animus AKA a video game within a video game. A lot more clever than just saying 'deal with it'. |
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*** For the record, there are a total of three children in |
*** For the record, there are a total of three children in AC2, but they're strictly plot elements and you can't do anything to them. |
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* If the parting of the red sea was an illusion created by the Piece of Eden, how did they cross it? |
* If the parting of the red sea was an illusion created by the Piece of Eden, how did they cross it? |
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** This troper has a sneaking suspicion that Al Mualim was ever so slightly full of it when he claimed that all the Biblical miracles were nothing but illusions cast by the Pieces of Eden. After all, how exactly does he ''know'' that all the Biblical miracles were illusions? Because he found one of the Pieces of Eden? Nonsense. That's like some future archaeologist stumbling across an old copy of Adobe Photoshop and concluding that Elvis never really existed, he was just some guy they photoshopped into a bunch of pictures. I suspect that at the end of the series we'll discover that there's more truth to religious belief than the Templars ever suspected. |
** This troper has a sneaking suspicion that Al Mualim was ever so slightly full of it when he claimed that all the Biblical miracles were nothing but illusions cast by the Pieces of Eden. After all, how exactly does he ''know'' that all the Biblical miracles were illusions? Because he found one of the Pieces of Eden? Nonsense. That's like some future archaeologist stumbling across an old copy of Adobe Photoshop and concluding that Elvis never really existed, he was just some guy they photoshopped into a bunch of pictures. I suspect that at the end of the series we'll discover that there's more truth to religious belief than the Templars ever suspected. |
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