Arbor's Eve
03-26-2012, 05:05 PM
would it be weird to have live action cutscenes as an ending? i was watching a bug walking across the porch. how does that bug perceive the world? what if in that bug's head, it's a human, and sees a human world, while the bug we see is a kind of auto-pilot, completely disconnected in physical form from the mind? what if in 'reality' our minds experience our lives, and we're physically bugs, just doing our bug things? kind of matrixy, but still different enough to both be recognizable as an archtype, and different enough so nobody calls me out on it. kind of like our own thoughts and experiences drive some sort of synapse processor that tells the bug what to do. we all do our part to drive it, completely ignorant of the bigger picture.
just a check: not drinking or on drugs. just sitting outside enjoying the nice weather, watching nature work its magic. isn't it strange how perfect nature and instinct are? i'm nowhere near religious, but couldn't adam and eve have been the first modern hominid? could the apple of knowledge be a metaphor for how the ability to reason is our curse that disconnects us from nature and our inherint animal instinct? we are just animals after all. 'human'' i think, is a state of disconnect from all that.
back on topic: would it be weird to have a whole game with one descernable graphical style, and then have a live action cutscene of a bug getting squished or eaten? i'm just trying to reason out a heirarchy of negative or positive endings. it just looks strange in my head the way i'm picturing it all coming together.
if there was an end boss fight, and suddenly it all zoomed out and there were interwinding tendrils of energy that all connected at a single point, and were shown to be piloting a ladybug, would you get it if i hadn't just explained it?
just a check: not drinking or on drugs. just sitting outside enjoying the nice weather, watching nature work its magic. isn't it strange how perfect nature and instinct are? i'm nowhere near religious, but couldn't adam and eve have been the first modern hominid? could the apple of knowledge be a metaphor for how the ability to reason is our curse that disconnects us from nature and our inherint animal instinct? we are just animals after all. 'human'' i think, is a state of disconnect from all that.
back on topic: would it be weird to have a whole game with one descernable graphical style, and then have a live action cutscene of a bug getting squished or eaten? i'm just trying to reason out a heirarchy of negative or positive endings. it just looks strange in my head the way i'm picturing it all coming together.
if there was an end boss fight, and suddenly it all zoomed out and there were interwinding tendrils of energy that all connected at a single point, and were shown to be piloting a ladybug, would you get it if i hadn't just explained it?