All sci-fi seems to be a projection of the last few years as an infinite trend. Like in 1957, cars had increasingly large fins, so sci-fi movies from that time had cars with HUGE fins as if that would go forever. In the 80s, people in sci-fi movies had even poofier hair and even bigger shoulder pads and their music was super-new wave.Marc wrote:To give you some quick replies, I used the internet terms because I'm imagining them as having fully migrated into mainstream speech by 2040 (use of "fail" in particular is spreading today). If the game took place in the present day then I wouldn't have used them.Frogacuda wrote:The internet language thing is the only one that bothers me only because it will become dated so quickly.
I kind of get it, but I think internet memes sometimes stick around (lol, rofl, wtf), but usually burn out quickly, so I worry if someone plays this in 5 years it might look silly, like saying "woot" or "glomp" or "leet" or any of the other million terms that have come and gone. Just projecting.
Yeah, I picked up on that, it wasn't a big deal, just thought it would be nice. But it's your vision. Carry on.Frogacuda wrote:There are no subs for the T-Gear because everything that's said, with one exception, is written on its monitor. The exception is when the monitor says "Please Authenticate"; this was due to a different view I had of the situation. The Japanese dialogue basically spells out exactly what needs to be done, i.e. clicking on the crest that matches the onscreen prompt, but I disagreed with this. I don't think that a top-secret piece of hardware would give its user any help. Anyone authorized to use it would already know what they have to do. I understand that you're sitting there looking at two words while the voice is speaking, and a couple of beta testers did bring this up, but in the end I decided to leave it this way.