Heresiarch
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I'm replaying JA2, and for the first time, seriously with 1.13 now.
And while reading all the stuff on the ingame laptop, I can't help but feel fascinated again by the sheer amount of details the game provides. For example, the AIM website, all the mercs have unique (and funny) written profiles, the Policies part has really seriously written legal stuff, even the websites like the one for buying flowers and the insurance one, which is next to useless, have detailed webpages. The flower selling website can even trigger a special cutscene!
Also, all the emails uniquely written by each merc, all the discriptions of the weapons, all the stuff to read at the laptop's file archive...well, you know, everytime I replay JA2, I spent at least a whole hour just to read all the stuff at the laptop before getting into actual actions.
While games like Witcher or Daggerfall, has almost as much of details to read or discover, compared to JA2 they really lack a certain charm. Maybe it's lacking the great humor of JA2, or maybe it's because most of the "lore" stuff of those games doesn't affect gameplay much, or maybe those games simply doesn't have that much interesting stuff to read.
Now I wish there are more games with the charm of JA2. It has more stuff to read than a real RPG!
And while reading all the stuff on the ingame laptop, I can't help but feel fascinated again by the sheer amount of details the game provides. For example, the AIM website, all the mercs have unique (and funny) written profiles, the Policies part has really seriously written legal stuff, even the websites like the one for buying flowers and the insurance one, which is next to useless, have detailed webpages. The flower selling website can even trigger a special cutscene!
Also, all the emails uniquely written by each merc, all the discriptions of the weapons, all the stuff to read at the laptop's file archive...well, you know, everytime I replay JA2, I spent at least a whole hour just to read all the stuff at the laptop before getting into actual actions.
While games like Witcher or Daggerfall, has almost as much of details to read or discover, compared to JA2 they really lack a certain charm. Maybe it's lacking the great humor of JA2, or maybe it's because most of the "lore" stuff of those games doesn't affect gameplay much, or maybe those games simply doesn't have that much interesting stuff to read.
Now I wish there are more games with the charm of JA2. It has more stuff to read than a real RPG!
