Calling it now. Matt is going to make the next game based on the concepts and designs from Folklore on the PS3 WOO.
muhahahaha
Hmm so the next game is going to be "Neverending Helplessness" or..Helpless Nightmares?
I still wish you'd start theme naming them after the main characters. So then the next game would be Neverending Nightmares: Harriet's Helplessness
I like the idea though, of making a game that focus's on ones feeling of helplessness and superstition/fate. To examine what it means to feel like you cannot or are unable to control your life and the lives around you, and then examine how some superstitions come into play and can make the person feel like by paying homage to those folktales, they are adding a false layer of control over their lives. It could make for a very bitter and dark story, but also has a lot of open space to allow for creative puzzles, interesting storytelling, and plenty of moments of creepy scary fun.
"Why do bad things happen to good people"
Really I think the best answer is that bad things happen to everyone and ANYONE, we just like to fixate on the moments when they seem especially undeserving, and cast a blind eye when it happens to folk that deserve it and call it "Justice" or "getting what they deserve". Some jerk that cuts you off on the highway gets tagged by a cop down the road, we don 't have any kind of existential dilemma swirling in our minds, we think "JUSTICE". An old woman he also cut off runs into a tree and dies on impact, we think "Where is the justice? why does this always happen to good people?". Now some will say " well him getting caught by the cops isn't justice if that woman died" but him getting caught is just the first in a potential series of bad things. Arrested, car impounded, jail time, court time, fee's, possible abuse in various ways in prison, and a long life of misery and despair await the person.
But that's just me babbling.
And damnit go grab a drink! lol
