Ok, I know that not EVERYTHING in that game works that way and that it is suposed to be the most important discovery ever but still... Anyways, speaking of games with codexes let's talk now about another series with a huge one: Assassins creed (well, only since the second instalment). Become a cool assassin? Check. Visit awesome cities on their most representative eras? Check. Crazy conspiracy spanning centuries? Check. Whinny bartender from modern New York? Wait what!?

Yep, it seems like now you can't just play these awesome games without having an explanation so the guys from Ubisoft decided to introduce the Animus: Scientific explanation at it's finest.

 Yusuke: I never had a big problem with Assassin's Creed's explanations. Except how they used Leonardo Da Vinci's character. Seems like they really don't expand on him, and are happy to leave him as your talking work bench.

ElGato: You got me at a disadvantage there since I've only played IV and XIII but I know what you mean. Why the hell would you sell a Phoenix feather for only 100 gil?! And if it brings people back from the dead, why wouldn't that stupid bard use it to revive his dead girlfriend? But no, he had to go all emo and cry to the moon. Seriously, I don't wanna get too spoilery here but, how many people died in IV alone? And I'm sure that a lot more died throughout the series, right? Sure, at least they don't start ranting with an hour and a half long explanation of how they capture the phoenixes and keep them in cages to harvest their tail feathers as if they where chickens and why doing it this way causes the item to have a lesser quality wich would explain why it never works when people actually die. ... Hmm.

Yusuke: Questions that will probably never be answered. Let's move on to a subject you might be more familiar with; inventory systems in any game. Where do they keep all that stuff? Today I was just playing Minecraft, and in my inventory, I have a stack of cobblestone, several diamonds tools, fifty loafs of bread, seven wheat stalks, a saddle, two buckets, and a door. I would love to see somebody try and carry all that on them at once, 'cause I'm pretty sure that it's impossible. And for the sake of this blog, I opened up my Fallout New Vegas save and looked in my inventory. I've got about two hundred pounds of gear on me, including, but not nearly everything, medicine, a flaming sword, a switchblade, a stealth suit, and a nuke launcher complete with the odd one or two launchable nukes.

ElGato: I love the tought of opening a sack and pulling out a door, it reminds me of my childhood days.

At least those games don't get super complicated with inventory and stuff, unlike Fable III. On that game, every time you press start you get transported to a whole mannor kinda place, buttler included. Instead of doing a simple menu where you could easily switch inventory you need to wait for the place to load, then get to the inventory room, wait for the room to load, equip the weapon and then go back. Every time you level up, you need to go back to this mannor and enter some weird hallway to spend your points in the abilities you want! WTF! Why wouldn't you do an actual menu?! Is it not realistic enough?! Does that even matters?!

And don't let me get started on gifting in that game, I'll just say it sucks.

ElGato:Yeah, I remember how in GTA San Andreas you could go to the gym and get some muscles, It had absolutely nothing to do with how much weapons you could carry but still I liked to role-play it myself, pulling out the big guns only if my character looked strong enough to carry them on his pocket. I love the fact that GTA had into account the weight of a weapon only if you pulled it out. Throw a few rockets a the cops, then switch to your knife and start running. On a side note, there's no bigger fun than punching a cop in the face and then trying to out run them with a chubby CJ:

ElGato: Of course, JRPG plot point #5, young good-for-nothing turns out to be the chosen one. I wonder if ancient gods just like people with colorful dressing to pose for the posters when the ultimate cataclysm is stopped

ElGato: Yeah, I don't play much zombie games except for L4D but I do follow them and it's true that some out there to give out super detailed information about why there was a zombie outbreak in the first place. Take The last of us, for example: they are using this explanation of some fungus that evolved and now instead of using ants it uses humans as hosts and transforms them into zombies, yeah, it'll get you to thinking if something like this can actually happen eventualy but it's still a completely unnecesary explanation. Then of course there's RE with all of it's different viruses and stuff and even though I have not played any of the games there's something about it being developed by japanese that makes me think that it may have some kind of horribly convoluted explanation.