Morbid curiosity, what do people think? I'm not a HUGE lit buff, but writing analysis is one part of my day job, which, deffo is the reason I don't enjoy reading for fun* anymore.
All that for context being said.
I'm ok with 80% of the descriptions, not a whole lotta ways you can talk about the Bessemer process or steam donkeys, and I'm super happy they didn't use a term like "Hydraulic engine" (if that would even apply, I dunno, not my lane).
The events though? Like straight out of a monday morning staff meeting, reuter's article, or a police incident report (which is hyperbole, ofc, unless you've read a few and recognize the fact-inteensive diction). Even an honorific or two like in civ would help imo. "My King, the landowners have brought to the Cabinet's attention that farms in X are being....underused.".
All the pomp and circumstance of Romantic writing that happened in this era, and they couldn't even throw in a quote from Byron? Psychology unlock? Sounds like it's straight out of the DSM: "The idea that mental disorders can be approached medically". What an absolute missed opportunity to quote Freud, cause that's the one everyone cares about.
I dunno, literature is debatable, and I'm not a writer, but I do feel like the game could've benefitted from an underpaid Victorian lit student who'd work for coffee and pizza, and maybe make a few passes over some of the events.
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Specifically not discussing WHY this was the case, that's another can of worms, but I haven't seen any posts about the quality of the writing, which, imo, was stronger in their last gen games.
All that for context being said.
I'm ok with 80% of the descriptions, not a whole lotta ways you can talk about the Bessemer process or steam donkeys, and I'm super happy they didn't use a term like "Hydraulic engine" (if that would even apply, I dunno, not my lane).
The events though? Like straight out of a monday morning staff meeting, reuter's article, or a police incident report (which is hyperbole, ofc, unless you've read a few and recognize the fact-inteensive diction). Even an honorific or two like in civ would help imo. "My King, the landowners have brought to the Cabinet's attention that farms in X are being....underused.".
All the pomp and circumstance of Romantic writing that happened in this era, and they couldn't even throw in a quote from Byron? Psychology unlock? Sounds like it's straight out of the DSM: "The idea that mental disorders can be approached medically". What an absolute missed opportunity to quote Freud, cause that's the one everyone cares about.
I dunno, literature is debatable, and I'm not a writer, but I do feel like the game could've benefitted from an underpaid Victorian lit student who'd work for coffee and pizza, and maybe make a few passes over some of the events.
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Specifically not discussing WHY this was the case, that's another can of worms, but I haven't seen any posts about the quality of the writing, which, imo, was stronger in their last gen games.
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