What's the story?

[McDuders]

I've figured that these ducks fight for glory in glatiator combat in the far off year of 1984, but what else is it to the story? Do future fighting ducks start their training at the arcade? How do they live to fight in the next match after being killed? Or is it a clone? Or their teammate filling them in? Are these matches like Hunger Games where they're thrown in against their will? Is the room at the title screen your space ship, or maybe a hub for the ducks? How did these ducks get super intelligent? Are they aliens?

And what, for God's sake, IS THE BACKSTORY OF JOHN MALLARD???

[まるてん]

uhh I think there is no backstory but it's just a joke...?

[McDuders]

I'd like to think there is. The setting for this game seems set in stone, so I just kind of thought there was.

[まるてん]

You can of course but I'm not entirely sure how there's lore in an arcade/multiplayer game about ducks.

[まるてん]

Originally posted by CarDuckGames:

The Quack Games are a brutal competition were four ducks are given the ability to come back to live and are made to fight to the death, The winner gets to keep his gift and the losers? Nobody knows what happens to the losers. (Top Quality True Lore There)

mhm.

[Jnkyrddg]

DUCK GAME

-The year is 21xx;

The Duck race continued the expansion of it's territory; but the neglect of their homeplanet left a desolated wasteland.
Rich ducks lived in the buildings in the sky; while less fortunate ducks had to live in the polluted slums on the planet's surface.

With the quality of life decreasing in the slums day by day due to surpopulation, criminality became a rising problem. Nearing anarchy, the Duck Order came up with a solution: The Quacking Games.
The most dangerous ducks were pitted against eachother in ferocious combats. Riches would bet on their favorites, profiting the Duck Order.

Soon enough, the Quacking Games became a custom, either to prevent unecessary feathershed between warring factions or for sheer entertainement.

Years passed; universal peace was achieved in the Duck Empire. The Quacking Games no longer had any other use than entertainement.
With the help of technology, virtual reality ended up replacing what the games were before.

But to remind how much of an importance the Quacking Games had in duck history, a tradition has been held for the rest of the Quacking Games, with a sign: "break glass in case of war".


TL;DR: Unreal Tournament's story sort of.

[まるてん]

I'm leaving this thread now.

[eighty]

I'm warning both of you, keep your personal drama out of these forums.