'Ending' rant

[Toastpiratewilly]

I know S.R. is about the long-term development of your ranch, replayability, and probably the least focused on story; but they just had to hype up to the giant ancient warp chamber with a bunch of notes from Hobson making it seem like a big deal, only to have it 'end' with the really cool gigantic 'ending' room having nothing special besides a note from him pretty much saying "It broke lmao".

And then they try to make it all emotional with a song from your "friend", who only sends you letters once a week and who you forget even exists about a minute later, gives you 2 achievements for reading some notes. The only emotions I am feeling is the resentment towards Hob for what could most-possibly be the longest planned out trolling attempt in existence.

[Kailler]

it's not at all just "it broke", it's a story about his development as a rancher and person, growing in both experience and compassion. he turns back from the teleporter because he decided it wasn't for him, nothing to do with it breaking.

[Toastpiratewilly]

Originally posted by Kailler:

it's not at all just "it broke", it's a story about his development as a rancher and person, growing in both experience and compassion. he turns back from the teleporter because he decided it wasn't for him, nothing to do with it breaking.

'Aight but it was still a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ story, and if it ain't broke how come we can't use it (yet?)

[HeyThere]

Originally posted by Toastpiratewilly:

And then they try to make it all emotional with a song from your "friend", who only sends you letters once a week and who you forget even exists about a minute later

I just wanted to say that like... You're 1,000 LIGHT YEARS AWAY FROM CASEY MY DUDE...
Just to give you perspective, thats basically if you were to travel away from Earth at the speed of LIGHT for 1000 YEARS.

Or another way to think of it is this: an Astronomical Unit is basically how far the Earth is from the Sun. 1 AU is around 93 million miles / 150 million kilometers. 1,000 light years is around 63,421,077 astronomical units. The end of the solar system, from the sun, is around 122 AU.

My point is that I'd say its pretty easy to forget a friend if they are in a completely different spot in the galaxy, and in a whole nother solar solar system...

[evilintent]

in all honesty, im holding out hope for that to become a new area with a hobson/thora update, i mean with the docks and GD not yet having their own rancher quests despite every other area having one

[TanatTheTired]

Understandable. The problem with the story is that developers tried to make us engaged in both of these stories, but the problem is, that we've never seen or interacted with either of them, so it's very difficult to care about somebody we have no connection with whatsoever. On the other hand, interactions with other ranchers are actually interesting, because we often enage with them - either through Ranch Exchange, or doing jobs in their respective areas. We learn about their backstory, what they're after on Far, Far Range, what's troubling them, so it's a lot easier to feel for them.

[Ardenian]

Never having taken the story seriously, I don't have a problem with this shallow end, actually liking it for the parallelity that comes from Beatrix, her leaving love to set out on a adventure whereas he chooses love over adventure.

I do have more of a problem with this one that you mentioned:

Originally posted by Toastpiratewilly:

(...) "friend", who only sends you letters once a week and who you forget even exists about a minute later (...)

They could reinforce this a lot more by providing more backstory about her and her girlfriend, maybe by starting the game with some paintings depicting the departure of Beatrix from Casey. Right now, it is just a collection of some random stories thrown at you with barely giving context whatsoever.

[Wintermute]

I actually like the way story is handled. If you want to dig into it, it has a good idea to consider. If you don't - nobody is forcing it onto you.

[Zut]

So literally every time I've played slime rancher I haven't really payed any attention to the story I just liked having slime friends and exploring the place and make machines with the lab part of the ranch but at the end when he says "I ended up staying" or whatever I just lose interest in the entire game and leave it for a year and then go back to playing it on a new save... Like I just finished the game again and now I'm not gonna play it ever again

[PSYCHIC HIVEMIND CYCLIST DEATH]

I feel resentment at Hobs for sacraficing what would have likely been a massive contribution to science, and then choosing to think with his ♥♥♥♥ rather than his head

[Toastpiratewilly]

Originally posted by SyntheticBun:

I feel resentment at Hobs for sacraficing what would have likely been a massive contribution to science, and then choosing to think with his ♥♥♥♥ rather than his head

Same, who knows what could've been behind that teleporter. Unlimited riches, power, the origin of life, etc. But NOOOOO he just had to chicken out like the old decrepit ♥♥♥♥♥ he is.

[evilintent]

it is possible that he could leave beatrix with the knowledge of how to use that teleporter, and in doing so leave her to discover what lies beyond (if the devs put that in). Allowing us to continue the story

[ShiroNeko]

Originally posted by Kailler:

it's not at all just "it broke", it's a story about his development as a rancher and person, growing in both experience and compassion. he turns back from the teleporter because he decided it wasn't for him, nothing to do with it breaking.

Too bad that i didn't bothered with reading walls of text while focusing on making efficient automatic plort farm when i was interrupted by overly long unskippable credits.

[TheFireDragon]

nice necro mate. Also wow, It's so horrible of the devs to put credits in their game. And it's 2 minutes long with a nice song ?! What kind of human could even think about doing something like this.

[ShiroNeko]

Originally posted by TheFireDragon:

nice necro mate. Also wow, It's so horrible of the devs to put credits in their game. And it's 2 minutes long with a nice song ?! What kind of human could even think about doing something like this.

It's too fresh for necro but no, putting credits in your game is not terrible. Terrible is putting in your game unskippable jumpscare credits showing up after mail that i didn't read. Wouldn't mind if mail itself had button that plays credits when you press it so you can see credits only when you decide that you're done with the game.
But i was in the middle of setting up automatic plort farm and wanted to skip few days so i can unlock advanced blueprint faster but credits started. Wasn't done with the game but credits showed up anyway.

[TheFireDragon]

Originally posted by FL4K:

It's too fresh for necro

It's been more than 2 months...

Originally posted by FL4K:

Terrible is putting in your game unskippable jumpscare credits showing up after mail that i didn't read.

Hey, the didn't read part is on you. Secondly, the credits is supposed to be a surprise, after you read that mail. And last of all, it's literally 2 minutes... Even if you don't care, that's not too much.

Originally posted by FL4K:

Wouldn't mind if mail itself had button that plays credits when you press it so you can see credits only when you decide that you're done with the game.
But i was in the middle of setting up automatic plort farm and wanted to skip few days so i can unlock advanced blueprint faster but credits started. Wasn't done with the game but credits showed up anyway.

Credits aren't linked to the end of the game, there's no end of the game. The credits are linked to the end of the story, which happens to be after you finished reading that mail. Don't know if you noticed, but you can still play after the credits.