Hey yeah lets read a 100 page book eternal from the game to set up the tone and setting of the game. Thats utterly ridiculous.
My issue isnt with story progression, but the initial setting of the tone, and whats happening. I'm not looking for some costly pre-rendered intro cinematic, just a narrator some stills and an explanation of whats happened, what now happening. Thats it.
The fact that noone bothered to give the game that initial narrative hook is all I'm talking about. Its just plain poor game design. Everything else is great, but without that opening the initial game experience lacks context and thats a failure.
I am not talking about how the game progresses, just that opening setting the scene.