>fictitious game world>makes references to real world names and events When does it become too absurd for you? Obviously using the Julian Calendar or metric system isn’t bad but other times it stretches the limits of what you can accept.
>>746046781Don't forget DS3 having Braille.
just say it's a translation to our language, don't make up bullshit versions of every proverb like star wars does
>>746046781There just so happened to be a different guy named Molotov that it was named after.Like if you have the Gatling gun, it just means that the inventor in this universe had the same name.
>>746046984You could call it chaingun
What the hell is up with the banner adds
>>746046781Pyotor Molotov was a Powderkeg who studied under Djura; learn the lore.
>>746046781You can only write real fiction if you invent an actual universe from scratch, every non-hack creator knows this.
>>746047097And you'd be wrong. A chaingun is a single barrel auto cannon that uses a powered chain to cycle rather than recoil or gas.Some videogames have gotten this wrong and labeled gatling guns/miniguns as "chain guns" in the past. It's a fair mistake to make since miniguns are also electrically driven. Gatling guns were originally hand cranked and hopper fed, no chains involved.Rotary cannon might be a better term.
>>746046781Autism can only go so far. If you're going to be a pedant about words, you'll just be rewording the entire setting.>This is a wheel>But Germans aren't a thing in this setting, so that word won't make sense>Let's call it lopometa instead
>>746047603The funniest part is that you can basically make OP's point about every word used in the game, if you care to make the effort.>"This word has its origin in 12th century French"
>>746047672>Attested mid 18th century, from Medieval Latin rotarius, from Latin rota (“wheel”).>Attested from around 1400 as Middle English canon, canoun, from Old French canon, from Italian cannone, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na) (for more, see cane). Doublet of canyon. This spelling was not fixed until about 1800.[1][2]
>>746047603EVERYBODY hates having to read through a books very own dictionary just to understand all the in-universe terms, memes, references and other shit.
>>746046781>obviously these things I've personally made exceptions for aren't bad
>>746047921And? Your point is? The difference is between nouns and adjectives that could be directly translated from the in universe native language to English for the player's benefit, vs the name of a person who did not exist in the game's universe at all (not actually the case with the Molotov here, it's just named after a different in universe guy named Molotov).
>>746047689Multiple civilizations invented the wheel so that would be a bad example. A good one would be some fantasy or sci-fi world mentioning almost ad-verbatim a religious term from something like judaism or islam.
