u/Evjamaranth

Ever since I'm learning more about weapons and swordmanship (thanks SellswordArts/Academy), it has been rather difficult to not get peeved at swordsmanship in any fictional media. I now have a personal pet peeve whenever any media treats swords or weapons as very heavy and cumbersome things that can only be used by big musclebound warriors, and even more when non-rapier weapons are treated as slow-moving cudgel.

Learning about nature also makes me immediately go 'hol up', such as how predators are very much cautious and paranoid about being injured, and how many of them are not actually as much of threats to humans as fiction would like you to believe (like sharks).

Alpha Wolves being a non-existent concept borne of flawed research (that the researcher himself disavowed and was actively trying to educate people that he did his research wrong) also makes me unable to take any media with 'alpha animals' seriously.

Genre Expectations and Buy In is a thing one would need to do to be able to enjoy just about any and all fictions in any medium. When you play a game, you pretty much accept the existence of tutorials and guidance, and thus for the most part we don't really question why the NPC suddenly said "Press < and > to look left and right" for example.

However, especially recently, it seems a lot of games (and some media) felt the need to explains their justification for a gameplay mechanic. Some examples:

• The golden/yellow marks in God of War being hinted to be left there by Faye, having foreseen Kratos and Atreus' adventure.
• Final Fantasy XIV continuously flip flopping between your Warrior of Light being alone in their fight against some of the Primals, or having people around, especially with very strained and forced remark about "your friends who just happens to pass by", or NPCs explicitly telling you to 'gather your party'. (I believe this is mostly the ENG side of things?)
• Also from FFXIV, actually (they have a lot of this). They didn't have Aetheryte by the Waking Sands. Which are given lore justification that "the city states didn't want to allow the Scions Access to an Aetheryte while they maintain neutrality".
• Warhammer 40.000 gave lore justification on why there can only be male space marines, despite the explanation not really lining up with how biology works, among MANY other things.

The point of my questioning is not whether these explanations are bad, acceptable, or otherwise. It's more wondering if these are even necessary to begin with? Would we even question these if it had never been brought up to begin with?

I'm quite sure there are examples out there that just makes one go "I didn't think about it, but now that you mentioned it I have even more questions"

What are other examples you know of?