Ingress plot

[jack]

Do you want to join the shadowy conspiracy of aliens infiltrating the earth? Or the shadowy conspiracy rejecting them but adopting their methods?

Only NOW do I start to think "which side is correct?" is massively begging the question!

I think maybe I'm going to start calling the Enlightened "Kang" and the Resistance "Kodos" from now on :)

Comments

[andrewducker]

I assumed that was by design. You want to have two groups, both of which can assure themselves they are the "good guys", otherwise people will be more likely to join one side than the other.

(Unless the bad guys get better suits, of course.)

[jack]

Yes, they're obviously written to be a fairly arbitrary choice, it gives a two-sentence summary of both that's not terribly informative and says "pick one". That's probably a good choice for all the reasons you say.

So I got "there's not a right answer". But I hadn't really thought about the plot, so I hadn't stopped to explicitly consider "both are bad guys" :)

[damerell]

Presumably also the plot is rather constrained by the fact that game mechanically the two factions are each other in different hats.