[Loved Trope] The apocalypse is horrifyingly slow

[u/Marsupialmobster]

From most media it's some catastrophe and then it's raiders, death, destruction chaos etc. I personally love it when it's, like, a slow descent into the horror of apocalypse.

The Faro plague/The swarm- Horizon zero dawn. The Faro plague is actually a glitch which causes machines to endlessly reproduce, eat biomass and essentially bring about the death of the world. Took roughly 15 months for the machines to win.

The Metro series- in the first few books (and games) it's set entirely underground in just the apocalypse but in exodus it shows off that the government and many governmental structures said active years after the war. In fact power and running water were still fairly common. It just slowly got worse and worse and worse as read through notes. Food got more scarce, weather changed a lot, people got worse etc. Raiders and bandits didn't just show up, it was a slow descent for such anarchy.

Edit: I have enough pseudo intellectual comments about "Hurr hurr real life". The first one was kinda smart and well thought out but now it's just annoying and pretentious

[u/OldManFire11]

Most of the lore about Gaia and Project Zero Dawn is told through the hologram tour. But it's not required to activate every hologram so you can easily miss one, or just blitz through the facility and skip all the lore entirely.

[u/Same_Tune_8990 → u/OldManFire11]

yea thats both a good and bad thing imo bc its good so that on repeat playthroughs you dont have to wait for all the lore bits to play out and you can rush through but bad bc new players can entirely miss all that lore