As a new player to the series, I found it difficult to "connect" to any of the game's species. While the selection menu gave a quick impression of each alien faction, their introductory videos made a more lasting impression.
While I'm aware they're all available to watch on third-party platforms (youtube, wikis, etc), it would be nice to have a means to access those videos within the framework of the game, itself.
Though the introductory videos (or "Prologue" videos, if that's the correct phrasing) play at the launch of a play-session, this is a cumbersome means to glimpse what each species is about. Additionally, according to user "twimpix", multiplayer games don't play these videos at all.
A simple solution (presumably) would be to add a category to the main menu, wherein each species' prologue cinematic can be viewed independantly of launching a game. This would provide new players a taste of what each species entails, without having to start a new map, quit, and go through species selection and game-launching again. This also utilizes data which is already locally available on the player's PC's, rather than directing them to third-party sites like Youtube, which can be a burden on bandwidth for users who are stuck with draconian data-caps or limited internet in rural areas (speaking from experience, the two compound each other here in the States).
Having browsed the "IDEAS" database, I've noticed a popular petition to add an encyclopedia of Lore to the game, much like a source-book of the bygone days physical-media. Making prologue-videos accessible from the main menu would be a compatible fixture to the encyclopedia.
Thank you for your time/consideration, and thank you to DarkHerumor from the Game-Design forum for directing me to IDEAS.
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