Because the burden of saving humanity's chance for a future lies on Aloy, it was important to the team that she and the characters around her seemed believable and relatable, reacting how actual people might when they discover San Francisco as ancient ruins of their ancestors, whom players can imagine as our near future selves, destroyed by their own technology. Aloy and humanity's relationship with their past and present is further elevated in "Forbidden West." It's a result of the studio doubling down on what made the first game's story so memorable to its fans: the idea of "futurist archaeology." In "Forbidden West," for example, the recipe and cooking method for pizza is a new and intensely intriguing concept for humans a thousand years in the future who have lost touch with their history.