Where's the option to tell the truth without implying that humans should reject prosthetics all together and instead implicate all of these influential men in acts of international espionage and terrorism such that their schemes are shown for what they are and without shoving some "message" down people's throats? Why is it that each major perspective comes packaged with additional implications outside of the moral underpinnings that they represent? What if I condone corporate regulation without believing in secret, government surveillance?
I feel like these caveats could be more nuanced. I feel like there could have been more alternative choices to consider than just these three.
Andrew Ward
Why did everyone become sane again after the game ended?
Henry Scott
Just back Sarif m8, get that sick corporate profit swag.
Aiden Howard
Its because its Invisible War 2.0
Landon Lopez
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Lincoln Ross
Human Revolution was pretty shit at addressing it's own themes. Honestly just use take downs in the hub areas (because you totally can they just hide the prompts and hope you don't notice) and stop caring about that stuff.
Alexander Lee
Where's the option to not betray UNATCO and just go to Hong Kong like you were going to anyway?
Cooper Jenkins
That option would have required the developers actually know what they were doing.
Invisible War had better ending.
Something about female JC Denton.
Matthew Campbell
It's shit
Matthew Watson
Did everyone regain their sanity at the end? After the stock footage, it just takes you back to the main menu. Is that what they imply in Mankind Divided? If so, I would think that when Jensen defeated the Hyron that this would've stopped the signal that was being sent to the killswitch/biochips and therefore everyone would've, maybe slowly, regained their senses.
I chose to tell the truth, mostly because I felt none of the options would've justified lying.
Why?
Eh? I must've missed that part. It's easy to lose track of the main plot when they throw so many details at you and the pacing slows down to a crawl as you complete sidequests that each contain minor subplots of their own.
Jack Fisher
Why did this become a thing?
Levi Cruz
Because people who write video game storylines are fucking hacks
Camden Richardson
muh fruit flies adam
Ayden Bell
And in the case of Mankind Divided, fucking blacks
Christian Diaz
That's one manly fucking chin.
Michael Richardson
It happened in BG2 too and Holla Forums shits itself over this game
Jace Barnes
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Isaiah Collins
Darrow is objectively the best ending.
As for the rest of HR, it had a massive deadline problem. Like another half of the game had to be cut because they would never finish it on time or within budget (sounds a little familiar Kojima?). Upper Hengsha, Montreal and London were hubs or at the very least planned hubs. Also, Barrett's fight was originally in the warehouse at the docks when you plant the bomb for Tong. So originally much later than it was.
Christopher Bennett
i mean yeah, thats probably what would happen
Isaac Sanders
Why? The truth, as in "there is a secret society that wishes to control the world and use augmentations to do it", doesn't necessarily imply that augmentations per se are somehow responsible for creating people who wish to abuse them. You wouldn't say that guns produce psychopaths, but rather that they're a tool that can be used by them. You wouldn't say that cars produce road rage, but rather that the nature of traffic enables it. You wouldn't say that money creates greed, just that jews are gonna jew. So why are augmentations different?
The story can be summarized as, "the illuminati, which is comprised of a select few wealthy individuals with a whole lot of public influence, would like to control the flow of human evolution. This is why they sent a highly trained, covert military force to the headquarters of a corporation that discovered a pivotal key to unlocking human potential, ordered them to retrieve it and those responsible for creating, and then tried to use it to control the population and spread information that would allow them to keep people in check while also benefiting from the advances in technology that would've been born from said pivotal discovery."
Point is, I think people would respond more to the whole "secret society" thing than they would to their means of abuse. I could be wrong, though.
Bentley Hall
What we need is gun control.
Dylan Campbell
Yeah we do, guns are dangerous and we shouldn't have a culture where we handle dangerous things for recreational purposes.
Jeremiah Rogers
that would make sense, but in general the common people dont react in a way that makes sense.
Leo Lee
You're right. What we need is thought control.
Sebastian Flores
stop thinking about me naked
Adam Price
That's retarded, if we remove the sources of harmful thoughts then we won't need thought control, think before you post fam.
Jayden Bennett
Apocalypse ending is ALWAYS the best ending, in all of the games
Brayden Sanders
He did think before he posted, he doesn't have the source of dumb thoughts next to him like you do.
Levi Gomez
I invoke Steban Bolyneux's law.
Cooper Barnes
not everyone is as privileged as to inherit an orb of confusion you shitlord some people had to work for their stupidity
Jeremiah Wood
i know you're throwing a ruse but your giving me a sadness
Xavier Russell
You know what? I'ma play devil's advocate for just one sec.
The ending was shit and needed to be done better, but I can't call it a complete letdown. It did the single biggest thing it needed to - let the player express their opinion on the transhumanist theme that dominated the game. IMO if it had diversified it a bit more - use in-game material for the ending, leave ways for players to stress themselves what they think is best (I only picked Darrow because I believed truth will out, not because I hate augmentations) - then it would have been more enjoyable. Combine that with also working up
What I wanna know is, was Mankind Divided's ending better or worse?
Ryder Lewis
It just ends abruptly. Felt like it was setting up for a sequel than concluding the story it already had which had less stakes than the first one.
Connor Bell
Because it's fun, being able to complete the quests then just punching everyone in the face with nonlethal.
Cooper Mitchell
I think it is since it's full of augs walking around normally. It just seems weird that there'd be an off button, or that it would have been built to only operate while the signal was active. Can you picture someone losing their fucking mind and going berserk, only to revert to normal because the chased someone into a tunnel or whatever and there's no signal?
Leo Young
If I made you sans, would you die?
Hunter Lopez
You still get different dialogue from your companions depending on which you pick, and there's only two options.
Henry Ramirez
This.
Liam Kelly
It's Console Deus Ex, dummy. That's all you need to say to any question about it.
Nathan Roberts
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Hudson Gray
My nigga.
Everyone tells me im crazy for killing the firekeeper in das3.
Aiden Ortiz
What did you guys think about The Missing Link DLC? Especially since it's integrated(if you can call that integrated) in the Director's Cut version and that you can't skip it
David Johnson
There's no logical reason a person would implact technology that would allow them to be controlled.
Dylan Campbell
More challenging than the base game but still shit
Hudson Bennett
What was the point of a computer made of screaming ladies? That just seemed so fucking unnecessary, not in the OMG WOMEN ARE LITERALLY OBJECTS sense but in the is this really the best they can come up with to keep their super secret antartic base from exploding?
Evan Flores
That garabge was straight up cut from the original game.
Even when i played the game before this "dlc" anouncement i noticed that section of the game was clearly cut somehow.
And they were so lazy they didnt even bother to re-integrate it right
Nathaniel Lee
Just like the entire game. Seriously HR is full of shit that directly contradicts the first game and even on its own does not form a realistic or believable world.
Levi Murphy
Evil southerner 2.0 was fun, and has probably the best quotes in the game, but other than that huge meh
Luis Butler
People already do that to some degree. Just take a look at at all the fucks with their smartphones who don't give a shit about their data or privacy. Big data-centers sell their information to other companies to create targeted content, to the point where all people see on their social media feeds is whatever narrative the MSM is trying to push. Basically webm related.
Samuel Foster
This. Missing Link essentially being an off-the-grid prison run by a private military company for inhumane experiments didn't seem that believable, the concept itself isn't that hard to grasp but for some reason everything kept pointing to it being bullshit despite it being possible to gas the entire camp.
Isaac King
I liked both HR and MD.
They reminded me how amazing the original is.
Levi Edwards
HR already dragged on as it was. The return to hengsha almost flatlined the game, and far too many computers/email padding.
Noah Hernandez
I hope you're posting this realizing you're also talking about everyone here, because the only people who have true privacy on an Internet-enabled device are the ones who take /fucko/ threads seriously and don't use any phone, smart or dumb.
Christopher Nguyen
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Samuel Jones
HR and MD are inferior in everything but the UI to the OG Dude Sex. Jensen is also not even a half of the protag JC is.
Andrew Harris
It was fine. I have no strong feelings about its inclusion, the sea-floor part was cool and the revelations about the spine replacement were kind of horrifying, and I can only imagine the game would've had an abrupt change in tone otherwise, so my stance is generally positive.
In fairness, I've liked all the Deus Ex titles (not the Fall; haven't played MD yet), albeit for differing reasons.
Samuel Ortiz
I think you might be retarded. Or at least you know some fucked up Holla Forums guy.