https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYRkxKTMODI
A cover I made of the opening theme of the game, there's no real official version out so I thought I'd give it a shot making a slight remix.
I listen to this and I start crying as I think about all the lives that were lost because I pushed the wrong button on my controller.
God I'm so conflicted on this damn game. So much potential is just wasted with it. Just cut out the connor storyline and flesh it out more and you have a perfect game.
Idk, i thought it was all great
The "reveal" with Alice was incredibly poor writing with tons of plot holes, and Marcus's character was bland and generic with the best part being when he's with his old man. I couldn't stand their characters, especially when I could see the potential in them to be even better.
Poor writing how? Also I imagined Marcus to be pretty blank in order to be a blank canvas for a wide variety of possible political ideas the player could choose.
Why did they bother to find food and shelter for Alice if she wasn't real, when Luther knew? Why did Kara block out that she was an android? Why is her being an android a bad thing to her that she'd need to forget it? It's a cheap "twist" that has zero structure. It's the equivalent of the whole 'Decker being a replicant' thing, but somehow worse.
I imagined it was a way of showing an internalized bias against their own kind, as well as a built in need to take care of humans
Kara is obviously in denial, she wants her love for Alice to be passionate, natural, real... To be unscripted. If you watch the TV show Westworld, you'll find a lot of similarities.
The [sp]robo-holocaust[/sp] was poor taste imo
Why? It made sense to me
I laughed out loud when the androids were supposed to sit at the back of the bus and they mentioned "camps". It's so transparent what there intention is when they make those sort of parallels and its a cheap way of getting sympathy when you're comparing the oppression of androids to that of African Americans and Jews of the Holocaust combined.
Whether or not the links and references were obvious or not doesn't seem to me to have anything to do with whether they were realistic
[sp]connor & hank = best storyline[/sp]
I agree with the potential of this game. It really could have been awesome and I like the timeline/path aspect of the game; but there are holes everywhere.
Most of the choices in the game don't actually have any consequence; characters who love you for the 'choices' you made will still react to you with the same reused animations and hatred as if you went on the opposite 'choice' path. It reminds me of Fallout 4; how in a conversation it usually boils down to 3 'Yes' options and 1 'No' option. In this game you can usually clearly see the 'No' option (usually involves pulling a weapon and killing someone), while the 3 Yes options will always lead to the same outcome. For example with one character you have the choice to protest peacefully or start a riot, but it doesn't matter because it turns into a riot anyway. In another scenario you have the choose between defending yourself or not defending yourself against an attacker; in either scenario it ends up with someone dying and you ending up taking the heat for it. Most of the time it's like you're not even interacting with the story; it's like you're just throwing emotes up for whatever you feel at the time.
Also why would there be "No Androids" signs when apparently deviants are something that are just beginning to spring up; to where they keep every single deviant found in a police evidence lockup?
The premise of "but can robots be people toooooo???" is so outplayed at this point. It's not an interesting question anymore, we've seen hundreds of sci fi works that have done it already, and they all pretty much come to the same conclusion. There's plenty of current-day racial dilemmas that Cage could have tackled but instead he went for the slavery analogy that's no longer relevant to anything. Of course analyzing current-day race relations would require subtlety and god forbid some original ideas so we can hardly expect Cage to explore that.
soooooo, the song?
Well done on the cover! Haven't played the game myself, but this just sounds wonderful.
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