So I found out about this game a week before it was released and there were three reasons I wanted to get it. It was a stealth game, it promised a good story, and it came with TF2 hats.
One of the first few things I thought about while playing was how much of a hypocrite Jensen was, or maybe it was me. At the beginning of the game Jensen talks with his girlfriend (which took me awhile to figure out since he displays almost no affection towards her) about how he's against the company making military augments. There was even a demonstration of a weapon called 'Typhoon' which kills everyone around the user, Jensen seemed opposed to these inventions. Then, less than an hour into the game, Jensen himself becomes super augmented and even later uses the same exact Typhoon weapon he was against. He says every now and again about how he was forced to get the augments and he didn't have a choice, yet I was willingly getting new upgrades and prosthetics all the time.
EDIT: Ok so those upgrades are optional and aren't required in the main missions, so I guess that's on me.
In the trailer for the game, I saw that augmented (robotic implanted) people had a serious side effect where they had to take this drug and unless they had their regular dose of robococaine their body would reject the augments and they would die.
"oh" I thought, "Well since my character is augmented up the ass then I'll have to take that drug too and maybe even begin to understand the consequences of playing God" however, the game soon explains that Jensen is the only augmented being who doesn't need to take the drug. So whenever I see someone suffering from withdrawal or talking about how much they hate augments I can't feel as sympathetic towards them.
These next bits don't have to do with the hypocrite parts, I just wanted to mention them.
While it was pretty neat how you are given the option to play the entire game without killing anyone, it seems more of a logical option than a moral one. Knocking someone out is silent and much more efficient than killing (it takes almost a whole rifle clip to kill a heavy, but it only takes one tranquilizer dart to knock him out). I wish they would give the option of not killing the bosses too, just for the sake of consistency.
One more thing that really pisses me off, you can get caught while hacking. You can't look around much while hacking so if someone sees you, you won't know until you already get shot and let me explain what this is like. You remember those parts in old cartoons where a character is about to cross a street, he looks left then right then left then right and just when it seems clear he crosses he gets hit by a car? THAT'S WHAT IT'S LIKE!....also the loading time takes forever which doesn't help if you suck at stealth games like me and die a lot.
One of the first few things I thought about while playing was how much of a hypocrite Jensen was, or maybe it was me. At the beginning of the game Jensen talks with his girlfriend (which took me awhile to figure out since he displays almost no affection towards her) about how he's against the company making military augments. There was even a demonstration of a weapon called 'Typhoon' which kills everyone around the user, Jensen seemed opposed to these inventions. Then, less than an hour into the game, Jensen himself becomes super augmented and even later uses the same exact Typhoon weapon he was against. He says every now and again about how he was forced to get the augments and he didn't have a choice, yet I was willingly getting new upgrades and prosthetics all the time.
EDIT: Ok so those upgrades are optional and aren't required in the main missions, so I guess that's on me.
In the trailer for the game, I saw that augmented (robotic implanted) people had a serious side effect where they had to take this drug and unless they had their regular dose of robococaine their body would reject the augments and they would die.
"oh" I thought, "Well since my character is augmented up the ass then I'll have to take that drug too and maybe even begin to understand the consequences of playing God" however, the game soon explains that Jensen is the only augmented being who doesn't need to take the drug. So whenever I see someone suffering from withdrawal or talking about how much they hate augments I can't feel as sympathetic towards them.
These next bits don't have to do with the hypocrite parts, I just wanted to mention them.
While it was pretty neat how you are given the option to play the entire game without killing anyone, it seems more of a logical option than a moral one. Knocking someone out is silent and much more efficient than killing (it takes almost a whole rifle clip to kill a heavy, but it only takes one tranquilizer dart to knock him out). I wish they would give the option of not killing the bosses too, just for the sake of consistency.
One more thing that really pisses me off, you can get caught while hacking. You can't look around much while hacking so if someone sees you, you won't know until you already get shot and let me explain what this is like. You remember those parts in old cartoons where a character is about to cross a street, he looks left then right then left then right and just when it seems clear he crosses he gets hit by a car? THAT'S WHAT IT'S LIKE!....also the loading time takes forever which doesn't help if you suck at stealth games like me and die a lot.
