What have you done to me!?

[thiosk]

Uh, yes. I mean they didn`t ask me first! What about sex now? Whats my child going to be like?

a lot like you, but even stupider?


seems par for the course these days, Go for it!

 

[SmartIdiot]

I'd hunt them down.

Then I would ask "...how?"

 

[Scobie]

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[traceur_]

But revenge for being given awesome powers?
Emo hero!

Also, just to address the Prototype example (I don't remember if I have or not,) we actually find out that

Spoiler

Alex Mercer infected himself at Penn Station - he stole the vial as life insurance and he broke it when he was cornered by soldiers. Then they fucking shot him dead, then the virus infested his corpse. So the events of the game are actually all his fault. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero.

So yeah, massive spoilers there, incidentally.

Spoiler

I don't think that Alex was ever presented as a hero. When I played, I always got the impression that the game was trying to remind us of his neutrality. Well, mostly neutral anyway since he's killing the infection and saving NY but the way he goes about it sort of counter acts that seeing as you kill at least half of the citizens in the process.

 

[Curtmiester]

Uh, yes. I mean they didn`t ask me first! What about sex now? Whats my child going to be like?

a lot like you, but even stupider?


seems par for the course these days, Go for it!

Stupider? Ya, nice fail.

 

[Rajin Cajun]

The only reason I would kill someone who did that to me is quite simple. To keep them from making more of me thus I can easily rule the world. I would hug and cuddle their corpse after I decapitated him/her/them/it/etc. though I'm not a complete jerk.

 

[shwnbob]

Think about it like this if Alex never got his revenge Manhattan might not have been around after three weeks, he prevented the bomb from going off.

 

[thiosk]

Uh, yes. I mean they didn`t ask me first! What about sex now? Whats my child going to be like?

a lot like you, but even stupider?


seems par for the course these days, Go for it!

Stupider? Ya, nice fail.

Didn't come out exactly right :\ too much beer, sry.

 

[KingPiccolOwned]

A

Not a fan of anyone doing anything to me without my consent -- especially not something that's permanent and alters me physically. If there's a decision to be made about my life and especially my body, damn straight I should be the only one making it.

Now, if you're born that way, that's a whole other affair. That's pretty much on par with being born with blue eyes or brown hair...you may not enjoy the genetics you've got, but them's the breaks. In that case, I'd just try to roll with it as best I could.


Pretty sure the fact that he's being hunted like an animal has something to do with his less than zen demeanor.

As for me being ungrateful, please don't impose your values on me. If you think it would be great to wake up one day as a mutant, then awesome. I'd rather not have that foisted upon me against my will.

Just because you can't imagine someone who wouldn't want that, that doesn't mean such a person doesn't exist. Whether or not I'd want Alex's powers is largely irrelevant -- I don't want someone doing something to my physically without my consent. Period.

Tell you what, how about I cut off your arm? I think it'd be cool to wake up with just one arm! You're nuts if you don't think that's cool, too! So what if it's permanent and for the rest of your life? It's awesome! Don't get upset, now, because that would make you ungrateful.

It's not a perfect analogy, of course, and there's clearly a more obvious benefit to having superpowers than suddenly only having one arm. I'm just trying to illustrate the point that, however you personally feel about the outcome, that doesn't give you the right to decide that outcome for me. That's my decision, and my decision alone to make.

Didn't you say in your review of the game that not wanting those powers somehow makes you bland? I am usually not the one to call out the mods on a paradox, partly due to paranoia, but that doesn't really seem to make any sense on your part. However it is clearly obvious from the web of intruige things that he was most definitely used as a test subject to cover up some kind of conspiracy that the original Alex was trying to unfurl. Though that being the case I would figure myself more to be the physical manifestation of karma comming to bite their buttocks off for screwing around with biological weaponry, if I were Alex anyways.

 

[Bentjacket]

Think about it like this if Alex never got his revenge Manhattan might not have been around after three weeks, he prevented the bomb from going off.

Thank you for that magnificent spoiler.

And in any case, I think I'd be just as vengeful as anyone mentioned above (with awesome powers.) I mean really, what other excuses are you going to have to use them in a gratuitous manner that doesn't involve waiting twenty minutes? I'd want to see what I was made of, and field test it all immediately.

 

[Scarecrow38]

I guess it's way easier to make a game by dodging the idea of civilians and friendly AI telling the player that "you are crazy! go kill people because........ you are crazy! Oh have some super powers"

 

[Susan Arendt]

A

Not a fan of anyone doing anything to me without my consent -- especially not something that's permanent and alters me physically. If there's a decision to be made about my life and especially my body, damn straight I should be the only one making it.

Now, if you're born that way, that's a whole other affair. That's pretty much on par with being born with blue eyes or brown hair...you may not enjoy the genetics you've got, but them's the breaks. In that case, I'd just try to roll with it as best I could.


Pretty sure the fact that he's being hunted like an animal has something to do with his less than zen demeanor.

As for me being ungrateful, please don't impose your values on me. If you think it would be great to wake up one day as a mutant, then awesome. I'd rather not have that foisted upon me against my will.

Just because you can't imagine someone who wouldn't want that, that doesn't mean such a person doesn't exist. Whether or not I'd want Alex's powers is largely irrelevant -- I don't want someone doing something to my physically without my consent. Period.

Tell you what, how about I cut off your arm? I think it'd be cool to wake up with just one arm! You're nuts if you don't think that's cool, too! So what if it's permanent and for the rest of your life? It's awesome! Don't get upset, now, because that would make you ungrateful.

It's not a perfect analogy, of course, and there's clearly a more obvious benefit to having superpowers than suddenly only having one arm. I'm just trying to illustrate the point that, however you personally feel about the outcome, that doesn't give you the right to decide that outcome for me. That's my decision, and my decision alone to make.

Didn't you say in your review of the game that not wanting those powers somehow makes you bland? I am usually not the one to call out the mods on a paradox, partly due to paranoia, but that doesn't really seem to make any sense on your part. However it is clearly obvious from the web of intruige things that he was most definitely used as a test subject to cover up some kind of conspiracy that the original Alex was trying to unfurl. Though that being the case I would figure myself more to be the physical manifestation of karma comming to bite their buttocks off for screwing around with biological weaponry, if I were Alex anyways.

No, I said if you can't have fun playing a game in which you could do all of that, you should get a new hobby. Vast difference between embodying a character and, you know, actually waking up able to consume people.

 

[Ironic]

I guess if you wake up with no memory and kickass "super powers", the fact you have them is normal for you now. Jumping off buildings isn't that impressive when it's something you're programmed to do? Most of can walk around, but very few of us are ecstatic that we can do it.

Soooo maybe he's taking revenge, because he's BORED.

 

[Agent Larkin]

Id thank the person and then i'd go take care of China.

 

[GrinningManiac]

Yeah, I notice a lot these days in the Superhero genre across all mediums that they overuse the whole "People want superpowers, but they bring responsibility and life-changing problems = Powers make people yern for normal life"

This is all very human and very touching...the first time. After a while, you watch, ignore the whiny "I want my old life back! I don't want to FIRE MAH LAZAR at enemies anymore in awesome ways!"

Everyone who's ever watched/read/played a superhero like this thinks "I call bullshit, I would LOVE this (hence why they watch/read/play it in the first place)