For that matter, there should be audio logs made by you! You shouldn't be a blank slate of a cipher, unknowing and unknown to all but SHODAN. There should be audio logs where people talk about having a drink with you, an NPC who recognizes you and gets frustrated when you don't recognize them back, a bunk with your stuff in it.
Sure, this sort of justifies you being in-character as ignorant as a first-time player would be, but if the player character spent time aboard the ship. One of the game's problems is that it seems to want the player character to be just as ignorant as the player about events, and so it kludges together an excuse where apparently being put into stasis somehow takes away your memories and the awakening process involves re-uploading them, and oops there's a glitch (Probably SHODAN-induced) so you conveniently are just missing your memories of your time aboard the Von Braun and/or Rickenbacker.Įven aside how contrived this is, it's not an answer that works.
There's a lot of benefits here, a lot of interesting potential. a cyborg.Ī loyal minion of SHODAN's, one she secretly managed to convert aboard the Von Braun sometime during The Many's invasion. Imagine that instead of being a random nameless UNN soldier who's been mindwiped, tricked, manipulated, you were. the game didn't try to pretend SHODAN being your boss was a surprise twist. instead of the bizarre, nonsensical story we got. well, I'll be getting into some of these points more later, but there's still other oddities and issues. I've been over how Cyber Modules are problematic and unambiguously making a clear statement. I've been over the philosophical problems with how System Shock 2 validates SHODAN's beliefs in her inherent superiority, rather than sticking to how the prior game presented her as lucky to be in the right place at the right time. I've talked about how SHODAN being your boss in System Shock 2, while so obviously intended as a twist, utterly fails because the story tells you in the opening minutes of real gameplay.
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