If anyone is going to be playing this game, it might a good idea to record the cinematics and make a video. The last game had some interesting NWO programming in the game. My guess is the new one will be the same.
(08-24-2011 12:44 AM)RaFTertheONE Wrote: [ -> ]If anyone is going to be playing this game, it might a good idea to record the cinematics and make a video. The last game had some interesting NWO programming in the game. My guess is the new one will be the same.
Plenty of real life conspiracy references, main one is about FEMA being used by the "bad" guys, than there is a lot of Illuminati mentions. The main theme is about pros and cons of technology and progress, so is the final choice at the end of the game, where there are 4 end videos based on what your choice is.
The last game I played with any real concentration was Morrowind (Elder Scrolls), and to be honest, that taught me a fair amount of things in my early stages of fully "waking up", but that's no surprise with the secret societies, the blades and of course the mages guild with the Eye of Horus logo.
Seriously, I was only 20, so a fair few years back, and outside of old Egypt projects in school I hadn't even seen the Eye of Horus at that point. It's probably that the game is trying to get people interested in the Occult, more than anything, but I already had a belief in God at that point, so recognised certain themes that kept propping up, especially the fact that in the game you play this "potential saviour" type figure that has to attain enlightenment and mystical items before being able to unite the land and it's tribes under one council. You'd probably miss most of it if you didn't play the game fully, following the storyline, even the "tribunal" gods are just elitists who have set themselves up as rulers in the game. Loads of elitism, guilds, government spies, alchemy...
It's the same people who made "Fallout", which a friend tells me is dodgy as heck with it's symbolism. He said there's a Crowley quote in that one too. But my gaming days are long gone, and never really were that intense, being that I've never owned my own games console and didn't have a PC until I was 18, and even then didn't have the sort of cash to buy games.
i just finished playing Deus Ex :human evolution
good game.
and yeah there are mentions of conspiracy.
FEMA being used by the "illuminati" who are a business consortium
in the game you get choices of being a good guy or side stepping some rules.
at the end of the game you even get a choice of what will happen.. as you do throughout the game
it's quite a gripping storyline with great gameplay, funky puzzle elements and plot twists courtesy of the side missions as they can and do affects the main mission.
as for programming... naaaaaah
i don't think so.
remember games, much like many movies etc will soak up hot topics and buzzwords and incorporate them into the game/movie/tv show storyline.
i don't think of it at all as "programming" at all.
but people will see in things that which they WANT to see and draw silly conclusions.
Ra\fter.. why don't you go and download Hellgate http://hellgate.t3fun.com/home/home.aspx
i am sure you'll have lots of panic attacks and "it's blatant programming!" fun there too
the storyline involves freemasons ,cabalists(mages) and all sorts of scary fun.
As far as i am concerned the only "programming" in these games is the coding..lol
what people forget to realise or mention (because it doesn't fit into their conspiracy theory regarding the games) is that the character you play is ANTI establishment/illuminati/corporate.
however people wills ee what they want to see and will make it fit into their world view.. always been the same
I work for a well know games studio. We do RPG's (role playing games) We have to pitch our ideas to the high ups. They don't ever tell us ever what to make the games about. We tell them what they will be about and they never try to put any ideas (hidden or not) into our content. If we are making a medieval fantasy game we do research on the period. Yes, the Knights Templar would come up and we might use them as a basis for some of our plots. A writer might think that certain conspiracies are interesting and would make for a better story/game. At the end of the day all the high ups care about are the quarterly earnings. I could be mistaken though. Maybe the 20 something nerds who write and develop the game are not really playing D&D in the board rooms every lunch or LARPing on the weekend but are plotting the NWO.
@K.Trout, who said it was the heads of companies and the "higher ups" that decide on the specific content? You are the first to mention it, but it hasn't been said by anyone else in this thread or even alluded to.