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| Re: Weaponized Transhumans: Halo, Deus Ex, Crysis. | |
| Posted By: General Battuta <seth.dickinson@gmail.com> | Date: 7/4/11 11:39 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: Weaponized Transhumans: Halo, Deus Ex, Crysis. (SonofMacPhisto) : In Half-Life, Gordon Freeman represents a very instinctual brand of humanity. : He's more of a cornered animal than anything else. Of course, he's being : manipulated by the Gman in order to fight the Combine. System vs. System, : again. Half-Life seems to be positive about the role of humanity, but : underneath the Gman makes it all very cynical - Freeman's instincts are : simply useful to Gman. That's a fantastic point. Half-Life in general is very much against transhumanism; the villains are technologically augmented (the Sector 17 Overwatch), and what the humans desire is a return to a state before the technological interlopers assumed hegemony. You even hear citizens looking forward to 'breeding', a very base, primal urge. : Thanks to Cerberus, Commander Shepard is now literally Transhuman, failing a
I am so worried about Mass Effect. It has so much good SF material, but then we get dumb lines like - 'You're just a machine, and machines can be broken!' Surely Shep isn't dumb enough that she fails to recognize she's a machine as well? I hope they do justice to the Reapers, to their intelligence and power. I'm not really sure what I think of the themes of the series as a whole yet - I think we need to see what ME3 does.
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