Pray on 10/2/2006 at 15:20
Enchantermon:
Whoops. Don't take that the wrong way; it was a mis-type. I didn't mean to put that in there.
Ah, I wasn't mad at you or something like that.
It was a neat way to show me how to use the quote-function anyway, even if it was a mis-type. :cheeky:
I always forget how to put those []'s and "quote"'s in the right order ;)
kidmystik101 on 10/2/2006 at 21:47
Quote Posted by Enchantermon
Probably. Maybe ghost placement was one of the things that was worked on in the later stages of development (it would have to be at least after the level designs were pretty much set in stone), and as such, they didn't have enough time to make a new skin.
ah, good point. game, set and match-enchantermon!
Kolya on 11/2/2006 at 02:20
Quote Posted by Shodan
It was I who chose you, and I who had a robotic servant render your form unconscious. I then completed you with cybernetic grace.
That's a definite answer to why Goggles was in cryosleep (or healing coma).
Thanks for pointing this out TNT.
TheNightTerror on 11/2/2006 at 03:22
No problem. :) Having all of Shodan's e-mails memorized had to come in handy at some point. :p
Enchantermon on 11/2/2006 at 04:04
Quote Posted by Pray
Ah, I wasn't mad at you or something like that.
Oh, okay. Whew! :D
Quote Posted by Pray
It was a neat way to show me how to use the quote-function anyway, even if it was a mis-type. :cheeky:
Oh, so you were serious when you said that? I thought you were being sarcastic.
Quote Posted by kidmystik101
ah, good point. game, set and match-enchantermon!
Well, it's just a theory. Although, considering that much of the end of the game was limited by time constraints, it's a pretty solid theory.
Quote Posted by TheNightTerror
No problem. :) Having all of Shodan's e-mails memorized had to come in handy at some point. :p
Now, why doesn't that come as a surprise? ;)
TheNightTerror on 11/2/2006 at 05:27
Because we all know I have an unhealthy obsession with SS2 and everything related to it? :D
Enchantermon on 11/2/2006 at 21:22
Rhetorical question. Mine and yours. ;)
FullCapacity on 12/9/2006 at 05:25
Look at the uniforms.
The ghost who caps himself looks nothing like any of the other dead bodies or ghosts that you find on the Von Braun.
I was working under the theory that Bronson and her team were the security section of the Von Braun, but not attached to the Rickenbacker, and that Goggles was actually assigned to the Rickenbacker, but had to be unloaded at the Von Braun first and thats when things went wrong. Bronson was probably akin to the Sergeant at Arms on the ship, but she was still technically a civilian.
Based on that, if Goggles is your average soldier, then everyone on the Rickenbacker should look like him in terms of gear and uniform. Or at least most of the dead bodies you find on the ground. But no one looks like him in terms of the uniform. In fact, on the Von Braun, there is no evidence that any soldiers dressed like Goggles are lying around dead either. You would think when Shodan/Xerxes hit, some of those troops on the Rickenbacker would have been on the Von Braun Rec deck during their down time.
So either
A) It was some manifestation of Goggles in the Engineering area right near the elevator.
B) Every dead soldier aboard the Von Braun and Rickenbacker was hauled out by Xerxes/Shodan before you woke up. In theory, this might make tactical sense. If there were some human survivors (IIRC, Watts was partially alive, Tommy and Rebecca, and the woman in the beginning who was gunned down through the window, Delacroix for a while, Prefontaine for a while apparently), they'd be better off trying to strip down the gear of the soldiers first. Communications, ammo, armor, webgear, tools, rations, canteens. If Xerxes/Shodan anticipated this, they'd get rid of the soldiers bodies first. But who would move the bodies? The bots in cargo? The hybrids?
C) The designers needed an model with a human character holding a gun, of which you see exactly none in the rest of the game besides your own first person view, and just used Goggles' model because they needed to put something in there.
Occam's Razor.
The simplest answer is C.
ZylonBane on 12/9/2006 at 14:40
I hate you.
Bjossi on 12/9/2006 at 19:00
Now now, he only bumped a 7 months old topic.
:p
