catbarf on 28/12/2006 at 18:58
Pretty early in the game, you see a ghost, who apologizes to his family and then shoots himself. I was wondering if there is any kind of concensus about what this is. Pretty much everything in the game is explained somehow, or can be explained- the groves had built-in rockets, Rebecca was given implants, etc. But the only explanation for the ghost that I can see is the psychic abilities the Many posesses- and I can't see why they would send that image to Goggles. It does sorta look like Goggles- but I don't see why they would basically suggest suicide to him, they want him to join them. When you see an army recruitment video, they don't show pictures of people going crazy and trying to flee the camp, now, do they?
Bjossi on 28/12/2006 at 20:36
I think Polito explained the ghosts in an email, you receive it near the QBRM in MedSci 2-2.
Enchantermon on 28/12/2006 at 21:03
Seeing ghosts is the result of a defect in the R-grade implants (according to Polito). As for who the ghost is, we don't know. There have been discussions about it before; search around and you should find them.
Nameless Voice on 29/12/2006 at 20:19
"You might witness some strange phenomena. Your R-Grade cyber rig has an experimental perception enhancement that can theoretically detect residual psychic emanations. These ementations traditionally come from the recently dead. Literature might call them ghosts - I call them self-hypnotic defects in the R-Grade unit. Don't let it distract you from the job at hand."
- Email, Janice Polito, Medsci2
Gray on 30/12/2006 at 04:25
Or, maybe they were just added to the game with a very vague explanation to generally creep you out.
