So, what did i just play?

[Shazbot!]

What was the story, anyway? Help, my brain hurts.
don't try to understand, just execute orders?

[Future Schlock]

I said don't make waves.

[D. Baelish]

I actually too want to know answer for this question. What did I just played?
More specifically:

1) What is character motivation? You wake up and then it's just do this and do that without any reason to. The only imperative is someone in your head or person on the radio vaguely telling you to do ♥♥♥♥.Why?

2) Who is this posh looking women in a posh room? She is always there in background but without any visible connection to anything.

3) Why everyone on both planets have very specific fetish about used laungery?

4) What the hell is with ending video? Is this some hallucination of dying brain of protagonist?

[76561198073631778]

Player escaped from lab, joined some rebels, wrecked some ships and died, that's all what i understand.

[Shazbot!]

Originally posted by Future Schlock:

I said don't make waves.

You... you... DOUBLE JIAN

Originally posted by D. Baelish:

1) What is character motivation? You wake up and then it's just do this and do that without any reason to. The only imperative is someone in your head or person on the radio vaguely telling you to do ♥♥♥♥.Why?

Well i thought our dear protagonist just wants to get out, doesn't matter where, just out. But then she "accidentally" blew up LOG-9, air refinery and killed a lot of government-sanctioned soldiers, so it doesn't really make sense.

Originally posted by D. Baelish:

The only imperative is someone in your head or person on the radio vaguely telling you to do ♥♥♥♥.Why?

Riley Verge, yeah, he doesn't actually tell you to ♥♥♥♥, but rather "guids" you along your "journey"and his initials are on every supply cache sign/QR code, which means either he's some sort of "internet" celebrity or actually went here and placed it. What's his deal anyway? Was it his elaborate plan to weaken the earth's "government" by "accidentally" letting you escape and then telling you to survive by killing everyone? Given how these "crusaders" are ready to basically suicide bomb, that battle in orbit could be a gambit move.

Originally posted by D. Baelish:

4) What the hell is with ending video? Is this some hallucination of dying brain of protagonist?

At least it wasn't "it all was just an illusion and you're back to your cell lol" ending.

Originally posted by SеriousCraft:

joined some rebels

I'm pretty sure she just tagged along, without even communicating much.

[9214]

To OP: might be better to put a giant SPOILER alert on the thread's title.

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Puts his crackpot hat on, and starts Deleuzooming at infinite speed.

The meaty substance that we periodically see in our visions is the BwO[en.wikipedia.org] as a reservoir of potentiality to become (by analogy, an abstract egg can develop itself into many concrete animal forms). But in the dystopian world we inhabit the outcome is clear from the start, and so the whole potential of BwO is repressed; humanity has cornered itself.

Myo is a leak (she literally managed to escape) in this potentiality that seeps thru her genes, thanks to BB experiments (telekinesis, pyrokinesis, agility, etc... think of Gunnm ending here, what Gally has become). In a sense, she's acting as a catalyst, an agent for the change (just like Freeman in HL2 being nudged, huh-uh, in a particular direction, from time to time), diverting the upward flow of capitalism that feeds off the planet and turns it into a waste. She's doing that by simply being there and now, "the right man at the wrong place can make all the difference in the world". She is a harbinger of things to come. In that sense, G String is a mod for Half-Life 2 not only in body, but also in spirit.

The above-mentioned change is represented by that mysterious woman. TBH I think that's Kali-Ma: because G String takes place during Kali Yuga, the end of times, and because she has 3 primary colors[en.wikipedia.org] associated with that goddess: red dress (menstrual blood), white skin (semen), black hair (primordial darkness). The change that Kali-Ma manifests is a cycle of creation and destruction, the time itself.

The conclusion, it seems to me, is that the only way to free the potential of BwO is to nuke the whole damn thing and start anew. Clean slate. To save the Tree of Life[en.wikipedia.org] (you can actually discern some Hebrew letters blurring in the visions; there's also a Kabbalah graffiti on some earlier levels) is to uproot it from the dead soil. In the final chapter, we are witnessing the ever-changing, ever-becoming Flower of Life[en.wikipedia.org], freed from the history of mankind marching itself from the cliff.

This is a brutal (yet natural) way to restore the balance: note that in the starting intro sequence the red woman stands behind Yin and Yang symbol, also featured on the table in the "Black Lodge Room". Also note that the balance of the Earth is skewed, as represented by its "ruler": Ted Murdock (masculine) is all fat and greedy, demanding self-respect from the rebellion, while his wife (feminine) is terminally ill and frozen in cryosleep.

[beez-one]

Originally posted by 9214:

Puts his crackpot hat on.

That's a fine hat you got there!
I'm pretty sure "angels blew their trumpets" in the end.

[Shazbot!]

Originally posted by 9214:

To OP: might be better to put a giant SPOILER alert on thread's title.

Everyone who gets spoiled by entering the thread about obviously discussing ending deserves it.
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ what a post, i'm too brainlet for this.
I'd rather ask you to remove the spoiler, makes it way too hard to read.
Honestly this format is a bit of an ass to tell story like that, you can't do anything else because devs don't allow it.
What about near the end starship stuff? What was that about?

Originally posted by 9214:

The above-mentioned change is represented by that mysterious woman. TBH I think that's Kali-Ma: because G String takes place during Kali Yuga, the end of times, and because she has 3 primary colors associated with that goddess: red dress (menstrual blood), white skin (semen), black hair (primordial darkness).

What's with that vision scene with table and some some dude sitting then? Something about everyone making it or whatever was that, 2deep4me.

Originally posted by 9214:

The conclusion, it seems to me, is that the only way to free the potential of BwO is to nuke the whole damn thing and start anew. Clear slate. To save the tree of life[en.wikipedia.org] (you can actually discern some Hebrew letters blurring in the visions; there's also a Kabbalah graffiti on some earlier levels) is to uproot it from the dead soil.

Yeah, and then what? Nothing will change? Sounds like a bunch of abstract ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ if you ask me.

[9214]

Originally posted by Shazbot!:

What's with that vision scene with table and some some dude sitting then? Something about everyone making it or whatever was that, 2deep4me.

That was Myo's father and mother who died in what is reffered to as the "Friday Floods".

Originally posted by Shazbot!:

Soundы like a bunch of abstract ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ if you ask me.

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[Shazbot!]

Originally posted by 9214:

Also note that the balance of the Earth is skewed, as represented by its "ruler": Ted Murdock (masculine) is all fat and greedy, demanding self-respect from the rebellion, while his wife (feminine) is terminally ill and frozen in cryosleep.

Originally posted by 9214:

(feminine)

Is this why synthetic... women and women accesories all over the game?

Originally posted by 9214:

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ы индиид, айм стартинг то финк зат ит вос бетта вен ай диднт ноу энифинг абаут зе плот.

[WALL3T]

i have no idea what i just played, some girl crawling around in what is basically the toilets of the undercity who let a hacker help her get off planet and somehow changed her mind at the last second to go back to only end up back in space and died. I loved every damn minute of it too.

[Future Schlock]

Well, she didn't really choose to go back to Earth.

Originally posted by 9214:

Puts his crackpot hat on.
[...]

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

[WALL3T]

maybe she could have though. We could have had an ending where she might kill off the intruders of the ship and end up on mars. If the main character can fly a spaceship im sure she can fly a giant monolith hauler.

[9214]

WRT synthetic women and vending machines: yes, it's both a sign of perversion (see Japanese Ero-guro[en.wikipedia.org]) and a way to control fertility rates in the age when "having one child is enough, two is a problem, three is illegal". Panty-sniffing is a cure from the human condition!

Sex-bots in the game are a mere manifestation of pure intelligence (LOG 9 on the verge of singularity) rebeling against the imballance and planned obsolescence. If every part of the humanity is replaceable and can be ditched at any moment, so is the humanity itself.

[Shazbot!]

Originally posted by 9214:

\(just like Freeman in HL2 being nudged, huh-uh, in a particular direction, from time to time)

"Something secret steers us both", yeah. Too bad in HL it's somewhat real instead of nonsensical stuff just slapped on top because lol why not.

[unnamed]

so no one can give an answear of what this game plot is hmmm