RoboCop: Rogue City

RoboCop: Rogue City

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joey Nov 18, 2023 @ 8:09am
lets be honest the story was kind of bad/nonsensical
i love the gameplay but the story was kind of bad. i mean it wasn't painfully bad, just "not good". i really dont get what wendells plan was. wendell in general is kind of a badly written character. they want him to be the "deep thinker" type villain, but he has no "deep" ideas or goals. they make him say all this pseudo-philosophical ♥♥♥♥ but he has no philosophy or ideology.
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Steel Panther Nov 19, 2023 @ 9:20am 
Originally posted by 🔥:
Originally posted by joey:
i would not say that this game is woke at all. if it was "woke" then they would not represent the police as positively as they do.
It's very woke. I'm sorry you don't understand the terminology. Most kids on the internet don't!

You're the one that doesn't understand the terminology. In fact, I think you're a 9-year-old who's thinks he's being cool by doing an insanely poor job at being an edge lord. I wrote a massive post, but it would just have me banging my head against the desk at the inevitable stupidity of replies, so I'll leave it at this, anti-corporatism is not by itself woke. Robocop 2, and this game to a lesser extent, takes on Ivory Tower elites of both stripes.

So just go back to your milk and goldfish crackers.
joey Nov 19, 2023 @ 9:50am 
Originally posted by 🔥:
Originally posted by joey:
i would not say that this game is woke at all. if it was "woke" then they would not represent the police as positively as they do.
It's very woke. I'm sorry you don't understand the terminology. Most kids on the internet don't!
well whats so woke about it then?
Kingkat54 Nov 19, 2023 @ 10:04am 
Grab some popcorn y'all..........this just might get gud!
RangerXT Nov 19, 2023 @ 11:15am 
Originally posted by joey:
Originally posted by RangerXT:
Wendell, thinking the old man was done and gone, saw an opportunity to try and take the city for himself given that there were no cops around and the ued's were pretty much useless.
this is the part that seems the most nonsensical to me. why does he want to take over the city? the area where he "rules" in the end, is essentially anarchist. meaning he doesn't really have much of a "rule". why was he still employing the mercenaries up to the end, when his funds where cut off (afterlife was shut down) and he had the army of ued robots for himself anyways? I really just dont understand what his long term goal was. Is he an anarchist and wanted an anarchist society? did he want to be a "fascist ruler" of old detroit? was he genuinely invested in the afterlife project and believed in it on a ideological and philosophical level? what is he trying to do, what are his goals? because in the end, the things he does don't work well for any of these potential goals.

He didn't really have an opportunity to rule because robocop stopped him. That area where he meets his end is just around the unfinished early construction sites for delta city. As for his motivations, probably generic 80's bad guy stuff. I agree I think he really could have been more fleshed out.
RobotBrain Nov 19, 2023 @ 7:01pm 
Why did Wendell give Robo the lighter? Did they not get the rights to say Cain? They kept calling him and "old friend" over and over again. Great game though.
EmmaKat Nov 19, 2023 @ 8:47pm 
Wendell seemed like a typical anarcho-capitalist. Ultimately his own flawed ideology was his downfall. All capitalists at their core are hypocrites, anarcho-capitalists are far worse. It's a common theme throughout the game of people ruthlessly trying to find their way to the top, and then being angry when others use the same tactics against them. E.G. The dialogue at OCP where everyone is taking glee in other people being fired, and the assistant who think being fired justifies murdering the person that fired her, despite being a political campaigner advocating for a reduction of worker rights.
Wendell says he wants a society where everyone is free as long as they got the money to pay for it, but now he doesn't have the money would it really be rational for him to say "well i guess I have to become homeless now, that's the way it works". That isn't realistic at all, many of the richest in our society demonise welfare despite their companies receiving billions in subsidiaries. real villains don't have consistent views.
Vezner Nov 20, 2023 @ 6:17am 
Originally posted by joey:
i love the gameplay but the story was kind of bad. i mean it wasn't painfully bad, just "not good". i really dont get what wendells plan was. wendell in general is kind of a badly written character. they want him to be the "deep thinker" type villain, but he has no "deep" ideas or goals. they make him say all this pseudo-philosophical ♥♥♥♥ but he has no philosophy or ideology.

Did you even watch the original movies? This game's story is on par with them, easily. And that's not a bad thing.

Originally posted by 🔥:
Originally posted by joey:
i would not say that this game is woke at all. if it was "woke" then they would not represent the police as positively as they do.
It's very woke. I'm sorry you don't understand the terminology. Most kids on the internet don't!

I hate woke media as much as anyone else and I didn't once get the feeling that this game was woke. In fact, if anything, it's right on par with media from the '80s. Diversity in and of itself isn't woke. Diversity that is virtue signaled in your face constantly, now that's woke. This game has none of that. If you want woke, go play Starfield. I'm still trying to wash the nasty woke taste out of my mouth from that game.
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RageMojo Nov 20, 2023 @ 6:54am 
There is no such thing as woke. It's a boogieman created by the right to control their feeble minded base.

Robocop which came out in the 1980s made a very specific point of showing women and minorities on an equal level. It highlighted corporate oligarchies in both greed and control.

People who claim things are woke today are dolts of the highest order.
joey Nov 20, 2023 @ 7:03am 
Originally posted by Vezner:
Originally posted by joey:
i love the gameplay but the story was kind of bad. i mean it wasn't painfully bad, just "not good". i really dont get what wendells plan was. wendell in general is kind of a badly written character. they want him to be the "deep thinker" type villain, but he has no "deep" ideas or goals. they make him say all this pseudo-philosophical ♥♥♥♥ but he has no philosophy or ideology.

Did you even watch the original movies? This game's story is on par with them, easily. And that's not a bad thing.

I've seen both movies and saying this game is on par is kind of insulting. the first movie had a very basic but effective revenge plot. clarence boddicker kills murphy, therefor he goes out of his way to try and arrest (later kill) him and his gang. wendell has no close relation to robocop whatsoever. he shoots and injures lewis, but she survives anyways. wendell simply didn't have a close enough relationship with robo to be a good villain. wendell mentions how he "wanted to help robocop" by first removing his human part, then by giving him back his memories. this goes nowhere. we dont know why he wants to "help him", and in the end wendell even says that he just wants to get rid of robocop. so yeah that aspect of their relationship leads nowhere. the plot of robocop is concise, the plot of this game isnt. wendell is a ♥♥♥♥ villain. and the plot is all over the place. especially at the end wendell stops making any sense. he captured the army of ued bots for himself, but then he doesnt even use them. he still just employs mercenaries, who in the end betray him because he hasnt got any money anymore. what was the point of the plot point of him stealing the robots when he doesnt even utilize them in any meaningful way? why would the old man put himself in a machine that is purely designed to be a killing machine? the old man is a business man, a man of politics, what use does robocop2 have for him? to me it just came off as a lazy way to shoehorn robocop2 into the end.
Last edited by joey; Nov 20, 2023 @ 7:05am
Kingkat54 Nov 20, 2023 @ 7:37am 
Agree. Tried to do too much with so many sub-plots. Sometimes simple is best.
Citizen Cook Nov 20, 2023 @ 8:31am 
Originally posted by joey:
i love the gameplay but the story was kind of bad. i mean it wasn't painfully bad, just "not good". i really dont get what wendells plan was. wendell in general is kind of a badly written character. they want him to be the "deep thinker" type villain, but he has no "deep" ideas or goals. they make him say all this pseudo-philosophical ♥♥♥♥ but he has no philosophy or ideology.

It was definitely a missed opportunity. The Old man was never a naive kindly old grandpa. He was scheming and manipulative; a cold blooded lizard in the movies.
If only we could have explored the possibility of Robo gaining legal status as an individual instead of OCP property.
And why would the Old Man want to have his brain put in Robocop 2’s tank-like monstros body? Surely he’d have wanted a more humanoid form, something sleeker perhaps than even Robocop.
If only we could have explored further the Old Man’s desire to evade death. But this is a AA game so we have to lower our expectations somewhat, but if we could have read a few emails and discovered the old man’s thinking and motivations that would have been cool. That’s what old school games used to do, you’d discover the game’s story through emails and pda’s and whatnot.
RageMojo Nov 20, 2023 @ 9:11am 
Originally posted by Citizen Cook:
Originally posted by RageMojo:
There is no such thing as woke. It's a boogieman created by the right to control their feeble minded base.

Robocop which came out in the 1980s made a very specific point of showing women and minorities on an equal level. It highlighted corporate oligarchies in both greed and control.

People who claim things are woke today are dolts of the highest order.

If you can’t see a definite agenda being pushed you must be blind. Or asleep at the wheel. Time to woke up.

What agenda, equality and freedom for all? There is no agenda, grow the eff up. Modern conservatives are the most brainwashed dolts this planet has ever seen.
phily Nov 20, 2023 @ 9:36am 
I enjoyed it, simple story. That said, I felt the RoboCop2 returning just with the Old Man felt a bit cheap and rushed. Why did he got nuts? Surely he would have expected it since RoboCop 2 went nuts last time...
I mean, the story fits the Robocop world. Fun, cheesy, action packed....etc.
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Date Posted: Nov 18, 2023 @ 8:09am
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