[Spoiler] was a what?

[THUNDER CHILD]

Am I the only one that was surprised when Ripley and Waits casually mention that Samuels was a synthetic? Was I supposed to know that prior? Did I miss something at the start explaining that he was an android? I was so confused.

[Pepsi]

The same happened to me yesterday :DD I was like...Wait?...What? Samuels was an android?? xDD

[RuNN!nG gAg]

Im not at the point in game, where they talk about it, but i expected it anyway:

He mentioned at the start of the game "he doesn't need much sleep" to Ripley. That's where i expected him to be an android.

[shiroshibal]

Lol, yeah felt the exact same way xD

Also I wouldn't write was a what, cause in the Alien franchise "Person A was a XXXXX" pretty much guarantees Android :D

[THUNDER CHILD]

Better than my previous title "Samuels was an android?"

[Old Skool Raver]

If you didn't get it right at th start of the game then i can see it being a surprise to you. You didn't miss anything no and i reckon the intenton was to have Samuels play a different role or something else in the story but for whatever reason it was dropped.

It was handled kinda stupidly TBH, they keep it from you for so long then just drop it on you like you should know about it.

Maybe they cut some parts of the game cause it was to long? Maybe we will see an A:I Directors Cut in 10 years time with the missing levels?

[RuNN!nG gAg]

It'll will revealed in a DLC named "Samuels was a what?" :D

[cutterman1999]

Me three. Remembered the "less sleep" thing much later, but felt like I'd missed a scene. Ditto when Ripley finally figures out her mother's disappearance is Alien-related (***SPOILER ALERT***), I felt like I'd slept through an obligatory scene. Maybe I did...

[dinosauriac]

It kinda felt like they ruined their own "twist" when they just randomly had Marshal on the radio announce the fact with Ripley not batting an eye. I mean, it was fairly obvious the dude was gonna turn out to be a synthetic, but it felt pretty ambiguous as to whether the characters knew that before that point.

I almost feel like they were GOING to have "samuels is an android" be a legit twist, because of that moment where we covertly watch him beating the ♥♥♥♥ out of a working joe with his superhuman strength. It felt like a proper reveal moment, where the player / Ripley would've gone "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, who is this guy really?"

But I guess with him exiting the story shortly after, there wasn't really much point in planting doubt about Samuels, since he's the big hero in the next scene. Still wish he didn't have to go so quickly.

[Leezeebub]

I thought it was supposed to be obvious by the no sleep comment and the fact that he just acts and talks like a robot... No emotions, no variations in speech, no fear.

[DOOM SLAYER]

Originally posted by THUNDER CHILD:

Am I the only one that was surprised when Ripley and Waits casually mention that Samuels was a synthetic? Was I supposed to know that prior? Did I miss something at the start explaining that he was an android? I was so confused.

intro movie
amanda is sweating but samuel is not sweating

[Facing Worlds]

Is Samuels the guy in the opening cutscene? If that's the case, I thought he was an identical model to an android I'd seen in one of the movies or something. I pretty much gathered he was a synthetic from the get-go. He's the exact same type of character as the synthetic in pretty much every Alien movie.

[Sardaukar]

Was obvious to me before, "no sleep" etc.

[DOOM SLAYER]

Originally posted by THUNDER CHILD:

Am I the only one that was surprised when Ripley and Waits casually mention that Samuels was a synthetic? Was I supposed to know that prior? Did I miss something at the start explaining that he was an android? I was so confused.

you know all ALIEN series there are too many robot

[RuNN!nG gAg]

Originally posted by suzylove:

intro movie
amanda is sweating but samuel is not sweating

She's wielding, he's not^^

[Elensar]

It was fairly obvious from the way he spoke and various other clues.