The Story, or Rather, EA's Unfortunate Decisions

[Kirathel]

So, I didn't actually play Twilight, as I had already spent about 50 bucks on KW and TW. I liked the games, and found the story, comical as it might be, interesting.

SO, in light of Tiberian Twilight's train-wreck plot, I have some questions.

- What was the goal of ascension? I get it was a portal to bring Kane and co. somewhere else, but where and why?

- What was Kane? He seems to be immortal and unkillable, judging from how often he returned, and had some knowledge of the aliens via the Tacitus.

- Did the Tower absorb all the Tiberium, is that why it started vanishing?

[Fate (-{SoH}-)]

@aleera would love to replay tibierium sun besides the fact it's incompatible with modern computers.
Even if you get it to run it's a black screen the second you try and access any menu.
Then it has a huge chance of crashing if you manage to find the blacked out buttons.
Trust me i wish i could get the game to work for old times but it just doesnt.

Also i refuse to believe any plot from after c&c ts:ftd after that ea took over and downgraded everything even totaly reversed faction techs.

I mean seriously nod was stealth + cyborgs + chemical/biological weapons,
gdi was robots, brute strength and lasers/explosives.
Then they messed with it in 3 and made the storyline very shallow compared to before.
Only positives is the mods that rebuild the game to turn each back to how they should be.

[Cat]

C&C went downhill after TFD. C&C3 was pretty good the first few times playing it on lan with friends but it gets boring and then switch back to TS or TD.

[Hamtata]

u guys forgot to mention Cain did appear in one of Stalin's meeting in Red alert 1

[Evangelion]

He's a Time Lord. And those who know of it will probably know what's his real name.

:p

[spiritplumber]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does_a_Bee_Care%3F Here's the answer, courtesy of Isaac Asimov, 60 years ago.

[Cat]

I've been a member of planet gamespy community for some time and before the community there died, here are some speculations about kane.

1. He is what he claimed he is: a prophet who has been on Earth for a long time and immortal, after he got banished from the land of Nod, he created the brotherhood to help him achieve his goals. The brotherhood of Nod existed since ancient time but only known world-wide in the first Tiberium War. This theory got the highest vote.

2. He is an alien, as he has knowledge about the Scrin and ways to lure them here and the Scrin seems to have limited knowledge on him as well. Kane might be one of the Scrin before he got banished or some rival race to Scrin that created Kane on Earth, when he dies this rival alien sends down another.

3. Kane clones himself. The "deaths" of kane are just his clones, somehow each of the clone has knowledge about tacitus, scrin, tiberium and believes he is a messiah.

4. He's a genius human with great survival skills and escape routes, strength to survive the impalement by McNeil and smart enough to get info about the scrin, tiberium etc. Maybe he has his own time machine?

[Evangelion]

Publicado originalmente por Cat:

1. He is what he claimed he is: a prophet who has been on Earth for a long time and immortal, after he got banished from the land of Nod, he created the brotherhood to help him achieve his goals. The brotherhood of Nod existed since ancient time but only known world-wide in the first Tiberium War. This theory got the highest vote.

2. He is an alien, as he has knowledge about the Scrin and ways to lure them here and the Scrin seems to have limited knowledge on him as well. Kane might be one of the Scrin before he got banished or some rival race to Scrin that created Kane on Earth, when he dies this rival alien sends down another.

Anything except these two wouldn't actually be cool at all. 3. and 4. are such a letdown.

[delta]

How's this for a theory: Kane was a human who was mutated by Tiberium, but unlike the Forgotten who were deformed and suffer from their mutations, Kane somehow received a bunch of beneficial effects like near-immortality. So Kane wants to spread his "gift" to the rest of humanity, hence his obsession with Tiberium experiments. Then there's the exchange between Umagon and Oxanna in TS that goes: "Divination is death." " For the weak." I took that to mean that Kane's Tiberium warhead at the end of the Nod campaign would have wiped out 99.99% of humanity, but leave a tiny number of survivors who would end up as "ascended" beings just like Kane.

I didn't really work out how to explain Kane's appearance in RA1...maybe he got his hands on a Chronosphere and used it to time travel? Which might explain his disappearing act at the end of the Nod campaign.

[ASRIEL]

Publicado originalmente por Aleera:

I doub't you'll understand through your rose-tinted glasses towards Kain.

Why would he give random followers, which are on average destitute people, people with nothing to lose, clinging desperately to some form of salvation, why would he give them ascension? Yet not to people who've actually been helpfull to him.

Hint, it has nothing to do with Kain being kind. Everyone that has helped him, gets betrayed. Go replay Tib Sun and it's expansion.

So why would he give ascension?
A, kindness of his heart. (what kindness?)
B, He still has use of cannonfodder
C, They can't even reach ascension and will die on the treshold.

Comeon, the guy names himself after the first murderer in the Bible.

Your headcannon might think that Kain is a good guy, but he's not. He has never shown it, each time he was kind and generous to someone, that someone gets betrayed later on. Again and again. Why would he suddenly now be kind and loving to generic schmucks who have nothing to offer him? (well, other then cannonfodder.)

Based on his dialogue, I think he canonically IS the Kane from the Bible in C&C. He talks about the mud huts and whatnot.

Just be sure to ignore the fact that the Flood would've killed him if he had somehow managed to live up until that point. Or he is a liar. Who knows.

[Evangelion]

Publicado originalmente por delta:

I didn't really work out how to explain Kane's appearance in RA1...maybe he got his hands on a Chronosphere and used it to time travel? Which might explain his disappearing act at the end of the Nod campaign.

RA thing got shelved by canon iirc, so don't hit your head much about it. They just replaced him with Yuri.