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Also the two ARK tests I compiled at Lambda and in the ARK are completely different: during the game the vision I had of myself (Simon) changed completely.
*Same for me with the Ark surveys.
As for the WAU it just went out of control in my opinion, and tried to preserve what in its conclusion was life, but what it was nothing like the life we mean, those weren't humans, but mere machines... You know what I mean...
As for Wan... I don't know... I think I found it sad the way we cheated him, and I thought he deserved to die, to stop suffering the realisation his life was nothing but a simulation... you know...
I saved the Legacy scans because... I don't know to be honest. I guess that, at the time, I wanted to preserve myself. I was identifying myself with Simon an awful lot, I've been throughout the whole game, I played as if I was there on Pathos II, so when it came to save the previous copy of myself, I kept it, I guess for our biological instict of preserving ourselves, and subconscious social desire of being ever lasting. As Simon, I wasn't thinking about what those scans actually were: another copy of myself who could have been made feel emotions and think as I was doing. I guess I would have erased those scans too, if I came at the realisation that struck me and Simon after we launched the ARK.
The best game I've played in the last 17 years, indeed.
When I started the game, all I could thing about was getting away from the first monster. It scared the hell out of me to the point that I didn't even think about the robot on the assembly line. I left him there in pain ... As the game went on, I felt hardly any qualms about killing the construction bot for its control chip or the woman stranded outside theta.
Things got more uncomfortable as the game went on especially when we began to work on Wan's scan like he was some kind of lock rather than a person. I couldn't bring myself to erase the scans, because I had already tortured him. I had no right to decide his fate (and the game wouldn't let me ask what he prefered).
Once we got to Omnicron and learned that we would attempt another scan/transfer to the diving suit. I knew that my previous scan would continue to exist, but couldn't imagine that the game would make me decide his fate. It was an awful feeling, having your fate in your own hands, but also having no control over my self. But I remembered the time I had gotten a good look at myself in the mirror, and understood that he was a part of my past. I don't have a right to end him or ignore him like he didn't exist. I decided to leave the decision up to him.
Meeting the last human was a bit easier, but I can't say it was easy. She wanted her life (and species) to end, and was kept alive by a primitive machine. Had she been in good health, I don't know what I would have done.
As for the Wau, I stood there for a good five minutes trying to decide if I had any reason to harm it. The Wau's directive was to preserve life and I felt that by killing it, I'd destroy any chance of life continuing on the planet. Yes, it had created a form of it that we would consider perverted, but it was alive nontheless. Afterall, I was one of its creations, and many of the hybrids were happy. Did I have a right to kill my creator?
This game has made me think a great deal about what it means to be alive. I haven't found the answer, but I hope I'm asking some of the right questions.
- I killed Carl the bot copy after I found the dead body of him and I killed Amy connected to artificial lungs - she seemed to be suffering and it was not yet explained what is going on.
- I deleted all scans except of mine - in case some alien liveform or WAU would learn how to reconstruct people or their minds from scans I would be the only one, the ultimate version of a human, thus winning the evolution game and being the pinnacle of my species.
- I let my old body live - in case I would die there would be a backup. This backup was a save game in a broad sense - having memory of the story up to the part in case the original robot shell would be reloaded. Turns out I will come back and keep myself company for eternity - I will probably climb back there and play checkers or something.
- I killed the last human - not just because she wished but there was no reason to perpetuate her existence. Humanity was done for. The Simon in game would not do that because he is thick. I would probably toss her somewhere closer to WAU for the slim chance of improvement described below.
- I let WAU live for the same reason - there is nothing else alive (I expected there to be a twist with humanity being alive and no cataclysm taking place but as a character at that point it seemed right). However WAU seemed like a good being, perpetuating life where there was a little chance of any. Sure, I would not like to be a mind without ability to move or ever communicate but we can hope WAU will evolve and improve on the situation of its 'captives'
There are also multiple robots that you can kill or not kill - I think I left all of them except the one I needed to kill with the cattleprod. Why? Because I felt that the option is inconsequential to Simon's situation.
That Simon knows as much as you did getting to the part included the fact there is a monster. He could wait it out as with all the other monsters.
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murderer
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- deactivated Simon-2, I mean, there's no point in keeping him running as he'll die eventually anyway, either due to freaking out and frying his own circuits (like Catherina at the end), by getting killed by the monster(s) or just by his battery running out... (and it's not like he can replace his own battery without deactivating himself). Important to note that he's just deactivated, I guess someone could come along and just turn him back on (depending on the state of the corpse he's attached to, I guess)
- killed the WAU: while humanity might've been done for (though chances of there still being living humans *somewhere* on the planet are fairly high if you ask me) it's quite clear that the marine ecosystem was still intact. The WAU would just interfere with evolution by robotizing things. Getting rid of it and letting Earth recover on its own seemed like the most sensible thing to do, especially since chances that it'd actually wipe out humanity if it would encounter holdovers are pretty big...
- killed Sarah: this one was pretty easy, really. She's as good dead anyway as she's apparently too weak to even move so either she'll turn into another WAU puppet at some point, the life support machine will run out (or power will finally fail once what's left of Epsilon collapses) and she'll die, or she'll get killed by a monster at some point.
Maybe it went unnoticed at first because when you got through it you didn't think about the way the WAU was taking over "normal" life.