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RedRapture Jun 17, 2024 @ 1:50pm

Play as the Humans?

Can you play as the humans in this game? I'm getting tired of being shoehorned into playing the bad guys in these games when I really want to play as the humans and, ya know, work to save the species.

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Originally posted by xxman:

Originally posted by Vaporwave Spirit:
Originally posted by RedRapture:

The source material also states that alternative power generation would not meet the energy needs humanity faces.
The source material also states the massacre of the Navi by the RDA was a direct result of Navi attacks on the RDA.
The source material states that the Navi attacked the RDA because they started mining, which the source material also states the humans NEED to do in order to meet power requirements.

I never said the humans are benevolent. I have said that the Navi are not the innocents and are, in fact, aggressors. The RDA and humanity, however, is not malevolent either, or they would have already exterminated the entirety of the Navi through orbital bombardment using metal rods or even just meteors of sufficient size.

You can be 'convinced' all you like but you conveniently ignore parts of the lore that go against your stance.

in this game, the RDA stoop so low, and they are getting so desperate, they crash an entire Valkyrie shuttle full of explosives into one of the camps in the sky breaker DLC, akin to looking like something like a terrorist attack. They are willing to not just kill non combative Navi, but also needlessly kill the zakru, which are literally Pandora's version of elephants. The RDA has hunted Zakru in the story for their horns and bones, and even though John Mercer didn't approve of it, the fact that a member of the RDA like colonel Harding is willing to hunt these gentle elephant analogues is messed up, which means that if you support the RDA and take them seriously, then technically you support elephant, as well as other animal poaching as well.

The length the writers would go to make humans into cartoon villains is laughable. You understand that the only reason they write the RDA like that is solely because the original lore makes you want to side with the RDA and not the Navi?

Humans are not the bad guys in the story, but the writers desperately wants you so much to be against humans and for Navi that they give the humans petty villain motives like poaching for elephant tasks. Its pathetic.

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Discombobulating Jun 17, 2024 @ 1:52pm

Humans are for the biggest part the main antagonists in Avatar. I'm confused by this question.

Last edited by Discombobulating; Jun 17, 2024 @ 1:52pm

Heimdall Jun 17, 2024 @ 1:54pm

Yea gotta second this. If I don't get to kill the blue freakers whats the point? Stand up for humanity much?

ThetaCentauri Jun 17, 2024 @ 2:18pm

I want to play as the antagonists! Take over the planet and building a mining empire!

Voidwarrior Jun 17, 2024 @ 2:20pm

Still hope for some RDA DLC?

If so, count me interested

Make a whole campaign and I'll buy the big'un edition

xxman Jun 17, 2024 @ 2:28pm

Yeah let us play the good guys for once.

Snipy Jun 17, 2024 @ 6:13pm

Originally posted by Voidwarrior:
Still hope for some RDA DLC?

If so, count me interested

Make a whole campaign and I'll buy the big'un edition

Ubisoft made it clear, there will not be possible to play as RDA.

RedRapture Jun 18, 2024 @ 2:19pm

Originally posted by Snipy:
Originally posted by Voidwarrior:
Still hope for some RDA DLC?

If so, count me interested

Make a whole campaign and I'll buy the big'un edition
Ubisoft made it clear, there will not be possible to play as RDA.

Game is a hard pass then.

Originally posted by Discombobulating:
Humans are for the biggest part the main antagonists in Avatar. I'm confused by this question.

Right, because the race that approached the Navi to negotiate for mining rights over a material critical to keeping billions alive and only resorted to violence when the Navi attacked them *repeatedly* is the bad guy race. You really gotta learn to pay attention to tiny things like background story.

Segert Jun 18, 2024 @ 2:34pm

If you could play as humans i would give this game a chance. Fighting against the navi hordes. Or other humans. And establishing your own place. Would be cool

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Jun 18, 2024 @ 2:41pm

Originally posted by Discombobulating:
Humans are for the biggest part the main antagonists in Avatar. I'm confused by this question.

It's a simple question, they're asking to get blocked by you and me and anyone who ain't a racist xenophobe.

Besides not a single person in this thread owns the game on steam, besides me.

Last edited by IchigoMait; Jun 18, 2024 @ 2:43pm

Goatroach Jun 18, 2024 @ 3:29pm

I, too, would like to play as the RDA; this could have been a baller mech game.

Edit:
If buying the most expensive version of the game let me play as Col. Quaritch in a mech suit, I'd probably already have over 100 hours in this game. That dude was legit, and based af. Died like a hero trying to stop that traitor.

Well, back to Helldivers 2 I go.

Last edited by Goatroach; Jun 18, 2024 @ 3:37pm

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Lord Dazed & Insane Jun 18, 2024 @ 4:38pm

0 desire to play as the Navi

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RedRapture Jun 20, 2024 @ 7:22am

Originally posted by IchigoMait:
Originally posted by Discombobulating:
Humans are for the biggest part the main antagonists in Avatar. I'm confused by this question.
It's a simple question, they're asking to get blocked by you and me and anyone who ain't a racist xenophobe.

Besides not a single person in this thread owns the game on steam, besides me.

There was a game that came out on the PS2 (I think, could be a different console) shortly after Avatar released that was part of the lore that showed the first 'war' between the humans and the Navi and it was very clearly stated that the Navi started it. In it you could play as a human soldier and even had the option to go traitor later on in the game or remain loyal to humanity. The fact this game doesn't have that shows that, much like the movie Avatar, storytelling has taken a back seat to pushing players to pick a specific side and distract them from a presumed lousy story with fancy graphics.

Also, calling someone a racist xenophobe? Really? Way to show you don't have an argument but can't simply leave it at 'I disagree' and move on.

Last edited by RedRapture; Jun 20, 2024 @ 7:23am

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