[Huge Spoilers!] Ideas, Theories & Neat Stuff

[HyperSynthiac]

Discussion about solstace, prophets, hidden things, ideas, and peoples theories about the game...... boop also, prophetbot:
Feel free to join in on the conversation!

[AaronVicius]

uhm...

[oliver_]

Publicado originalmente por AaronVicius:

uhm...

what is it?

[windblade]

Publicado originalmente por severedwind:

Sentience isn't a special term used for OneShot like Taming is.

Sentience is defined as the capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively.

Go talk to Prophetbot, Rowbot, and many other robots around the game that desribe themselves as untamed. They are obviously sentient.

Sentience =/= Tamed

Sentience + Tamed = Socially functioning robot. See radiator bot with the cats, and Silver.

Sentient but not Tamed = potential for a huge ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

I would disagree. I don't think any of the robots we meet aside from Silver (and the Entity) can be classified as sentient. It might just be a matter of us using different definitions, but I see sentience as requiring a measure of free will. The other robots are just moving as programmed. Advanced programming allows them to understand speech, but they are just soulless tools moving as their designer intended, limited in knowledge and capability. To extend the Little Prince reference, they are just worthless roses, like any of thousands of others. To be more than that, someone must tame them.

It occurred to me that, in a sense, we, the user, have Tamed Niko. In real life Niko is just part of a game with pre-programmed lines, who moves as we instruct. No more than a robot. But people care about him because of the ties made through the time we've spent playing the game. So much so that some people can't decide whether or not to destroy an entire virtual world just so he can be happy.

On a completely different note, I've been thinking about a new, rather stupid theory mine that the true nature of the game world is that...*drumroll*......it's the inside of an old CRT monitor. It seems like there's several pieces of evidence that this is the case:
-Beginning of the game: "You found me" at a CRT monitor before we dive into the world. The Entity communicates through these, and maybe the answer is that it's his real form.
-Phosphors are everywhere, a key component in CRTs.
-The colors Red, Green, and Blue that make up the three sections of the world match colors used in a CRT or any computer monitor pixel.
-The secret solstice note doesn't appear to have any real hints, except an odd drawing of a clover that's Red, Green, and Blue, which could easily represent a RGB pixel.
-When you ask Prophetbot how tall the tower is, he says "I am not allowed to answer". The game could be hinting that saying how tall the tower is would be a huge reveal about the world. Maybe the tower is only a foot high, and the world is very tiny.
-The symbol that represents the sun looks to me like an upside down "Power button" symbol known for being on computer monitors. The sun might actually be a yellow light on the power button. If that light comes on, so does the rest of the monitor.
-The "return the sun" ending: Final shot is of "Niko's" room with the CRT.

There's a lot of holes in this theory (What is the savior? Why doesn't the world look like a CRT?) but it's the best I could come up with. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it, at least.

[PhoenX]

So i'm on my 3rd run and i'm trying random things, i don't know if it has allready been said but i just realised you can take up to 10 photos of niko with the camera in the refuge. Niko will say something different for every picture you take

[AaronVicius]

Publicado originalmente por aRandomAnonymous:

Publicado originalmente por AaronVicius:

uhm...

what is it?

Is a expression of interest (here in brazil is common)

[oliver_]

Publicado originalmente por AaronVicius:

Publicado originalmente por aRandomAnonymous:

what is it?

Is a expression of interest (here in brazil is common)

im in Brazil too

[AaronVicius]

Publicado originalmente por aRandomAnonymous:

Publicado originalmente por AaronVicius:

Is a expression of interest (here in brazil is common)

im in Brazil too

Ué kkkkk

[Slimer509]

The 'the world of OneShot is a simulation/a game that Niko is not part of' theory is one of the most prominent ones, and has a lot of evidence backing it. Aside from what windblade said about the RGB thing, the Entity communicating through computers, and phosphor/phosphorous, there's how the world goes wireframe when you first start the game, when you talk to the Entity in the tower, and in the Return Home ending. Additionally, in the tower, the Entity says "Do you even know what this world IS? Niko is the only thing worth saving here.", and the square anomalies are referred to as 'glitches' in the game files, suggesting that the game world is some sort of program.

Along with this theory, it seems that the Author found away to escape the simulation: he left the world through his own means.

A subtheory here is that the Entity is the game itself. This is evidenced by the fact that it calls itself 'Oneshot', which is obviously the title of the game. This would also explain why the glitches are appearing; If the Entity is the game, and thus the world the game is simulating, and the Entity's goal is to destroy itself as the Author states, then it would make sense that the entity is trying to give itself viruses that manifest as the glitches in the world.

[windblade]

That's true, but it's all a little too real world for me. If you say, "The secret is, Oneshot is a computer game!", it's not much of a secret. I would hope the developer is a bit more creative than that. Maybe they're all in a CRT. Or a quantum computer. Or it's a metaphor for someone who's depressed. Or it's the world inside a single pixel. Maybe Niko is the Entity's soul. Maybe Niko represents Schrodinger's cat of a world that may or not exist. Maybe the Entity IS the Author and has just been messing with us the entire time.

With the infinite possibilities that a mystery provides, why go with the boring option?

[MrBones]

Have anyone waited for Lamplighter to quess the code for the elevator (after you attach the button you tell him what to do)? I'm currently half way to him guessing it.
Judging by my calculations it's gonna take him almost half a day...

[Zaykel]

Publicado originalmente por MrBones:

Have anyone waited for Lamplighter to quess the code for the elevator (after you attach the button you tell him what to do)? I'm currently half way to him guessing it.
Judging by my calculations it's gonna take him almost half a day...

It's been done, takes about 17 hours for him to reach the code xD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPDjT17juj8

[MrBones]

Oh man, that was anticlimatic. But still a nice feature!

[BergJun]

Publicado originalmente por Zaikel-chan:

Publicado originalmente por MrBones:

Have anyone waited for Lamplighter to quess the code for the elevator (after you attach the button you tell him what to do)? I'm currently half way to him guessing it.
Judging by my calculations it's gonna take him almost half a day...

It's been done, takes about 17 hours for him to reach the code xD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPDjT17juj8

You really waited that long? You must have a lot of time

[zorg]

Or just make it run 10x faster with cheatengine, and sleep for a few hours. :3

[Darkedge]

Publicado originalmente por Zaikel-chan:

Publicado originalmente por MrBones:

Have anyone waited for Lamplighter to quess the code for the elevator (after you attach the button you tell him what to do)? I'm currently half way to him guessing it.
Judging by my calculations it's gonna take him almost half a day...

It's been done, takes about 17 hours for him to reach the code xD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPDjT17juj8

I thought there would be more dialogs:DDD