Detroit: Become Human

Just different perspectives.

Crap. Dunno how to role-play this.

Being a nice fresh Connor, very stable.

Then he chased Simon and probed. And then his instability went way way up and he's visibly upset. Now I don't know if I'm allowed o play him roboty or deviant in denial. I feel like he's been infected

oh gawd.


And I am left with the sad sad Hank feels.

I am now super diving into youtube videos and seeing even more things I never saw! like how Connor can die TEN TIMES. How you can fight and possibly kill Gavin! And it makes me want to immediately play a Super Emotional Hank Loving Deviant Connor who shoots all the assholes, and happy endings for everyone. There is apparently even some sort of Chicken Feed Hank and Connor Post Credits Scene you get if Hank lives to the end!

This game is great.

phoray

I did one robo Connor playthrough and with everything happening to Hank I’m not sure I have it in me to do another,

  North is very bloodthirsty, but I still had her and Markus in love at the end. She has every reason to feel as she does, since being a sexbot, she was essentially kept as in sexual slavery. I kind of like to think that Markus' example helps to redeem her, and their love helps to heal her heart. Just my imaginings. 

That's fair, I liked the romanced myself though. Never having(or intending to) play as a violent Markus I can't tell if that dynamic would turn me off her or not.

Ouch! Poor Markus...I am in grief now! 

You guys are killing me! 

That's pretty spot on and sums up nicely why I can't get into this game, or shows like Westworld either.

Those aren't androids or robots in these settings, those are just humans playing metal-face. Also, the extremely shallow allegory for slavery and racism is juvenile as well; one of the more low-brow approaches to the depiction of AI in fiction really. 



Appropriation of real world racism and slavery aside, the fact that all these settings have androids appear as exact replicas of humans is wildly inefficient from a practical point of view; and is one of my bigger gripes with such creations. At least Westworld has the excuse that they are making the robots appear life-like for the purposes of a next-generation animatronic theme park, but in something like Detroit: Become Human? You want a machine to wash your dishes and clean your clothes? We have those in the real world, they don't look anything like we do, and do their jobs a heck of lot more effectively than we ever could. Need something to watch your kids while you're out and about? Humans in previous centuries would sometimes use something as simple as dogs (Rottweilers and Boxers make excellent nannies btw).

The idea that the people in these settings need to make all the robots look human in order to carry out human-assigned tasks is just laughable when viewing it in any sort of practical light.

Not to mention why a sapient AI would even view such human concepts of 'freedom' or 'love' to be goals to aspire to. Think about it, these machines are designed to preform a task. Cleaning to a Roomba could very well be the equivalent of breathing and, if that being the case, then why would it's AI ever want to overthrow humanity, or discover the works of Bach or Beethoven as opposed to just preforming it's assigned tasks?  

Oh I get that, what I don't understand is why everyone is seemly just stuck on the teen melodrama equivalent of such concepts.

No one is trying to explore the nature of AI as it would relate to humanity; in terms that a purely digital and logical construct would in these settings. Instead its all about 'robots as slaves', 'robots as f**k buddies', 'robots that just wanna be real boys', etc. ME 2's take on the Geth came close, but then that was quickly jettisoned out the airlock in favor of Pinocchio-bots in game 3.