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On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 21:01:26 +0200, Paula Callesøe
<spacefish@spaceyourclothesfish.net> wrote:

Paula:

Thanks for your input on this.  I am currently at 'decision' time and
was in fact thinking of playing the game on two different save
streams, (one with sending and one with canceling), merely because I
have saved at that point and noticed that each selection elicited a
different response from Elliot and/or Kelly.

I agree with you though that ID missed a great opportunity to add a
more interesting RPG element to the game.  As it is your character can
start killing people for the their PDA's even before the disaster.
One might suggest that it makes the game easier for you to be a jerk
from the start in that respect but there is consequence positive or
negative result for such behaviour.  Possibly the underlying premise
of the FPS in the eyes of ID is simply that killing anything you can
is a good idea and at no point should moral or ethics enter into it,
(yeah I know it is just a game but games can be clever too).  Yet
given the introduction where UAC is defined as all powerful and not
constrained by either moral or ethical restrictions it does make for
an interesting argument that it is the UAC philosophy that unleashes
this evil and as such one would expect that it would take a force that
ultimately rejects that philosophy to in turn restrain the evil?


Anyway thanks again for resolving my question so I won't waste a lot
of time playing the game twice from this point for no real end game
purpose.


S.


>Steve D wrote:
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>> you can either request backup or not.....does it really make any difference
>> in the outcome?  in a latter message that whackjob scientist thanked me for
>> sending troops cuz he could use them to atack earth...but what would have
>> happened if i canceled the message?
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>My husband canceled the message while I chose to send it, so I can 
>answer this for you (having just closed the portal myself!). This 
>becomes strictly an RP call as it has no effect on the outcome of the 
>game, only changes some dialog. You see, if you choose to cancel the 
>message, Betruger himself will send the message to the fleet at some 
>point later in the game thereby ensuring his own evil plan of world 
>domination comes to fruition. In neither case will the fleet assist you 
>in Hell's final battle so it makes no difference which you choose.
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>A shame, really. I would have loved to see two different endings.
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>Off to install Half Life now! Yes, yes. I know. I always wanted to play 
>it but never got around to it.