I’ve never thought about that, but it’s always difficult to tackle it in any medium. Is it difficult to deal in themes as weighty and morally ambiguous as Deus Ex in a video game? Would I go and cut off my arm and get a new one? Probably not, because I already have a hard time making a doctor’s appointment! I hate it when my computer doesn’t work and I don’t want to deal with it. There’s a part of me that embraces all that and there’s a part of me that is a bit of a technophobe. I remember listening to a woman who was born without legs speak, and she’s a great athlete and model now, and she gets to change her height because she has artificial legs. People who are born unable to hear suddenly can. There are people whose lives have been changed. In general I would say where technology is leading mankind, and where we’re able to experiment, there’s great potential. I get this question a lot and every time it changes slightly. What are your feelings regarding transhumanism? The thing that is true, that everyone knows, is that millions of augs went crazy and hundreds of millions of people died, and the Panchaea installation got so damaged that it collapsed and people died in it, and then there are rumours. So in that way all the endings are true and none of them are true.Įxactly. People will, in the face of tragedy, try to make sense on their own, so there are plenty of messages, plenty of false reports and rumours. By the time that happens, the message has gotten out but by the time anyone is ready to hear it, there are a lot of competing messages. It’s only in the aftermath of, when you’re finally able to step away, that you’re able to hear the noise. When you’re swept up in tragedy your focus is only on that. So you guys know, but the rest of the world only knows that the “aug incident” caused millions of augmented people to go crazy all over the world. We realised that there are three people in the world who know what decision was made: Adam Jensen, Eliza, and you, the player. We had people write to us and say they had half hour discussions with their partner about what they were going to do. Where does Mankind Divided pick up? Which of those endings is ‘true’?Ī lot of people ask which ending we settled on to grow from, and the answer I give is “which one did you choose?” Everyone chose their ending and it was a big decision. There was a huge morally ambiguous decision at the end of Human Revolution, with several different outcomes that dramatically affected the story's close. So, yes, we’ll still have some of that, and hopefully we’ve pushed it a bit further. But one of the things we also wanted to do was put compounds more into the city hubs themselves, so that it’s a mix of both. On a production level, we still speak about things in terms of hubs and compounds, so there is a bit of that – you’ll be into a city hub and then you’ll go to a different location.
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