(Holy shit, I really botched that title.)
Now, nothing against the prequel - I did enjoy it, and I don't care for angry 90s grognard nerd rage against reboots - but this particular bit of the story felt weird.
To me, it feels like a technologically advanced country like America - and in the sequel, the world forcing people with robot limbs into ghettos (and people with robot limbs becoming firebrand radicals) - to treat said people with robot limbs on a worse level than poor minorities or the transgendered doesn't ring true at all. It's like being racist against a guy with a big laptop or a fancy phone when most people own some form of smartphone or interact with computers. Yes, I know, it was partially addressed in Deus Ex with it being part of a widening gap between the rich and everyone else, and I'm comparing being able to throw refrigerators at people with ease, being able to fling explosions everywhere without being harmed, and the ability to turn invisible to having an expensive computer, but Jensen's augs - and the goons he fights - seem to be military-oriented tech, and not something an upper-middle-class person who wanted to run without getting winded or needed a new arm that worked better than the one they were born with would have.
This could just be because we don't really see a lot of the anti-aug problems (they took our jobs, abominations to humanity, etc.) firsthand in Human Revolution because we're too busy fighting a conspiracy, and the low-level cyborgs didn't feel different from fighting regular grunts.
I'm a bit biased - I live in San Jose and go to a college in Cupertino that isn't far from the Apple Campus - so I'm constantly surrounded by hi-tech trappings, interacting with people who work with or help make said trappings, and I work not too far from a place that has 3D printers open to anyone who pays a fee.
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Submitted November 23, 2015 at 09:28AM by JayrassicPark http://ift.tt/1Hhg0qy changemyview
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