She's also very clearly the one with the most power, it's just that no one expected she even had motives in the first place, let alone ulterior ones. Incognita's not just a machine, she's a pretty sophisticated AI, not something you could easily run a diagnostic on like that, if at all. The rewind feature is even supposed to represent the fact that she has extraordinary predictive abilities and can simulate steps ahead and undo mistakes. The game is supposed to be the operator playing through her, hence why you know line of sight info and other details. Incognita does most of the hacking though? You click on her face whenever you use hacking programs. 'That agents who are experts in infiltration and hacking can't know what a machine they have access to is doing is ridiculous.' Invisible Inc got more ambitious with it's story and it just came of weird. The best thing about it, compared to InvInc's ending anyway, is that it made no pretenses that destroying the flagship wasn't just an excuse for the rest of the game it knew it was about the journey and not the destination. There can totally be compelling stories where I get screwed, though they can just as easily feel like a cop out.Īlso: FTL's ending is good considering what the game is, but it absolutely isn't the most rewarding ending. The idea that an ending can't be good if it isn't rewarding has a lot of implications for other more fleshed out stuff. Other people in this thread have made a much better case as to why the ending sucked. The ending wasn't good but your reasons for disliking it are superficial. So I firmly disagree that 'the whole experience was engineered to lead on to this expectation'. And they do say 'unlock by getting more XP' or 'unlock by beating Experienced difficulty'.

This suggests that if the original plan succeeded, the subsequent recovery would be quiet and gradual - completely at odds with the urgent hit-and-run dynamics of the gameplay we see.Īs for the locked characters, well, you do meet them randomly in detention centres, so it's clear that they're not locked away for later in the story. To me, the game seemed very unambiguous that what you were preparing for was the final mission, and that as a roguelike with a time limit and progress-based unlocks, you were to expect multiple short runs rather than one long story arc.īesides, the point of installing Incognita in SecNet was supposed to be so that Invisible, Inc.

I think you have a very different impression of the story from me (and most people). Surprise is crucial for a good story, but it's not a valid plot twist to suddenly end the story when it's just getting good. The whole experience was engineered to lead me on to this expectation. Plus, I saw all these locked characters thinking I would be meeting them later in the game. I was getting excited, after the initial setback, of seeing how the epic counterattack would unfold. Opprinnelig skrevet av Metro:One of the things that made the ending dissapointing for me was that the story made it seem that getting incognita a new home was going to be the real beginning.

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