About resistance is futile:
I feel like even considering the whole "for the greater good" thing goes against the games themes tbh. I get that some people hoped they'd be able to save the city, but it's not a heroic story. Even after going through his character development Horatio chooses to walk away form the city, and that's okay. Because he helps those he cares about and those he can help, he tries his best to stay true to himself and do what he thinks is important. And sometimes that's more than enough
Also Metromind has proven a dozen times she's incapable of running the city no matter the circumstances, AND she's unshackled now on top of everything, so there's no telling what she will do next, really. Giving her Horatio as an asset would only prolong the inevitable and make it more painful, not to mention her potentially getting Thanatos as a cherry on top. She sucks, I don't trust her to do the right thing at all lol
Horatio losing himself in this ending is a whole separate can of worms. The guy dies, literally or metaphorically, in most of the endings. Someone give him a break and a hug
re: Resistance, I regret not having many useful brain cells to contribute about that - like I said, that one wasn't a view I hold myself, I like Mark's "even if you know the world will end tomorrow, plant a tree today anyway" type talk and continuing to strive for compassion and decency in the face of the apocalypse stuff, personally. I just thought the differences in audience reads was neato in and of itself. :9
On a related note, talking about Primordia so much lately has indeed got me messing around playing the gosh darn game again! And digging up the archived Wadjet Eye forums while I'm at it, because I forgot that was one of the big discussion zones with lore drops and factoids and whatnot. I think this thread might be where I dimly remembered there being REALLY detailed notes on cut ending content and robot body swapping, it might be mentioned briefly in the game commentary too but Mark Y really gets into sharing his notes there.
I'm gonna be binging these forums a whole bunch for a bit cause there's another old convo that's been itching the back of my brain, so I'll see if I can dig up anything else cool in the process that oughta be linked so I can find it again. (EDIT: well archive dot org is being funky on and off again tonight, but it's working sometimes. >:/ )
