Stolen from myself 6 months ago at https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.zip/post/35616522

I know I remember seeing some people talk about how nice some of the environments in Hitman were, and that they’d just walk around as a tourist from time to time, treating it like a walking simulator/virtual tourism thing instead of the stealth assassination game it is. Curious about other things like that, where you play a game totally differently than it was meant to be played.

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    I won’t do the main quest in Starfield. I don’t want any special powers, and those Foundation guys are lame. I’m like level 58 and I’ve never found an artifact. I do enjoy killing people and stealing ships tho. Miner character, exclusively Cutter, Arc Welder, and Rivet Gun.

    I won’t stick the chip in my head in Cyberpunk. Nope. I know its got a virus on it. Just seems like a really really bad idea. That leaves me stuck in the first part of the game, because you can’t break out of it anymore since the patches. I might mod it someday. (Any mod suggestions are welcome, plz!)

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      Wait, really? You have to choose to put the chip in your head for the game to continue? That’s literally as far as I got and I was like “yeah no fuck that, why would I put that in my brain”… I stopped playing shortly after so I never realized.

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        He’s cool. I’d rather install him in a refrigerator or some shit. He can follow me around and serve me beer.

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          Big fridge following me around sounds scary.

          They’ll eventually stumble and flatten me.

          Or are there fridges on wheels in that game? I haven’t played it.

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            Well, no. But everything in the game is running a quantum processor. The taxis are some rogue AI … that owes you favors? Weird. But any random trashcan has enough juice to run this stupid chip instead of sticking it in your head. What a terrible idea.

            Um … there’s two other random objects with AI. One is a gun that won’t shut up, reminds me of Clippy from M$ Office. The other is a vending machine. There may be more, I haven’t finished the game, due to my issue with not sticking known bad hardware into my cranium. But either of those could run Johnny.

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              I don’t think they could. The chip isn’t a normal program that any old computer can run.

              Biochip Spoiler?

              The chip needs a brain onto which it can imprint its stored engrams. Its not a normal chip and it’s specifically made to interact with a human brain in experimental ways.

              At best it would just do nothing if plugged into a fridge, like installing drivers for hardware you don’t have.

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                There is literally an AI vending machine. How is that different from a fridge? And that being the case, how can you say it can’t run this chip? Ya just can’t. Because there’s a huge plot hole there. Unsuspend your disbelief for a moment. Think about it. … and think of the fun if we installed Johnny in that stupid talking gun.

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                  The chip specifically interacts with human brains on a biological level. It’s not a “normal” AI.

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                    Hehe. Friend, you seem to know a lot about this imaginary tech. But you don’t. My rules are just as good as yours. If I say Johnny can run on a trashcan, its just as true as your theory. And more fun.