...this was a small little internal story, by the military for the military...

The idea of a cryptographically verifiable ledger of any and all changes that is immutable is VERY interesting.

Lol, tell that to Dredd, you stupid moron.

the technical concept of them, really is interesting

What if these were all normal parts of doing business and not a sudden race to gobble up every development studio on the planet?

There are scenes and such yeah, and they’re perfectly reasonable (story quality aside). But the difference is largely in how you interact with the story.

That’s not quite it...

The problem I run into calling it an RPG is in its structure. It starts off as an amazing RPG. And then, once you’re free to leave Watson, it stops doing any of the things that made it feel like an RPG.

In the sense that there are other games that get called RPG’s that give the same level of RPGness...sure its an RPG.

Yeah, and combined with some less than great choices elsewhere its not great. An attempt was made. They just faceplant on the landing.

Don’t get me wrong. I agree with everything you say about Claire. Her character is great. That she’s just a female character till you find that out, is perfect.

How can you consider some ads on vending machines the primary representation as opposed to Claire, the well written and well treated actual trans character in the game?

It never really was.

I’m sick of this take that worldbuilding-heavy series are somehow a “problem” and not just another style of storytelling that’s not to everyone’s taste. Some people like to see an interesting world deeply realised, rather than suggested in the background. Neither approach is invalid, but acting like art is dying just…

Jail will make them sure they wont ever do it again.

Someone’s gotta be made the example.

I know you’re slow and its very hard to understand simple concepts when you don’t bother to read.

Sure I’ll give you a short explanation since you don’t know anything about crypto, how it works, and have no interest in learning.

I’d suggest actually learning about how they work and their flaws and how those flaws mean they’re fundamentally designed to fail in the end:

I’m going to answer you.