iirc one of the first things you do in this game is attack a labor strike. its wild. the later games i feel like start doing other things with the story from what I've played but the first one is pretty flat and doesn't do a lot with it afaict

It's bizarre! The first two mission options are to kill striking workers or kill a bunch of homeless people.

Isn't it supposed to be dystopian

yes

good thing you aren't

ravens are mercenaries for hire who work for and against megacorps as well as terrorists at their leisure

you're certainly not in a morally righteous position in armored core, but neither is anyone else - that's the point

if that deters you why did you want to play a game where you personally build a killing machine in the first place

...so what you're saying is that you're exactly what I said? Cool. Unless you think those homeless people are going to outbid those megacorps somehow, being a hired gun for the highest bidder means you're a tool of the powerful. You're just a cop. I'm not saying that games can't have you play the bad guy, but I'm not going to get any enjoyment out of something like this.

Also, that question is pretty silly. The fact that a game centers around weapons does not mean it has to deploy them in the way this does.

@chandler, Not trying to be antagonistic, this is mostly between you and Whom. But want to point out you also play a mercenary turned terrorist in Metal Gear Rising. You are explicitly told over and over in that game you've been turned into a killing machine. Yet the journey you are railroaded on is one you can feel happy about. The story and role you play in Rising is not something you can pick up from the trailer, games will always be a bit suprising! Besides, it's always good to try games outside your comfort zone, and its a Fromsoft game everyone talks about so extra points of attention to try there.

if your definition of a cop is skewed enough to just be anyone that sells their soul to the highest bidder, then sure, yeah, you're a cop i guess. i'd argue the role of a side-switching mercenary in a world where the surface in uninhabitable is pretty different from an officer in a society like ours but that's semantics. you're obviously just opposed to the concept on a moral level regardless

that said, if you think this game glorifies that in any way you're definitely mistaken. hell, there's missions where other, more righteous ravens try to stop you from doing things such as causing havoc in urban areas

regardless i think it's pretty silly to say a game centered on killing machines should only use them in "tactful" ways. that undermines everything about them. just because the big shooty mech looks cool doesn't mean it's not a horrible weapon

and rating a game negatively despite literally refusing to play it is equally silly

@Whom I PROMISE you it's not that deep.

It certainly doesn't glorify it, it's rather blunt that everything that's happening is bad. I just don't want to do it, how hard is that to understand?

An AK-47 is a horrible killing machine, but there's a big difference between wielding it to kill children and using it to fight an oppressive government or something. I don't see why a mech should be any different.

Also, I played the game a bit, marked it as abandoned, and dropped a rating recording how I felt. I use this site for recording how I feel about things. It's not particularly complicated.