AI: Artificial Intelligence

do you think that the movie Artificial Intelligence would translate well to a promethean game with the torture that the little robot boy has to go through from his "family"?

Yes.  It easily translates even down to the doomed mission that was completely impossible from the audiences perspective, but completely plausible to them.

Innerlight:

Yes.  It easily translates even down to the doomed mission that was completely impossible from the audiences perspective, but completely plausible to them.

i think i may try to make a unfleshed innocents game based on it and see if any of my meta-gaming players can figure it out immediatly

c34r34lk1ll3r:

Innerlight:

Yes.  It easily translates even down to the doomed mission that was completely impossible from the audiences perspective, but completely plausible to them.

i think i may try to make a unfleshed innocents game based on it and see if any of my meta-gaming players can figure it out immediatly

actually now that im thinking about it this movie is far too sad, im not going to do that to the players or myself

Promethan is really sad so it fits.  After the entire world died he got his wish.  Promethan's entire existence is riding on a hope and a prayer.  To me it's the ST's job to make sure what happens inbetween their futile mission is compelling, because 90 percent of the time what they want to do is doomed to fail.

Innerlight:

Promethan is really sad so it fits.  After the entire world died he got his wish.  Promethan's entire existence is riding on a hope and a prayer.  To me it's the ST's job to make sure what happens inbetween their futile mission is compelling, because 90 percent of the time what they want to do is doomed to fail.

true true but denying them their end goal to become human would kill me as an ST, it is tragic enough as it is

Innerlight:

Promethan is really sad

It shouldn't be.

Changeling, on the other hand, is really sad.

Chaka:

Innerlight:

Promethan is really sad

It shouldn't be.

Changeling, on the other hand, is really sad.

Promethan is not an upbeat happy go lucky game, unless you consider hateful mobs of your ex friends a delightful romp, though it could be played that way, but by that logic you could just arbitrarily play any supernatural with a sunny demeanor

Changelings are like supernaturals in the witness relocation program promethans are like homeless bums that are waiting for their Fema check that may never come.

May as well throw vampires in there to, if it's an emo contest. :)

Innerlight:

...promethans are like homeless bums that are waiting for their Fema check that may never come.

It's so wrong, but I can't stop laughing! Please let me quote you for my signature?

Innerlight:

Yes.  It easily translates even down to the doomed mission that was completely impossible from the audiences perspective, but completely plausible to them.

I agree. When Promethean came out, I thought this movie was perfect for inspiration.

cidflyer:

Innerlight:

...promethans are like homeless bums that are waiting for their Fema check that may never come.

It's so wrong, but I can't stop laughing! Please let me quote you for my signature?

Sure use it :)

It isn't wrong, I read something else you wrote and I think you're confusing the underlying hope theme with the depression of their lives.  Promethan is depressing, saying it's not is like saying the Shawshank redemption is a feel good movie, it was a movie about the guy attempting to overcome his surroundings.  He gets shit on the whole movie but at the end he has a happy outcome.  Promethan has the same feeling, one happy moment at the end doesn't erase the life of pain and suffering.  Now in saying that, their is a theme of underlying hope, but you live in hellish reality in which you can never have a real friend, until one day (if you get lucky) you get out.  It's really only a happy outcome for the promethans that make it, but like college, someone could say to promethans when they are first made, "look to the left, look to the right, some of these prommies won't be here at the end of the semester, not everyone will finish".

I said that? I remember saying Frankenstein meets Pinocchio. :)

Thanks for the quote. I mean't wrong cause I find the reality of the quote funny when politically, I probably shouldn't. I gots the dark humor ;)

My bad their was another dude over you with a C name, and even then it was something he said in another thread about the game being about hope.  I believe that 20 sessions of horrible sadness doesn't make up for one session of redemption, that was really my point.

I can't wait to include horrible plot device aliens in my Promethean game (qashmallim?).

The_Boogie_Man:

I can't wait to include horrible plot device aliens in my Promethean game (qashmallim?).

what is the name of the angel-like things?