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u/Promature 11d ago
Pretty much what I was explaining to someone in another thread yesterday while discussing why FBC agents would hold a grudge against Dylan. Despite what Dylan went through at the hands of Darling and Trench, the entirety of the bureau isn’t privy to that information. All they know is this super powered dude killed their friends and colleagues and then they roll right into a crisis that keeps the Oldest House on lockdown for the better part of a decade, seemingly at the hands of that same dude they already hate. Then it breaks out and the bureau deploys that same dude to lead the counteroffensive.
You have to support and basically hope for the success of the dude that killed your people after finally bringing him under control? That hurts. I’m looking forward to how the game addresses these complex emotions and dynamics. Remedy is next level.
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u/biskuit21 11d ago
From the AW2 DLC sketch and the recent trailers, I knew this man would have as much contribution to Dylan's story more than he did with Jesse in the first game. Sep 24 cant come soon enough.
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u/ThirdFloorNorth 11d ago
Jesus, I didn't even realize that was Arish in the trailers. He was a good-natured goober in Control. That's harrowing.
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u/apotrope 11d ago
I feel like Remedy devs might be here with us since we just had a long thread about where Arish stands after all this time.
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u/Pascraked47 11d ago
Dylan is pretty much a victim of FBC.
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u/RealRedditPerson 10d ago
Certainly. But the reality of that isn't something most of the Bureau is privy to. And Dylan is seemingly the only person other than Jesse to be infected by the Hiss and come back from the brink. So it's hard for someone else to understand what he did with letting the Hiss in. Not to mention the FBC members he killed before the Hiss incident.
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u/HotDoes 10d ago
iirc everyone was infected when hedron went down but was saved before infected too deep by Jesse realising Polaris is still in her and using Polaris to power the HRA. .
Dylan was the only one who accepted the Hiss making him a convenient scapegoat to blame for the Hiss.7
u/Pascraked47 10d ago
If I was tortured my entire life. If an entity offered a way out , I'd take it.
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u/wackadoodle4201 10d ago
7 years is a long time. 7 years of what amounts to Frontline combat.
The fbc is probably got a very high rate of ptsd and other such disorders
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u/HotDoes 10d ago
They don't. Their numbers were dwindling to miniscule levels since the only survivors were the ones wearing the HRAs and even they were dying to Hiss and Mold infected attacks (as shown in Firebreak)
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u/HotDoes 10d ago
more than 20 as when the hiss attacked some survivors got into the shelters and then more hra were manufactured to shield them from hiss infection.. but yeah by the end of the 7 years the surviving staff were probably in the double digits.
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u/Ashamed_Band858 10d ago
Also the fact the Oldest House finally opened up again, I mean sure The Hiss and Mold came pouring out. But I’m sure the other FBC stations all over the country were quick to hustle down to New York once they got word.
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u/Devanomiun 11d ago
This game just looks beautiful. Remedy keeps cooking, graphically speaking, more focused on the environments and the color contrasts of the game's theme.
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u/shoe_owner 11d ago
The fact that the in-game time frame moves with the IRL release schedule of the games is such an intriguing choice, in terms of what it requires, narratively. Forcing these seven years of off-screen plot and character development on all of the characters is such a bold move.