It would be enough to change the part during the Blackwall mission, where AI Alt says that she's gonna turn you into an engram. You tell her to get fucked and that there must be some alternative. This could result in a mission where you have to steal some fancy tech piece.
Actually it would already be enough if the whole "Zapped with Soullkiller" line was gone from the ending. You jack into Mikoshi, just like you jacked into cyberspace with the Voodoo Boys and AI Alt uses Mikoshi's processing power to rearrange your synapses a bit. You might have a headache when severing the connection, but the original V does not have to die in this scenario.
That single line, about having Soulkiller used on you, ruined the game for me. All game long they tell us what a terrible piece of software that is and how it was a "Fate worse than death" for Johnny to have it used on him and yet V must agree to that shit, because the only alternatives are suicide or siding with Arasaka and getting half a lobotomy.
It also tells us a lot about what kind of person Alt was, when she actually programmed such a horrible tool. Alt is not a good person and it shows in the behaviour of AI Alt.
Getting 6 months to live as the original V, and not as Engram V, or as disabled Arasaka V, would still not be a good ending. But even that tiny glimpse of hope, to go into the expansions as the same person that you started the game as, was too much to ask of their writing team.
Actually it would already be enough if the whole "Zapped with Soullkiller" line was gone from the ending. You jack into Mikoshi, just like you jacked into cyberspace with the Voodoo Boys and AI Alt uses Mikoshi's processing power to rearrange your synapses a bit. You might have a headache when severing the connection, but the original V does not have to die in this scenario.
That single line, about having Soulkiller used on you, ruined the game for me. All game long they tell us what a terrible piece of software that is and how it was a "Fate worse than death" for Johnny to have it used on him and yet V must agree to that shit, because the only alternatives are suicide or siding with Arasaka and getting half a lobotomy.
It also tells us a lot about what kind of person Alt was, when she actually programmed such a horrible tool. Alt is not a good person and it shows in the behaviour of AI Alt.
Getting 6 months to live as the original V, and not as Engram V, or as disabled Arasaka V, would still not be a good ending. But even that tiny glimpse of hope, to go into the expansions as the same person that you started the game as, was too much to ask of their writing team.
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