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Thread: A Flimsy Machine
Post: RE: A Flimsy Machine
| (12-20-2013, 03:00 AM)Potato Wrote: Wasn't what killed the Machine was essentially Mandus killing himself at the end? Since they share a split soul? That's what I figured, since they both died simul... |
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12-23-2013, 08:13 AM |
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Thread: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
Post: RE: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
| Quote:t's the part where the Machine explains that the turd-water can be used to drive turbines, or something.
I guess it may be a voice from the Stone Egg that Mandus claims to hear.
Also, he goes ... |
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11-19-2013, 06:53 PM |
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Thread: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
Post: RE: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
| (11-18-2013, 07:07 AM)Potato Wrote: Did anyone else notice that if you hadn't known anything about the game or its plot beforehand, you wouldn't have known who the hell Oswald was?
Seriously, it wa... |
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11-18-2013, 09:38 AM |
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Thread: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
Post: RE: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
| The Aztec god contained inside the egg Mandus finds in Mexico needs blood to break into our world.
He tricks Mandus to kill all those people. First, Mandus needs money, that's why he makes pies. Seco... |
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11-15-2013, 09:03 PM |
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Thread: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
Post: RE: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
| Yeah, I guess there will be no official explanation. Too bad. |
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11-05-2013, 10:00 AM |
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Thread: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
Post: RE: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
| Well, it doesn't have to be the full interpretation, but some further clues on where to dig would be helpful.
And btw, TCR did give its interpretation of Dear Esther; which I didn't play, but after I'... |
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10-02-2013, 11:06 AM |
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Thread: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
Post: RE: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
| Yeah, as someone doubted, that there were no mentionning that Mandus gave life to the Machine with the blood, here's the quote:
"Until you steeped me in the blood of your own I was nothing but rotten ... |
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09-23-2013, 03:51 PM |
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Thread: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
Post: RE: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
| Fortigurn,
Honestly, I don't think the first quote is relevant. The second one - maybe. But in the ending scene, the children do not look like machinery at all. |
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09-23-2013, 01:10 PM |
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Thread: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
Post: RE: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
| Fortigurn,
Also, how did he revive his children, if all he had was shattered skulls buried in the garden, while their hearts were eaten and their ribcages are in Mexico? He did bring back to life a he... |
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09-23-2013, 12:33 PM |
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Thread: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
Post: RE: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
| Quote: I decided they are two fragments of the one soul, and if one dies the other dies
In the end, as you activate the Harmonicas (if I remember the name well), the Machine yells "Kill him!"
Why woul... |
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09-23-2013, 11:20 AM |
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Thread: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
Post: RE: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
| If I'm not mistaking, the reference to Ozymandias was discussed even before the release of the game. |
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09-17-2013, 09:40 PM |
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Thread: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
Post: RE: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
| Alardem
Well, basically yes, that's the whole purpose of this theory. I'm not really into it, I just thought somebody should put it in place. Yet it too has its weak points, for example the notes by M... |
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09-16-2013, 07:05 PM |
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Thread: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
Post: RE: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
| Why don't we have a super-sceprical version?
>Lily dies at childbirth and even after 8 years or so Mandus still grieves at her death.
>Goes to Mexico in search for a treasure, because he's bro... |
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09-16-2013, 05:07 PM |
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Thread: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
Post: RE: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
| Quote: Anybody ever seen the movie Jacob's Ladder? It's plot twist could fit the story. Although I hope not, once you know the twist it kind of spoils the events leading up to it.
But it doesn't fit t... |
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09-16-2013, 12:33 PM |
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Thread: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
Post: RE: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
| Quote: This also means that as long as he still had his children heads he could reanimate them.
He only had their skulls, which have even been buried for some time. I doubt that he could reanimate tho... |
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09-16-2013, 09:46 AM |
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Thread: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
Post: RE: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
| randeh
Nobody says Mandus is able to do only pigs, but how would he revive his children, whose ribcages, according to you, were left in Mexico and their skulls buried in the garden? He clearly states ... |
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09-15-2013, 11:53 PM |
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Thread: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
Post: RE: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
| Vertical,
The kids' diary says they heard a pig in the garden on 11 October. That wouldn't make sense if their nanny was also a pig. |
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09-15-2013, 01:52 PM |
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Thread: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
Post: RE: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
| randeh,
Yeah, second and third points - totally agree, even posted some of those thoughts here.
As for the first - don't really know. How could he resurrect his children, if their ribcages are in M... |
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09-15-2013, 11:30 AM |
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Thread: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
Post: RE: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
| Well, I don't really think we should even consider this 3rd child, that would be too complicated. He is not really referenced in the game, so we must deal only with those who are. There are plenty of ... |
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09-15-2013, 12:36 AM |
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Thread: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
Post: RE: Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*
| Quote: There is a photo in the game, of a man (Oswald?) and 3 babies. We aren't sure if it is a leftover of what Samuel was talking before (placeholder) or actual in-game photo that correlates with se... |
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09-14-2013, 11:41 PM |
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