Тормоз дополз до выложенных фанатом триста лет назад писем сценаристов DX1, тормоз счастлив. Я даже не знаю, можно ли верить в их подлинность, но с другой стороны:
1) уж очень мутная это история со сгоревшим компом, на котором хранились письма, прямо подозрительное совпадение;
2) их редактировал Уолтон Саймонс (что возвращает к п. 1).


Тащу с этого сайта к себе всё, что будет жалко потерять.

В общем, тут чуть более подробно изложили концепцию Оракула, с которым болтал Алекс Джейкобсон, и уииии, это такая милая концепция с жаждущим знаний автономным ИИ, который отвечает на вопросы в обмен на знания, которыми ещё не обладает, но совершенно не умеет оценивать важность этих самых знаний, а потому зачастую выдаёт важную информацию в обмен на ерунду типа любимого цвета юзера. Ужасно жалко, что они эту тему не развили в DX2, там бы и третьему клёвому ИИ место нашлось. (Гелиоса после объединения с Джей-Си я ИИ не считаю.)

RosyCross is, in fact, a reference to the Rosicrucians, who almost always seem to find themselves somehow entangled with the Knights Templar and even Opus Dei in the various conspiracy theories. In this case, though, I didn't have a deep (or even shallow) motivation for using that as the Oracle's address, other than the fact that it fit in with the general atmosphere of the game. On the other hand, I did have a backstory for the Oracle that never really made it into the game — more explanation below.

To understand the Oracle, you need to understand that it's also something of an inside joke: in the early days of the Internet, when it was mostly nothing but Usenet postings, there was something called "the Usenet Oracle." You'd post a question, and if the Usenet Oracle deigned, you'd get an answer — usually something humorous — after which the Oracle would demand payment in some form. "You owe the Oracle an apple a day," or "You owe the Oracle eternal happiness."

So, I decided — in the best William Gibson tradition — that in the universe of DX, the Internet (or whatever its future equivalent is) had reached a critical mass of information that resulted in one or more artificial intelligences being spontaneously generated. Not wishing to draw attention to themselves, they masquerade as real people and only communicate electronically as they go about their subtle and unknowable business. The Oracle is one of these, but it's taken an interest in humanity, so it acts as an information broker in exchange for odd favors or items that help it understand people. Of course, essentially being an alien, the things it requests and what it considers a "good trade" are a little different from what actual human beings might desire.

А вот с другим сценаристом не соглашусь:
The thing I regret most about that was the loss of two NPCs. They were a buddy duo named Tillson and "The Ghoul", a pair of underground fighters who did some profiteering on the side. Sort of like Jay and Silent Bob, I guess.

Ну в смысле, я не знаю, какими там этих персонажей задумывали и как бы они выглядели в реальности, но одно только описание звучит бесяво

Соглашусь, впрочем, что вот космическую линию прямо жалко.

читать дальшеAnother character I hated to see cut was Jerry Wildman. A NASA astronaut who was stranded in orbit when the space program fell apart. Years of living alone on a derelict station in zero G made him a unique character, and JC would have a chance to recruit him to help infiltrate a second space station that was to be the "Titanic" of space, a massive luxury station where the most elite could live out of international law's reach. Jerry Wildman had been in orbit on a tub leaking air and falling apart while MJ12 constructed this super station just out of his reach, ignoring him all the while. Needless to say he was bitter.

Much of the lower areas of Area 51 were actually constructed as a moon base, but when the moon was cut the maps were repurposed as you see them in the final game.

А изначальная роль Сэведжа - огонь ваще
Early in development Gary Savage and Howard Strong were both leaders of cultish communities in the desert that engineered deadly fighting robots and sent them against each other in an arena. The player was able to take part in designing a bot and sending it to fight.

Ещё на этом же сайте есть отличная аргументация в пользу того, что Алекс Дентон в Зоне 51 - это всего лишь голограмма, для того чтобы никто не искал Алекса, которого на самом деле в той цистерне не было. Поскольку это прекрасно объясняет ляп с возрастом и Чикаго (а также тем фактом, что Алекс может быть девочкой, тогда как в DX1 это строго мальчик), я, пожалуй, принимаю этот хэдканон.

Другую статью, про провода, я поняла примерно на 15%, но самое главное там - прикольная теория про Саймонса и его иммунную систему.
читать дальшеSimons is not like JC and Paul, he isn't immune to the negative effects of the nanites. This means that he should be dying of gray death, but he's not. Now the blue lines are called bioelectrics, and they can be seen on drug dealers and thugs. Thugs use them to manufacture things like steroids and deliver them to where they are "needed".

Simons needs two things done to keep him alive, he needs his immune response suppressed, and he needs his newly suppressed immune system replaced or otherwise augmented (not necessarily in the Deus Ex sense of the word.)

It needs to be suppressed because it is the immune response that kills people. That is what the gray death is. ("We need to destroy this village to save it" kind of thing, but cells instead of villages.) Without the immune response Simons can live happily ever after with his augmentations, except for one thing. His immune system is suppressed.

So here we have Simons and his own immune system isn't killing him, but now anything else can. With no, or little, immune response anything can get at him. So now he needs that immune system replaced or helped out. Which leads to the theory that the bioelectrics on his face are a substitute of some sort for his immune system. With the nanite immune response avoided and his immune system replaced Simons is theoretically able to be nanotechnologically augmented.