Ok so I was very skeptical about the Mr Robot game, but I'm more and more intrigued now that I'm playing it. It's not actually developed by Telltale (they're only publishers as far as I know), but you can notice it pretty clearly. It's an old fashioned visual novel shaped like a social media app. Not that different from Cyberpunk Bartender Action VA-11 HALL-A; it somehow reminds me of Uplink, without the silly hacking gameplay (which I still really liked to be honest).
I usually play on PC, I hate the touch controls like everyone else, but this time I gotta admit it's just pretty smart. It feels like taking part of an ARG rather than playing a videogame, and the fact you can't play whenever you want (only when other characters are contacting you) surely help.
It's definitely worth a pirate if you watched the show, otherwise skip it altogether.
Talking to strangers that you exactly knew were Darlene and Elliot was pretty rad.
Ayden Campbell
NO FUCK TELLTALE STOP RUINING THINGS
Jose Fisher
But they only published it
Joshua Robinson
>It's not actually developed by Telltale So it's '7 Days to Die' all over again?
Christian Sanchez
You know most games branded as "Telltale" aren't actually developer by telltale right
Even the big ones, I think even GoT wasn't made by them
Ethan Turner
I really liked it, fuck you Cred Forums
David Clark
Is this show any good? Or is it generic sci-fi trash? Dont give me some reddit-tier yes or no answer, Id like to hear an actual opinion
Adrian White
its superb
Connor Roberts
It's fun, also it's a contemporary show, not sci-fi.
Wyatt Cruz
Whats it even about? With a name as dumb as "Mr. Robot" I just kinda figured it was sci-fi
Samuel Young
i didn't enjoy it
the whole 'edgy hacker group' thing is way too hard to pull off imo, even though they managed to nail the actual programming 'lingo'
the group itself is just filled with tokens, a muslim girl, black streetsmart guy, skinny white girl, 'damaged' white guy, and a fat white nerd who all are genius coders. any scene involving the entire group killed my immersion because how stupid the casting was
i was more interested in the side plot involving that swedish guy than the whole 'fuck society, hack the world' hacker group thing
Jaxson Gomez
It's really good, I didn't expect it.
Owen Reed
Season 2 is a shit.
Connor Bennett
It's about an "Anonymous"inspired group of hackers that want to take down a big corporation. The main character is an autistic weirdo /ourguy/ who gets recruited by them, causing his already shitty life to spiral further out of control.
Mr. Robot is the handle of the guy, that leads the group, saying anymore about it would be going into spoilers.
Also there's a swedish corporate antagonist, who is so cartonishly psychopathic it becomes hilarious. Like I said, it's fun if you don't expect the world. The good thing: the hacking aspect is never played up as Hollywood cool.
Camden Lee
I thought it was better than the first one until the last episode. They fucked up, they couldn't get away without revealing shit but they still tried
Jordan Long
It's first season was V for Vendetta meets Fight Club vs American Psycho
The second season was less derivative
Tyler Hall
The pacing was off completely, first season always had a goal in mind and it was about the journey there. With Season 2, I just couldn't really understand what it was leading to and the payoff was completely underwhelming.
Just a bunch of filler episodes with plots that could have been told in under 20 minutes with a higher impact.
Justin Morgan
>It's first season was V for Vendetta meets Fight Club vs American Psycho Sounds fedora as all fuck, there's no way I'm watching this Reddit shit. If anything it'll just get me annoyed that everyone and their grandma is freaking out over another shitty show.
Ian Allen
>Its popular so it's Reddit shit You do know things usually get popular because they are good right?
James Ward
And yet it was still good, better than the average American tv series at least; being contrarian won't help that
Wyatt Ward
I liked season 1, season 2 has been a bit so so up until this point, I haven't watched a single episode since because I was so disgusted with how terrible this scene was.
Evan Adams
You can watch a good show and enjoy it, or you can butthurt alone for years because it's popular and everybody but you is enjoying it
To be honest, nothing at all will change in the world, other than your own enjoyment/butthurt
Josiah Evans
No, most things get popular because normies dont know any better.
Define "average." because if you're talking about generic basic cable shit like CSI Miami or Criminal Minds, its not hard to be better than that.
Benjamin Williams
Not him, but you're acting like this fucking tv show is the key to a happy life.
Austin Phillips
Yeah it was too exaggerated and over the top, I don't really know what they're planning to do with his character
Isaiah Myers
Is it based on season 1 or 2? Season 2 is retarded.
tfw Elliot is literally me
Aaron Howard
What I said is true about pretty much every single mainstream show that gets so big you heard about it no matter what.
Maybe you watch it and you hate it, but it's still better than butthurting on pure principle.
I did that with Black Mirror and Narcos, and I don't regret it. But then again everybody went apeshit for Jojo, I'm not into anime so I didn't watch it and I spent three years butthurting because the Internet was acting like a retard about it
Then I watched it
Sure I didn't really like it, not that much at least (it's a joke compared to Hokuto no Ken), but I can at least get the appeal and since then, every time I saw a Jojo reaction pic I smirked or moved on instead of feeling an enraging pain in the ass
Carter Ward
It's directly referencing season 1 episodes
Jackson Green
Good, I might give it a go.
Owen Kelly
First three episodes are great, drops off from there. If you'd like to watch a normie's take on "le anonymous" and "all media is corrupt ugh im so edgy" you'd like the show
I'm surprised at how any people on Cred Forums actually like the show when it becomes a total fucking joke like 3/4ths into season 1. My roommates are reddit-tier losers and even they thought it got pretty corny
Grayson Brown
But user, if you don't see that all media is corrupt then it is you that is the normie.
Isaiah Nguyen
...
Thomas White
Why can't I find a torrent?
Isaiah Johnson
>S2 elliot barely hacks anything
Owen Brooks
Right, but the show's take is extremely over the top and not to mention it's a show on USA(?)
Zachary Martin
>If you'd like to watch a normie's take on "le anonymous" and "all media is corrupt ugh im so edgy" you'd like the show
No user, he'd like Watch Dogs 2
This is about a crazy lunatic and his relationship with drugs and his mental health
The "media portraits anonymous in le retarded way" theme is made fun of, and the edgy dialogues are there to literally show characters spilling their spaghetti (just look at Elliot's take on religion)
Jace Evans
It may be over the top but it isn't to far from the truth. A lot of the show about normies and how they live their live the way society expects them to.
You should really try watching more than a few select parts and judging the whole thing by them.
Cameron Ortiz
>This is about a crazy lunatic and his relationship with drugs and his mental health
If you think the show portraits mental health or drug dependency in a realistic way then I'm sorry
>lot of the show about normies
but it's not? The whole first season follows Elliot and that Swedish dude which are two of the least normal people in the fucking show. The only "normal" people are Elliot's girlfriends/friend
Michael Torres
>the King of Despair is inspired by Tyler Durden >Mr. Robot is even more blatently Tyler Durden
What does it mean?
Jacob Evans
>If you think the show portraits mental health or drug dependency in a realistic way then I'm sorry
I actually work in mental health and deal with people who suffer with mental health problems.
The show does a good job of showing the effects of mental health problems. At the end of the day it is a TV show and not a documentary, it is always going to be exaggerated slightly for entertainment purposes.
>If you think the show portraits mental health or drug dependency in a realistic way then I'm sorry I'm a drug addict with legitimately diagnosed manic depression.
Dylan Lewis
He speaks the truth.
Chritfags BTFO.
Ryan Adams
Read
Jordan Hughes
Is this the phone app game?
Jason Ortiz
I agree with his sentiment in brass tacks, but he was speaking in a mania that highlighted how hypocritical he was, seeing that he utilizes every mean of escape to combat his imaginary friends that he listens to. The point of the scene was to be a bit fedora.
Owen Turner
Tried to stomach the first episode and barely made it, it tried too hard to be deep and meaningful, but it ended up as pretentious.
Also, the very first scene has Elliot cornering a child porn dealer. Elliot, FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER, mentions his dad and his deatg, the dealer, also without a reson, asks how he died, and Elliot explains how he died. That obviously forced and horribly done exposition that is there only for the sake of informing the viewers were a clear sign that the writing is shit.
Owen Garcia
The hacking segments are some of the worst in the show. No better than hackers from 95 that they made fun of.
Christopher Jenkins
You're not forced to watch it you know But I'd like to know which shows are good enough for your refined tastes
Justin Campbell
>Also, the very first scene has Elliot cornering a child porn dealer. Elliot, FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER, mentions his dad and his deatg, the dealer, also without a reson, asks how he died, and Elliot explains how he died. That obviously forced and horribly done exposition that is there only for the sake of informing the viewers were a clear sign that the writing is shit.
If you weren't a dumb shit autist and actually watched the show you would realise there are reasons for this.
Landon Martin
But they don't really do shit
They usually write gibberish and get their asses out of there while sweating
They were more about the stealthy approach/forced situations more than hacking itself
James Hall
I feel a show like this is lost on most people who don't have a certain level of understanding.
I tip my hat to thee.
Logan Campbell
>that is there only for the sake of informing the viewers
No shit? The first scene introduces you to the main character, lets you know what he's capable of and what his goals are. How is that bad writing?
Also this , all of the stuff about his dad and his actual motives get revealed further in the show
Austin Watson
The hacking scenes are written my real hackers tho. This is literally the closest thing to hacking they are allowed to show. Showing illegal things in movies/tv shows is a huge legal risk for studios and everything has to be shown to the legal team before it's aired.
