Quantic Dream haut chien David Cage features in a new video in which he explains why Detroit is set in, well, Detroit. He also explains that it’s not a sci-fi game despite being set in the future and featuring an android as a main character.
Quantic Dream haut chien David Cage features in a new video in which he explains why Detroit is set in, well, Detroit. He also explains that it’s not a sci-fi game despite being set in the future and featuring an android as a main character.
pdannysan13
It is not SF yet it is in the future – so basically it is a prediction, a vision ?
Tuffcub
He means the themes of the game (what it means to be alive, oppression, slavery etc) are not sci fi, even though the setting is. It’s a rather badly edited video!
Avenger
It is SF really isn’t it, it’s just David Cage trying to illustrate that it won’t be like certain stereotyped SF fiction. I’m not that into sub-genres these days but I suppose you could call it a piece of dystopian fiction instead.
Tuffcub
Well it’s Sci Fi in as much as the same way 2001 is sci fi – clearly it IS science fiction but the story is about so much more than that.
Avenger
Lot’s of SF stories are about so much more than a ship in space, or an android, or a black hole, or whatever it might be. Oppression, existence, politics in Detroit wouldn’t be what it is without the SF aesthetics. Basically you couldn’t take Detroit’s story and put it in a completely different setting with a different premise, at least in my opinion.
I get what Cage is saying, but he’s really dancing around a stereotype of SF that he understandably wants to avoid. But a lot of SF is awesome and sophisticated (yes I’m a fan). Cage could do just as well to embrace that side of SF instead.
The Lone Steven
Hmm, a machine based main character set in Detroit.
CONFIRMED! Detroit is a Robocop game!(i wish).
Hopefully, Detroit will not have a mixed up story as i felt that Beyond, whilst it was fantastic and it work, it did harm the pacing a bit by going from X to Y to X to X to Y, Y to X etc..