Surf Solar said:
Aldebaran said:
Fat Dragon said:
I couldn't help but like Sebastian LaCroix in Bloodlines. He did the smug eurofag executive act so well.
I also like that the true antagonist of the game has very little screen time, but with all the foreshadowing, as well as Beckett's final line, the player pieces together that the Taxi Driver is Caine and the point of the game was to see whether or not you would survive his test.
Wait a minute, what? I've played through Bloodlines twice, 's already long time ago, but I can't remember that this happened in my game. :/
The player, not the player character has to piece it together. Remember all the foreshadowing about Caine? The paintings you desecrated, the loading screens that mention his return to judge vampires, the emergence of the thin bloods being a sign of the end of times, everyone sensing something terrible, Beckett actually running away from town once he finishes his research. Remember what was actually in the coffin was a handful of explosives.
We then see the closing cinematic of Jack on a lawn chair next to the clearly dead body which he took out of the sarcophagus. So all that foreshadowing had nothing to do with its contents at any point. Who is standing next to Jack and the mummy in the end?
The same Taxi Driver who just "recently entered town" during a time of recent signs of the apocalypse. Who says he is only here to ferry people to their destiny (or something to that effect). Who the game just happens to make you go through a long conversation with before you make your final decision on who to side with.
If you are present during the opening of the sarcophagus, and are blasted into oblivion, Jack laments something to the effect of, "Shame about the kid. Oh well, you can't win them all," as if this is not the first, or last time this will happen. The only person present that he could be speaking to is the Taxi Driver. Caine is coming to judge all vampires, remember.
After the tutorial in the beginning, Jack mentions that it is the politics that will kill you. He is about to mention something else, but then says that you will figure it out on your own.
I am sure I am forgetting some important clues as well.
I hope I am right, or else I will feel like a massive moron.
EDITED for numerous errors that I committed in my haste to recall as much as I could from my playthrough all those years ago.
EDIT 2: Just did a brief search. The Taxi Driver's MP3 files are evidently stored in a folder called Caine.
EDIT 3: Evidently in the books, Jack believes he has met Caine, but it is revealed that this was just a Malkavian who believes he is Caine. At least that is not as disappointing as the "official" account of the events of planescape torment.