Haplo
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Problem is that I just don't buy it as it is presented. Did Johnny imagine personally bringing the nuke, setting it in the elevator and arming it? I know memories change with time, but for him that was literally yesterday. Fuck, did he even know about the nuke in the source material? Wasn't it brought in the by the second team, and only used after Johnny was dead? If so, how did he know about the elevator part? That's not unreliable narrator, that's bat-shit crazy schizophrenic narrator.
Also, does anyone or anything except Alt-AI ever bring this possibility up in the game? Because I honestly don't remember anything like that. Victor, Arasaka and Johnny seem convinced he really did it. You'd think Rogue would be the one to say that's not how things went down, considering she was there, but I can't recall her ever saying anything about that. And then there's things in the world that don't add up, like the number of casualties. That goes against source material as well, but can't be explained away this way.
It's all nitpicking, I know. But what it all adds up to is that CD Project had their story to tell, and faithfulness to the source material was a secondary concern at best to them. I certainly can't blame them for that, but it does make the attempt at covering this with that off-hand one line remark by one character come off as silly. If they wanted to explore that angle they needed a hell of a lot more here to make it work after the whole game tells you a very different story.
I think there was more to it then just one line from Alt. She was very blatant about it.
And sure, Rogue could say more about what happened... but is she ever confronted with Johnny's memories? Don't think so. Even if she were, would his ego dominating those events bother her?
Plus the "memory" sections for me kinda prove that whatever happened, was hugely distorted by Johny's overblown ego. I mean look, he's the action hero in these "memories", the others are just his sidekicks that barely matter. He one-shots every enemy, Rogue or Santiago barely put a dent in them. He's leading the charge. The Smasher encounter also went differently in the source material AFAIR.