Like many video games today, the Useless Area (opens in new tab) remake has a New Sport+ mode that turns into accessible after the sport is completed for the primary time. It allows gamers to start out a brand new sport loaded up with all of the weapons, fits, and upgrades they’ve already earned, ostensibly making for a neater expertise, and it additionally provides quite a lot of new textual content logs that present extra narrative background to life aboard USG Ishimura.
A kind of NG+ logs is a supposedly “indecipherable” scrawl of marker symbols—principally a Useless Area hieroglyphic. But it surely’s really very translatable: It is a straight character-for-character change that was decoded (opens in new tab) not lengthy after the unique Useless Area was launched.
(This is a GameFAQs (opens in new tab) thread from 2011, when you’ve got doubts.)
Luckily for these of you who, like me, are curious however not particularly inclined to go to the difficulty of decrypting the message your self, redditor GingyYouTube (opens in new tab) has already accomplished the job. There are a pair errors within the translation, however corrections are famous within the feedback under.
That is what the message appears to be like like within the sport:
And that is what it interprets to:
They stroll in whiteUntouched by redThey order the livingThey shepherd the lifeless
A finger’s contact—We’re frozen stillThey are the answerThey are the need
Past the starsThe brethren waitOracles, ship usFrom humanity’s destiny
Whereas the content material of the message is straightforward to determine, what it really means is a distinct matter. A number of folks within the thread imagine the opening traces are a reference to Oracles (opens in new tab), a mysterious group of high-ranking cultists seen within the Useless Area 2: Severed DLC whose origins and motives are unknown. “Order the dwelling [and] shepherd the lifeless” is taken to imply creating necromorphs and bringing them to convergence (opens in new tab), whereas the second stanza is believed to be a reference to Tau Volantis (opens in new tab), a planet in Useless Area 3 that was changed into a frozen wasteland eons in the past in an try and halt a convergence occasion.
It is all very deep-lore stuff, however the basic consensus is that the references to occasions that occurred in later Useless Area video games means EA is planning to remake these video games, too—or is at the least open to the concept. That idea is bolstered by the sooner discovery of one other NG+ textual content log (opens in new tab) referring to the Sprawl, an area station on Titan that served because the setting for Useless Area 2.
The success of the Useless Area remake (opens in new tab) presumably makes comparable updates of Useless Area 2 and three, and possibly much more sequels past that, more likely to occur. Even so, it is cool to know (or at the least moderately theorize) that EA was fascinated by it lengthy earlier than this remake noticed the sunshine of day.
