Did his quest again in my 6th playthrough.
He struck me me as a pathetic piece of shit, using his "religion" as a gimmick for more attention. Specially he is gonna be executed anyways, this is his way of giving no fucks to the victims of his crimes.
He want to be witnessed so much, its just a low life attention whore.
First his visit to the parents house of one of his victims. The sister is dumb as shit, inviting him in and let her mother experiance an other trauma in her own house. I should have ended him right there and then.
Then he calls me to nail him on his cross. ofcourse i do it, for the sake of the quest, but its just a last cry for attention, as he wants me to witness him in his so called redemption arc.
Making a BD of it all is his way to be remembered as a bad boy converted to peace.
He is just such an low life asshole.
I love this quest! Well written, good acting. 10/10
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Well, both, obviously.
I think honest converted. Never sensed any malice from him during the job. He truly thinks what hes doing is the most good he can
Religiously delusional
>Honest converted or psycho?
Yes.
I don’t think Jesus would approve of what he wants, basically. But he probably honestly thinks he would.
anyone honest converted wouldn’t do this shit. The worst part in this quest is you cant kill Rachel Casich
I did believe that he seemed to have been converted and who honestly believed that his crucifixion was the only penance he could receive. But you make an interesting point about it being for attention. He makes mention of how he was very self centred when he committed his crimes. And there’s a very strong possibility that he is still self absorbed by the time he dies. I did feel that the doubt was beginning to creep in by the end too.
Definitely one of the strongest quests in the game
Yes.
Mentally ill for sure. A lot of mentally ill criminals “find god” when facing death. What’s another one for the statistics?
He’s religious. This is reddit.
Psycho. Alot of murderers find God when faced with death. The only time in their lives when they feel pity or sad is when they are about to lose their life.
Both. He’s has a psychotic obsession with forgiveness, which brings him to a brief sanity found in religion, but his obsession and nearing death drives him back to insanity
I never have found this quest what is it called and were to find it
This mission is a slog, did it one time now I just kill him in the car and bail
Converted but it is also such a shitshow that i just go with whatever i feel like at the moment.
I’m sorry but the “ I should’ve ended him right there and then” is fucking me up so bad who says there and then? I’ve never heard that before only “I should’ve ended him then and there” I’m curious if there and then is another way of using it?
This guy was never sorry for what he did and was actually a psychopath, same reason that when he converted he chose to crucify himself as if he was a martyr, this was a good quest as it gets you thinking, however if you were like me and don’t agree with his ways you can kill him the second he steps out of the police car and run away ( you need to run away as the big police guy is almost unkillable ) and Wakako will call you congratulating you for completing the job.
i think its religious psychosis
He may not be a cyber pshyco, but yes, not much can be said about this.
It’s the fact Johnny’s into it too that always gets me lol you can take the boy out of Texas but you can’t take Texas out the boy.
I remember ending this quest at the house. I should replay it and see how the rest plays out, still haven’t done it yet…
The dude is a psycho. If he truly converted, he wouldn’t want to kill himself on live TV.
The first time I played i killed him because fuck it.
My main gripe was i couldn’t kill the bitch producer. I hated her guts with a passion. So much that in the end I kinda wanted my character to romance her. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love/hate and all that saying…
One does not exclude the other. This mission was all kinds of f-ed up. One of the more memorable ones.
It can be two things
Neither.
He’s not Christian and he doesn’t believe he’s going to be redeemed.
This is his version of wake the fuck up Samurai.
He hopes that by this death he can make a difference to the living.
This mission changed something in me, i can’t say what
any believer is to some extent crazy, since he voluntarily rejects reality for the sake of ancient myths and legends. and builds his perception of the world and his personality on the basis of this ancient mythology
He’s a degenerate and i’ve put him in a cross
For me it didn’t matter, it only shows that capitalism takes away anything for profit. No honest feelings, no true believes, no message, only money.
I don’t know, he gets shot in the head on the road, I have a contract.
Narcissistic personality disorder
I’d say he isn’t crazier than anyone else in Night City.
Lets look at this guy.
At the time we meet him, he is 36 years old. He was convicted for armed robbery and two murders in 2065. So he was sent to prison at the age of 24 and spent 12 years waiting for the day of his death. And reading. And thinking.
I believe that what he found out, during these 12 years, was that what he was doing before that, was meaningless. He killed two people over what, his own macho insecurities? Thats a horrible insight to reach and probably came with quite a lot of guilt.
Joshua wants to be forgiven. By the family of those he killed, by Jesus and by the world. His way of trying to do this is to try to change his execution from a killing to a sacrifice. He wishes to sacrifice himself and have his death recorded so that it might help people in some way.
Because he, like everyone else, needs things to mean something. To matter. Joshua couldn’t find meaning in his life, so he wants his death to mean something to people. To matter.
In a world, and in a city, where people are seen by corpos as anonymous tools, to be used and discarded for just one thing, profit, this is a big ask. Especially for a murderer.
And by seeking meaning in his life, and the end of it, he sort of echoes V and Johnny’s own situation. Everything V does >!after finding out they are dying !<is for it all to mean something. >!Think of the endings. most of them is about leaving a legacy, be it to be known as an absolute badass at the Afterlife and among the mercs, or by being fondly remembered as a hero by the Aldecaldos. Or by being known as the merc who solo’d the entire Arasaka tower with a dildo. !<
>!In fact, there are two endings that sort of means that V survives. The Devil and and The Tower. Both of these endings are seen as somewhat negative outcomes for V. They survive, but they lose everything. They lose their meaning, they stop mattering. !<
Of course, in Joshua’s case, since he needs the corpos in order to be able to do this, it means that ultimately, what he does will be perverted by them, in order to profit from it. So his quest to find meaning in his death is turned into more money for the corpos, making it mean less. One more desperate person turned into a product.
The way he imposed himself on the mother of the man he killed talking about his grand vision for spiritual absolution or whatever the fuck seemed like the actions of a raging narcissist who’s bought fully into his own martyr complex.
both