go play that game instead, similar themes and doesn’t shit itself every 5 minutes
My ending seemed pretty good: toppled the corporate overlords of the star system; diverted power from a miserable, overworked corporate town to a now thriving green commune; unified a pro-worker town leadership with communist rebels (the cynical evil ex-leader of which we killed), leading to their citizens and workers being happy and with way better material conditions than the rest of the system. pretty based ending imo
Play Disco Elysium.
I thought the entire first act was setting up the pieces for a massive revolution, the underlying pressures are never resolved.
Like the earth-owned factory town vs eco-commune, whichever one doesn’t get power is literally going to starve.
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When they find out the lottery was literally a death camp, the virus is a form of population control, and earth literally evicting people from their homes if they can’t pay rent (which depends on exports of something that turned out to lack vital nutrients),
these aren’t things that can be solved by shuffling people around, there needs to be an invasion of bysantium or a massive counter-revolutionary purge of dissenters.
Monarch is in a similar position, bysantium isn’t going to take the locals seizing the means of production laying down, and the pressures that caused the split within the locals isn’t ever addressed.
It is that hard because there are so few of us. There are very very few developers that are commie, and even fewer that are well read on dialectics as well as theory WITH the ability to actually write anything coherent themselves.
If there were more commies in gaming there would be more unions and less worker exploitation. Enough said.
We can’t expect liberals to make coherent games about labour conflicts or revolution. They are completely out of touch with these issues and kept politically in the dark by their non-participation in organising and reliance upon liberal media.
Disco Elysium doesn’t have guns or magic and is mostly text-based, but it’s also Based.
This is what I liked about Outer Worlds funnily enough. I’m sick of Michael Bay adrenaline rush shit around every corner. I like to quietly walk around dreamy landscapes and then have long, nerdy, socially awkward convos about faction intrigue. In that regard, Outer Worlds is like a 10/10.
I agree completely, but I think that’s why I like it. It’s completely alien and I like the escapism.
Ehh I found outer worlds to be pretty mediocre tbh, slogged my way through most of it.
