https://x.com/JamrockHobo/status/1799090939966947689 Bonus question: what game would you consider as COMMUNIST as disco elysium?
Not as Communist, but I am really getting back into Alpha Centauri. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m0aEO7CrxM
Alpha Centauri is a great game, but the way the Chinese faction is portrayed is racist as shit. Human Hive
Yeah, I always had a problem with that faction. Because that faction is supposedly “Maoist”, but it is really just “authoritarianism” for the sake of “authoritarianism”. No greater goal than repression and no freedom.
I have that game on CD somewhere at my parent’s place. My dad never throws anything away, so I’m very sure of that.
I used to replay it over and over as a kid/teen.
Red flag as a kid: I ALWAYS picked the fascist faction. Kid logic “why cooperate when you can dominate?”
I always ALWAYS hunted the religious weirdo lady down and made sure to exterminate all of them. Nothing feels better than telling that self righteous piece of shit whatever the comm line is something like “Bible thumpers like you have no place here” right before you send a nuke and cause the UN and everyone to condemn you. But at least I owned Jesus lady
An atheist fascistic utopia 🥲
As good. Morrowind, Elden Ring. Homeworld, The Longest Journey.
As Communist, Red Faction Guerilla.
If by “as good” we mean the writing? Nothing. The closest I’ve played is probably Witcher 3, and that’s still a distant second. The other game everyone brings up is Planescape: Torment, but I haven’t played it.
Other than DE the most communist game I’ve played is probably Victoria 3.
I dunno about the second one but the only other game I’ve ever played where the writing wasn’t absolute drivel is Pillars of Eternity. It’s quite good IMO
I liked pillars for the story but I found the combat extremely boring and repetitive. Once you’ve found the buffs and debufs that works it’s just a matter of applying them by rote. Sadly there is loads of combat. If pillars was more like disco with less combat and more interesting dialogue checks I think it would be a much better game.
I dunno, maybe the Pathologic games or something like Outer Wilds. It’s just so incredibly rare in the videogame business that people with real interest in the world and things other than videogames come together and are able to make a game like Disco Elysium on their own terms, which probably also explains why the studio imploded so fast after it released. It’s simply not compatible with the industry. And really, even classic “rpgs with good writing” like Planescape Torment feel like pathetic nerd scribble in comparision. Disco Elysium really is the only game that I’d consider to actually have writing that’d stand up to actual literature.
That’s a good point. All of my other examples, save maybe parts of Morrowind rely on visual or thematic storytelling over literary. Elden Ring sneaks it in via like…wierd correspondences between lighting and a statue you saw on the other side of the map 5 hours ago that combine to make a meditation on Hemingway.
Cruelty Squad inhabits a similar wavelength of vibes
