Disco Elysium and the need for collective action
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#2Any recommendations for similar games or similarly impressive games?
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#3Any recommendations for similar games or similarly impressive games?
PST. The one and only. DE never even came close.
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#5This article takes a story about some creators getting screwed out of their company by a crooked CEO and makes it about unions.
Whether or not creative artists should unionize (I'm generally anti-union but the game industry working conditions seemed so screwed up I think it's needed) this wasn't a dispute between employees and owners, but a dispute between two owners. One of which was a sophisticated unethical CEO and the unsophisticated creatives owners who built the game.
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#6For those who might not know, this story is a lot more complicated than “evil CEO steals IP from game creators”, even though that’s the short version that gets shared around a lot because it sounds infuriating.
I highly recommend this documentary about the whole tale from People Make Games, it’s 2 and half hours long and I enjoyed every minute of it despite not really even being into video games!
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
PST. The one and only. DE never even came close.
Planescape: Torment?
I assume as much. It’s been sitting in my “to play” queue for a while, because it frequently comes up as an example of a similar game (or even possibly the only similar game?)
Unfortunately its age definitely shows when you see the complicated controls and such. (I grew up with consoles and prefer controllers. Sue me.) Maybe this is a reason to dig out my old Steam Controller
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#9Any recommendations for similar games or similarly impressive games?
There isn't really anything else just like it. The cRPG genre is the closest you'll get, but they are usually more combat focused. Baldur's Gate 3 just came out and is very good. Detroit: Become Human is another great story game and was recommended to me by someone who also enjoyed DE.
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