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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You know there was a game series called ~~Bad Company~~ Mercenaries that forced you to see consequences of actual choices impacting lives and battlefields.

Sort of the unsarcastic version of the prompt here.

Like all modern works of art, the publishers killed it because it wasn't making as much money as cheap braindead titles for kids.

EDIT: I was thinking of Mercenaries and Mercenaries 2, sorry had my PS2 era shooters mixed up.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think Bad Company is the comedy one. Maybe Spec Ops: The Line?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Oof. Spec Ops. “Are we the baddies?”: The Game

Tap for spoilerYes. We are very much the baddies.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

You could have walked away.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Nah I was thinking of Mercenaries 2, sorry idk how I screwed that up.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Upvote because disco elysium.

Storytelling aside, such great sound designs

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Struggled with the game because it's so much to read. Came back after "Final Cut" update with lots of VO. Great, totally underrated game. 9/10

[–] v4ld1z 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Kind of a pet peeve, but it's not underrated - it's appropriately rated by those who've played the game. It's just not as well-known as its contemporaries because point-and-click games, by their very nature, don't get as much traction as other genres

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fair enough. The wording wasn't correct.

[–] v4ld1z 5 points 1 month ago

Didn't mean any offence - just felt like putting it out there

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Eh, "ratings" can also mean how many people consumed content, like with television programs.