I can think of some obvious examples to start with, but my subtle but insidious nominee is Fable III. Fittingly for a pretentious grifter like Molyneux, the game requires you to raise a specific amount of gold or your kingdom is destroyed and you get a bad ending. The goalposts are moved by the game if you raise money in ways it doesn't approve of, and it is simply impossible to reach the fundraising goal in any way that isn't at least Enlightened Centrist levels of evil, the kind that lanyard-wearing neoliberals giggle about. That's right, you need to be at least this evil or your kingdom is destroyed. So deep and really makes you think about the hard decisions that are made by the ruling class, doesn't it? :zizek:

  • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Black Flag was a great game with writing that genuinely made me incredibly emotional. Its been a while since I've finished it, and I wasn't as critical with my thinking, but out of every Assasin's Creed game I've played its the only one where I've ever been invested in the main character.