https://kotaku.com/game-pass-norco-review-adventure-southern-gothic-raw-fu-1848726472

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norco_(video_game)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1221250/NORCO/

Has anyone played this? What did you think?

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    As for some overarching commentary on the oil industry or capitalism as a whole, if there was one there, it went straight over my head. The ending is so weird and divorced from what precedes it that I think the message had way more to do with family than it does with the petroleum industry.

    spoiler

    I might be misreading it, but to me it felt like dealing with large systematic issues like your town being a big extractive industry cancer town may as well be an unreachable alien thing when you're bogged down in dealing with day-to-day problems like paying the bills or dealing with family issues.

    You can be aware of the problems all you want, but your ability to make an individual impact on that is near meaningless and won't immediately help you with the problems you have right now. Like, the fugitive guy is :ecoterrorism:ing his way around, but is that going to change anything? The company is going to continue doing what it does and making people's lives worse.

    All of the people in Norco have some level awareness of the bleak situation they're in, they just are trying to cope with it in their own ways.