Secret World is a dying mmo with a cool (albeit unfinished) story and cooler puzzles. It is set in an urban fantasy world where magic is real and most every conspiracy theory is true in some fashion. Working for one of the big three - the Templars, the Illuminati, and the Dragon - the player character is tasked with investigating and containing occult disasters across the world. Wish it wasn't dying but good thing is you don't need to play it as an mmo to experience the story content. Hope you know morse code.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Oh shit, I was really into this game for a bit after it released but nobody I knew got into it and so I got lonely and moved onto other games

    Sucks that it's dying, I remember it being very interesting storywise

    • sexywheat [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah it was a lot of fun but impossible to play single player and I could never find any people to create a squad with :(

      • CarmineCatboy [he/him]
        hexagon
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        2 years ago

        Then I have good news for you, the new Secret World is way easier (enemy HPs isn't balanced for parties anymore). So you can definitely SP it.

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    It's a great game. If your thing is more singleplayer, check out Tornquist's other games Draugen and The Longest Journey series. The first of The Longest Journey series is possibly the best point and click adventure ever made (Yes, better than [insert lucasarts adventure here]) and should give you serious Disco Elysium vibee.

  • Theblarglereflargle [any]
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    2 years ago

    Yo is this the game where one of the factions awakens your powers by giving you oral sex?

    • CarmineCatboy [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      no no the faction is just giving you wholesome visions with oral sex yo

        • CarmineCatboy [he/him]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          don't look at me, i work for the deep state and all they did was mk ultra me

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

    Dragon is obviously best faction

    The Templars were probably full of deus vault losers back in its prime and the Illuminati are just straight up evil if the canon is based on even remotely decent research

    • CarmineCatboy [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      If there's one thing the overall story slowly makes clear is that your bosses are not good people. They are at the head of ancient immortal organizations that seek world domination, with more than their share of skeletons in the closet. The Illuminati are the most obviously evil and the first person you meet literally says 'the United States became a superpower off of the Illuminati becoming the supervillain'. So you're not far off.

      I ended up picking them because they are the funniest.

  • ElGosso [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Also Jeffrey Coombs is a voice actor in this :geordi-yes:

    • CarmineCatboy [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      i will not confirm nor deny that i was helped through the dolandi music mission