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HROT is a single-player retro FPS set in a small socialist country neighboring Soviet Union (Czechoslovakia) after an unspecified disaster in 1986. Those times were dark and terrifying and so is the game.

HROT, a boomer shooter set in a Soviet-era Czechoslovakia after some unspecified disaster, just released. I've seen some gameplay and read generally favorable reviews and quite like the Soviet industrial retro shooter aesthetic. Only thing that put me off is the (expected) litany of anticommunist reviews & general fan sentiment surrounding it. A slower, more Quake like shooter among the library of (very good!) fast paced boomer shooters is welcome.

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This game raises the question I often come back to about whether my perspective and opinions on the USSR as a "Western" ML have merit in the face of the, lets say harsh, opinions of people who lived through the era (or at least lived in former Soviet countries).

I know the opinions of an imperial-core communist aren't worth shit in general lol, but I was wondering how y'all reconcile a pro-soviet stance and an opposing "lived experience" (yeah reactionary forces swooped in post fall but I think interrogating one's own views in the context of one's relation to imperial power is important)

Aaaaaaaaaaaanyway this was a post about a game >_>

It also has a funny horse in a gas mask! I thought it looked neat, has anybody played it or the demo?

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    how y’all reconcile a pro-soviet stance and an opposing “lived experience”

    The majority of people in post-Soviet countries still believe (or at least as of a couple years ago) that the fall of the USSR was bad and that life was better before it fell. This is true as a whole and in nearly every country individually I believe excluding Poland. A majority also voted to keep the USSR intact at the time.

    The USSR oversaw the fastest increase in quality of life in history. I don’t find it at all difficult to reconcile the actual statistics and majority opinion both at the time and now with the opinions of the Russian/Polish/Ukranian equivalent of MAGA dipshits and people who never even lived in the USSR.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      excluding Poland

      Poland has literal garbage fires that burn continuously and can be seen from orbit. Checks out. :dumpster-fire:

    • Smeagolicious [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      True enough! I've read the same statistics and polls. Maybe I'm just too ready to self-flagellate as someone living in :amerikkka: , just tryna be conscious and defer to people outside the evil empire.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Let Civvie11 do the thinking for you. He's a :LIB: but his heart's in the right place. :blob-no-thoughts:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvKWMfNtceI