Jesus Christ this feels like some truly mid Bioshock Infinite with even less sociopolitical commentary except for vague "rebellion" but in steampunk

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    a year ago

    Things look way too clean in the unaltered timeline for steampunk, no matter what you do a steam powered world will be stained and little bits of dirt and grime will be everywhere from all those presumably coal powered steam engines. The altered time looks good though.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      a year ago

      The Difference Engine is the best steampunk story because it goes hard on how steampunk technology would have made the19th century much much worse.

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    • Bloobish [comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      a year ago

      Tonight We Riot is so far the best revolution game and it is in no way a story heavy game (it's legit just socialist Oklos style mob combat game) but captures how the revolution is not led by the "ultimate hero" bullshit

      • JuneFall [none/use name]
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        a year ago

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth_and_Tail I found interesting, it is quite brutal and a bit icky, but nearly gets to materialism. It deserves much more praise and is a stark critic against idealists and left communists (if you read it like that at least).

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      a year ago

      Check out Red Faction: Guerilla. You play a union guy fighting back against Space America in a maoist insurgency with the serial numbers filed off. Terrorism is good, direct action gets the goods, solidarity forever, building destruction never seen before or since, The Hammer, and the final level is the suburbs. It's as good as a game can get on politics without being Disco Elysium.

  • Kaputnik [he/him]
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    a year ago

    Damn that got more and more bioshock infinite as it went on. Like the steampunk authoritarian government thing, sure that's not unique but then to have big robot looking enemy with glowing eyes and the time travel multiverse mechanic

    • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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      a year ago

      Starts out good with the worship of founding fathers being a full on crazy ass cult, but then just degrades into "both sidesing" the revolution in the most shit way possible.

      • Smeagolicious [they/them]
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        a year ago

        I straight up quit playing when they both sides’d the super Klan - “yeah they’re enforcing torture and murder of minorities in the streets but those gosh darn Vox Populi radicals took it too far”

    • Ossay [he/him]
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      a year ago

      the most overrated game of it's time, reviewers went crazy for the most cliché sci-fi "twist" ever

      • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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        a year ago

        The twist is "Ken Levine does not understand quantum mechanics or even the pop culture version of multiverses"

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    • bigjimmy [he/him]
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      a year ago

      always referred to bioshock infinite as "ken levine's book report."

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    a year ago

    lmao holy shit YouTube put this video in the "Bioshock Infinite" category. These devs need to change up the color pallet or something

  • newmou [he/him]
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    a year ago

    Yeah it’s certainly no Blinx the Time Sweeper

  • Smeagolicious [they/them]
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    a year ago

    Felt like I was losing my mind when people started praising this and hyping it up - absolutely mid shit especially considering that bioschlock instapot was already a profoundly bad game, what a great foundation to rip off draw inspiration from

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    a year ago

    I can't quite define it but the art direction looks empty and souless. Dishonored has just enough of a touch of cartoonishness to make it distinctive and give it a look, for instance, but this has nothing.