Jesus Christ this feels like some truly mid Bioshock Infinite with even less sociopolitical commentary except for vague "rebellion" but in steampunk
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.
The Difference Engine is the best steampunk story because it goes hard on how steampunk technology would have made the19th century much much worse.
So are we just going to have ripoffs once people are tired of reboots then?
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
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).
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.
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
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.
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”
the most overrated game of it's time, reviewers went crazy for the most cliché sci-fi "twist" ever
The twist is "Ken Levine does not understand quantum mechanics or even the pop culture version of multiverses"
lmao holy shit YouTube put this video in the "Bioshock Infinite" category. These devs need to change up the color pallet or something
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 offdraw inspiration fromSomewhat disappointing to see inXile go from Wasteland 3 to this.
Thought this was going to be a sequel to the Sega Saturn game Clockwork Knight
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.
