So, there's Outer Worlds.
Dishonoured would be if it wasn't all about saving the monarchy.
Anyone played We Happy Few? Trying to decide whether to buy it.
Disco Elysium - cos you can do fuckin whatever.
So, there's Outer Worlds.
Dishonoured would be if it wasn't all about saving the monarchy.
Anyone played We Happy Few? Trying to decide whether to buy it.
Disco Elysium - cos you can do fuckin whatever.
I didn't quite get this impression from Red Dead Redemption, though I only played the first game and it was many years ago. The first RDR seems to have a Libertarian narrative to it about the government and how they get involved in the lives of the everyday person. John's story involves those FBI agents (in a year before the FBI was even created) who take his family hostage and make him go around killing his old outlaw gang comrades and eventually betray him and set him up to be killed in the end.
The Mexico plot of that game was the absolute worst, with how it portrayed the revolutionary as just being a womanizer who is going to be just as corrupt and as terrible as the government leader he is replacing.
I think I read somewhere years ago that Dan Houser was a Libertarian and that didn't shock me from the impression I had from playing RDR many years back.
RDR2 very much has an anti-industrialist, anti-capitalist narrative. The gang essentially lives in a commune, but they're mostly terrible people who kill and rob. One of the minor villains of the game is a loan shark who you do missions for, and it shows how much he preys on poor and downtrodden people, like a man with Tuberculosis and a widow whose husband died to working in a mine to pay off debts. Two of the game's main villains are a Pinkerton and a capitalist. You spend one chapter of the game in the deep south where the main grunt enemies are ex-Confederates and larpers. There's also a really weird chapter like the Mexico one, where you go off to a fictional Carribean island and help a bunch of sugar cane workers in their revolution and it ends with you blowing up a Cuban warship. So the themes are pretty anti-capitalist.
I've only played rdr 2, which very much explores the limits of that.