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What's a game that got critically and player acclaimed that you disliked anyway? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is a followup to @[email protected] 's recent thread for completeness' sake.

I'll state an old classic that is seen as a genre defining game because it is: Myst. Yes, it redefined the genre... in ways I fucking hated and that the adventure game genre took decades to fully recover from. It was a pompous mess in its presentation and was the worst kind of "doing action does vague thing or nothing at all, where is your hint book" puzzle gameplay wrapped in graphical hype which ages pretty poorly as far as appeal qualities go.

So many adventure games tried to be Myst afterward that the sheer budgetary costs and redundancy of the also-rans crashed the adventure game genre for years.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I just don't want to be constantly lectured by space libertarian, especially when helping or trusting in others - the whole point of the exile's strength in making bonds with others. And I find it ironically pathetic that someone so obsessed with this stupid idea of "freedom" was so drawn to a force user whose greatest strength was their ability to bond and connect with others. She honestly comes across as one of those deranged people trying to separate themselves from society, who hates the very fundamental dependence of all life on each other

Lmao. Point taken.

I think it's clear that your experience of the game came from a place of being radicalised, or well on the path to radicalism, before you played it when my experience of the game came before I was really radicalised (fortunately Randian libertarianism doesn't have nearly as strong a grip where I live and, unfortunately, my path towards radicalism detoured through the much more individually-oriented forms before I broke free from that so these two factors clearly coloured my experience of the game.)

When it's cast in this light, Kreia makes for an excellent villain because she's the embodiment of the self-parody inherent in the bourgeoisie which is not class-conscious (I sincerely believe that some of them truly are class-conscious but the majority of them are Elon Musk-tier with their awareness) or the Randian who dreams of going full-Galt, completely oblivious to just how much they depend upon society and the general goodwill that people extend towards others without any thought of personal gain.

But that doesn't make her any less insufferable or any more sympathetic to deal as a party member lol.