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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You know there was a game series called ~~Bad Company~~ Mercenaries that forced you to see consequences of actual choices impacting lives and battlefields.

Sort of the unsarcastic version of the prompt here.

Like all modern works of art, the publishers killed it because it wasn't making as much money as cheap braindead titles for kids.

EDIT: I was thinking of Mercenaries and Mercenaries 2, sorry had my PS2 era shooters mixed up.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think Bad Company is the comedy one. Maybe Spec Ops: The Line?

[–] BrundleFly2077 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Oof. Spec Ops. “Are we the baddies?”: The Game

Tap for spoilerYes. We are very much the baddies.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

You could have walked away.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Nah I was thinking of Mercenaries 2, sorry idk how I screwed that up.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Upvote because disco elysium.

Storytelling aside, such great sound designs

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Struggled with the game because it's so much to read. Came back after "Final Cut" update with lots of VO. Great, totally underrated game. 9/10

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Kind of a pet peeve, but it's not underrated - it's appropriately rated by those who've played the game. It's just not as well-known as its contemporaries because point-and-click games, by their very nature, don't get as much traction as other genres

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fair enough. The wording wasn't correct.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Didn't mean any offence - just felt like putting it out there

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Eh, "ratings" can also mean how many people consumed content, like with television programs.