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also check out the original tweet if you haven’t, it’s very funny and a complete misunderstanding of what makes disco elysium good

  • Cromalin [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    36·
    1 year ago

    i think the game described could be fun, but given the op described disco elysium as “🙄 Do we really need another grimy detective story?” and tequila-sunset as “👨 I’m playing as a generic middle aged white man again, urgh.” i’m a little inclined to believe her game would be bad

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      23·
      1 year ago

      I didn’t realize she was a game developer - that makes it worse lol. I just assumed she was a random freeze-gamer.

      Especially with the “generic middle-aged white man” bit. Are there even many popular games where the protagonist is middle-aged? It’s usually a young adult or teen protagonist. Then her proposed alternative is a pretty common, especially with games like Witchbrook and Songs of Glimmerwick coming out soon (no shade on these games, they look really cool).

        • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          13·
          1 year ago

          I might be misunderstanding what middle aged is. I’m thinking like 40-50 something year olds.

          Last of Us, God of War, MGS4+5 -> yeah, these are some middle age dudes.

          RDR 1+2 -> borderline, they can count, though

          MGS 1+2+3+peacewalker -> too young to be middle aged

          I don’t play a lot of military shooters, but my impression is that the protagonists for those tend to be 20 somethings. That might be a misunderstanding of the genre on my part, though.