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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
      35·
      11 months 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
        22·
        11 months 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·
            11 months 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.