You know, Terry Pratchett's Johnny Maxwell trilogy really is this hidden gem (existing as it does outside the Discworld series) And as a bonus every time I reread it I get the urge to play TIE Fighter again
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I remember them fairly favorably but other than Deconstructing a bunch of Tropes I didn't think there was anything that great about them.
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Are you kidding? For a while that trilogy was the closest thing we had to Pratchett just stating his moral manifesto to the audience (because they were children's books)
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I mean ok for the later reissue of Only You Can Save Mankind, Pratchett even put an author's note in it explaining the point It's not just a book about video games, it was written during Gulf War I, with the growth of high-tech air war, laser-guided munitions
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Bush Sr. bragging that the US's latest generation of warfighters had been raised from childhood on Space Invaders (which make a cameo in Only You Can Save Mankind) Real war had never felt so much like a game, even as games had never felt so much like real war
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Now, with the massive role drone strikes against civilian targets played in the War on Terror combined with the rise of mil-sim FPSes taking over gaming, the stuff he was writing about in the '90s feels almost quaint
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