I still dream about the game being faithful to the debut trailer and first gameplay preview. That, combined with competent writing, would have been amazing.
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Replying to @TellerGrim @loudpenitent and
Let me say this: the themes are still 10x deeper and better realized than those in The Outer Worlds
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @TellerGrim and
Strong personal disagree! I think "actually you totally DO need to keep the minorities down and the poor working 12+ hour days & bidding for wages against each other or they'll rise up and defile White Sky Utopia" is actively harmful
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
Nah the back half of the game sucks but I think it's a huge mistake to say the message is "The Founders really are good and the Vox really are evil"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
It's a tragic narrative - the Founders' depravity made the Vox uprising inevitable but the Vox also giving into depravity means their own failure is inevitable
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Remember the point ends up being that the whole world ends in 1984 when Elizabeth goes mad and starts WWIII The fail state is any timeline that leads to Elizabeth seizing her full power and becoming dictator of Columbia, and the issue is *either side winning* leads to this
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
It's hard to keep this in mind, because the pacing of the game sucks But the theme seems to be "The world gets to decide if it survives by deciding whether it can spare this one Special Child's innocence and keep her from coming to hate and resent it" It always fails
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
It's thematically similar to the stuff Ellie is into in LiS and TLoU in that way, it just executed it really badly And yeah that's a shitty narrative that literally centers a white girl's feelings above everything else
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
But I honestly don't think it's really that the message is "The Vox uprising shouldn't be happened, and it would be okay for the Founders' utopia to continue" The Founders' utopia was a track leading straight to Armageddon and the Vox were an attempt to stop that that failed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Ok but you can throw all the high-minded structural excuses at it you want, it's still a game where it explicitly has the rebellious PoC chanting triumphantly about how they're gonna rape the white women.
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Yeah no it's a game that kind of demands a lack of nuance and then pushes nuance on you anyway You can't make a grotesquely exaggerated Jim Crow slaveocracy with minstrel shows and shit and then ask me for nuance about it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
I mean, you find out Booker was at Wounded Knee and that he's a Pinkerton literally first thing in the game, before you see Columbia or its racism So you *know* you're a bad guy if you're paying attention
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