A game where you start off as a shitty lone wolf asshole who can barely survive on their own, then you meet another hurt person in a shitty scenario but with pooled resources you stand a better chance at surviving, then another and another and so on until you have to decide to settle down somewhere and start building up a little cooperative community and make sure that everyone has enough to eat, drink, sleep, and stuff to keep morale up otherwise your little community breaks apart or starts doing awful shit to others outside the group.
You can switch between all the people you welcome into your community and each has differing skill sets.
I hate to be a broken record, but that sounds a whole hell of a lot like Kenshi, minus the morale stuff.
It might not be there mechanically, but still, I can't help but make sure that my little dudes have their own bedrooms, nice food, booze, hashish, music, comfy clothes when they ain't out scavenging and trading, and nice shiny armor for when they do.
It really makes you wanna take care of your little guys.
Also, rimworld does that stuff pretty well, and as long as you don't turn it into a war crimes simulator, it does capture that spirit of co-operation and keeping together against a broken world, building bonds with other tribes and societies.
Also, your heroic group of 8 scavangers in the ruins is going to die the first time there are three failed harvests in a decade. It takes centuries to develop a base for hunter gatherer or early agricultural/pastorialist groups to survive in extremely hostile climates.
The worst is the imbeciles adopting the "lone castle" usual prepping strategy on the right; good luck when you get sick, get that first broken bone, or when you need to sleep.
Building community is the actual "prepping".
The game's take on zombies called infected
There's not even an original joke I could make about that at this point, jesus fuck
Same with Allende and also the Spanish Revolution where they were with Durruti. Assassins in the side media are way cooler than the game ones where they've sided with a)The Medici b)the Optimates, and c)Uhh...the Constitutional monarchists in the French Revolution?
Sigh, yeah. Syndicate got so close to a decent critique at times, especially with Jason showing how random violence just makes things worse, (also a big fan of the WW1 sequence where your daughter is tricked into working with Winston Churchill, noted Templar) but fucked it up.
Imagine a AC game in pre-revolutionary Russia where you're a communist robbing banks with Stalin and shit lol
A Rockstar game where you're an union organizer for IWW set in the years before WW1, and you play as a woman.
It will never happen because the company is filled with cowards. Even having a female main character seems too controversial for them now.
This is what you get when executives run creative works. No executive plays video games, unless you count the stock market. Their only knowledge of games is by buzzwords they hear in pitches and industry rags.
post-pandemic America
flesh hungry survivors killing each other for food
Depicting people infected as Zombies
This is fucking disgusting considering we are going through a major global pandemic right now.
Amazing how they edited out the Twin Towers from movies after 9/11 but they'll gleefully profit off of an ongoing disaster.
"Hey man, I know you just lost your beloved grandma to the ongoing apocalyptic pandemic, but buy this game where you can shoot people infected from a pandemic! It's okay though, they completely dehumanise and other the infected by making them crazed flesh-eating zombies! Hey, why are you crying bruh?"
Who thought this was okay?
they edited out the Twin Towers from movies after 9/11 but they’ll gleefully profit off of an ongoing disaster.
It's not the working class who is doing the economic terrorism this time, that's why
this probably started development years ago
editing the Twin Towers out of a movie and cancelling a game are quite different levels of effort
I suppose. Still leaves a bad taste in my mouth though.
My favorite thing about The Division was hearing it called “Homeless Destiny”
wait is this zombie survival shit making a comeback? I though that trend had peaked in like 2009.
seems to be a correlation between the appreciation of zombie vidya and how shitty AmeriKKKa's overall material conditions appear to be, pray for more of these game dropping soon
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Games like this shit in the OP is why I still play Path of Exile (and Warframe, occasionally).
What do you think is the reason for such a large overlap between those two franchises and EVE?
As someone who has lost friends to both PoE and EVE I think the overlap is spreadsheets.
That's probably basically right, but I would word it "emphasis on efficient grinding"
And also graphics cards.
As Marx wrote in his 1843 manuscript, Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie
Runescape is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Efficient grinding minus graphics cards gets you Runescape
Plus idle/incremental games.
mood
I spent an hour in an out of game build planner trying to figure out how to upgrade damage while staying resistance capped, and then only had 20 raw chaos left, so I looked at currency exchanges.
Oh, tabula is going for 5c, but if I vendor those I they become 10c divines!
Then I realized if you swap some of the jargon around I could be talking about any number of Maximally Efficient Grinders.
Open world survival and multiplayer. Name a worse combination.
Nah tarkov is legitimately not bad. There are some terrible design choices though I'll give it that.
