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I've been recently been thinking about Arkane Studio's Prey which is a immersive sim, with a pretty good rogue like dlc, that probably has one of the strongest hooks of any game I've played. If you liked Halflife, System Shock, or Deus Ex it's definitely worth a play.

Are there any titles that might not have been commercially successful that you feel everyone should give a shot?

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[-] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Major studios pander to current sentiment but don't seek to resolve the issues.

Lol, seek to resolve issues? They're not the government. They're art. Art critiques things and suggests people to change things. It came write laws.

Yet Cyberpunk 2077 with partner with Amazon Prime gaming and let the man leading Neurolink voice a character in their game.

The devs and writers don't make the business decisions. Wish they did, they'd have a better product, imo. The marketing is done by someone else who the devs, usually, have no control over.

[-] Moonguide@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

It still is a little lib-ish. The game goes to great lengths at showing Silverhand (and anyone blaming capitalism) as being a bit too harsh or off their rocker, with V explicitly mocking his leftist opinions in dialogue many times (replaying the game, once during an elevator ride, another after dealing with the chapel in pacifica). The game is very on the nose about blaming corporations but spares the rod when talking about the system.

[-] FireTower@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

From my perspective producing art can be pivotal in impacting change, good or bad by swaying public sentiment. I'm not claiming that they can pull out the old quill and ink and pen up some statues, but that voicing distaste is the first step in enacting change.

Voicing thought alone doesn't impact change, but neither does enacting laws, you also require enforcement. But laws enforced without public support don't last forever.

On the last paragraph I think we had a disconnect, I had assumed you said devs in reference to an entire studio. But it seems you were strictly speaking about the individual of that occupation in a larger studio.

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