I am expecting a lot of Disco Elysium, here…and nothing wrong with that!
A video gaming student organization I was once part of actually had a vote on their favorite sayings. The winner was the evergreen “Perhaps the same said could be said of all religions…” from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMTizJemHO8
Later we had a second voting, which decided on the cult classic Trio the Punch’s “BAD CHOICE”! https://youtu.be/rIPtzZHJnkg?t=454
My personal favorite? It’s hard to say…but hey, that’s what the scientist in Half-Life can comment, word to word! So maybe I’ll put forward, said by the aforementioned: “My god, what are doing!?”
Tl;dr: Check title.
I firmly believe that most people who hate Spec Ops: The Line don’t understand what it’s trying to accomplish
That’s true, but I think quite a few get what it’s trying to do and hate it for the same reason I hate Pathologic, or most Brecht play productions. They’re just not fun.
Oh, I like Brecht as a playwright, but his thoughts on “epic theatre” and keeping the audience emotionally detatched from the characters and constantly aware they’re watching actors on a stage requires a deft hand and a great sense of comedy, or it all falls apart.
The best productions I’ve seen are the ones that ignore the stage directions and treat them as straight plays with suspension of disbelief.
That said I dont like Mother Courage, and I think the Threepenny Opera is worse than the source material of the 18th century Beggars Opera.
The game is clever and well written but I’m not convinced the gameplay is generic on purpose. I’ve heard that before but never bought it.
Now yeah the devs put in things to make you uncomfortable, like the white phosphorus thing or how you can accidentally shoot civilians. And the game mocks you. But the gameplay is otherwise kind of typical for the time. It does get needlessly difficult at certain parts, and that’s probably an aspect of the narrative, but the gameplay itself was probably intended to be functional and engaging.
