@nuttism :I must say- beneath Disco Elysium's cynical outward facing exterior beats the heart of the most hopeful game I have ever played. It's genuinely maybe one of the most hopeful pieces of art maybe ever conceived. On the surface is the stagnant mire of mourning - mourning hope even - mourning the people who fought and died for a better world and the experience of living in the ruins of their efforts, knowing that there is no future and that the sins of the past are ( in the case of DE) literally eating our world alive.
But beneath all that there is the kind of hope that gives meaning to the word hope. A near dogmatic and illogical impression that things WILL get better- despite the near constant reminders of an absence of possibility, an absolute and unshakeable understanding that it doesn't matter. That love will triumph over hate and that the evils of the world will consume the evildoers. That A Better World is Possible.
hell's bells I can't believe it's been 10 years... I got my Oculus Dev Kit 1 off the kickstarter just a few months after this. time flies when you're dealing with the apocalypse!
@avioto: so glad someone other than me has played paper beasts! Chahi still got it!!
@ybbaaabby: couple more VR recs - I think you'd love Virtual Virtual Reality, it's a funny and trippy little adventure game from Tenderclaws, the same people that did Wide Ocean, Big Jacket. It's a little older now but kind of a classic that a lot of people slept on! Their newer VR game, The Under Presents, is INCREDIBLE and free, but especially don't sleep on the part that costs money, their weird immersive live theater multiplayer thing that is ending really soon so the tickets are way cheap right now!
Edit: Oops nvm the live theater thing ended but you can still run into live actors in the overworld and the players can't talk so it's not weird it's just kind of pantomimey and wild
OH ALSO CHECK OUT HALF + HALF THAT SHIT IS FREE AND FUN AS HECK
@jeff I was so glad to read your Rez Infinite review. Since you already got Sidequest up and running, PLEASE do yourself a favor and check out "Tea For God" which, alongside Polybius and Rez: Infinite, completes the trifecta of games I'd strap on someone coming out of a coma from 1994 to convince them that VR turned out exactly as they expected it to
I'm all for this, it's great! I like the idea of having a preview of the premium content, AND a shorter version to watch when I'm shorter on time! Plus, Abby's editing is really top notch! It's even funnier with that tighter timing.
It feels really fucking wrong to watch any footage of this game that isn't a perfectly choreographed, expert-level slow-mo ballet. It just looks like a totally different game. It's kind of novel to see what it looks like when a regular dude plays it.
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