Let's Sperg Games worth playing despite woke reputation?

[DrearyDoomguy]

I heard it also has faggotry, and some degree of communist themes or something like that.

You can pursue same-sex romances and the main villain is a corporate conglomerate that wants to drive the mom-and-pop stores out of business. Not so much communist as anti-corporate. They still portray the hardworking small business owners in a positive light.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

You can pursue same-sex romances and the main villain is a corporate conglomerate that wants to drive the mom-and-pop stores out of business. Not so much communist as anti-corporate. They still portray the hardworking small business owners in a positive light.

Fag shit aside (it's not any better for being optional), that's not bad then.

 

[Grub]

not necessarily to curry favor, but because the creator himself trooned out, and since everything in a troon's life story has to be retconned as a journey to troondom, Celeste's creator claimed post-trooning that the game's themes of self-searching were akshually about questioning gender identity

I mean, dude wrote a personal game about self discovery, dude IRL self discovered he's an autogynephiliac. It may be a retcon but you can't tell me the dude's personal mental fuckery isn't on display there.

 

[I'm Retarded?]

I mean, dude wrote a personal game about self discovery, dude IRL self discovered he's an autogynephiliac. It may be a retcon but you can't tell me the dude's personal mental fuckery isn't on display there.

this is the correct take, but the dev wanted to make it out to be indicative of the extremely real and not self-induced or delusional experience of Gender Dysphoria

 

[Tism the Return II]

Which companion is this?

It's not a companion but an NPC that isn't particularly prominent in the game. You can ignore him and his orc wife after the tutorial area more or less.

 

[Tablet County]

Hyper Light Drifter is fucking fantastic. While the game itself is minimalistic enough that it isn't really woke, it's rife with circumstantial things that are typical of woke games; the color pallette, anthropomorphic animals, obvious influences from anime. The yet-to-be-released sequel has SBI involvement, so make of that what you will.
Also Caves of Qud. The devs are whiny furfag cunts, the various in-game mutants and furries are very likely a metaphor for multiculturalism, the main story railroads you into working for the heccin wholesome science bears and there's a flower with neopronouns, but the writing is otherwise pretty good, the setting's fairly unique, and the sandbox is fun.

 

[XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG]

AI: The Somnium Files (and its sequel Nirvana Initiative) are somewhat woke, and explicitly so in one or two characters
However, they're also among the best visual novels of this decade and I recommend them

 

[DSP for president 2032]

Disco Elysium is a game I've been obsessing over lately. You play as Nick Rekieta and you have to solve a murder mystery. Despite being written by an avowed commie who has a literal bust of Lenin on his writing desk, the game offers a humorous critique of both radical and centrist viewpoints.

Arkane's Prey has a reputation for being proto-woke, though it's mostly awkwardly inserted lesbianism (no troons). The game's other issues eclipse any woke elements, though I still find it to be quite good overall. The last decent game Arkane made.

I was going to say Arkane's Prey as well. It and Disco are my favorite games to come out in the last 10+ years. It really put the immersive in immersive sim for me with its commitment to its cool art-deco-in-space style.

The best parts of the game for me are when you enter the space station's service tunnels and maintenance areas, and all the cool architecture gives way to cold pragmatism and utility.

Really cool enemy design as well. Despite them all being essentially black slimes, the variety in what they can do and how you have to fight them is great. Made me very surprised when I heard people criticize Deathloop for only having boring man-with-gun style enemies, because I know Arkane is/was capable of much more.

Based on the very thread here, I'll say Disco Elysium.

I went in originally expecting forced woke nonsense and extreme amounts of fart huffing but I left with a totally engrossing experience and charmed by many different characters, the soundtrack, and the atmosphere.

Goddamn shame we'll never have anything like again at this point.

Beat me to it! It's a shame what happened with the studio, but at least we'll never have a Disco 4 where Kim troons out.

I hear two conflicting versions.
1. The game is pro communist and allows you play a fash bashing commie.
2. The game is anti communist, and while you can do a commie playthrough, it makes it clear it's a failed ideology.
Which one (if any) is true I don't know.

I'd put it like this:
-You can do a commie playthrough, it makes it clear it's a failed ideology.
-You can do a fashie playthrough, it makes it clear it's a failed ideology.
-You can do a liberal playthrough, it makes it clear it's a failed ideology.
-You can do an apolitical playthrough, it makes it clear it's a failed ideology.

Revachol is a place where every ideology has been tried and failed, and people are kept from each other's throats by cannons trained on them from gunships in the sky.

A lot of the people bashing or praising it as propaganda are people who lack the capacity for understanding nuance. To them, everything has to be either a fully pozzloaded AIDS needle delivered into a child's arm by cartwheeling trannies, or a covert Hitler-resurrection device that funnels the psychic energy from your playthrough to a summoning circle for Adolf soul.

One thing I guess I should mention for the thread is that there are somewhat normalized homo-sexuals and bi-sexuals in the game. If you naively ask one of the homo-sexuals about the homo-sexual underground, he sarcastically replies that the homo-sexual underground is out to get your children. Meanwhile, said homo-sexual is getting plowed in the ass by a wealthy sex tourist more than twice his age who is cruising for exotic discount boypussy in the slums. Not sure if the writer intended for it to come off the way it does, but I found it amusing.

 

[Tablet County]

I hear two conflicting versions.
1. The game is pro communist and allows you play a fash bashing commie.
2. The game is anti communist, and while you can do a commie playthrough, it makes it clear it's a failed ideology.
Which one (if any) is true I don't know.

Basically the best descriptor I've heard of the game comes from one @Randall Fragg and it goes like this:

Disco Elysium is great, because a major point of the ideologies is that 'mentally unstable people latch on to ideologies so they can ignore their own issues'.

Based on what I've seen in the past decade, I feel like that applies to real life as well.

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

I hear two conflicting versions.
1. The game is pro communist and allows you play a fash bashing commie.
2. The game is anti communist, and while you can do a commie playthrough, it makes it clear it's a failed ideology.
Which one (if any) is true I don't know.

The writing is undoubtedly more sympathetic to commies than anyone else. Just off the top of my head there are two "working class Joe" characters; one is a union boy who wants to fight for workers' rights, and the other also believes in the idea of workers' rights yet believes both unions and ethnic displacement are a problem. One is a power-to-the-people stereotype that communists often picture in their head, while the other is one red hat away from being a Horsey caricature. (He actually kind of looks like a Horsey character.) Some differences between the two:

1. The commie actually has a name and plays a major role in the story. The other guy doesn't receive any humanizing qualities whatsoever (like a name.)
2. The commie's descriptors make it sound like the sort of guy the game's writer would power-bottom for. The other guy is fat, small, pathetic and an incel.
3. The commie has a heroic stand-off with a literal super soldier and, even if he loses, it's obviously a heroic sacrifice. The other guy is framed by you for a crime, where it's portrayed as comical. The idea of a police officer framing a working man for a serious crime would normally horrify most leftists, but not when it happens to someone they disagree with.
4. The commie has the blessing of the obligatory lawful-good negro who can do no wrong. The other guy is the only person in the entire game to piss off your sympathetic companion. This is accomplished through racist rhetoric, which is strange because the giant neo-nazi says the same things to your partner yet he doesn't seem to care.
5. The commie is so powerful that if you stand up for yourself (i.e. be an actual cop) you get killed without exception. The other guy requires a trivial skill check to defuse. (Not that he's given any real opportunity to express himself, as other characters get.)

Disco Elysium is competently written for the most part but it's no exception to the most common, most glaring problem with leftist writing: Under no circumstance are they able to write characters who actually sit on the opposite side of any given political issue. Fascist extremists? Those can be characterized. The giant neo-nazi I mentioned is (perhaps not intentionally) written to be the only guy in this entire story who tells your character to go cold turkey on alcohol, exercise and read some books. An actual working-class man who doesn't agree that unions will magically solve all of his woes, and does not agree with the mass import of some other ethnicity (who will compete with him for work)? That guy isn't allowed a voice. Robert Kurvitz probably believes giving that character a voice would be empowering "a real threat" vs. the fascists, who are as politically-inert as communists.

Sorry for the essay, but it's pretty common to hear "Disco Elysium mocks both sides actually!" when there's undoubtedly an author bias. You don't even have to dig to find it.

 

[LazyLizard]

i don't know if you'd count it as woke with it's girlboss elf and black gondorian but Shadow Of War is fun though it drags on for way to long

 

[Grog]

Originally, the allegory was alleged to be about depression, which I guess is close enough to be portable to trannyland. I bought it then, as I was doing battle with depression myself at the time. The troon stuff happened after my purchase, which was hella pissoff.

Yeah that game being about trannies is like if now suddenly Team Cherry decided the grubs that you save become trannies when they return home, to make an example with the avatar of the guy you're responding to. Something completely tacked on well after the game is out just to own le chvds.

AI: The Somnium Files (and its sequel Nirvana Initiative) are somewhat woke, and explicitly so in one or two characters
However, they're also among the best visual novels of this decade and I recommend them

The troon bartender is a Japanese cliche (it's in Yakuza too, for example), and the part with the girl whose name I don't remember going on about how wonderful queers are was to set up a joke when the troon acts like a perv immediately after.

 

[G19]

I second these recommendations:

Fear & Hunger, for sure. I haven't touched the sequel because it seems like it's been totally plagued. But if you ignore the fanbase at all costs, that first game is an incredible experience.

It's rife with fucked up themes, including homosexual situations. So, of course, the violently autistic teenage "fans" who found out about the game through YouTube videos just think: "wow, that's so deep, scary, and hot," and they've made the whole game about that.

Pathfinder, Wrath of the rightness suffers from the same deal with blacks, trannis and gays being there just to fit a quota but not as bad as BG3. thankfully, there is a mod that fixes that.

https://rpghq.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2191-wokeless-wrath-1-6c-pathfinder-wrath-of-the-righteous

Add the following:
Cyberpunk 2077
Mass Effect Trilogy

And point out to a couple of enlightened chud modder websites that may help unfag some of the content in these games and possibly others:

https://modhq.org/

https://basedmods.eth.limo/browse/

 

[Pelican Bones]

None. Stop supporting your enemies. Stop giving money to people that hate you.

 

[G19]

None. Stop supporting your enemies. Stop giving money to people that hate you.

Who said anything about giving money?

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

The good thing about Baldur's Gate 3 is that at the very least you don't have to pursue any romance. And in situations where you must do something to proceed like Haarlep, you can choose a character to do it, it doesn't need to be your character.

 

[Arcade Gannon]

Greedfall, where the game railroads you into working with the native americans and there's annoying dialogue

Greedfall is worse than that. The islanders aren't native americans, but rather the same assortment of races as the colonists. Character races appear to have been decided pretty much at random. The conflict should have had a racial element to it, but the devs shied away from that idea and just made every group racially diverse.

 

[Maude Snew]

I'm surprised no one has modded out the fag and nigger stuff,

Someone did. https://basedmods.eth.limo/browse/

 

[TATE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODE!!]

On topic, you could make a case that ion fury is woke in that the player character is female,

This is the stupidest comment I've seen in awhile now.

 

[SmallKiwi]

Honestly the sims isn’t that bad.

Which one?