I'll go first. Deus Ex touches on transhumanism, bioethics, and politics among other topics. Are there any games that you would recommend for someone who enjoys thinking?
>>740 I play mainly eu3 (comparison with eu4 http://archivecaslytosk.onion/2019.04.25-122443/https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/679874-europa-universalis-iv/reviews/160324 - I played it last time around the time that article was created, in 2015, is it different now?). I also play darkest hour and hoi3, but contemporary setting is not my cup of coffee at all. I never tried victoria. The fuckery that is paradox today makes me not want to and the first victoria is completely overlooked so I never bothered with it.
I like that these games work as an indirect stimul.
>>743 yep
>>750 bitch what the fuc did you just say nigger geralt has fucked more bitches than you could ever dream of and plus they are witches and have superpowers
Deus Ex is a hard act to follow. I don't think there's any game which does a better job with philosophy. The way it casually predicted things which are a huge topic these days blows my mind.
Human Revolution was decent imo. Not as good as the original, but it was alright.
Fallout New Vegas has some interesting moral problems. Morrowind has a lot of existential content, but it's up to the player to find it.
Bloodborne:
>The search for the truth and the discovery of how horrible and incomprehensible it is for humans expressed through the analogy of the nightmare and a reinterpretetion of Lovecraft-style cosmic horror
Nier Automata:
>The search for the meaning of life in a nihilistic post-humanity world
inb4 weeb, japanese games are not only boobs and pantsu them a chance
S.T.A.L.K.E.R
you are given the choice whether to have everyone's minds uploaded to the cloud or destroy the botnet. the biggest philisophical predicament known to man of all time
>>804 Sounds like one of the endings to Deus Ex II: Invisible War.
I didn't get around to playing that game, but I remember being really psyched about it when first hearing about it. Seeing some of the ingame weapon models turned me off, specifically the backwards AK.
>>810 > I learned it from this Twitter post!
Disgusting.
> shitty JPEG picture takes most of bitmap in PNG file (interlaced for no particular reason)
Brain-dead.
No game has topped Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (Civilization in Space)
Factions are manifestation of an ideology:
>The Hive - Nihilistic Collectivism
>The Morgans - Free-market Capitalism
>The Peacekeepers - Liberal-democratic Humanitarianism
>The University - Amoral Technocracy
>The Gians - Equilibrium Environmentalism
>The Spartans - Darwinist Survivalism
>The Believers - Fundamentalist Theocracy
Games quotes RL philosophers and faction leader's (fictitious) essays as game progresses.
There's an expansion, Alien Crossfire; the factions (nor balancing) aren't as well done as vanilla.
I'll go first. Deus Ex touches on transhumanism, bioethics, and politics among other topics. Are there any games that you would recommend for someone who enjoys thinking?