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Games with a philosophy Nanonymous No.738 [D][U][F][S][L][A][C] >>746
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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?

Nanonymous No.739 [D][U][F]
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Grand strategy games.

Nanonymous No.740 [D] >>744

Do you play EUIV? Good shit.

Nanonymous No.741 [D][U][F]
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Taught me to hate dem commies

Nanonymous No.742 [D] >>743

Talos Principle is pretty good. It is about birth of AI.

Nanonymous No.743 [D] >>744

>>742
I thought it was an alright game. Not particularly thought provoking beyond being a puzzle game which is good in its own right. But different.

Nanonymous No.744 [D][U][F] >>752
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>>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

Nanonymous No.745 [D][U][F] >>750
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>the witcher 3
>your chad character makes random reflections from time to time
>one pointing out that outliers have faced persecution for centuries

Nanonymous No.746 [D] >>747

>>738
The Witness. (it's not just about puzzles)

Nanonymous No.747 [D]

>>746
http://archivecaslytosk.onion/2016.04.13-045640/http://www.gamesradar.com/eureka-moment-what-witness-story-really-about/
How about The Void and Pathologic?

Nanonymous No.750 [D] >>753

>>745
>spouts gay liberal "observations"
>philosophy
kys faggot

Nanonymous No.751 [D]

>744
That article was aidstism. Just play the new one you nigger.

Nanonymous No.752 [D]

>>744

Nanonymous No.753 [D][U][F] >>754 >>755
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>>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

Nanonymous No.754 [D]

>>753
>what did you say to me incel?
Enjoy your super aids, witches are a brewing ground for viral and magical resistant STI's.

Nanonymous No.755 [D] >>759

>>753
Reminds me of when reddit faggots call people incels. Just because you "fuck a ton of bitches" does not mean youre not a cucked faggot.

Nanonymous No.758 [D]

My vision is augmented.

Nanonymous No.759 [D]

>>755
you must "fuck a ton of bitches" heine-style

Nanonymous No.792 [D] >>809

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.

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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

Nanonymous No.804 [D][U][F] >>807
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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

Nanonymous No.807 [D]

>>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.

Nanonymous No.809 [D] >>810

>>792
It even featured Meme Wars as a concept.

Nanonymous No.810 [D][U][F] >>816 >>818
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>>809
See pic related.

Nanonymous No.816 [D] >>819 >>821

>>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.

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>>810
Whoa, I didn't pick up on that, but then again, I played it a log time ago.

Nanonymous No.819 [D]

>>816
>I learned it from this video game
>reddit spacing
LOL

Nanonymous No.821 [D]

>>816
I remembered it from the game but retrieved the first image I could find from a search engine you dim faggot.

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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.