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Alter Ego
2018
i love when women tell me im mentally ill
Potion Craft
2021
Let me cook
Slay the Princess
2023
The Stanley Parable for the I can fix her/make her worse crowd.
who says filing for insurance can't be fun and engaging? wait, where are you going?
Mass Effect 3
2012
i'm always thinking about how space george w bush embeds a fox news journalist with your crew to make uplifting propaganda about the end of the known universe and this isn't played for comedy even a little bit
in fact there's a lot to be said about how this whole series belongs to the genre of post-9/11 entertainment that very sincerely treats the space us military as an overall morally positive and well-intentioned institution and that's just the funniest bit. but mostly it's just a boring nothing cover shooter
in fact there's a lot to be said about how this whole series belongs to the genre of post-9/11 entertainment that very sincerely treats the space us military as an overall morally positive and well-intentioned institution and that's just the funniest bit. but mostly it's just a boring nothing cover shooter
BioShock Infinite
2013
people like to throw around the word "pretentious" when talking about things that they don't like, but i don't think that they Actually know what it means. when we, as people, describe something as pretentious, we mean that it is attempting to peacock as though it is more intelligent or significant than it actually is.
well, buddy, look no further than this game for that definition. a game whose gameplay is worse in nearly every way than its predecessors, one that makes grand gesticulations towards the ideas of "racism" and "american exceptionalism" only to fall flat on its face every step of the way, and possessive of a "twist" so meaningless in the context of the plot that acts merely as a smokescreen to quickly make its escape as it hopes players will walk away unable to remember anything else about the game.
if there were a poll online for "The Most Pretentious Game of All Time", i would bet money on the collective reddit-esque hive mind of "gamers" choosing something like Braid. well Bioshock Infinite, you've got my vote, friendo!
well, buddy, look no further than this game for that definition. a game whose gameplay is worse in nearly every way than its predecessors, one that makes grand gesticulations towards the ideas of "racism" and "american exceptionalism" only to fall flat on its face every step of the way, and possessive of a "twist" so meaningless in the context of the plot that acts merely as a smokescreen to quickly make its escape as it hopes players will walk away unable to remember anything else about the game.
if there were a poll online for "The Most Pretentious Game of All Time", i would bet money on the collective reddit-esque hive mind of "gamers" choosing something like Braid. well Bioshock Infinite, you've got my vote, friendo!
BioShock Infinite
2013
The game that dared to ask if Slaves were as bad as their owners
BioShock Infinite
2013
i love when a captive young girl is raised as essentially a feral plaything confined to a birdcage by psychotic racists her entire life but after being freed is a quippy well-adjusted girl-next-door hottie and just sassy enough disney princess who sings zooey deschanel covers of abolition spirituals to smiling black children the game doesnt give a shit about
BioShock Infinite
2013
I thought this game was a masterpiece when I was a teenager in the middle of my edgy athiest who just discovered nihilism phase.
super amazing, I cried every time I had to say goodbye to a character, and the collection-building was really fun