A strange and beautiful game with a socialist foundation, Disco Elysium’s success seemed like a miracle. When company shareholders eventually fired its creators and stole their work, that was more familiar — and proved why creative workers need unions too.
  • pwndave@lemmy.ca
    4·
    1 year ago

    I had no idea this was going on. This was an excellent game to play. A totally unique, immersive experience.

  • RQG@lemmy.world
    31·
    1 year ago

    Does the game have a socialist foundation? I’ve played it several times and I don’t see it.

    The union in the game is corrupt as fuck, if you become a Marxist you get told all the flaws in the ideology (just like all the other ideologies you can follow).

    • psychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      81·
      1 year ago

      The way you can tell is games with flawed but sympathetic depictions of socialism are made by socialists, while capitalists either don’t include any socialists or have them as generic villains.

  • Jordan Lund@lemmy.oneEnglish
    625·
    1 year ago

    FTA:

    “No matter what you choose or where you turn, you and everyone else sound like idiots, which adds to the realism of the experience.”

    That’s not “realism” to me and was the #1 reason I refunded the game.