Today we will discuss which games should win our award for "Best Adventure", "Strongest Anti-Communist Stance", and who should receive our "Gone Home" award for the most Overpriced Piece of Shit!
Please consider what you would like to argue should be the winning item for each of the passing categories.
Additionally, consider who you would like to nominate as your electors. You may choose 3 electors to cast votes for you on your behalf. Persuade them as necessary. You may choose yourself once. The top 12 most nominated electors will assemble as our electoral tribunal, and will vote on the final categories. Feel free to message me directly with your nomination, or comment your nominations publicly. The electors are allowed to vote their own conscience.
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My vote for Overpriced Piece of Shit goes to DBZ: Kakarot. I have played nearly every DBZ game released in the west, and its amazing how much effort was wasted on this game. Its filled to the brink with so much to appear like an RPG with open world elements, but all of it is forgettable and pointless. Its less fulfilling than Legacy of Goku 2/3 that were mobile games nearly two decades old. Still it was sold at full price, despite being worth half that.
The Card Game recently added looks interesting but its nearly 10 months later.
Also, while its not exactly a new game Frostpunk's expansion came out this year and it continues to be a very anti-communist game. Maybe not directly, but the game has a very USSR communist spirit to everything about it and its portrayed as pure horror with you as the leader having to balance keeping some level of humanity and hope with what is necessary for survival.
A game very good at testing how easy it is to slip into the corruption of communist power (you can even declare yourself God by the end) for even those with the best intentions. Let alone someone with less than altruistic intents like most of humanity.
Tropico 6 took a pretty strong jab at the commies. Granted, the game is cynical all around but there's a scenario specifically devoted to demonstrating how slippery the slope is. Normalizing wages, enacting labor laws, endorsing the communist factions, then demolishing all the housing and replacing with tenements, rationing food, meeting production quotas, then managing uprisings and fleeing riots while the heads of the communist faction wonder why everything turned to shit. I'm not sure I'd nominate it, but it was a fun jab.
Its not deliberately anti-communist, I don't think. But you get to see the horrors and struggles of communism as they play out in a disaster.
Including the necessary but brutal choices one makes that slowly dehumanize everyone until the allure of power finally corrupts you to simply squash them into simple cog in the machine.