Which game or series has had the largest impact on you - and specifically on how you think about the world?

posted 1 year ago by Graphenium 1 year ago by Graphenium +28 / -0

I’m not necessarily talking about moment-to-moment gameplay or mechanics (though I could see some interesting points being made about, for example, RTS gameplay or RPG character building influence how you approached “strategy” in your own life).

What I’m trying to get at are the games you felt really had something to say.

For example, while I’m by no means the biggest fan (only ever played 2 and V), playing MGS V recently (and catching up on the background a bit) has created this sense in me, and I wondered where else one might have experienced that from vidya

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– throwaway531 7 points 1 year ago +7 / -0

The Republic was never what was important - ever. It was but a shell that surrounds the Jedi - just as the teachings of the Jedi are a shell surrounding the heart of man. You see, the war, the true war, has never been one waged by droids, or warships, or soldiers. They are but crude matter, obstacles against which we test ourselves. The true war is waged in the hearts of all living things, against our own natures, light or dark. That is what shapes and binds this galaxy, not these creations of man.

If you are to truly understand, then you will need the contrast, not the adherence to a single idea

Kreia has some great quotes.

Every inscription, every utterance, every gesture seeks to dominate the plane of meaning. Real violence is only an extension of this process.

Also Deus Ex

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– Grant_us_eyes 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

Kreia is one of the best-written Star Wars charachters in any medium, and the one that really shows off what's possible with a made-up group of people that amount to space wizards with laser swords.

Valkorian is probably another, if only for the sheer ham the man brings to the table that you can't help but take seriously. He's one of the few charachters who could seriously utter the words 'I am a God' and you can't help but nod in agreement.

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