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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1902564

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its actually more like 5-7 books

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 8 months ago (31 children)

How is disco Elysium leftist? Didnt play it, so honestly asking

[–] [email protected] 100 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (15 children)

It's very leftist; the dialogue is full of political speak with honest critiques of different ideologies. The story itself is set in Revachol, a place where a communist revolution was crushed by the Coalition (a foreign capitalist military alliance of the most powerful countries and somewhat of a stand-in for NATO), similar to what happened to Libya and the USSR.

The game centers around you (a cop) trying to solve a murder mystery that has something to do with the local Dockworkers' Union striking for overtime pay, workplace democracy etc from a megacorporation.

Alot of the creators are also communists, as you can see from one of the (ex) writers for the game recently saying that the workplace culture after the recent lay-offs of alot of the writers was like "transitioning from the Soviet Union to the fascist Russian Federation"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

How's that different from call of duty being a capitalist mouthpiece

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

who here said anything about call of duty?

edit: in case you were genuinely asking in good faith, it's different because disco elysium is not a capitalist mouthpiece

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It's just weird that people call games political as if it's unusual in the first place, and what'sa bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

The original reply to you wasn't negative about it being leftist/Political I don't think

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