This War Of Mine, Papers Please,

deleted

Voted with my wallet: bought.

It DOES sort of come across at first blush as a preachier version of Papers, Please. Can anyone here who's played it attest to how heavy-handed it is or isn't?

That's sort of the problem with the far-left/far-right culture warriors and their attempts to make entertainment. They're so fixated on pushing a narrative that they can't make engaging entertainment. The God's Not Dead movies and Ghostbusters 2016 come across that way, for example. It's fine to be political, but I don't think anyone really responds one way or the other to a heavy-handed approach.

Nice one. Aswering without even reading.

To whom it may concern: the trailer posted says, "Now available on Steam," @56 s, with no mention of GOG.

Someone doesn't know the difference between games which may have vague political elements as part of the gameworld compared to other games which have it as the main focus of the game, or as outrage marketing or as some kind of pandering to those indie game types.

I remember the days of "it's just a game, dude, why don't snowflakes have any humour" followed with "help, sjw and feminazi want to censor videogames". A rhetoric that already wasn't fooling that many people. And now, from the same dudes, we have all the "how dare you, HOW DARE YOU sell this game". With a third layer in the form of "help, I am being censored, censorship is a bad thing again".

The main thing these forums lack is the benny hill tune auto-playing in the background.

It's honestly a fun game (bear in mind, I'm only 3h in, maybe it turns bad later); the document checking mechanics is similar to papers, please - start with only "kids gotta be 18+ to go into club" and then "check for fake, fuck France because they're terrorists, you need ticket, take care of VIP line and guest line"; just like in papers, please, there are little advancements towards making your life as bouncer easier (keyboard shortcuts to turn pages in guest list, alphabetical order, etc). There's political situation going on in the background, but I can't comment on that (yet).

There are several problems I have with the game right now; unlike in papers, please, NOTHING pauses passing time; it means that you might not be able to hit bonus goal (i.e. let 15 people in, 20 for a bonus, 25 for a bigger one) because of three fakes in a row and people telling you how mean you are. Or VIPs not saying the correct password and you're not able to hit VIP goal for the night because there was just not enough VIPs. It's still rather easy to make money but it's not a game mechanic that should prevent you from hitting target goals.

Oh, I do know the difference; I just don't see why you should be the one making that distinction. I see all games with political elements as pure propaganda and I demand they shall be banned.

Also, do you have loicense to post in this thread?

Damn game developers and their...

*shuffle deck*

*picks card*

story ideas.

Seriously tho, can't we just not have censorship in games. I don't care at all if some asshats are making "feminazi the triggering"; looking at screenshots and review section it's an absolute garbage and if someone is going to make painful playthrough just because it fits their political narrative... Well, good luck to them!

Can't you let them in anyway?

In the version I've played on friday they wouldn't count towards VIP limit but it might have changed in the meantime.

Its unfortunately very common for a pub to release here but not actually announce it it anyway.

I am hugely surprised the game was released here at all.
Previous conversations with the dev made me feel he didn't see GoG as a viable platform.

I'm happy he has and hope he brings future titles (and maybe a past title) here too.

Agreed. I don't try to control what others can play, and I expect others will not try to control me either (like that I shouldn't be allowed to play games which have only male heros etc.). If one finds a game they find distasteful or whatever, they can skip the game.

Overall I don't care for too strong political "messages" in games (or movies, for that matter), but I guess I am too indifferent about Brexit to care enough about this game apparently having a strong anti-Brexit message, if I understood right.

I am not a Brit so Brexit doesn't touch me much (yeah yeah Finland will probably have to pay more for EU fees etc., what else is new?). Maybe I was slightly pro-Brexit, for two opposite reasons:

- Brits started to be a bit whiny about EU, demanding more and more exemptions that other EU countries don't have. So kudos to the whiny Brits that they actually carry out their warnings. That's more than many others do.

- Brexit is a good prod to the EU commissions that MAYBE, just MAYBE, they should also listen to the criticism that "more integration" is not necessarily what everyone in EU wants, that EU nations have less and less power on their own decisions. I'm kinda onboard with Brits that EU should have remained mostly as a free-trade zone, and that's it. Yes you can have free trade without "emission charges"-bullshit or demanding that illegal immigrants should be evenly dispersed everywhere in EU even against the nations' own will, etc. Or, demand all Euro countries to save the German/French/UK banks who were stupid enough to give loans to Greece, those asshat banks should have fallen down with their debts to those nations.

Anyway, as for this game, I will probably buy it if the gameplay seems interesting, I don't care enough about its anti-Brexit message.

This is a great idea, deleting reviews over subjective criteria is an EXCELLENT idea.

I can't possibly see however this might go wrong in any way, nope.

It's not like certain publishers/"developers" have already successfully pressured GOG to remove other means of criticism such as GOGMixes, or anything.

On the contrary, GOG has ALWAYS showed remarkable backbone, never EVER caving in immediately after a minimal amount of pressure.

While there are some valid suggestions in this thread alone on how to prevent agenda-driven reviews (I quite like the one suggesting to expand GOG Connect to reviews), ignoring everything to manually delete reviews after the fact is CLEARLY the best solution.

Yes.

You go, GOG.

You go.

I wanted to get this game, but I'm simply not cut out for the basic 'Papers Please' gameplay. I just can't deal with multiple task and time pressure. I was working on a poster design last week when suddnely, a friend sends me an SMS. Poster design AND a text message? Simultaneously? I pretty much went haywire. So this is simply not something I can play.

From what I have read, the dev has removed present-day racism from the game's world. Instead, the racism is directed against "Europeans". I'm curious if this alternative-universe racism will feel authentic, or if it will be far too removed from reality. From what I read, the game has is pretty long, so there should be time to build up a solid universe in the players mind.