• 100_percent_a_bot@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      If anything the employees getting fired and the project being shitcanned adds another layer of social commentary

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      1 year ago

      The whole thing is such a clusterfuck. I’ve never played it but I can sympathize with how the fans have been jerked around.

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        I you are into adventure games and/or like the idea of a story heavy rpg without combat I wholeheartedly recommend you trying it.

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          I’ve tried several games like it. Arcanum being one of the most similar but I just can’t get into that style, no matter how many times I’ve tried lol. Same reason I won’t play Planescape: Torment. Just not for me. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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            It’s not very much like Arcanum, though. Arcanum and Planescape are moer or less straight RPGs, Disco Elysium is practically a variant of a point and click adventure.

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              It’s a point and click puzzle game with rpg elements, that’s how I’ve been explaining it

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            I really wanted to get into planescape torment because I have heard amazing things about the writing and I have played decently far into the beginning (escaping from the body morgue complex into city) but the whole damn game is just grey and beige and I couldn’t take it after awhile lol.

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      Redundancy is very different to being fired though. When you’re fired you just lose your job and that’s it. If you get made redundant, you lose your job but get paid X amount of months worth of wages to make up for the fact you may be jobless for a while, while you look for a new one. X being different depending on both the countries laws and the company’s policies. But usually it increases the longer you’ve been with the company.

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    It’s a shame that people are being laid off, especially when it seems like it’s retaliation for complaining about working conditions. Still, I don’t think I’d ever be able to buy anything from ZA/UM after they kicked most of the creators out of the company and took control of the IP.