

As a wormholer, watching it unfold from afar has been kinda hilarious


As a wormholer, watching it unfold from afar has been kinda hilarious


This is incredibly niche but in the Blue Planet mod for Freespace 2 you’re on the losing side of a war for the whole campaign - your elite unit pulls off a bunch of small-scale clutch victories but overall things are not looking good. Near the end of the campaign there’s an elaborate series of missions involving disabling a bunch of hostile ships, intercepting and manipulating distress comms, and otherwise setting up a trap for the opposite faction’s command ship, the Carthage (culminating in a mission called, appropriately, “Delenda Est”). All the setup missions go smoothly, as does the first springing of the trap, but then
a counter-trap is sprung as soon as your forces are fully committed - another fleet’s flagship and elite escorts who are supposed to be somewhere else warp in at murder range and start absolutely obliterating your people. The absolute dread as you realize almost nobody is getting out alive sticks with me.
Edit: found a video for the voice-acted version


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CRANE WIVES SPOTTED IN THE WILD but thankfully most of their work is at least as good


The gameplay is fun, but the story is kinda nonsensical and the antagonist names are just dumb (ah yes, Red the Red and Blue the Blue!)


Either I’m having a slow day or that’s a really bad headline, had to read it 3 or 4 times before I could parse it.


Bastion, Hades, Disco Elysium, Planescape: Torment, and Tyranny (even if the last act is rushed in the last two) come to mind for me
Maybe if you spam this to more communities one will magically appear.


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Bouldy would NEVER, you take that back


Goodbye


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It’s called an MBA
Don’t tell Harrowhark about this.
Lord Huron’s Vide Noir is a significant departure from the rest of their work so far, and I really wish they’d do more in that style