Current Events > Why can't games nowadays have writing of this caliber? (spoilers for Deus Ex)

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MORPHEUS
JC Denton. 23 years old. No residence. No ancestors. No employer. No --

JC DENTON
How do you know who I am?

MORPHEUS
I must greet each visitor with a complete summary of his file. I am a prototype for a much larger system.

JC DENTON
What else do you know about me?

MORPHEUS
Everything that can be known.

JC DENTON
Go on. Do you have proof about my ancestors?

MORPHEUS
You are a planned organism, the offspring of knowledge and imagination rather than of individuals.

JC DENTON
I'm engineered. So what? My brother and I suspected as much while we were growing up.

MORPHEUS
You are carefully watched by many people. The unplanned organism is a question asked by Nature and answered by death. You are another kind of question with another kind of answer.

JC DENTON
Are you programmed to invent riddles?

MORPHEUS
I am a prototype for a much larger system. The heuristics language developed by Dr. Everett allows me to convey the highest and most succinct tier of any pyramidal construct of knowledge.

JC DENTON
How about a report on yourself?

MORPHEUS
I was a prototype for Echelon IV. My instructions are to amuse visitors with information about themselves.

JC DENTON
I don't see anything amusing about spying on people.

MORPHEUS
Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are.

JC DENTON
Some people just don't understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance.

MORPHEUS
The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.

JC DENTON
Electronic surveillance hardly inspired reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence.

MORPHEUS
God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment, and punishment. Other sentiments toward them were secondary.

JC DENTON
No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera.

MORPHEUS
The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.

JC DENTON
You underestimate humankind's love of freedom.

MORPHEUS
The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization.

The human being created civilization not because of a willingness but because of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning. God was a dream of good government.

You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands. I was made to assist you. I am a prototype of a much larger system.

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I really like the first and invisible war....

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I get the feeling that

He is a prototype of a larger system.

I can name half dozen games better written than deus ex made after 2015.

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apolloooo posted...

I can name half dozen games better written than deus ex made after 2015.

Go

Disco Elysium:

Pathologic 2

Nier: Automata

Age of Decadence

What Remains of Editch Finch

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Godnorgosh posted...

I can give two after 2015

Disco Elysium
What Remains of Edith Finch

lol nice

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disco: just take a look at this scene where you report to a woman about his dead husband (minor side quest spoiler)

https://youtu.be/U65J4gMOr4A?t=1249

pathologic: it's just full of brilliance, the writing is just so good: "Convenience is poison. One must accustom themselves to pursue any intention as soon as it appears, regardless of difficulty. Otherwise one burns out, gives in to doubt, starts fearing oneself. The bolder the dream, the more surely it becomes dust when the moment is lost."

Nier: Tbh i'd put the first one above automata, but overall the writing really gives that melancholy feel. the one with the robot village is the best part imo.

what remains of editch finch: also excellently written with top-notch presentation.

Age of Decandece: again, just chock full of good classic proses, intriguing setting and story. game is really niche, so it can be hard finding actual quotes from the game

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apolloooo posted...

I can name half dozen games better written than deus ex made after 2015.

Whoa, 6 whole games in 5 years?? Are you sure you can name that many???

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Edith Finch is neither a good story or a good game

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Deus Ex is literally the best game of all time.

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