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Zero Parades devs knew they didn't want to make another cop game after Disco Elysium: 'How people think of the police these days, it's a bit different' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 3 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

I totally agree, but also paradoxically think two detectives solving a crime is an essential genre for storytelling.

Two detectives solving a crime.

Doctors treating patients.

A family unit living a normal life.

Workers getting through a normal workday.

Can anyone name any others?

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 1 points 30 minutes ago

Any crime done by a spy in one nation is "a solve" from the side of the other nation.

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 12 points 3 hours ago

What do you mean these days. Disco Elysium was only 2019.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Kek. They're just ignoring their 1000 dislikes thread on Steam.

[–] shani66@ani.social 1 points 58 minutes ago

Here's hoping people are smart enough to not give them any money

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

...instead like, you know, being unemployed just because people are angry; I guess.

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 16 points 6 hours ago

In a similar way, people also view ZA/UM differently, except ZA/UM actually used to be respected a little bit first.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 16 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Were any of the original writers left, or did the new owners of ZA/UM hire some hacks and/or use a LLM, prompted to write something in the vein of Disco Elysium?

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 7 points 5 hours ago

There might be some lower level person who has some writing credit left, I'm not sure. I know Anton Vill (who drew the thought cabinet) still works at ZA/UM and I think is involved in the artwork of Zero Parades. But none of the original creators of the IP are left, and none of the major contributors (Robert Kurvitz, Argo Tuulik, Martin Luiga) are left.