oh I see

you can actually play matchmaker there iirc if you botch an empathy check that shows up later

I guess I'll give it another shot, it's just left a really negative impression on me compared to how it was being portrayed in reviews and such

there's usually a lot more options than what's readily apparent, is what I've gathered so far

so you dont need to "pass" any conversation. You can just leave and do something else

normally I don't care about political views being pushed in media, but it feels like the game is pushing certain things REALLY hard

sure

Maybe you chose a certain stat or background option that set you on that path.

I mean, I literally only selected stats by that point

You didn't take the Leftist Cuck background did you?

wew

you can become a racial supremacist like 30 minutes into the game, fwiw

lol

Lol

do I just have to keep pressing on that discussion to do that?

the one on top of the gate yeah, except you're basically cucking yourself, because his race theory puts you at the bottom

there's other similar options though

like when your intestines try to sell you on fascism

'cause the writing for that conversation was cringy as hell

I mean, I know my head would explode if you could like, in the Conversation you just linked, be able to start talking crime statistics.

It's a fantastical setting but that would be a cool option.

honestly, the big thing that bugged me is that the game seems pretty insistent on telling me that the free market is bad

and then gives no options for me to say "no, I actually like capitalism, thanks"

you definitely get those

well, not up to the point that I played, it didn't give them

sure

except one highly sarcastic remark

just saying they do show up

you can also show disdain for commies

I was just looking at this game btw.

Beeman how did you like it overall?

I'm 10ish hours in. Definitely on the high end of my RPG experiences so far

but yeah, some of the conversations veer one way or the other

I will say that the mechanics that they decided to use impressed me greatly already

it's a very unique system and does a good job of actually making it feel like non-combat stats are important

the thought system seems really interesting, as much as I didn't get a chance to explore it yet

Yeah?

My recent rpgs are Pillars2, DOS2, and Witcher 3

Yeah, thoughts are time centric bonuses you can obtain, and all your stats are used as part of the dialogue system

which is how you handle everything. Everything is dialogue, even interacting with random objects, or yourself

I enjoyed DOS2, didnt touch Pillars2 after bouncing hard off of 1