If it makes you feel better... (Gaming)

by Funkmon , Thursday, June 09, 2016, 15:52 (3093 days ago) @ Kermit

You are standoffish with her, and work for her for a short time before going off on your own. That said, she blows up buildings and kidnaps people to get what she wants.

And, the businesses in this universe appear to be more like monarchies, run by ruling families, even with marriage alliances. So it's either batshit insane totalitarian oligarchy or luddite communism, it seems. The middle ground people seem to be the ones closest to Faith.

They're setting up a franchise with this one, clearly, but I much preferred the universe in the last story. This one doesn't make as much sense.

The 1984 esque first game made some sense. The government was democratically chosen to act the way it acted, and normal people had good lives because of it, though their freedom was limited. It's a tradeoff that makes sense to some people, and it's technically conceivable.

The new one went the other way, with what is essentially a slavery system, as far as I can tell. People work for businesses, are put in a caste, and they cannot stop working for the businesses. They live well, have leisure and stuff, but they're forced to work for whoever they work for. Government does not seem to exist, since private companies jail people and control everything. And it's not like debtor's prison, where the government jails people for breach of contract or something, it's just straight up being jailed by the business.

I don't understand.