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Death and taxes game (review and spoiler) 

Death and taxes might be the only game that I remember feeling like vomiting after I finished it.

You play as a reaper, and decide who will die based on instruction given to you by your boss. And based on your decision, you can either destroy or save the world.

Now, why is it so bad? Because after I finished the game, I realized, that:
The developers had a clear immage in their head who deserves to die in order to save the world.

THINK ABOUT IT!!! They outright have decided before you ever turned on that game, who's death would be justified, and who's death must not happen.

And that If I wanted to get the good ending, I MUST agree with their philosophy.

That is..... just inhumane.

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re: Death and taxes game (review and spoiler) 

@LukeAlmighty kinda like how every city simulator is socialist. lol

@icedquinn
BTW, I do recommend trying the game once. It will take a few hours, and if you also get such a strong emotional reaction as I did, then it's definitelly worth it.

But please, don't buy.

re: Death and taxes game (review and spoiler) 

@icedquinn I remember playing Sim City, and wondering, why the hell do I decide what gets build where. It's not like mayors get to decide economic/living zones...

Oh... America :omegalul:

re: Death and taxes game (review and spoiler) 

@LukeAlmighty @icedquinn Sim City, and similar games, have always been closer to "city-state simulator" or "governor simulator" than "mayor simulator", even if the game sometimes addresses you as such.

Death and taxes game (review and spoiler) 

@LukeAlmighty This is one of the major issues with morality systems in video games. They always end up being pretty biased towards the creators morality, often in really disgusting ways if their morality is very different than your own.

Death and taxes game (review and spoiler) 

@Alex
Yes, but in most games, it means "do not use nuclear power", not "murder all landlords" :omegalul:

Death and taxes game (review and spoiler) 

@Alex @LukeAlmighty i like the way witcher 3 does it, where it's not even really a morality system but you always have stuff that happens based on your choices and there are often not very clear right or wrong options.

Death and taxes game (review and spoiler) 

@LukeAlmighty this is just last of us 2 in a nutshell, especially juxtaposed to last of us 1.

@beardalaxy
Yeah, that is a perfect example.
Murder everyone except the one person who wronged you... because morality :astolfoqt:

@LukeAlmighty also forces you into thinking that what joel did was wrong

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