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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not OP, but I'll take a moment to rant about how fucking great Eclipse Phase is.

You play as immortal posthuman (or uplifted animal) badasses working to secretly save the remaining ten percent of the human race from the hellish aftershocks of the cataclysm that wiped out the other ninety percent.

What's great about it is that this is a game that actually trusts its players. That's such a rare thing. What I mean by that is that Eclipse Phase has no notion of game balance, because it's not about being a game, it's about being an awesome story.

You want to create a literal clone army of yourself? Go for it. I wonder if that'll have any unforeseen consequences. Want to perform mind surgery on someone to rewrite their personality? Sure thing, have fun living with the moral weight of that choice. Want to be a sentient whale that lives in the sun? Hell yeah buddy, of course you can be a sentient whale that lives in the sun.

It looks like an action game, it plays like a horror game. It's Call of Cthulhu with the singularity and Fermi's paradox as its elder gods.

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The last game I’ve played the plot was about a nano virii STD that was a key logger for the Hidden Concern (Octopus Mafia) that co-opt Bioconservative (racists) intelligence agencies

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

All of which sounds incredibly silly until you actually play the game.

Peak Eclipse Phase, well done.

[–] mossy_@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"the PC is Zer0 from Borderlands 2"

edit: wait left??

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That's not even close to being as weird as Eclipse Phase PCs can get.

This isn't even as weird as Eclipse Phase PCs can get... 12539

[–] mossy_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Motivations: Libertarianism??

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes. The game is unapologetic about is left leaning politics but it left some space for people to « experiment »

[–] mossy_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

also offers experimentation on forms of locomotion presumably, such as lateral undulation

And being a distributed hive mind O’Neil Cylinder habitat, kind of hard to plays as a player but the rules allow it

Or being one of the Alaistair Reynolds’s Conjoiners

[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I like that he has a strong accounting background

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Why have I never heard about this one? *looking it up* Ohh... CGL 🤮

But as it seems to have survived their usual bullshit it seemsto be worth a look now. Thx 👍😀

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

CGL were only the publisher, and not any more. It's published directly by the creators now. It's also under a creative commons license, so you can freely share the rulebooks and create your own material for it.

[–] 5too@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

...dammit, I don't have time for a new fixation right now!

[–] YoFrodo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is CGL referring to Catalyst Game Labs? Because they are no longer the publisher. EP is now wholly owned and published by Posthuman Studios

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes, it is. And yes, I saw that. That's what I referenced with the game seemingly having survived CGL and now worth a look.

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Ooops@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Not believing in quality control or even proof-reading. Not believing in testing or errata. Not believing in small details like paying the f****ing people writing or creating artwork for them.

This kind of totally normal stuff...

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn’t remember that Posthuman had this … problems. Now they’re only a one man team anyway

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Posthuman never did. Eclipse Phase was created by a small team who really cared about it and put the work in.

It also came out before CGL really went downhill, circa Shadowrun 4th edition, which was great.

IIRC Rob Boyle quit Catalyst after SR4 (and all the bullshit they did) to start his own studio : Posthuman

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I guess it's a bit of a beast of an IDE

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

that’s one badass ~~gaining~~ gaming computer