>Alas, once the game gets going I found Disco Elysium way too preachy and it completely lost me. Then I saw that it was scripted in part by the guys in el chapo trap house, which I find insufferable and it all made sense. I really really wish they had done away with all the political stuff, it could have been so good.
The union workers are depicted as useful idiots for corrupt scumbags at best and parasites at worst, communists as delusional losers, the moralintern as ultimately functional, yet brutally oppressive. The script does very clearly come from a left-wing side of things, but I feel it shows the most when it comes to leftist ideologies which are brutally criticized.
Funny enough, one of the most liked characters is the unfettered capitalist,which is depicted as far more humane than the general ideologue in the game.
I must assume that you disagree with some or all of this?
It feels to me that people who don't like it are allergic to political opinions. They want to exist in world where people have no opinions and disagreements,
Disco's world is an amazing melting pot of ideologies, history and clashes of those.
It's not about agreeing or disagreeing, it's about the shoving it in your face. It's also done in fairly "modern" ways (modern = juvenile, twitter brain-rot, millennial, culture war-coded, whatever you want to call it).
Honestly there aren't that many games about politics, at least the way I understand "being about politics" so I can't say, and I don't miss that there are more to be honest. Also, I don't think Disco Elysium needed to be about politics, it's technically a murder mystery and in fact for quite a while I was quite happy with the mystery and general world building but at some point the amount of politics increased to an amount it made it not fun anymore.
The union workers are depicted as useful idiots for corrupt scumbags at best and parasites at worst, communists as delusional losers, the moralintern as ultimately functional, yet brutally oppressive. The script does very clearly come from a left-wing side of things, but I feel it shows the most when it comes to leftist ideologies which are brutally criticized.
Funny enough, one of the most liked characters is the unfettered capitalist,which is depicted as far more humane than the general ideologue in the game.
I must assume that you disagree with some or all of this?