[akhilcacharya]

> My biggest complaint is that the game is totally dumb and a complete waste of time to those more philosophically inclined.

What are some modern games that are like this?

I came looking for something to scratch my Deus Ex 1 itch and I’ve so far been satisfied. Not terribly engrossed in the world, but otherwise not disappointed.

[elgatonegro]

The Witness was great as was The Talos Principle.

SOMA and Fallout: New Vegas were good.

[Rebelgecko]

I would add Spec Ops: The Line (depending on what online communities you're a part of this game is either hugely underrated or hugely overrated), and the entire Bioshock series.

There also some simpler indie games like The Stanley Parable, Papers Please, and This War of Mine

[akhilcacharya]

New Vegas is a great example, and is better than I remember on this dimension [0].

[0]: https://youtu.be/gzF7aHxk4Y4

[ddoolin]

NieR: Automata is like that.

[no_one_ever]

I've had friends tell me NieR: Automata is one of the best 'artistic' games you can buy for PS4. Though the combat and dialogue is pretty, uhm, Square-Enix-ish, it is one of my favorite games/stories of all time.

[_qwfv]

Nier is truly fantastic and dives headfirst into discussions of identity in a posthumanism world.

[voter101]

New Deus Ex games (Human Revolution and Mankind Divided) are pretty good.

[akhilcacharya]

Hard disagree, I’ve played through both multiple times and was disappointed with how they presented and discussed the metastory even though the gameplay was far more polished and fluid. My favorite part of Deus Ex was the conversation with the bartender [0]. There’s at least one similar, if dumbed down conversation in 2077 but I admire that they at least tried.

[0] https://youtu.be/JKF0IYwhrjk