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by jcelerier 1470 days ago
> We continue to see other phenomenal games like Outer Wilds or Disco Elysium that push what a game can be and how closer to true art the medium has come.

Since when is it about "true art" though ? It's not like arthouse cinema make record profits compared to mainstream movies... most humans don't like it and prefer the simple fun of mainstream media.

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It's one of several innovative games I called out. It's significant since we likely couldn't have had something like this at this level of quality because it wouldn't have been economically viable. Planescape Torment is probably the closest we had gotten in the past and that didn't seem to be deemed a success by the publisher. While art house isn't mainstream there are still a lot of people who love it. I don't know exact numbers, but Disco Elysium won lots of awards and comes up in conversations online a lot.