Liberal Crime Squad

[Marobug]

LCS is a awesome roguelike, perhaps even my favorite, initially made by bay12 of dward fortress fame and now maintained by the community.
It's not a roguelike in the traditional sense, you have a little more management and less adventuring to do than usual and it's set in modern times but it's awesome.

http://lcs.wikidot.com/

 

[Stalinhater]

I discovered LCS a while ago, and have recently started playing it again. It's completely and utterly awesome!

 

[Fowyr]

Never get too deep into it, but it was good.

 

[asper]

Tarn Adams is a genius. LCS is amazing.

I wish he'd stop building a complete world simulator and focus on gameplay ideas..

 

[Arkady]

Be warned while im wrtiting my first post here.
I've just read wiki page and was like WTF. It looks like nice game conception ( would be awesome to play roguelike Republic: the Revolution ), but they just fucked up protagonist idea. If I wanted to see some liberal hiv feminazi fag stuff, i'd type european union in google.
On the other hand, if devs allowed to choose a side of conflict and to play as a commie- slayer group, I'd love to waste my time on this shit.

 

[Crooked Bee]

If I wanted to see some liberal hiv feminazi fag stuff, i'd type european union in google.

 

[Marobug]

Be warned while im wrtiting my first post here.
I've just read wiki page and was like WTF. It looks like nice game conception ( would be awesome to play roguelike Republic: the Revolution ), but they just fucked up protagonist idea. If I wanted to see some liberal hiv feminazi fag stuff, i'd type european union in google.
On the other hand, if devs allowed to choose a side of conflict and to play as a commie- slayer group, I'd love to waste my time on this shit.

What do you mean by "they just fucked protagonist idea" ?
I don't think it's meant to be advertize liberal ideals, personally I don't really give a shit about the politics in the game other than they being related to the final objective of the game.

 

[hanssolo]

LIBERALS!

 

[Arkady]

Yeah, I know its like Dungeon Keeper with leftists instead of Imps and so on, and only gameplay matters. But let me express my disapproval and disappointment that I can't play other political options as well . Choice is always welcome in any game with rivalry fractions fighting each other.

 

[Destroid]

Earning those KKK.

 

[CorpseZeb]

Huh? On the contrary - http://lcs.wikidot.com/political-system – looks like a mocking up of popular “libertarian” AND “conservative” ideas, than anything else. They just make a parody of both political systems, no need to be so serious about - and just enjoy of the game.

 

[asper]

You really gotta be a retard to get upset by the political setting of this game.

 

[Marobug]

Yeah, I know its like Dungeon Keeper with leftists instead of Imps and so on, and only gameplay matters. But let me express my disapproval and disappointment that I can't play other political options as well . Choice is always welcome in any game with rivalry fractions fighting each other.

Well it's your opinion and I respect it even if in all honesty I don't think it's a good reason to completely overlook a game.
By the way I think the reason why you can only play with the liberals is because in the original version (when it was still maintained by bay12) there was no conservative crime squad. Also given how the game plays it would be redundant whether you play as the conservative or liberals crime squads.

 

[gromit]

I hold issue with the values and actions of a character in a work of satire

Candide, Redmond Barry, and Holden Caufield are a pack of whiners; how am I supposed to be vicariously awesome through these people? Also, I prefer The OC and Jersey Shore to Vanity Fair, as they seem cooler to hang out with. On a related note, The Great Gatsby sucks.

(OK, that last one's true.)

 

[Redeye]

Conservative Crime Squad?

What would that be like?

 

[Mastermind]

Huh? On the contrary - http://lcs.wikidot.com/political-system – looks like a mocking up of popular “libertarian” AND “conservative” ideas, than anything else. They just make a parody of both political systems, no need to be so serious about - and just enjoy of the game.

Looks that way to me too, and nobody gets more butthurt about shoving real life politics into my games than I do. Still won't play it though because roguelikes are shit.

 

[Kaanyrvhok]

Conservative Crime Squad?

What would that be like?

Too easy to make a game out of.

 

[Data4]

Huh? On the contrary - http://lcs.wikidot.com/political-system – looks like a mocking up of popular “libertarian” AND “conservative” ideas, than anything else. They just make a parody of both political systems, no need to be so serious about - and just enjoy of the game.

Looks more to me to be a straight up piss take on liberals.

 

[Kaanyrvhok]

^^ Agreed

Even if you are leftist you are going to disagree with enough of Squad's goals. You hump your shoulders and play the game.

 

[Topher]

The politics have practically nothing to do with gameplay and the whole thing is satire anyway so who the fuck cares and to be honest it's really more of a cult simulator. My leader "Veritas" kidnaps and seduces young college girls to fuel his prostitution empire, runs a full time campaign based around posting pictures of aborted fetuses all around town, attends college classes and sends "messengers of the liberal agenda" around to all the local shops armed with shotguns and AK-47's. I sent five of my followers by the courthouse where they "promoted" liberal blood lust and gunned down workers, lawyers and secretaries before being fed to the "fire of holly liberalism" by local police. I mean fuck, I went door to door in some apartment building breaking into peoples homes and just gunning them down.

 

[thursday]

I love LCS, and am a little surprised at the people who didn't get it. The "game" part's not that spectacular, but the satire is very clever. It's probably the best satirical game in existence, not that I can think of another. Despite the politics, kidnapping, torturing, stealing, and murdering, it feels light-hearted. There's no bitterness towards either liberals or conservatives. It's hard for me to imagine Tarn Adams making this after playing Dwarf Fortress. I've had to revise my impression of him as a math/simulation junkie, and after playing the game still don't know the guy's politics (perhaps apolitical?).

I always went for a super-charismatic leader and rounded up a bunch of bitter, lonely programmers to steal credit card numbers for me before I got going. In my more recent games, I'd find another very charismatic person to do the recruiting--usually by rounding up a group of hippies, choosing the highest Charisma+Heart and lowest Wisdom (hehe), and sending the rest on a suicide mission to beat up as many hangin' judges in the courthouse as they could before getting gunned down. This was so that if anyone ratted, it would come back to my second-in-command and not me, leaving me free to my liberal machinations. When it was time to start breaking doors down, I'd try to kidnap an MIB from the Courthouse/Mayor's house and brainwash him (used to try to make him my love-slave, but sometimes he'd raise my WIS with his conservative dinner-talk). 50% of the time no one would notice he was gone and he would become a sleeper, warning me in advance if the police were planning a raid on my compound. The rest of the time, he'd have to stay with the squad. Easy killing machine. Repeat as necessary.

One thing I wanted to try out: get a group of college kids and train them with swords, then run around dispensing justice with a band of LARPers. Maybe next game.

 

[Zomg]

Gotta differentiate between Tarn's last version and the guy that took it over for him later, Tarn's was mostly a parody of red guard revolutionaries, stuff like the SLA and the Baader-Meinhof gang; the later guy was less focused and implemented various things the forum wanted so it lost the straightforward satire.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

The politics have practically nothing to do with gameplay and the whole thing is satire anyway so who the fuck cares and to be honest it's really more of a cult simulator. My leader "Veritas" kidnaps and seduces young college girls to fuel his prostitution empire, runs a full time campaign based around posting pictures of aborted fetuses all around town, attends college classes and sends "messengers of the liberal agenda" around to all the local shops armed with shotguns and AK-47's. I sent five of my followers by the courthouse where they "promoted" liberal blood lust and gunned down workers, lawyers and secretaries before being fed to the "fire of holly liberalism" by local police. I mean fuck, I went door to door in some apartment building breaking into peoples homes and just gunning them down.

Sounds awesome .

 

[Teepo]

This game is fun though I sort of simmer down and forget what to do. Also, eventually cops are always over my ass so I am focused on moving between safehouses. Gets annoying.

 

[Stalinhater]

Interesting note; a youtube let's player has created an lcs pnp rpg here: http://forums.voltronarmy.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2411. Might be worth a look.