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System Shock RetroSpace - Immersive Disco-Punk Space-Horror Stealth-Shooter

cyborgboy95

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I forgot to mention, the devs of RetroSpace are the ones behind the game Chicken Police
 

Iucounu

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Lyric Suite said:
Nostalgia porn without a cause seems to be a desease specific to zoomers. You never lived the era you are trying to resurrect or pay "omage" to, so how the fuck do you know what things were actually like back then?
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Do they spell it like that now?

It just feels the attraction is precisely that the zoomer devs never actually experienced the media they are trying to recreate. The point seems to be that of reveling in the feeling of cultural alienation of experiencing something you never actually lived yourself or were even exposed to during your formative years.
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Makes you wonder what they were exposed to. Maybe I'm too old, but I've failed to notice any new cultural eras after the Cold War ended (except feminism, wokeism and the web, of course). So maybe the zoomers' formative years lack a distinct identity of their own?

Or perhaps Management decides on a whim that their next game should have say a "1960s retro setting", giving the poor zoomer developers a week to figure out what that means.
 
Lyric Suite

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What they were exposed to is post-modernism.

There hasn't been any new "culture" for several decades, so all that's left is mining the past but "ironically".
 
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