10 Video Games That Pose Extremely Deep Questions
1. Spec Ops: The Line
An entire book could be written about Spec Ops: The Line. So, for the sake of brevity, we'll be focusing on how it handles the theme of morality.
The game follows a trio of soldiers in Dubai tasked with taking down a rogue military commander. Pretty straight-forward right? Wrong.
A major criticism of games that try to make you feel bad for virtual murder is they tend to not offer any alternative. What makes Spec Ops: The Line different is that it knows sometimes you don't have a choice, or that every choice is equally terrible.
At first glance, it may be asking you why killing non-real people makes you feel guilty, but it goes deeper than that. Rather, what it's asking is why do we still feel guilty even we're forced into doing something wrong. If we have no say in the matter, then logically we shouldn't feel bad, yet we still do. It takes this idea and draws it out to its furthest extreme, forcing you to question the actions you've taken in life and what they say about you.
Are you a good person? Can we be good in this world? Or is good nothing more than a word we use to help ourselves sleep? Just a little fun food for thought.