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Posted on: July 14, 2025
jslews4
Possesseur vérifiéJeux: 117 Avis: 17
Worth a try
“Orwell: Ignorance is Strength” puts focus on the relationships of its characters, offering a story that demonstrate the consequences and effects that misinformation has on its people. While not nearly as strong of a showing as its fantastic predecessor, there is a unique experience to be gain from this second season. A timely and deeply frightening recreation of our reality.
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Posted on: August 31, 2019
adrieux
Jeux: 424 Avis: 165
Big Brother, le retour
Dans Orwell, vous pourrez enquêter sur des personnes spécifiquement liées à une enquête. Tout y passera : coupures de presse, réseaux sociaux, blogs, écoutes téléphoniques, hacking de PC et de téléphone portable, recherches dans des bases de données, albums photos... les différentes sources sont nombreuses, mais ne sont accessibles que si vous uploadez au système Orwell les bons éléments de données (dits "datachunks"). Cette saison 2 rajoute de nouveaux éléments : - certaines sources de données nécessiteront d'entrer un identifiant, un mot de passe, une date, un lieu ou d'autres éléments. Pour cela, il faudra glisser le bon terme depuis certains mots surlignés du profil. - le système "influencer" apparait dans le 3ème épisode. Il permet de répandre sur la toile des informations établies grâce à plusieurs datachunks, et ruiner ainsi efficacement la réputation de quelqu'un. Très pratique. - chaque récupération de datachunk fait tourner l'horloge. Et ça change tout. Vous devrez bien réfléchir au moindre upload effectué, sous peine de ne pas atteindre votre objectif dans les temps. Plus important encore, à l'instar du 5ème épisode de la saison 1, choisir tel ou tel datachunk aura une réelle influence sur la suite des évènements. ll faudra donc être beaucoup plus prudent et réfléchir au poids de chaque donnée que nous déciderons de transmettre. Le scénario est bon, même si j'avais une préférence pour le premier. On tourne toujours autour des mêmes thèmes : l'info, les médias, la conspiration etc. L'histoire se déroule parallèlement à celle de la première saison, et on prend plaisir à découvrir de nombreuses connections. Cependant : *Le jeu se termine de façon abrupte, par un podcast qui varie selon nos choix. C'est tout. *Le système de l'Influence arrive trop tard. En conclusion, j'ai adoré ces deux saisons d'Orwell et j'espère que les développeurs nous prépareront un nouvel opus en améliorant quelques éléments par ci par là.
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Posted on: June 23, 2022
shylock.596
Possesseur vérifiéJeux: 756 Avis: 103
As Good As the Original
There was a good amount of improvement to Ignorance is Strength over the original Orwell but there was a few instances where it took a step back as well. One thing I thought Orwell lacked that the sequel fixed was voice acting for the phone calls. It was not only a nice feature to add but the voice acting was well done. You can also now influence social media by finding data chunks that fit a certain narrative. The feature itself was decent but it kind of tied into one thing I didn’t like about Ignorance is Strength and that was the perspective. In the original you were doing ethically dubious deeds but were at least trying to find a bomber. In the sequel your objective felt far less worth the effort after the first chapter or so. One thing I will say is that I fully believe many governments would take part in the kind of petty actions that happen in this game. While I was a bit disappointed in where the story went I at least enjoyed the characters and the twists and turns they took as well as how the sequel tied into the original. It takes place at the same time as the original with you working on a totally separate case although it does overlap slightly. One more issue I had was that once again I found that the game didn’t stay true to what it asks of you. Your boss says to leave out data that doesn’t matter but at least a couple times I had to add, what I deem to be, subjective data chunks that were more opinion than fact in order to progress. I played Ignorance is Strength on Linux. It never crashed and I didn’t notice any bugs or spelling mistakes. There are no graphics options. Alt-Tab didn’t work. The game saves on exit but there is just one save file so it always gets overwritten. The game is capped at 60 FPS. My System: Intel i7-6700 | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | Intel HD 530 | Mesa 21.2.6 | Trisquel 10.0.1 | Mate 1.24.0 | Kernel 5.18.5-gnu
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Posted on: January 3, 2019
t0nda
Possesseur vérifiéJeux: 142 Avis: 24
Reading-based game w/ several weaknesses
The basic idea is the same as that of the predecessor, and it boils down to this: You are $YourAvatarNameHere, a foreign-based employee of The Nation. And you will have been chosen for listening and reading into other people's conversations. You have access to web-sites and to NPCs' devices such as computers (almost void of data) or smartphones. There is an opposition forming. And your task is to make their claims and allegations implausible. Therefore you are connected to a cloud tool called "Orwell" (named after that Blair guy, apparently), and you may upload certain phrases / text blocks into this system, which will then make available new resources for digging up dirt. You are paired with an advisor who, though not capable of controlling your input into Orwell, tries to steer you through your actions. And assesses those chunks of data once uploaded. Based on what chunks you drag and drop, the story will take one path or the other. The overall topic here seems to be surveillance abuse and fabricating stories for an alleged common good. Game duration 3-6 hours. Even though I like the overall idea and shape of O:IS, I do not like the following: - The tutorial-style initial feedback by your data analyst cannot be turned off. Which makes playing yet another outcome annoying. - None of the endings is satisfying. You may continue playing after the final sequence, but things will not function properly then. This is bad design. - Once you hover over text chunks, you will be provided with a summary. Those summaries are flawed far too often though, leaving you in doubt whether or not to upload. - The drag-and-drop style costs a lot of time. In order to make certain inputs, you first need to find a text containing that input, then upload it only to be able to enter it. - Minor inconsistencies as well. - Read A LOT. Browse a lot. Tiresome. - You are not able to pick a "standard white-guy" character. Only minorities. - Pat plot, no twist. An okay game. Liked it.
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Posted on: September 27, 2018
ErnestoAlvarez
Possesseur vérifiéJeux: 192 Avis: 9
Flawed execution, like part 1
This game has the same problems as part 1, namely it is a non-interactive story (or barely-interactive). You are on rails and eventually you end up following every update and just putting datachunks at random to advance the plot. One change is that you now have a clock, and actions take time. This does not mean that it is relevant. The advisor (which is really annoying) makes you think that this is the case, but I've missed some deadlines and nothing serious happened. Another change is that you have some input boxes as well. That makes you think a little bit, in the sense that you have to choose a datachunk from a profile to upload. Needed to advance the plot, but you won't lose sleep trying to figure out what to input. As for the rest, just read my review of Orwell while you find something else to play (like Floor 13).
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