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you are a PC gamer. Life is good. Games are good.
You get a demo CD-ROM included in a copy of your PC gaming magazine of choice, but what's this? This issue has 2 demo discs: it has a special exclusive second demo disc for a game called ROGUE FACTION.
Years pass. You become depressed. Life is not good. Games are not good. You become politically active, radicalizing yourself online as part of the decentralized think tank, (say hive mind) known as /pol/
but then one day, only exactly 20 years later you wake up. Life isn't as bad as its always been. Games are as shit as you remember them being. You tentatively download a few retro titles DRM free for a handful of dollars on GoG. The nostalgia grows.
Then you remember. ROGUE FACTION. The late 90s PC game that does not exist. No box art. No ad space in print magazines. No archived website. Nothing on google that even comes close. The old disc you had? Long gone. You friends? Never heard of it. Your memories of the game itself? Only this:
The game was called ROGUE FACTION. It was a narrative 3rd person action game with primitive rpg and team strategy elements, basically a tomb raider clone with extra bells and whistles. The main character was a racially ambiguously "asian" looking brunette woman named "Rogue," and she lead a team of npcs spy characters as part of a clandestine intelligence agency: literally "Rogue's faction." The action was set in an ostensibly near future cyberpunk world full of dark, urban environments. The art style was angular and cartoon-like, seemingly inspired by things like the Batman Beyond animated series.
The game however and all of its trappings however were a complete fabrication. Once "the game" started running on your computer what you experienced was something else entirely.
You get a demo CD-ROM included in a copy of your PC gaming magazine of choice, but what's this? This issue has 2 demo discs: it has a special exclusive second demo disc for a game called ROGUE FACTION.
Years pass. You become depressed. Life is not good. Games are not good. You become politically active, radicalizing yourself online as part of the decentralized think tank, (say hive mind) known as /pol/
but then one day, only exactly 20 years later you wake up. Life isn't as bad as its always been. Games are as shit as you remember them being. You tentatively download a few retro titles DRM free for a handful of dollars on GoG. The nostalgia grows.
Then you remember. ROGUE FACTION. The late 90s PC game that does not exist. No box art. No ad space in print magazines. No archived website. Nothing on google that even comes close. The old disc you had? Long gone. You friends? Never heard of it. Your memories of the game itself? Only this:
The game was called ROGUE FACTION. It was a narrative 3rd person action game with primitive rpg and team strategy elements, basically a tomb raider clone with extra bells and whistles. The main character was a racially ambiguously "asian" looking brunette woman named "Rogue," and she lead a team of npcs spy characters as part of a clandestine intelligence agency: literally "Rogue's faction." The action was set in an ostensibly near future cyberpunk world full of dark, urban environments. The art style was angular and cartoon-like, seemingly inspired by things like the Batman Beyond animated series.
The game however and all of its trappings however were a complete fabrication. Once "the game" started running on your computer what you experienced was something else entirely.
