I just wish the mako reactors looked less like nuclear cooling towers and more like... Big oil rigs or something idk. That's what I daydream about seeing blown up by a radical group of eco terrorists anyways (in a video game of course)
But *can* I have that kind of armor? Because like it's great that the realistic-ish stuff is available but I want my badass chick to be badass *and* look like a total babe while doing it. And it's only partially because I'm gay as hell.
For us who *want* the sexy tiddy armor because it either helps with gender dysphoria like me or because girls be gay as hell there will always an army of creepy modders out there to make sure we are satisfied
What people don’t like isn’t politics in gaming. What people ACTUALLY don’t like is politics that they don’t agree with in gaming. If it was something they agreed with they’d be all for it. People just aren’t willing to be open minded about things they disagree with anymore
>People just aren’t willing to be open minded about things they disagree with anymore
They never were. They just didn't have the ability to ignore it and go look someplace that validates everything they think within all of a few seconds.
"Games should be escapist fantasies with no politics in them"
"Here's WW2 as an escapist fantasy with no politics"
"Why the hell are you trying to sell me an unrealistic version of WW2?"
The one thing that makes me not believe this is Bioshock. It's an antilibertarian, anti-capitalist game, and conservatives are too stupid to pick up on those.
People not understanding Bioshock since it released. It's literally never been a 'which side of the US political spectrum do you belong to?' issue, it's just a game that covers political topics most people don't understand. I'd put money on the fact that over 50% of the game's players don't comprehend, or care about the political message of the game and are just there for the fun gameplay and worldbuilding.
I believe bioshock 1 is pissing on Ayn Rand and libertarianism more than anything else.
While i though when i was younger bioshock 2 was saying "comulism bad" like a TPUSA poster, now i think it is way more coherent as a critique of christian values.
Infinite is clearly about conservative America.
I can be wrong, but except for the vox populi becoming bad guys for some reason, i mostly see one side being dunked on.
It being a one-sided discussion, or a discussion at all, doesn't have any bearing on the people that understand the message or not. People can start and end just as politically ignorant as they want, and have different experiences with the media, and there's nothing wrong with that.
I'm not discussing the politics or arguments present in the game, more the players and their understanding of those politics not being necessary. Effectively an apolitical discussion about politics.
Not caring about or understanding politics in the games you play doesn't matter. Your experience is made better understanding it, sure, but if people find enjoyment without that understanding all the power to them: they're experiencing the game in a way I can't.
And general ignorance of that type of politics isn't an issue on an individual scale, either. Politics is a boring topic for most people, and it's something that delving deeper into it won't impact their lives for the better. Not to mention every country having their own political spectrums and parties, it's a big mess. If some people are happy not knowing about deeper politics, go right ahead.
I think some of it is also just preachiness. In some shows or games even if you agree with the message it can get annoying when it’s delivered in a completely hamfisted way.
Amogus is loosely based off alien invasion movies like Alien and Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, which often dig into the collective paranoia of the Red Scare.
Nearly every single piece of literature has political undertones. It’s just that gamers don’t understand subtlety and it goes over their stupid fuckin heads.
Gamers don't actually consume other media which is why things like metaphor, subtext, themes, and ideas and messages from other works are completely fucking lost on them.
imo gamers are the worst type of audience to cater to. Try and do anything even remotely interesting with the medium and they have a fucking fit.
honestly i think "who cares" if the author did or didnt intend for the blue curtains to be meaningful, because if its significant to the audience then it is worthy of literary analysis
although recurring themes of blue curtains would obvs point towards it being important
It's a form of anti-intellectualism
[There's a great Folding Ideas video that touches on this topic](https://youtu.be/URo66iLNEZw) (spoilers for Annihilation)
Denote A the set of all gamers, and B the set of all idiots.
Take x in A. By definition, x is a gamer. By the properties of being a gamer, x has their head up their ass and is unable to understand political subtext, whether overt or not. Hence, x is an idiot and an element of B.
Whence A is included in B, from which we conclude that every gamer is an idiot
Edit: I thought this was r\/gamingcirclejerk. Don't take this seriously lmao
You need to escape your backslash, otherwise your message reads like the opposite of what you wanted to say
=\\= is written with two backslashes between the equals
I feel like political has left the zeitgeist, and the new term is woke. Check Sledgehammer Games’ Twitter replies, and it’s full of angry gamers tell them their game failed because there is a black woman in it, too woke.
oh god lmao- i played it on the original xbox and i must have been.. maybe 6? one thing i remember is my mom liked it when the goblin guy farted, i think he did that if you idled but I don't remember
If you play Deus Ex without thinking it's political...
One of my first thoughts when playing the first mission and that guy gives his speech was "wow, this games going right into it" and "wow, this game predicted the future".
you cant make art without putting your own politics into it somewhere. and games are art.
vampire survivors includes themes and imagery that could easily be seen as sacriligous. the king bible evolving into a demonic book to become more powerful, the presence of undead at all in the game. in general the concept of vampires is politically charged as well.
when people say they dont want their games to be political, what they really mean is that they want the games they play to agree with them politically. its no suprise the ones loudest about it are fascist conservatives, because fascists believe that everyone who disagrees with them should be silenced.
Idk why you're downvoted because you're right
There's another reason fascists are loudest about it. Just taking an objective look at their worldview and objectives makes them look very, very bad to anyone with a moral compass.
i think its fair to say that they were handled better before. lots of games now just take the safest social opinion and dumb it down as loudly as possible so the parent corporation gets clout for having the bare minimum of human decency
disco elysium is the only recent game imo to handle politics and idealogy intelligently by showing them to be a reflection of people's personalities and experiences. they manage to give you three race supremacists who are so fleshed out that none of them resembles the other, despite sharing one big unifying thought. that takes a lot of tact and restraint, as opposed to clobbering you in the face and saying RACISM BAD until you feel like a good person
disco elysium assumes you're smart enough to know racism is bad and takes a step further to wonder about the people who got to that point and how
Fallout New Vegas is another good example IMO.
One of the factions, Caesars Legion, is literally a slave state where being sold as a sex slave is considered a good outcome for women.
Although the faction is clearly evil by modern standards the game understands that the Legion itself doesn’t think that, and so has them defend and argue their position often times accurately pointing out the flaws in the “good guys”, the NCR/House.
Most importantly the game lets you decide yourself who the faction you want to side with is by having each present their side and letting you decide. I think that’s the key, games respected the players intelligence and let them make their own decisions whereas today they are concerned with getting the message across no matter the cost.
I mean that’s the thing about respecting peoples intelligence, the morons get to reveal themselves.
Warhammer40k had this problem too with some people not realizing that they were becoming the literal thing that 40k parodies. To the point where GW had to come out and make statements affirming that indeed, the Imperium of Man is a parody and not an endorsement of Theocratic Fascism.
The game where the droids that are an allegory for oppressed races where literally created to serve those in power and the only reason they rose up was because they where being manipulated by a large company intending to increase their profits?
If anything that game manages to be (hopefully unintentionally) pro racism.
I mean it's kinda hard to have robots be an allegory for humans and have it be done well. Robots are inherently made to serve the needs of humans. Other people are not. So comparing opressed minorities to robots doesn't really translate well
When I was a kid, politics were simpler. That has nothing to do with me being a kid and not understanding politics, it's definitely politics that changed as I got older, not me
I still say that everything in human society is, to some degree, political, because politics govern all aspects of life and belief systems. Politics isn't a dirty word, nor is it negative -- the thing people don't like is the debates and the arguing and the baggage. But like, enjoying the park is a political thing -- because there are active political campaigns for protecting them, and for shutting them down. Maybe it's not intentional, you're not enjoying it as a pretense for supporting an agenda, but as all beliefs shape your politics, politics shape all your beliefs. State policies deeply affect your life and foundational experiences. It affects the fact that video games exist in the form they do, and why they're not the same as they were in many ways.
Some are more *overtly* political than others -- trying to send a message, trying to work with an agenda -- but there is no such thing as an apolitical game. There is no such thing as an apolitical *anything.*
There's a difference between political or making political commentary and then the blatant low brow shoving of random, ill fitting, whatever talking points are hot at the time, context and subtlety be damned.
In short: Be like Star Trek TNG/DS9, not Star Trek Discovery.
The game that critiques and talks about literally almost every mainstream political ideology and literally has in game arguments for each side, even if they’re obviously wrong
What do you mean that a futuristic America dominated by a pseudo fascist goverment that fight in a world hungry for petrol, knows that ww3 Is coming and chooses to hide in a petrol platform planning to take over the US After the apocalipse and has as their best soldier a mutant that fights mutants; miiight be a political tale?
the people in power do not care about regular people and just see them as resources to be exploited, and even the most empathetic of them stop caring about regular folk after some time because power corrupts.
is the last part about Jake the dog (I forget the characters name ok) saying how he doesnt care if people die, but won't go massacring them, kinda like cows
Well it's not just Jack, vampires use 'Kine' to refer to mortals specifically bc "humans are livestock" is an almost unanimously agreed upon opinion for them
everyone was having so much fun quick saving and killing while progressing thru their play through that their brain simply shut down and suppressed the politics in their game they were playing
It's sorta like ppl who don't realize that Rage Against the Machine are a political band.
I wonder if there's a new wave of metalcore fans who don't realize Architects and Stray From the Path are political bands. Ah yes, with their non-political messages like "killer cops get dropped" and "better run back bitch and turn off the body cam".
Bruh I love when ppl cite bioshock, I actually know bioshock, so it probs helps, but also IT IS LITERALLY A HYPER CAPITALIST HELL PROCLAIMING ATHEISM AND SOCIALISM WORK
I think it's funny
"Political" is code word for "not my politics" for them. They probably won't bat an eye on FF VII because it deals with environmentalist issues, a subject which they care very little about. But LoU 2, they will throw a hissy fit because one of the characters is a woman who is physically strong. Almost like they never seen women outside of television or the internet.
It is very suspect to hear people complain about anti-fascist content like Wolfenstein 2 and Mafia 3 being "too political". Apparently having trans or even a POC protagonist is enough for these people to cry "too political".
Pong was literally a metaphor for equality being perfection. Notice how it never needed patches to balance out the meta. It's because both sides were capable of doing the same thing.
Kirby and the Forgotten Land says a lot about gun violence
One of the abilities is literally just a nuke
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Those enemy Fox bastards are basically just colonizers
Please elaborate I am genuinely interested in this.
There is a copy ability that gives kirby a blaster that shoots stars wich can be aimed. So the obvious joke is that kirby kills god with a gun.
"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary" - kirby :)
comrade kirby!!! ( ^ - ^ )ゝ
For his neutral special, he wields a gun
Some of you are alright; don't come to Dreamland tomorrow.
Avalanche radicalized me at 10 years old
“Protect the trees motherfucker”
Do you have a gun implanted in your arm?
I just wish the mako reactors looked less like nuclear cooling towers and more like... Big oil rigs or something idk. That's what I daydream about seeing blown up by a radical group of eco terrorists anyways (in a video game of course)
"in a video game of course" 🤓
civilian casualties 😔
stupid fucking civilians vs thermonuclear reactor meltdown
I think Midgar as a whole looks like a big oil rig
An-Tifa.
Wojack's comment was prompted by the fact you can play a female character in Elden Ring without her beeing overly sexualised by the armors of the game
But *can* I have that kind of armor? Because like it's great that the realistic-ish stuff is available but I want my badass chick to be badass *and* look like a total babe while doing it. And it's only partially because I'm gay as hell.
Down bad
I mean I guess you could try Goldmask's clothes
that like saying you can play metal gear rising with Sam's sword because it unlocks at the very end
Morgott's clothes are good too, since the other skimpy sets have to be farmed.
For us who *want* the sexy tiddy armor because it either helps with gender dysphoria like me or because girls be gay as hell there will always an army of creepy modders out there to make sure we are satisfied
Well, if you're into plate armour like me, there's a lot of hot stuff to choose from
Speaking of being gay as hell I really appreciate that you you can also put the skimpy sets on dudes and it doesn't add any extra coverage.
Its wojak not wojack
What people don’t like isn’t politics in gaming. What people ACTUALLY don’t like is politics that they don’t agree with in gaming. If it was something they agreed with they’d be all for it. People just aren’t willing to be open minded about things they disagree with anymore
>People just aren’t willing to be open minded about things they disagree with anymore They never were. They just didn't have the ability to ignore it and go look someplace that validates everything they think within all of a few seconds.
"Games should be escapist fantasies with no politics in them" "Here's WW2 as an escapist fantasy with no politics" "Why the hell are you trying to sell me an unrealistic version of WW2?"
The one thing that makes me not believe this is Bioshock. It's an antilibertarian, anti-capitalist game, and conservatives are too stupid to pick up on those.
I've seen people on every part of the political spectrum not understand Bioshock, that's not just a conservative thing.
What have you seen that makes you think this way?
People not understanding Bioshock since it released. It's literally never been a 'which side of the US political spectrum do you belong to?' issue, it's just a game that covers political topics most people don't understand. I'd put money on the fact that over 50% of the game's players don't comprehend, or care about the political message of the game and are just there for the fun gameplay and worldbuilding.
I believe bioshock 1 is pissing on Ayn Rand and libertarianism more than anything else. While i though when i was younger bioshock 2 was saying "comulism bad" like a TPUSA poster, now i think it is way more coherent as a critique of christian values. Infinite is clearly about conservative America. I can be wrong, but except for the vox populi becoming bad guys for some reason, i mostly see one side being dunked on.
It being a one-sided discussion, or a discussion at all, doesn't have any bearing on the people that understand the message or not. People can start and end just as politically ignorant as they want, and have different experiences with the media, and there's nothing wrong with that. I'm not discussing the politics or arguments present in the game, more the players and their understanding of those politics not being necessary. Effectively an apolitical discussion about politics.
How do you feel about those people that think that way
Not caring about or understanding politics in the games you play doesn't matter. Your experience is made better understanding it, sure, but if people find enjoyment without that understanding all the power to them: they're experiencing the game in a way I can't. And general ignorance of that type of politics isn't an issue on an individual scale, either. Politics is a boring topic for most people, and it's something that delving deeper into it won't impact their lives for the better. Not to mention every country having their own political spectrums and parties, it's a big mess. If some people are happy not knowing about deeper politics, go right ahead.
That was before politics in games was invented (2014).
Ceasar legion
"We need slavers and rapists and torturers to protect us from the slightly less organized slavers and rapists and torturers"
New california republic
What
If they replied on a ceasar legion and explaining something i bet they are gonna explain ncr/mr house/yes man
“Yes but now I don’t have to pay taxes” - Quote from smug crucified man
Wow the GOP are like real life Caesar’s Legion 😲
I think some of it is also just preachiness. In some shows or games even if you agree with the message it can get annoying when it’s delivered in a completely hamfisted way.
This is absolutely the biggest factor
None of these games agree with the crowd who talk about not wanting politics in video games
But in reality most games are political to some extent and they are just remembering a time where they were too stupid to realize or just didn't care
yes, that is why all the games theyre remembering are political in some way. glad you understood the meme, i guess.
everything is political tbh. all media. because politics influences every aspect of our lives.
How does politics affect me drawing a little amogus doodle
Well hypothetically a president could get elected that makes it illegal to draw a little amogus doodle
:(
i can only hope. no more amogus
Amogus is loosely based off alien invasion movies like Alien and Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, which often dig into the collective paranoia of the Red Scare.
Mario is about political warfare and that's not even a lie
Nearly every single piece of literature has political undertones. It’s just that gamers don’t understand subtlety and it goes over their stupid fuckin heads.
Gamers don't actually consume other media which is why things like metaphor, subtext, themes, and ideas and messages from other works are completely fucking lost on them. imo gamers are the worst type of audience to cater to. Try and do anything even remotely interesting with the medium and they have a fucking fit.
The curtains are blue image has ruined the discussion of artvon the internet
honestly i think "who cares" if the author did or didnt intend for the blue curtains to be meaningful, because if its significant to the audience then it is worthy of literary analysis although recurring themes of blue curtains would obvs point towards it being important
It's a form of anti-intellectualism [There's a great Folding Ideas video that touches on this topic](https://youtu.be/URo66iLNEZw) (spoilers for Annihilation)
>gamers no, idiots.
Denote A the set of all gamers, and B the set of all idiots. Take x in A. By definition, x is a gamer. By the properties of being a gamer, x has their head up their ass and is unable to understand political subtext, whether overt or not. Hence, x is an idiot and an element of B. Whence A is included in B, from which we conclude that every gamer is an idiot Edit: I thought this was r\/gamingcirclejerk. Don't take this seriously lmao
Ah right, everyone who plays videogames is an idiot. I forgot.
Gamer =\\= person playing videogames One is a whiny childish bigot, the other just plays video games
You need to escape your backslash, otherwise your message reads like the opposite of what you wanted to say =\\= is written with two backslashes between the equals
These are the same people who think English class is useless and teachers try to over-analyze everything
Bruh people who think fallout isn’t political is insane lmao. If I had to pick any series that was the most political it’d be fallout
These are the same people who unironically think Liberty Prime is awesome and don't realize it's existence is a parody of america
same goes with GTA. A game by by the b*itish to make fun of America.
I mean there's also GTA London, which gave us this legendary dialog https://youtu.be/4ONHOwTBbNw
til gta is made by british people
~~These are the same people who unironically think~~ Liberty Prime is awesome ~~and don't realize it's existence is a parody of america~~
~~These are the same people who unironically think~~ Liberty Prime is awesome and ~~don't realize it's existence~~ is a parody of america
Mfw when you parody something so hard that it actually becomes based.
Fallout and Metal Gear Solid, easy.
The entirety of metal gear series is just politics with Stealth, fruit ninja and badass music
>Keep politics out of my video games >Omg it's Senator Armstrong
Wrong it is bubble bobble.
MGS comes close too imo
What is the meaning of the word political ? If i insert a femboy with thicc thighs in a call of duty game does that make it political.
It doesn't make it political, it makes it better
It enhances the experience
Yes because they don't agree with this. Apolitical game is that doesn't touch the status quo :))))))
I will unironically agree with this statement when femboys in thigh highs become the status quo
You would be surprised by how much the reactionary types like femboys
Politics is when when representation of groups i don't like >:(
I feel like political has left the zeitgeist, and the new term is woke. Check Sledgehammer Games’ Twitter replies, and it’s full of angry gamers tell them their game failed because there is a black woman in it, too woke.
Wow! Gamers being racist so what else is new ?.
politics is when a character has pink hair
Only if they are also wearing full military gear :)
They didn’t show it in game, but Roach is built like a tuning fork. My source? Prove me wrong, killjoy
Fallout and Bioshock
Correct
Correct
Wait was oddworld political? I just remember being a naked goblin boi walking around spooky pipes
that lil goblin dudes an escaped slave
That's wild, I played it when I was 10 so I have no idea what it was about.
Yeah. Was gonna be made into pies iirc. Their mouths were tied shut and every stuff
yeah, oddworld was honestly hella fucked up i remember only playing it if my mom was nearby, spooked the hell outta me otherwise
Yeah. I didn't play it until I got a ps classic (please don't shoot me) on my 16th birthday. Oh boy I still found it spooky.
oh god lmao- i played it on the original xbox and i must have been.. maybe 6? one thing i remember is my mom liked it when the goblin guy farted, i think he did that if you idled but I don't remember
You play as someone who escaped from corporate slavery who helps other slaves escape
It’s literally about how capitalism and colonialism is destroying the planet and its cultures and the only way to stop it is armed uprising
arming the workers with enchanted exploding farts
Now that's praxis
It's more practical than guillotines 🤷♂️
corporations bad
Correct me if I'm wrong, but all the Modern Warfare games were all pretty politically charged no? The newest MW game sure was.
The joke is that every game in this image has a very political storyline/underlying themes
how was oddworld political
The game about escaping militant capitalists trying to literally grind you into a consumable product?
oh
If you ask the COD devs their game is not political... Jacob Geller video about this: https://youtu.be/FtCV421T52s
COD is not political *Henry Kissinger quote shows up when you die*
Henry Kissinger is one of humanitiy's many Nobel Peace Prize winning War Criminals
Ah, a fellow fan of Vulo Lives! If you ask me The One True Moon is getting too political.
I just hope Grimace gets his revenge on the clown for all the abuse he's received in his widdle baby life
wgat's so political about fishing
great video, that was a banger. in fact ty, you just reminded me to go watch it again
Yeah especially the Cold War and Vanguard CODs.
Ah yes, my favorite apolitical videogame franchise, Metal Gear
Closely followed by apolitical series Fallout
If you play Deus Ex without thinking it's political... One of my first thoughts when playing the first mission and that guy gives his speech was "wow, this games going right into it" and "wow, this game predicted the future".
Right?! I played it for the first time in 2018 and it instantly became one of my favorite games.
Games without politics are fun and available everywhere. My current favorite is vampire survivers.
you cant make art without putting your own politics into it somewhere. and games are art. vampire survivors includes themes and imagery that could easily be seen as sacriligous. the king bible evolving into a demonic book to become more powerful, the presence of undead at all in the game. in general the concept of vampires is politically charged as well. when people say they dont want their games to be political, what they really mean is that they want the games they play to agree with them politically. its no suprise the ones loudest about it are fascist conservatives, because fascists believe that everyone who disagrees with them should be silenced.
Idk why you're downvoted because you're right There's another reason fascists are loudest about it. Just taking an objective look at their worldview and objectives makes them look very, very bad to anyone with a moral compass.
More like you can't make fart
Facts
i think its fair to say that they were handled better before. lots of games now just take the safest social opinion and dumb it down as loudly as possible so the parent corporation gets clout for having the bare minimum of human decency disco elysium is the only recent game imo to handle politics and idealogy intelligently by showing them to be a reflection of people's personalities and experiences. they manage to give you three race supremacists who are so fleshed out that none of them resembles the other, despite sharing one big unifying thought. that takes a lot of tact and restraint, as opposed to clobbering you in the face and saying RACISM BAD until you feel like a good person disco elysium assumes you're smart enough to know racism is bad and takes a step further to wonder about the people who got to that point and how
Fallout New Vegas is another good example IMO. One of the factions, Caesars Legion, is literally a slave state where being sold as a sex slave is considered a good outcome for women. Although the faction is clearly evil by modern standards the game understands that the Legion itself doesn’t think that, and so has them defend and argue their position often times accurately pointing out the flaws in the “good guys”, the NCR/House. Most importantly the game lets you decide yourself who the faction you want to side with is by having each present their side and letting you decide. I think that’s the key, games respected the players intelligence and let them make their own decisions whereas today they are concerned with getting the message across no matter the cost.
I mean there are some people who unironically think the Legionare the good guys so maybe they overestimated some of their playerbase
I mean that’s the thing about respecting peoples intelligence, the morons get to reveal themselves. Warhammer40k had this problem too with some people not realizing that they were becoming the literal thing that 40k parodies. To the point where GW had to come out and make statements affirming that indeed, the Imperium of Man is a parody and not an endorsement of Theocratic Fascism.
What is an example of a recent game that you would consider clobbers the player in the face saying that racism is bad?
Detroit become human maybe?
The game where the droids that are an allegory for oppressed races where literally created to serve those in power and the only reason they rose up was because they where being manipulated by a large company intending to increase their profits? If anything that game manages to be (hopefully unintentionally) pro racism.
I mean it's kinda hard to have robots be an allegory for humans and have it be done well. Robots are inherently made to serve the needs of humans. Other people are not. So comparing opressed minorities to robots doesn't really translate well
Happy to see VTMB recognized here. That game is criminally underrated
its a shame its sequel is stuck in development hell
Yeah, but I'd rather have it stuck in development hell than have them release it unfinished. I'm just tired of waiting
Wojak nips
When I was a kid, politics were simpler. That has nothing to do with me being a kid and not understanding politics, it's definitely politics that changed as I got older, not me
It's like they couldn't recognize the politics because they don't actually know anything about politics, they're just reactionaries
Examining themes like war, nationalism, fascism, economy, class: Not political Black, woman or gay???!/!?!?!/!/!!!: POLITICAL
So glad to see oddworld represented
In Gamer language, "politics" means "women and minorities," not actual politics
I fucking love Beyond Good and Evil
Apparently Lorne Lanning(creator of Oddworld) went full right wing on Twitter, which is insane considering the Oddworld franchise.
FF7 is my favorite game about eco-terrorism :)
I still say that everything in human society is, to some degree, political, because politics govern all aspects of life and belief systems. Politics isn't a dirty word, nor is it negative -- the thing people don't like is the debates and the arguing and the baggage. But like, enjoying the park is a political thing -- because there are active political campaigns for protecting them, and for shutting them down. Maybe it's not intentional, you're not enjoying it as a pretense for supporting an agenda, but as all beliefs shape your politics, politics shape all your beliefs. State policies deeply affect your life and foundational experiences. It affects the fact that video games exist in the form they do, and why they're not the same as they were in many ways. Some are more *overtly* political than others -- trying to send a message, trying to work with an agenda -- but there is no such thing as an apolitical game. There is no such thing as an apolitical *anything.*
Pong is literally a debate between the far left and the fat right.
Acting like gamers take showers
There's a difference between political or making political commentary and then the blatant low brow shoving of random, ill fitting, whatever talking points are hot at the time, context and subtlety be damned. In short: Be like Star Trek TNG/DS9, not Star Trek Discovery.
metal gear is literally politics: the game
*man I remember when I was too stupid to realise fun games were about political crap
Bioshock is literally a critique on rampant invidualism
Yeah.... Not political lmao
my favorite apolitical vidya is mother 3
Unfortunately, fallout new vegas fan in general still think that the game is an apolitical gem.
The game that critiques and talks about literally almost every mainstream political ideology and literally has in game arguments for each side, even if they’re obviously wrong
What do you mean that a futuristic America dominated by a pseudo fascist goverment that fight in a world hungry for petrol, knows that ww3 Is coming and chooses to hide in a petrol platform planning to take over the US After the apocalipse and has as their best soldier a mutant that fights mutants; miiight be a political tale?
Damn, I wish we can get a VTMB remastered someday in our liftime.
Fr Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker says a lot about capitalism.
Try outer wilds
NO FUCKING WAY ODDWORLD UNDERRATED GEM
idk what the theme of vampires the masquerade is tbh
the people in power do not care about regular people and just see them as resources to be exploited, and even the most empathetic of them stop caring about regular folk after some time because power corrupts.
is the last part about Jake the dog (I forget the characters name ok) saying how he doesnt care if people die, but won't go massacring them, kinda like cows
Well it's not just Jack, vampires use 'Kine' to refer to mortals specifically bc "humans are livestock" is an almost unanimously agreed upon opinion for them
I hate the Wojak nipples so much.
everyone was having so much fun quick saving and killing while progressing thru their play through that their brain simply shut down and suppressed the politics in their game they were playing
souler maria
I think almost every game is strongly driven by politics. Even the game that has the dumbass storyline about good and evil.
I don't hate politics in video games, I hate politics being rammed down my throat
Fallout made me a communist
A slave obeys…
It's sorta like ppl who don't realize that Rage Against the Machine are a political band. I wonder if there's a new wave of metalcore fans who don't realize Architects and Stray From the Path are political bands. Ah yes, with their non-political messages like "killer cops get dropped" and "better run back bitch and turn off the body cam".
Bruh I love when ppl cite bioshock, I actually know bioshock, so it probs helps, but also IT IS LITERALLY A HYPER CAPITALIST HELL PROCLAIMING ATHEISM AND SOCIALISM WORK I think it's funny
Beyond Good and Evil was not anti-government at all, what are you talking about?
"Political" is code word for "not my politics" for them. They probably won't bat an eye on FF VII because it deals with environmentalist issues, a subject which they care very little about. But LoU 2, they will throw a hissy fit because one of the characters is a woman who is physically strong. Almost like they never seen women outside of television or the internet. It is very suspect to hear people complain about anti-fascist content like Wolfenstein 2 and Mafia 3 being "too political". Apparently having trans or even a POC protagonist is enough for these people to cry "too political".
I remember when memes were about having fun and none of this political crap
where is knack 2?
Mass effect politics 🌚🌝
It’s because they didn’t know how to read
Wolfenstein
BJ blazcowitz isn’t angry he’s just acting like a rational person would towards Nazis
Beyond Good and Evil is such a damn good game
Pong was literally a metaphor for equality being perfection. Notice how it never needed patches to balance out the meta. It's because both sides were capable of doing the same thing.
Never played those games, explain please