All the best games are not just political, but explicitly and unashamedly leftist. https://t.co/aUv9bM1ljM
— VƎX Werewolf #OpenDnD (@vexwerewolf) January 20, 2023
All the best games are not just political, but explicitly and unashamedly leftist.
- Disco Elysium
- The Metal Gear franchise
- Most of Borderlands
- Hitman World of Assassination trilogy
- Doom (2016)
- Fallout 1, 2 and New Vegas (Bethesda ones less so)
EVE Online is an ACCIDENTALLY leftist game. It presents a society functioning entirely on right-wing free market capitalism. It's fricking miserable to play. It's a hellscape. Everything sucks. And that happened organically, as an inevitable outcome of its premise. You could argue, if you were a fricking idiot, that Bioshock isn't "really" leftist because the plot simply DECIDED that Andrew Ryan's libertarian utopia failed. EVE Online just said "okay have at it" and within five years major power players had literally recreated OPEC.
Most games, even if they're right-wing, are pretty low-key about it. They'll be vaguely nationalistic military fetishism like Call of Duty.
The right-wing mindset is a very poor fit for any kind of dev work, and most non-right-wing devs don't want to put that shit in their game. The main reason for this, of course, is that right-wingers are basically incapable of making art.
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pipeline stays undefeated. She gets dunked on by leftoids, rightoids, and coomers
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The game that frames political ideology as total copes for burnt out losers to abandon their faults and personal problems? The game that also mocks communism and leftism as failures that destroyed the setting?
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Really? I played the opening act on the pier and felt it was straight propaganda. Does it get better later on?
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You find more references to communist atrocities (a wall pockmarked by bullet holes where a firing squad took place for example) plus the Unionists on strike are said to have been on strike for months by intimidating businesses to give up funds and taking bribes by allowing drug dealers to smuggle drugs. The Union leader and his brother have swapped leadership for years by being the only 2 options on the union ballot.
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Sounds good I will give it another try
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Man now I wanna play it again. It was so satisfying to find out the sniper was a commie coomer
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I wish the political quests were more fleshed out. I played a superstar hustler art cop and the ultraliberal quest was really short compared to the commie and centrist quests. Fascist one was actually really funny if hard to roleplay a racist lol
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roleplay?
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I didn't like calling my detective partner a chink every interaction we had.
The chill asf talk with the black supremacist at the end of the game on how to find women and get sober was really fun tho..
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“I am Icebreaker.”
“No you are fricking not”
“I am no longer Icebreaker.”
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