Hi Era, like you, i'm a GAMER, and all I'd love is for developers to go back to not having any politics in their games. So I thought it'd be a good time to look back fondly on the super apolitial games that I so fondly enjoyed during my childhood. Back when games didn't have any statements to make. Back when art was shallow and meaningless. Just as I am as a human being. So let's start with one super apolitical game that everyone should be very fond of.
Ah yes, Final Fantasy 7. The cornerstone of childhood JRPGs. With one of THE most effective openings in JRPG history. A cool looking guy with a sword hopes off a train and kills two dudes. And he's joined by other cool looking dudes and a woman, the objective is to blow up a reactor thingy for NO REASON WHATSOEVER. It's just like really cool man. We fight a scorpion and then shit blows and like booooommmmmmmmmmmmm and then we go chill and have drinks at a bar. Although, for some reason the characters won't stop talking about saving the planet from an evil corporation that's quite literally sucking the life out of the it. Bit weird that they keep talking about that over and over again. Might be a localization issue, Barret's localization is on point though, totally sounds like Mr. T. 😃
Anyway moving on. Another really totally tubular apolicial game from my childhood. One of the GOAT shooters. You already know who it is.
Oooooo boy what an apoilitical game this was. We play as this badass named James Bond who works for no one in particular. In every level, we shoot bad foreign bad guys for literally no reason. Really weird that the game keeps talking specifically about Russians. Are the levels even in Russia? Probably not. Also, political fiction is not inherently political, as political fiction writers would never attempt to make a statement about anything, especially not politics. 😄
Anyway. Games used to be so much better. Let's stop focusing on 1997 for a second. Let's focus on the next year. A CORNERSTONE in apolitical gaming. I mean just look at this particular title.
Featuring Solid Snake, with TACTICAL 👏 ESPIONAGE 👏 ACTION 👏 sneaking into a secret base in order to do something. You see, if you google search the word, "espionage," there is literally nothing inherently political about the word. And although they keep talking about it, there's no statements made whatsoever about nuclear warfare. You see, the localization team ran a bit wild with this one. In the original translation, Liquid Snake was doing everything for the lols and didn't have any goals whatsoever. Kojima did not approve of the localization as a result. 😃
Name some apolitical games from your childhood and describe them Era. Describe the good times of apolitical gaming. 😃
Ah yes, Final Fantasy 7. The cornerstone of childhood JRPGs. With one of THE most effective openings in JRPG history. A cool looking guy with a sword hopes off a train and kills two dudes. And he's joined by other cool looking dudes and a woman, the objective is to blow up a reactor thingy for NO REASON WHATSOEVER. It's just like really cool man. We fight a scorpion and then shit blows and like booooommmmmmmmmmmmm and then we go chill and have drinks at a bar. Although, for some reason the characters won't stop talking about saving the planet from an evil corporation that's quite literally sucking the life out of the it. Bit weird that they keep talking about that over and over again. Might be a localization issue, Barret's localization is on point though, totally sounds like Mr. T. 😃
Anyway moving on. Another really totally tubular apolicial game from my childhood. One of the GOAT shooters. You already know who it is.
Oooooo boy what an apoilitical game this was. We play as this badass named James Bond who works for no one in particular. In every level, we shoot bad foreign bad guys for literally no reason. Really weird that the game keeps talking specifically about Russians. Are the levels even in Russia? Probably not. Also, political fiction is not inherently political, as political fiction writers would never attempt to make a statement about anything, especially not politics. 😄
Anyway. Games used to be so much better. Let's stop focusing on 1997 for a second. Let's focus on the next year. A CORNERSTONE in apolitical gaming. I mean just look at this particular title.
Featuring Solid Snake, with TACTICAL 👏 ESPIONAGE 👏 ACTION 👏 sneaking into a secret base in order to do something. You see, if you google search the word, "espionage," there is literally nothing inherently political about the word. And although they keep talking about it, there's no statements made whatsoever about nuclear warfare. You see, the localization team ran a bit wild with this one. In the original translation, Liquid Snake was doing everything for the lols and didn't have any goals whatsoever. Kojima did not approve of the localization as a result. 😃
Name some apolitical games from your childhood and describe them Era. Describe the good times of apolitical gaming. 😃
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