That might have used to be true but definitely isn't the case with the modern triple A game. The issue is leadership at either the development studio or publisher getting cold feet on actually delivering a message that could potentially alienate a segment of their audience.
I'm curious to see what comes from Cyberpunk. The Witcher was very political. I'm assuming this will be the same, they just won't outright say it because they are cowardly.
That is always how I saw it. With movies, authors, and even fashion designers you can get them to give off the wall interviews or a breakdown, but with videogames, it feels like the PR dept runs the show. So blatantly obvious political statements are downplayed, denied, or outright removed. This is less an issue with smaller productions and it shows on both sides of the culture.
There's definitely an increasing aversion to doing anything that might offend a fascist government.
"Politics" doesn't mean "ripped-from-the-headline current-events politics". It means sociopolitical/cultural commentary and themes
I thought Detroit handled it pretty well tbh. I enjoyed the story and thought it was better than 90% of stories in other games in general for the last few years.
Why do people always bring these up as though, because it had politics, people engaged with it/they're great examples therein? I completely ignore the story in MGS and FF and play them solely on the basis of their gameplay. The last thing I want is some hand handed, poorly written tripe going over the entry level basics of what twitter covered 2 years prior.
I play a lot of ubi titles and in my opinion it always feels like they tiptoe around anything of substance
0 because once a programmer takes a writing job they wont be credited as a programmer, but how many AAA games are written by people who's entry into the industry wasn't as writers? Off the top of my head, just last year we got two AAA games, Days Gone and Death Stranding.
almost all popular enterteinment media avoids getting too political.
Neil Druckmann started out as a programmer and studied computer science in college. He was also a game designer and writer on the first 2 uncharted games.
I don't know about Days Gone but Kojima if that is who you are referring to is a writer at this point. He has been writing for decades.
No this is exactly the point, it's the same for Days Gone writer/director, who despite joining the industry as an artist, ended up at the writing role more than anything else. He even said in one of Days Gone interviews that he just ended up writing the whole story instead of getting new writers.
David Kage is a shitty writer, and while they actually did the right stuff with Detroit, getting actual writers to help, he was still involved and I imagine no one can step in to prevent something like this if he wanted it lol.Was it?
Considering that "genuinely conservative" would be racist, sexist, misogynistic, xenophobic, jingoistic, etc.
Do you have other examples because this isn't the norm as far as I'm aware. I'm talking about recent examples like Days Gone. I do think games should be less written around the gameplay and the gameplay molded to fit the story.
i think it's reductive to say conservative equates to all the negativity that you just described.
