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Name a video game that you believe is apolitical and someone will explain to you why it isn't
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"I have a dream" - Martin Luther King and literally every Dreams player
The content made by users can be political.
I agree with this completely. Sitting and racking your brains to come up with a political interpretation for a game doesn't make it true.
You die many times, like the many deaths caused by communist rule in countries throughout history.
Another communist conforming game. You identify an individual's purpose based on the identity and location of others in your block or interrelated sectors.
Now mine is a flawless bulletproof victory, unless you hate freedom.
Metal Wolf Chaos
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Highlights how monarchies act with absolute authority with no regard to those who are deemed "below" them.
It's possible that it's an issue not discussed where I live. Or just something that flew under my radar. However when I hear the word fat shaming, I don't associate it with a political issue and rather societal one. Obesity as a growing issue has had political discussion as has provide care to those with pre-existing conditions however any relation to fat shaming seems at least to me as superficial.
Its my understanding fat shaming has no impact obesity. While I don't think that it's right to deny people care dur to pre-existing, I don't think this practice is done as a means to fat shame, and feeling fat shamed as the result of it is due to individual perception.
My point wasn't that fat shaming isn't an issue, I think it is, and don't intend to contribute to the problem. My point is that it is a societal and individual issue, rather than on political one due to a lack of it being politicized. Change minds, not laws kind of issue, but if you disagree with this point it is in fact political.
In Ocarina of Time you play as a blonde, blue-eyed, Aryan-looking fellow who must stop Ganondorf -- a thieving foreigner who resembles various ethnic stereotypes, from a Jewish nose to Irish hair to dark skin tones from the Far East. You do this by trying to assemble the Third Reich... erm, Triforce.
Don't trust Miyamoto.
Don't trust Miyamoto.
Yes, but to be political a game has to represent one position over others. If it contains all positions it's apolitical.
The homeland must be protected from the grotesque invading alien horde at any cost! The hyperaggresive military complex must develop an advanced super weapon capable of liberating entire ecosystems...from living.
A game can be political by introducing two different views points related to a political topic and allowing players to draw there own conclusions. Dreams doesn't do this either, unless the premade stuff does this and I'm just unaware.
Mario Kart is advocating for a progressive tax system. This is why the bottom places get better things from the game (government). The top 12.5-16.667% (depending on the game) still get kickbacks in the form of enormous amounts of bananas. But everyone else gets the really good stuff. Blue shells for when tax season comes around. Bullet bills as tax credits to help the poorer families with children. Red shells for the middle class. The ones who dont need the helping hand of the lower class, but still need something to make it through.
I think that's one way to label a game "political". Personally I've always thought that most games with compelling story and lore have to have some form of politics in them to drive them. Deus Ex is very political with its themes but at the same time it represents a lot of sides in its world
Dreams is straight up an attempt at giving the means of production (game development) to everyone, whether you are an elite (programmer etc) or layman (person who just enjoys games) This is political.
A person literally giving blood in a repetitive work, trying to beat the unbeatable.
Is this a worker on capitalism or just a game of super meat boy?
Earth is round on it and the walks happily around the sun
A famous brazilian educator once said that that "When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor"
The entire game is based around that, from the plane that takes a plane to move to the baseball ninjas fighting other baseball characters that turned evil.
Everything is a remix. You buy cds to play more, you move the industry
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most people didn't even played those games!
... because in a capitalistic society we value the money injected into projects more than the love or craft involved, so most of the times we ignore games that look to be lacking monetary value because our experiences must be optimized to make our lack of money feels like worthing more than they actualy are. So the only way people would experience famously bad games is by devaluation of the price (devaluating all the hours someone spend in it) or by pirating, which in this case is an ethically sound idea to fight big corporations, but used against the little guy who deserves all the money in the world.
False because it's not free, and is platform limited where as development tools often aren't, also your implying that knowing anything is required to attempt developing a game and I'd disagree with this point. Several games have been made by individuals who don't know what they are doing. Also almost every game is can be considered a means of production due to the raise of streaming, let's plays, speedruning and etc. Games like Persona 5 preventing this is more of a political statement.
I feel you're overthinking stuff in what basically is a joke thread and only half-serious answers :P.
The last level of the game and the credits song are about bringing everyone on Earth together and uniting the world
omg I forgot Snow Bros existed. But seeing the name here triggered a flood of lost memories. I loved this game growing up, don't know how I forgot it. Thanks for mentioning it!
Mario games: No.
Mario himself: OH HELL YEAH WHAT A DICK HE IS!
Ah, yes, you're right, it is a flawed interpretation of a political idea due to the realities of game development. Obviously also Disco Elysium isn't political either because ultimately it was made by people who receive capital for their goods and or services.
1. Link's Awakening- There are beating hearts laying in the ground if you cut grass wtf
2. Mario Bombs Away- Mario legit fights the Vietkong. Nuff said.
2. Mario Bombs Away- Mario legit fights the Vietkong. Nuff said.
All fighting games are a kind of Social Darwinism/Will to Power in action and often engage in racial and gender stereotyping.
Specific to Tekken is it's anti-corporate/anti-upper class slant, it's cynical view of family dynamics and power, and... well, much more.
A bit OT:
Recently, I started playing Shadowrun Dragonfall and I am honestly stunned at the political quagmire that the game espouses (for good) so as to feel lived in.
Recently, I started playing Shadowrun Dragonfall and I am honestly stunned at the political quagmire that the game espouses (for good) so as to feel lived in.
Honestly any person who says they want no politics normally is saying they don't want pandering/self inserted/beating the audience over the head politics.
I'm also seeing a LOT of loose interpretations of what "politics" are here as well.
Plenty of gamers like politics in their games, things like Ivalice and Metal Gear Rising have plenty of them in caricatured ways. I think most people just don't enjoy being preached at/to.
I'm also seeing a LOT of loose interpretations of what "politics" are here as well.
Plenty of gamers like politics in their games, things like Ivalice and Metal Gear Rising have plenty of them in caricatured ways. I think most people just don't enjoy being preached at/to.
Oh no this new expansion to my 90's RPG has a trans character in it this is pandering and I'm being preached to about how trans people exist.
Pretty much this. I also feel that many here only like seeing politics in a game if they see it as supporting their own viewpoints (or if they can at least twist it so, like the posts here supporting communism). For example, I can enjoy Minecraft pre-Microsoft, but if Notch had somehow inextricably embedded alt-right messaging in it, I would back away.
The real issue here is the alt-right conflating diversity and inclusiveness as political chesspieces, when really they should be treated as human rights and non-negotiable. As society becomes more aware of how marginalization hurts people, we're going to see diversity more reflective of humanity. This is just the natural course of evolution for humanity as emotionally intelligent beings.
It's not anti corporate. The Mishima Zaibatsu is evil (a private company that declares its independance, and war on the entire world is evil, from my point of view), someone needs to stand against them. And just because ONE family in the game's universe is fucked up doesn't mean Tekken's view on the concept of family is.
No. Tekken is apolitical.
A trans person shouldn't be seen as "politics." They're human beings. When someone tries to put them in the "politics" box, they're trying to change the narrative so that a trans person's humanity is debatable.
