I come to video games as a relief from the political debates happening today. Please dont start making our video games political, in favor of either side.
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far cry 6 - lots of refrences to historical racism
strange life 2 - actively attacked trump and the rights policy on migration
detroit becoming human - gave obvious support to certain political progressive movements in the social sphere
gta 6 was pressured into adding a latino woman into the game (not saying thats wrong, its just that they were pressured into doing it by real world feminists
fallout - clear anti-nuclear messaging
Animal Crossing: New Horizons - was attacked for being based around a capitalist system
csgo - skin selling scandals also got political
countless shooters (and gta 5) have been attacked by the left media for grooming boys into becoming "violent" and holding values that are "toxically masculine"
That is only a snapshot of some of the politics that are in video games
This list gets hard to avoid sometimes
There is no such thing as the "leftist media", the corporate media is firmly anti-socialist and pro-neoliberal, they simply use culture war propaganda to create the illusion of some grand division so that the people stay at each other's throats instead of realizing that they are being robbed blind by the elites
wow you're like really right. you can simply not play those games if you don't like things like that in your games. there are millions of games out there babes.....if you don't like the ones coming out then it seems you lay outside of the current Overton Window and that's not the fault of the developers of mainstream games.
id also like to point out though that a quite a few of the examples you mentioned are reaching a bit and using what far leftists are complaining about or far rightists are complaining about...because i lean left and i play tf out of animal crossing lol. i play gta games. i play call of duty games. "leftist media" saying those games are cause grooming, violence, toxic masculinity, ect....are the equivalent to the "right media" who say that drag queens are grooming children to be gay....they aren't media sources that actual rational people listen to lol. and by the sound of it you are kinda looking to find political things about games.
ive played far cry 6 (and while i didn't like the game) my brain didn't even question those references because they made sense for the plot (since you're ya know....revolutionizing a country and overthrowing a dictator basically). i don't consider even those references to be political either. its literally just history lol. also played numerous fallout games (loved those for the most part). never once felt like i was being radicalized to be anti-nuclear energy....because that's not the point of the game lol. i just ran around and survived after a nuke dropped, queen.
also though, gta 6 being pressured to put Latino women in the game isn't actually putting the politics in the game you're physically going to be playing...it put Latino women into the game.
my original point still stands though. dont play those games if there are politics in them or surrounding them you don't like. there are millions of games....but maybe you'll just have to pull up your bootstraps and make your own non-political games if you cant find them on your own...or go back to pong lolol
i will say though that there is politics in everything. its up to you though if you want to actively seek it out. i sure as hell don't because i play games to have fun...not be upset that i owe a debt of 4million bells to Tom Nook.
when you make games themed around "realism", you might run into the fact that you do be living in a society.
tetris can be without politics, but how do you expect a person to exist on earth (fictional or actual) without engaging in politics?
even some simple children's plot as "i value friendship over family ties" is political.
i am genuinely curious what you consider apolitical games.
the skin selling is also not in the game, it's about something related to gaming.
you can just ignore that the same way you ignore everything else "political", right?
You seem to be entirely missing the fact that video games are a form of artistic expression. Art has, for thousands of years, been used for the purposes of political commentary. Why is it a problem when that is brought over to a new medium?
Also, I understand what you are saying when you bring up instances of people complaining about the politics of an apolitical game. But, as it would happen, you are commenting under a game titled "Democratic Socialism Simulator", which is specifically made for the purposes of political expression. Maybe avoid games like this if you don't like politically-oriented entertainment.
There's a difference between having politics and preaching authors political views.
Easy example of just having politics, is the good ol' Deus Ex, or theexcellent F: New Vegas.
Video games had politics for a long time, just didn't have try to change your worldview in such a blatant manner, instead trying to make you make you make your own conclusions.
Isn't that what good art also does?