What's truly considered apolitical in videogames?

[c-no]

More or less, what makes the political backdrops in games like Rockstar games, New Vegas, Deus Ex, and Bioshock work is that they leave shit ambiguous and let the player decide which is the “right side”, it fails horribly in games like Gone Home and Life Is Strange because there’s only one “right side” and the writers will remind you of this fact over and over again

That is what makes political backdrops good when it's more than just some window dressing. Keeping things ambiguous and deciding what is the right side helps one wonder if they really did make the right choice, whether it's merging with the internet rather than blowing up Area 51 or choosing post-apocalyptic tribals LARPing as Romans over all other factions. Any game that tries to go overt in saying "this is the right side" isn't really gonna be as good as what Deus Ex or New Vegas has.

The problem with the "everything's political" argument is that good art functions like a mirror, reflecting those who perceive it. You can see whatever meaning you want in loads of well made things. Add a liberal arts degree & it's like throwing gasoline on a campfire.

Everything's political being like a mirror is rather fitting since one can imagine all sorts of spergings seeing one thing in a game and they think it means something they don't like such as handful of Twitter tards sperging over Doom Eternal using "mortally challenged" or the lack of some right wing militia as bad guys in Far Cry 5 being some sort of statement from Ubisoft.

 

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That is what makes political backdrops good when it's more than just some window dressing. Keeping things ambiguous and deciding what is the right side helps one wonder if they really did make the right choice, whether it's merging with the internet rather than blowing up Area 51 or choosing post-apocalyptic tribals LARPing as Romans over all other factions. Any game that tries to go overt in saying "this is the right side" isn't really gonna be as good as what Deus Ex or New Vegas has.

And in GTA5, you could either sell your buddy out to the feds and retain your quiet, suburban life or sell them out to the feds and in RDR2, you can’t make a political choice, but you are definitely left to wonder whether or not Dutch is as bad as the feds and greedy elites he hates so much

 

[Agent Wet]

The problem with the "everything's political" argument is that good art functions like a mirror, reflecting those who perceive it. You can see whatever meaning you want in loads of well made things. Add a liberal arts degree & it's like throwing gasoline on a campfire.

That would explain why majority (if not all) sjw for a lack of a better word games tend to fail beyond a few seconds of fame because politics first and quality second.

Personally I think the entire thing is dumb the only people who uses the "everything is political argument" are people who ever trying to justify keep putting this shit in the games or to lazy to do any actual protesting and just insert character here says trans rights because sometimes a duck is a duck there is nothing else beyond it sometimes people just want a game to play and have a good time not saying they can't be politics in games ever it just especially now of days its mostly just a circle jerk and a not making a message and to people who think EVERYTHING is has to do with orange man bad need to go outside from politics and to a extent the internet because I doubt its healthy being this attached it to politics to the point where you are actively looking connections to about it with fucking pac man or doom of all things.

 

[Recoil]

That would explain why majority (if not all) sjw for a lack of a better word games tend to fail beyond a few seconds of fame because politics first and quality second.

I think it's reflected in communist art & cinema, too. Don't get me wrong, Tarkovsky was a visionary but any nation that size will produce the occasional diamond. What I'm talking about is the comparative dearth of creative output in societies ruled by totalitarian governments. When the state supersedes God, you can bet your ass there's a lot less room for the indulgent act of making something beautiful.

 

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I think it's reflected in communist art & cinema, too. Don't get me wrong, Tarkovsky was a visionary but any nation that size will produce the occasional diamond. What I'm talking about is the comparative dearth of creative output in societies ruled by totalitarian governments. When the state supersedes God, you can bet your ass there's a lot less room for the indulgent act of making something beautiful.

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