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“No indication yet whether they will shove SJW politics down our throat in Vampire The Masquerade 2” says Oyungezer, Turkish game magazine
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nier automata is just a game about androids fighting with swords.
I'd just like to add that every Abrahamic religion is guilty of this to some extent bub.
The terms the alt-right use to describe anything remotely left carry no actual meaning and only serve to label certain people as "against the things I stand for"
When alt-right goons starting complaining about shit like this that ultimately effects you in no way, how are they not being snowflakes? And you hear this shit verbatim all the time, how are the opposition NPCs but the group using this term is not?
When alt-right goons starting complaining about shit like this that ultimately effects you in no way, how are they not being snowflakes? And you hear this shit verbatim all the time, how are the opposition NPCs but the group using this term is not?
ok but hear me out
all the worlds used to exist as one but were fractured into many worlds pre-kh1. ansem sod and maleficent, the Bad Guys, unleash the heartless and invade all the worlds for their own personal gain, destroying the worlds in the process. their ultimate goal is to unite all of the worlds under their own power. meanwhile sdg, the Good Guys, abide by the world order, a policy that aims to preserve each world and their individual cultures, assimilating to each world they visit. the bad guys are basically homogenizing the worlds and wiping out their cultures while the good guys are trying to preserve them.
therefore kh1 is about the politics of globalization and imperialism
Wut?
This reads like a such a reach to me. Its like you decided what kh1 "was about" and then worked your way back so you could justify that conclusion.
DQ3 has certain dialogues where if the player choose the female MC the characters will comment how the role of the hero can be filled by a man or a woman, even praised by a real queen who has envy of the freedom of the hero.
Also, a female NPC has self-awareness about the dangers of being put in a eternal sleep
for women, aka being raped.
It's a 1988 game.
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All fantasy is almost intrinsically political. Final fantasy has different races living in different cities
The structure of these worlds is political. Are races separated?
Is there a king? Which race?
What race are the heroes? Why are the bad guys bad? Is it about power?
It's all politics
Every piece of media is political.
So work your way forward and give a summary of KH1. I can assure you that even in the least, it'll still be somewhat political.
Am I the only person that plays games without ever thinking about this stuff? 'Oh shit, it's a black gay Muslim, that makes me so angry!! I'm not going to interact with that character' - do people really react this way? Dude, Black, white, gay, straight, I don't give a fuck, make the game good!
Ofcourse, if you think everything is inherently political having a white main character is political, hence KH1 includes political messages. But extrapolating that KH1 *IS ABOUT* globalization and imperialism, even if some of the themes presented in KH1 have some minor overlap with these concepts, is pretty ludicrous in my opinion. You could twist KH1 being about anything at that point.
It seems to be mostly angry white dudes who are afraid that Anita Sarkeesian is cancelling vidya games and cucking the western civilization with talking about actual issues people face. For some reason thats off limits to people with privilege.
the point is a work can not have a obvious political message, but every works of fiction with a story is influenced by political stances and climates.
The "is about" was tongue-in-cheek lol, as was the rest of the post. No need to take it so literally. Of course I don't think globalism and imperialism are huge parts of KH, but can we talk about those political themes wrt the game and that's the point.
While I definately agree with what you are saying, I am not buying that KH1 was arguing against imperialism or globalization. It includes some themes that are present in both concepts, but thats it. Arguably, globalization has been a huge deal since the 70s. Does every game in this time with multiple worlds take a stance on globalization?
Well thats fair, I didnt realize this. :"D
Hah it's my bad, I thought the no caps was enough of a tell but I forget how hard it is to convey tone on the internet. :)
Yeah the first Soviet developed game published in the west might not be the game you want to use
Didn't Tetris contain some sort of artwork that was a real life political protest?
I miss the good ol days when the only people you had to worry about hurting were the white males. Now everybody thinks they have rights! /s
You mean the game whose entire development, advertisement and popularity, it's entire history, is embedded in cold war history?