I can think of some obvious examples to start with, but my subtle but insidious nominee is Fable III. Fittingly for a pretentious grifter like Molyneux, the game requires you to raise a specific amount of gold or your kingdom is destroyed and you get a bad ending. The goalposts are moved by the game if you raise money in ways it doesn't approve of, and it is simply impossible to reach the fundraising goal in any way that isn't at least Enlightened Centrist levels of evil, the kind that lanyard-wearing neoliberals giggle about. That's right, you need to be at least this evil or your kingdom is destroyed. So deep and really makes you think about the hard decisions that are made by the ruling class, doesn't it? :zizek:
Oh I mean easily what springs right to mind is Call Of Duty. I mean the games are literally made in cooperation with the department of defense and are drunk off the american exceptionalism with real might makes right fashy undertones. I find almost directly responsible for the hero worship we have for special forces in the USA, as most of these games have you working as a spec ops goon.
Which one of those propaganda pieces pretending to be games had evil South Americans steal a doomsday weapon from the United States (only evil in their hands of course), but when your elite black ops tacticools seize it back, you save the day by using the same doomsday weapon on those scary evil foreigners? :amerikkka-clap:
Oh I think that was one of the ghost games, I think? Wasn't it an orbiting rail cannon or something?
The unionized neurons in my brain were going to go on strike if I paid any more attention than I did, so you tell me. :kombucha-disgust:
Yeah I wouldn't know, the only CoD games I played for the first couple WWII ones and Modern Warfare 1, that was enough for me.
OOooo look at the poor widdle north amerika sooo weak and demoralized by the evil brown man.... :( :( :( :( will you help us save them?? would you still love us?? :((( ???? you probably wouldnt :( :( :( or would you :) :) ;)
I agree that Call of Duty has probably some of the worst ideology out there, as unsubtle as it is. It's still worth mentioning and has been highly successful propaganda. :disgost:
Yeah there's absolutely nothing subtle about these games, it screams it's message in your face. There's probably some galaxy brain G*mers out there though who'd say oh the CoD series is very subtle propaganda, you can just ignore most of it :agony-yehaw:
So glad the only COD I ever played was the first level of Finest Hour, where you're a Soviet soldier killing Nazis in Stalingrad
It's all downhill from there.
WaW us pretty good, but the rest, yeah...
The first Black Ops game has you participate in the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Vietnam War. When the education system in the US fails to cover more recent history (or any history in depth at all), the Black Ops games fill in the gaps with bogus facts and ideology. Making the Cubans and Vietcong look like bad guys inspired a new wave of anti communism among chuds and children.
I still can't believe the "No Russian" thing was a real thing, what the fuck was that. That was some CIA conditioning bullshit I swear to god