Yes I know that fascism measurehead is a playable ideology in Disco Elysium, but presenting fascism as with its integral ugly reality, glaring contradictions, and unsustainable death drive is a pretty leftist (and correct) way of portraying it. de-encyclopedia

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    I came here to mention Postal 2. I still think the premise is kind of clever, in that you're never truly forced to act violently and you can escape every confrontation without harming anyone if you know what you're doing. That could probably be done better though, but I personally have a soft spot for games that use the player's frustration as a mechanic.

    But it really does communicate the American reactionary mindset. It's racist, it's smug, it presents a world where other people are aggressive and horrible for no reason. You fight against leftist-coded protestors at various points. It presents mass murder as a cathartic solution to problems. The developers seem like they're chuds as well, like deep in the weeds variety. They put that Milo Yiannopoulos guy in a DLC, voiced by himself.