You play as a multiethnic resistance group that performs guerrilla warfare against an overwhelmingly powerful oppressor. Feels like a leftist dogwhistle, even if realistically its normal #resistance

  • Lil_Revolitionary [she/her,they/them]
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    4 年前

    In Xcom1 you basically play as a swat team against alien "terrorists", and then i think you play as cops in Chimera Squad. Xcom2 is that real shit

    • CellularArrest [any]
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      4 年前

      It's funny how everyone hated Chimera Squad, I personally hated it because you're just playing as cops. The epic gamers hated it cuz it had a "liberal agenda."

      I love games discourse, it's the best.

      • Lil_Revolitionary [she/her,they/them]
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        4 年前

        I bet its fun, I'll play it sometime. Im pretty sure the theme is

        👏more👏alien👏cops👏

        but I wanna play as a snake girl so whatever

          • Lil_Revolitionary [she/her,they/them]
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            4 年前

            always sad in fiction when they jump cut into the future and the protagonists create neoliberal capitalism every time. They did that shit in Legend of Korra, kinda ruined the whole show because of that

            • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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              4 年前

              Reminds me of how Tygan was talking about the ways Advent was appealing to ordinary people and Bradford simply responded with "We can't offer them that but we can offer them freedom". That feels so much worse when taking Chimera Squad into account.

              • Lil_Revolitionary [she/her,they/them]
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                4 年前

                if you wanted, you could probably read the gene therapy plotline as an attack on free healthcare, real "the mouse doesnt know why the cheese is free" hours. But im just gonna pretend that the commander purges reactionary elements in his army post-game, and creates socialism

                • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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                  4 年前

                  True, but conversely you can also read it as a warning about neoliberal states creating the breeding grounds for fascism and desperation. The Earth before the invasion and alliance/puppeting by the aliens is obviously pretty awful. Aside from tidbits of lore, like 90% of the places to visit to repel the aliens in are slums to mega cities with occasional shopping mall thrown in Only in WOTC do you get the occasional opportunity to set off incendiary grenades in the nice suburbs.

          • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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            4 年前

            I had higher hopes for Bradford, especially with his Corbyn-esque trademark jumpers.

            If I had it on PC I'd definitely want to mod a voice line for the mission where you take him too so he could say "this jumper, I think my Mum bought it at the Co-Op" before slicing a serpent in half.

              • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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                4 年前

                This is why character customisation for your squad is so important, as well as allowing myself to save scum when Karl Marx got blindsided by a hidden Gatekeeper pod.

    • Jake_Cake [he/him]
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      4 年前

      XCOM 1 can be interpreted as you fighting against settler colonial aliens.