Title. Need some examples of games that had lefty politics and leanings and weren't too ashamed to hide it. Platform/country of origin is irrelevant. I know about FF7's support for ecoterrorism, and even the nuance about the people caught up in the middle, and there's plenty of games that take an anti-corporate stance, but that can be easily brushed aside.

I'm specifically interested in this era as it's when games first acquired the ability to become fully immersive in their narratives with the adoption of multimedia melding into the core gameplay loop via the use of full motion video, voice acting, detailed images and so on.

Reminder: all games are political; even abstract puzzle games.

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Kojima’s schtick is to basically illustrate and frame special forces shit and military hardware with almost pornographic titillation and then sort of do an about face and say: “isn’t it weird and kinda fucked up we’re all so godamn horny about this stuff”?

    That's why I love that scene from Snake Eater where BB obsesses over the 1911 handgun Eva gives him.

    Textually the series is antiwar, anti american foreign policy, and even ostensibly dissects the myth of the one man army super soldier…but it still relishes in presenting those things as cool as fucking possible.

    Yeah it falls into the same traps that "anti-war" movies fall into.

    • Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      That’s why I love that scene from Snake Eater where BB obsesses over the 1911 handgun Eva gives him.

      Absolutely*, and the fact that in/around that same scene you can leer at her chest isn't coincidental, especially given what we find out later. A lot of the series' fan service is, on some level, not entirely gratuitous. Its still quite often indulgent, but there is usually a thought behind it.