Grand Theft Auto has a couple games with missions that revolve around breaking into military bases, killing loads of troops, and stealing a tank or a jet.
The whole series is pretty blatantly anti-American. GTAV is basically about how capitalism fucks all of its characters up and makes them terrible people, San Andreas spends a lot of time talking about how the CIA coopts and kneecaps liberation movements on behalf of capital, GTA4's main character fled the rise of capitalism in eastern europe only to find that America was exactly the same but with more cars and guns...
There's a mission where you go walk through an old man's repossessed house and look for his personal belongings so he can have at least the dignity of his memories, even though he's now homeless as a result of losing his job. All the items and letters you pick up get a somber voiceover read and it's more meditative than most of the missions you get. Definitely meant to try and inspire sympathy in the old man's plight.
Anyways, you find out that his job was slave catcher and he was proud to be one. So when you go back to give him his things, Arthur instead insults him to his face and throws his recovered last personal possessions into a fire. Owned.
Game leaves it up to you to kill the slave catcher or walk away.
You get to murder all four kinds of US troops - Union, Confederate, KKK, and cops.
That game has totally incoherent politics, though. The protagonists are mostly mass murderers who have killed hundreds of people, but the game tries to sell this "found family doing what they have to in a harsh world" and it never gels because the last mission required you to murder like forty random dudes in some town.
eeeeeeeeeeeeh, I don't know about that. I don't understand how anyone can name one of their characters after Michael Townley. Also, I don't know if it's racist against italians, but one of the mobsters from the bay of pigs was called something very similar to Tomy Vercetti. It's not literally the same name, so this one might just be a coincidence.
All in all, politics in gta are a mixed bag. On one hand, they've criticized torture and private armies, so they're not completely braindead. But I wouldn't say the games have good politics, either. The writers are a bunch of rich libs. They care about lib shit, but that's it.
Oh, another thing I just remembered. As rich libs, the writers for the series have no respect or appreciation for, you now, normal people with real jobs. The whole thing loves nothing more than shitting on lazy and entitled millenials who need to stop bitching about not being able to find a job and should pull themselves by their bootstraps.
There's a character Floyd, who works at the port. He has a good union job, one of the highest paying jobs in the usa. Of course, a lib writer can't imagine a world where that's a good job to have. Trevor shits all over it, and he says his girlfriend has to suck someone's cock to get Floyd the job. Why would she bother if it was such a bad job? Also, Floyd's girlfriend, allegedly, doesn't love him and cheats on him all the time, while also willing to suck someone's cock to get Floyd a job? That doesn't make any sense either. I doubt writers intentionally wrote nonsense to show Trevor as a flawed character in this particular instance, I think their brainworms just affected the quality of their writing. The writing doesn't make any sense because the writer's opinions don't make any sense.
Grand Theft Auto has a couple games with missions that revolve around breaking into military bases, killing loads of troops, and stealing a tank or a jet.
The whole series is pretty blatantly anti-American. GTAV is basically about how capitalism fucks all of its characters up and makes them terrible people, San Andreas spends a lot of time talking about how the CIA coopts and kneecaps liberation movements on behalf of capital, GTA4's main character fled the rise of capitalism in eastern europe only to find that America was exactly the same but with more cars and guns...
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Interesting contrast, in Rockstar Studios you play as an overworked developer struggling to make ends meet.
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There's a mission where you go walk through an old man's repossessed house and look for his personal belongings so he can have at least the dignity of his memories, even though he's now homeless as a result of losing his job. All the items and letters you pick up get a somber voiceover read and it's more meditative than most of the missions you get. Definitely meant to try and inspire sympathy in the old man's plight.
Anyways, you find out that his job was slave catcher and he was proud to be one. So when you go back to give him his things, Arthur instead insults him to his face and throws his recovered last personal possessions into a fire. Owned.
Game leaves it up to you to kill the slave catcher or walk away.
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You get to murder all four kinds of US troops - Union, Confederate, KKK, and cops.
That game has totally incoherent politics, though. The protagonists are mostly mass murderers who have killed hundreds of people, but the game tries to sell this "found family doing what they have to in a harsh world" and it never gels because the last mission required you to murder like forty random dudes in some town.
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eeeeeeeeeeeeh, I don't know about that. I don't understand how anyone can name one of their characters after Michael Townley. Also, I don't know if it's racist against italians, but one of the mobsters from the bay of pigs was called something very similar to Tomy Vercetti. It's not literally the same name, so this one might just be a coincidence.
All in all, politics in gta are a mixed bag. On one hand, they've criticized torture and private armies, so they're not completely braindead. But I wouldn't say the games have good politics, either. The writers are a bunch of rich libs. They care about lib shit, but that's it.
Oh, another thing I just remembered. As rich libs, the writers for the series have no respect or appreciation for, you now, normal people with real jobs. The whole thing loves nothing more than shitting on lazy and entitled millenials who need to stop bitching about not being able to find a job and should pull themselves by their bootstraps.
There's a character Floyd, who works at the port. He has a good union job, one of the highest paying jobs in the usa. Of course, a lib writer can't imagine a world where that's a good job to have. Trevor shits all over it, and he says his girlfriend has to suck someone's cock to get Floyd the job. Why would she bother if it was such a bad job? Also, Floyd's girlfriend, allegedly, doesn't love him and cheats on him all the time, while also willing to suck someone's cock to get Floyd a job? That doesn't make any sense either. I doubt writers intentionally wrote nonsense to show Trevor as a flawed character in this particular instance, I think their brainworms just affected the quality of their writing. The writing doesn't make any sense because the writer's opinions don't make any sense.