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:
eh, I like dishonored. revenge solves everything.
They're some of my favourite stealth games, don't get me wrong. But the games are consumed by liberal politics.
I need to replay the first one but I played the second one recently and it was pretty oppressively lib. Might just be a personal thing but i can’t fucking stand liberals obsession with the “right monarch” kind of stories. I don’t know anything about dune apart from the new movie, but there’s a bit of that there that irked me as well
Dune's politics are all over the place, I've only read the first book but I doubt anyone's got any time for unpacking whatever is going on with all that.
I promise that isn't what Dune is going for, though it takes a while to make its point.
that's just the vibe i got from the framing of this first movie. but i can definitely tell this was like a small portion of everything. just the first thing that popped in my head since i watched it recently.