For instance, the Civ games are basically Whig History: The Game, presenting liberal capitalism as the ideal end point for all societies. It even includes uncivilized "barbarian tribes" whose sole purpose is to be exterminated so you can take their land for the glory of capitalism.

  • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Lol heavy rain if you count it as a game holy shit

    Also Detroit become human from the same guy. Those games are fucking infuriating if you're coming at them from anything but the lib lens

    • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Also Detroit become human from the same guy. Those games are fucking infuriating if you’re coming at them from anything but the lib lens

      I will never forget this game for being basically "android genocide" the game and them somehow not making Markus create a unique piece of art since he was raised by a fucking artist, and instead sing a song like a coke commercial lol 6/10 thanks David Cage

      • Shoegazer [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        “android genocide” the game

        The Hillary Clinton stand in made more sense than David Cage. When you compare the android deactivation centers to the Holocaust, she takes offense to it and says it's insulting because the robots are not humans, which I mean, yeah lol. But like, even if you do agree that it's as evil as the holocaust, the game still doesn't take it as seriously because it has a fight sequence at the 'concentration camp' (factory) where the Connor clone fights the real Connor and Mr. Krabs is forced to shoot the fake one. Just cartoonish shit in a setting where it's supposed to be super duper serious lol

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      11 days ago

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    • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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      2 years ago

      ahahah heavy rain. It has a special place in my heart as a unique weird thing. I think the game would have been so much better if they just made Ethan and his family black. Then all the shit about him being framed as the oragami killer by the cops would make more sense .

      Tbh at least David Cage wrote the cops as corrupt assholes.

    • Cromalin [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      didn't david cage try to argue d:bh wasn't an allegory for the civil rights movement while having in game characters repeatedly compare it to the civil rights movement?

        • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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          2 years ago

          Thats what he claims but theres literally no way that he wasn't making 90% of the game as a direct civil rights allegory before being told that it would look bad, like you can literally make the rallying cry of the android rights movement "We have a dream".

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Indigo Prophecy is the only good game from Cage, and only because it was the worst game I've ever played. Any hint of ideology in that game doesn't even matter because you're hiding from giant beetles in an office and doing matrix kung fu with a mayan demon priest in the middle of a blizzard

    • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      SHAUN!

      SHAUN!

      SHAUN!

      I'm not going to repeat this several hundred times like the game, but wow, fuck this buggy game.