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.
Assassin's Creed Unity. They tried to make a ", non-political" game about the French Revolution. Besides being impossibe, they do an even worse job than you would imagine. Because its about people literally called assassins, they can't exactly do the Terror is bad because violence is bad. Instead, violence is good, but believing in things too strongly is bad. Enlightened Centrism with assassin characteristics
Is that the one with the liberal Karl Marx character?
nah that one is set in Victorian London
Thanks for this. I was thinking about playing an AC game and the short description of this one make me suspect it’s gonna be “Robespierre bad, Jacobins are a cult, Thermidorian libs good” or something
This is partly why I only play historically themed games before the 1400s. Shits existed before then, sure, but later shits feel too real not to piss me off
Yeah, thats an issue with the AC games set later, because the politics of those times still directly effects us. Especially Unity and AC 3. The Ezio games dont have that problem, or Black Flag which is a fun pirate sim.
i love the mechanics more than the other AC games, but the ideology makes me unreasonably pissed....no scratch that unhealthily but reasonably pissed
The parkour mechanics are amazing! And Paris is so beautifully created. They clearly did tons of research to bring it to life in 1:1 scale. They just didnt apply any of that research to the story