Watch Dogs is perfect for undestanding the way liberals views how a revolution fuctions, and it sucks . For starters the base of supports for the revolution is supposed to be "the people" and the way to get to them is....getting to install your app
One of the subplots is that they found evidence of the whole body of the police was being corrupt, and what did the did? they give the evidence to the goverment to do whats right, right?
It treats the people as a mindless mob. The trump equivalent was elected all because twitter ads, for gods sake I really need a revolution simulator soo many revolutionary potencial infencted with libs.
If you didnt know Watch dogs 2 is free on epic right now.
Given we know how interested the army is in games studios churning out war sims because it helps glorify them and drives up recruitment, what are the odds a big studio is gonna make an even halfway accurate or realistic revolution game?
I completely agree with your points, the game is headache inducingly lib and also tries to address modern problems in the most tepid way ever (the Trump parody man literally doesn't even really act like Trump which makes me suspect he was originally gonna be a generic Republican but was slightly changed at the last moment) but I still kind of have a soft spot for the game because of how silly and tonally confused it is. I also like that it's a big open sandbox that lets you complete levels however you want, including sending in stupid robots that spout what a 50 year old game dev thinks memes are in a weird British accent. This also means there's a massive disconnect between what you can do and how the characters act.
Like seriously I spent most of the game going full Red Army Faction on cops and sending hit Russian Mafia hit squads to murder tech billionnaires whenever I scanned them on my phone and then the cutscenes feature your characters doing bad Arnie impressions lmao.
Definitely worth people picking up and playing for free to try out if they haven't already.
Edit: I do agree with you that I'm desperate for a proper Revolution simulator though, there's a quite cool Roguelike called Liberal Crime Squad (where despite the name you're actually quite radical) but it's mostly text based so understandably isn't for everyone.
