So, there's Outer Worlds.
Dishonoured would be if it wasn't all about saving the monarchy.
Anyone played We Happy Few? Trying to decide whether to buy it.
Disco Elysium - cos you can do fuckin whatever.
So, there's Outer Worlds.
Dishonoured would be if it wasn't all about saving the monarchy.
Anyone played We Happy Few? Trying to decide whether to buy it.
Disco Elysium - cos you can do fuckin whatever.
Red Faction Guerilla. And red faction 1
Both GTA and RDR are surprisingly critical.
The first four Assassin Creed games, especially 4, but also look out for the Truth section of 2.
Mirrors edge.
New Vegas isnt leftist but Hegel is quoted.
Morrowind is basically a meme at this point, though the anti imperialism is subtle it's well done. Look for Redguard for a more overt example.
The Just cause series starts out as a neolib fantasy but rapidly becomes something else.
The longest journey, especially the first game.
I didn't quite get this impression from Red Dead Redemption, though I only played the first game and it was many years ago. The first RDR seems to have a Libertarian narrative to it about the government and how they get involved in the lives of the everyday person. John's story involves those FBI agents (in a year before the FBI was even created) who take his family hostage and make him go around killing his old outlaw gang comrades and eventually betray him and set him up to be killed in the end.
The Mexico plot of that game was the absolute worst, with how it portrayed the revolutionary as just being a womanizer who is going to be just as corrupt and as terrible as the government leader he is replacing.
I think I read somewhere years ago that Dan Houser was a Libertarian and that didn't shock me from the impression I had from playing RDR many years back.
RDR2 very much has an anti-industrialist, anti-capitalist narrative. The gang essentially lives in a commune, but they're mostly terrible people who kill and rob. One of the minor villains of the game is a loan shark who you do missions for, and it shows how much he preys on poor and downtrodden people, like a man with Tuberculosis and a widow whose husband died to working in a mine to pay off debts. Two of the game's main villains are a Pinkerton and a capitalist. You spend one chapter of the game in the deep south where the main grunt enemies are ex-Confederates and larpers. There's also a really weird chapter like the Mexico one, where you go off to a fictional Carribean island and help a bunch of sugar cane workers in their revolution and it ends with you blowing up a Cuban warship. So the themes are pretty anti-capitalist.
I've only played rdr 2, which very much explores the limits of that.
black flag is pretty anti imperialist as assassins creed games go. playing a native american who goes and axe kills british troops while leading a pirate crew is about as left as you can go back then
also, very pretty game and the naval combat is probably the best in any game
I think you're conflating AC3 with Black Flag. The pirate is Welsh, not native. Even though he eventually sides with the Native adherents of the Brotherhood (after slaughtering quite a lot of them). It is a very fun game though, probably the most fun of all AC games. There is a sequel called Freedom Cry that has you as a runaway slave captaining a pirate ship and building a maroon commune.
i thought he was half native? and yeah i guess you might be right
edit: oh no he was the dad of assassins creed 3 guy
Yeah that was AC3. But the entire AC lore is so convoluted by now that it is impossible to keep up with all the twists and turns. 🤣
yeah i find it amusing that they just smash together every conspiracy theory known to man
Right? Marx and Lenin good, but fucking Queen Victoria is good as well and we need to protect the benevolent British monarchy, which needs to be overthrown by the American Revolution which is good, but the French Revolution - yeah that one's totally evil. 🤪
I think it just reflects design by committee, with the committee's explicit goal to maximise sales, so they just try to gauge where the popular sentiment lies regarding each individual conspiracy, to still have a veneer of edginess but provoke as few people as possible.
excited for assassins creed: cold war where stalin didnt die and assassinated jfk