like oh wow ur game about exploring an untouched world where the punchline of every "joke" is that you're being exploited by an unfeeling corporation? man that's so unique that nobody who read that sentence realized I was talking about Journey To The Savage Planet because there's so fucking many of them

You know what I want? Universal jail time for all gamers

But if I'm not gonna get that, I want games that take place in a world we'd want to live in where the objective is to help it remain as such.

If someone pitched to me a GTA game set in a horrible word not worth living in the way they all are, I wouldn't care what city it's set in. It's been done. If someone said, "hey we're gonna make a GTA game except it's set in a nearly post-capitalism world and your objective is to try to protect your city from incursion by the forces of reaction" I'd buy that shit up so fast.

TLDR; why doesn't an inherently reactionary industry just pander to me? :/

    • quartz [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      I think it's probably true in that Bandai Namco is a publicly traded company, owned by the private capital instruments that are owned by those who fund right-wing terrorism. I can't find anything linking it more directly.

      Maybe it's a joke about something that happens in a Gundam series. Like, they give little a Gundam to Operation Gladio as a treat or something, idk I never watched it