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? :/
In Red Faction: Guerilla you just straight up fight a guerilla war against a thinly veiled Space America. The game heavily emphasizes ambushes, IEDs, sniper attacks, and aysmetrical warfare. Your explicit goal is to attain a weapon of mass destruction you can use to neutralize Space America. Oh, and you're Union, unapologetically, and the Union is called the Red Faction, and they're the heroes. Later parts of the game have you literally extending your guerilla war in to the suburbs that are less oppressed than the rural mining towns you start out it. It's as good as games get.