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? :/

    • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Well that's the real tragedy of the Fallout universe. They had incredible technology that could have saved the world but they just didn't.

      But yeah good point about the mixing of government and corporations. In the Nuka World DLC you can find out that the theme park doubled up as a military R&D department solely because the CEO was chummy with the government.