I'm going by my own experience and that of the little corner of gaming youtube that is arguably some type of leftist and not hootin' and hollerin' chuds and while it's not like they avoid typical open world games, what they usually seem more interested in is what messages games convey, both by story and by mechanics.
Which doesn't necessarily exclude open world games entirely by any means, but there's a lot more to interpret from Fallout: New Vegas than Minecraft basically, to put forth well known examples.
What I meant was on the sliding scale of open world with Minecraft being at the very extreme and Fallout: New Vegas on a less extreme case I'd say leftist content tends to favour the latter over the former.
The synthesis is basically donoteat01 taking Cities: Skylines and endowing it with narrative to make a point.
I think it's the other way around.
I'm going by my own experience and that of the little corner of gaming youtube that is arguably some type of leftist and not hootin' and hollerin' chuds and while it's not like they avoid typical open world games, what they usually seem more interested in is what messages games convey, both by story and by mechanics.
Which doesn't necessarily exclude open world games entirely by any means, but there's a lot more to interpret from Fallout: New Vegas than Minecraft basically, to put forth well known examples.
Ae you saying New Vegas isn't open world?
I get how it can be taken as such, yeah.
What I meant was on the sliding scale of open world with Minecraft being at the very extreme and Fallout: New Vegas on a less extreme case I'd say leftist content tends to favour the latter over the former.
The synthesis is basically donoteat01 taking Cities: Skylines and endowing it with narrative to make a point.
I think that sandbox games are a subset of open-world games, to put it a bit differently.