Dragon Age: The Veilguard foolishly inserts modern politics into a game that could have addressed these issues within the framework of the game's lore.

I know this might start war in the comments so please chill people, I don’t want to get 20 reports from this single post.

  • Noo@jlai.luEnglish
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    20 days ago

    I would like to find a game free of political message, can someone please show me one?

    I’m really curious about what this mythical beast might look like…

      • halyk.the.red@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        20 days ago

        Actually, tetris is really a commentary about the brief and fragile ethnostate in Constantinople as the Byzantine empire fell to the Ottoman empire.

      • heavy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        0·
        20 days ago

        I’m not saying I know anything about this Dragon Age, I haven’t played it.

        I think it’s a fair point though, to imagine an a-political narrative game, because I think most if not all RPG games I can think of have some kind of political content.

        • BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          20 days ago

          Shifting the goalposts on behalf of OP, but whatever. Where are you guys coming from?

          Narrative games of any scope are almost inevitably going to bump into themes like hierarchy, power dynamics and moral dilemmas. That doesn’t make them “political” in the sense that they’re directly discussing real events around you. I won’t presume anything about your personal position here, but OP gives the impression that if a fantasy game depicted a fictional race subjugated by another he would start complaining that it was woke.

          If you want a story without those things you largely need to pick a different genre.

      • Noo@jlai.luEnglish
        01·
        20 days ago
        • Doom promotes strong virilism = political.
        • Tetris = promote the control of chaos (view as destructive, because too much and you lose) through psycho-rigid order.
        • Need For Speed = yeah nothing political about promoting cars, except the incitation to get one.
        • Wii Tennis = tries to make you forget tennis is for rich people only, by making it cute = political.

        My point is everything is political, you don’t have to see political standpoint in things, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

          • DaseinPickle@leminal.spaceEnglish
            1·
            20 days ago

            OP is not exactly coming up with good examples, but I think the point is you can analyse anything and claim that there is some hidden political message, even if it was not intended by the developers. Even Gilgamesh, one of the oldest text ever found, has scholars discussing gender and sexuality. I don’t think Gilgamesh and Enkidus relationship was considered political at the time the story was written down, but in a new context and a new political landscape it can suddenly be political.

            https://www.jstor.org/stable/25766947

      • Noo@jlai.luEnglish
        1·
        19 days ago

        Super Mario make a twist on the trope of the knight saving the princess. The knight is just a plumber and it is said to him that the ‘princess is an another castle’. But at the end the right order of the world is restaured when Mario finally frees the princess from the evil Bowser.

        So from a political standpoint Super Mario is a product believing strongly in individualism and in the self made man ideology. The twist shows only that even a plumber can save the princess if he works enough = liberal capitalism making us believed that we’ll be all rock stars and billionaires when we’re definitively not (and yes I’m quoting fight club here). All this is the consequence of the game focussing more on gameplay than it’s narration, therefore it leans towards what was the common thinking of the time.

        Polygamy (relationship between Peach, Mario and Luigi, if that’s what you are referring to) is much to me a side effect of the 2 players gameplay possibility, but it is still indeed pretty interesting in itself yeah.

        You probably meant it as a joke, but too bad you get a real answer :)