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.

    • heavy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      64·
      2 months 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
        174·
        2 months 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.

        • heavy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          93·
          2 months ago

          That’s what I’m trying to say. I don’t think such a game is feasible.

          Also, in the context of this threat, saying “ooo Tetris isn’t political!” is being pedantic, that’s not what the person meant when they asked for an example of a non political game.

          • xep@fedia.io
            4·
            2 months ago

            I would like to find a game free of political message,

            They asked for a game free of political messages, and got several. Are you sure that’s not what they meant? Does Tic Tac Toe have political messages? What about 2048?

    • Noo@jlai.luEnglish
      514·
      2 months 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.

      • BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        112·
        2 months ago

        If that’s what you meant with your original comment then I deeply regret engaging with this at all 🤣

        Have a nice day.

        • DaseinPickle@leminal.spaceEnglish
          31·
          2 months 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
          35·
          2 months ago

          Oh you didn’t perceive the irony, didn’t you?