its kinda hard to avoid them buddy
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far cry 6 - lots of refrences to historical racism
strange life 2 - actively attacked trump and the rights policy on migration
detroit becoming human - gave obvious support to certain political progressive movements in the social sphere
gta 6 was pressured into adding a latino woman into the game (not saying thats wrong, its just that they were pressured into doing it by real world feminists
fallout - clear anti-nuclear messaging
Animal Crossing: New Horizons - was attacked for being based around a capitalist system
csgo - skin selling scandals also got political
countless shooters (and gta 5) have been attacked by the left media for grooming boys into becoming "violent" and holding values that are "toxically masculine"
That is only a snapshot of some of the politics that are in video games
This list gets hard to avoid sometimes
There is no such thing as the "leftist media", the corporate media is firmly anti-socialist and pro-neoliberal, they simply use culture war propaganda to create the illusion of some grand division so that the people stay at each other's throats instead of realizing that they are being robbed blind by the elites
wow you're like really right. you can simply not play those games if you don't like things like that in your games. there are millions of games out there babes.....if you don't like the ones coming out then it seems you lay outside of the current Overton Window and that's not the fault of the developers of mainstream games.
id also like to point out though that a quite a few of the examples you mentioned are reaching a bit and using what far leftists are complaining about or far rightists are complaining about...because i lean left and i play tf out of animal crossing lol. i play gta games. i play call of duty games. "leftist media" saying those games are cause grooming, violence, toxic masculinity, ect....are the equivalent to the "right media" who say that drag queens are grooming children to be gay....they aren't media sources that actual rational people listen to lol. and by the sound of it you are kinda looking to find political things about games.
ive played far cry 6 (and while i didn't like the game) my brain didn't even question those references because they made sense for the plot (since you're ya know....revolutionizing a country and overthrowing a dictator basically). i don't consider even those references to be political either. its literally just history lol. also played numerous fallout games (loved those for the most part). never once felt like i was being radicalized to be anti-nuclear energy....because that's not the point of the game lol. i just ran around and survived after a nuke dropped, queen.
also though, gta 6 being pressured to put Latino women in the game isn't actually putting the politics in the game you're physically going to be playing...it put Latino women into the game.
my original point still stands though. dont play those games if there are politics in them or surrounding them you don't like. there are millions of games....but maybe you'll just have to pull up your bootstraps and make your own non-political games if you cant find them on your own...or go back to pong lolol
i will say though that there is politics in everything. its up to you though if you want to actively seek it out. i sure as hell don't because i play games to have fun...not be upset that i owe a debt of 4million bells to Tom Nook.
when you make games themed around "realism", you might run into the fact that you do be living in a society.
tetris can be without politics, but how do you expect a person to exist on earth (fictional or actual) without engaging in politics?
even some simple children's plot as "i value friendship over family ties" is political.
i am genuinely curious what you consider apolitical games.
the skin selling is also not in the game, it's about something related to gaming.
you can just ignore that the same way you ignore everything else "political", right?
Games are a piece of art which exist in a cultural context, some games like this one are overtly political in nature but no game can be removed from the cultural and political context it was created in, if you have a problem with that and wish that games would try to exist in a void I recommend you go back to middle/high school to gain the kind of awareness of the world that most of us got at that time. You should learn that every single creative piece can be analyzed through infinite lenses. You have chosen to view these games through a reactionary culture war lens, and then have gotten mad at what you have seen. If you don't want politics in games, don't play overtly political games, don't choose to view games through your political lens, and accept that there will always be a level of politics in art as it is a culmination of all the cultural context that has come before it. (yes, I know it's been a year).
wow, it's almost life and the media that represents it is almost inextricable from the context it exists in, almost like...everything is political! Since everything has a price, for one, and that is dictated by a power higher than you or me, so, political.
It's not that "there are too many political games", there are ONLY political games. Just because you agree with or think it's just the status quo to make a game a certain way doesn't mean it does not represent something political in the real world, for example the very real problems developers as working people face