discussion Games That Try Too Hard to Sell Its Author's Point of View

[Nastastic]

Blondie Bear's games.

His right-wing white German nationalism infects virtually every frame. All of the sympathetic and virtuous characters are white. Most of the unsympathetic, antagonistic and even just annoying characters are black or Turkish, or other minorities, and given the dark themes of his games, some of them are almost comically vile card-carrying villainous psychopaths who perpetrate the sickest and most horrific deeds you can imagine. He tries to skate on this by having some of the lesser baddies be white...but if his propaganda were any more overt, he would be arrested by the German government...which, officially at least, tolerates (extreme right-wing German nationalism, for which there is a very specific word that I will not use here so as not to run afoul of the mods) about as well as Australia tolerates drawings of nude cartoon characters which could be construed by some as underage...

 

[readonly]

Don't have an example off the top of my head but it's definitely a turn-off when they insert an off-character rant about this or that political or cultural issue. Even when I agree it takes me out of the game and leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

 

[menalaos]

Yeah, I've definitely noticed some games where the authors really want to push their opinions on US politics. It's obnoxious, and basically guarantees I will never support the game financially.

 

[redjive55]

I don't mind, honestly. It's their game, their right. Skip it if you want.

 

[XPS3]

Game of Thrones for sure fits this category to me, It does too much.

 

[sglade]

I don't remember the name but there was a game I played where you would go to school and the teacher was like a blue haired sjw type parody character and I didn't mind at first but it just got so annoying. The game wasn't that good anyway

 

[AnaisNon]

Yeah, there's definitely a lot of clumsy propaganda parading as fetish. I always imagine they're made by the same kind of dime-a-dozen dudes who call themselves "doms" but are actually just assholes with no idea how BDSM really works.

 

[fromabove]

A large number of game devs are guilty of this when they always give MC a massive dick and have all the girls act as if getting fucked with a normal-sized dick is not even worth it.

Technically that's not even their own point of view, they're just mindlessly parroting pornography's big dick propaganda, but it still is a tryhard sell.

 

[cynist]

Try Long Lost Daughter.

It's definitely very verbose on the dev's point of view regarding sex, family, and love. It's not so much political as it is religious - most definitely anti-mainstream-religion. I'm not sure if it's here or not... definitely a Games+ title if it is. It's found elsewhere, too.

 

[loosedendrite]

I recall a lot of preaching to the choir in Dating My Daughter.

I'm already playing your game. You don't need to sell me on the idea.

 

[User_124703]

Unteralterbach or how it named were full of that bullshit.