This is what gamers mean when they say we don't want politics in our video games

[Kweeb]

The majority of people pushing that agenda do not understand that gamers do not like to be lectured...

Not wanting politics in our games means we do not want real life social issues to be present...

The fictionalized world can have their own fictionalized politics all throughout the game we don't care...

The millisecond that inject identity politics/social issues of real life in the fantasy game is when it becomes stupid

[Iggy Wolf]

Does that include people now ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and moaning about The Witcher 4 having a female protagonist? Because it seems like THAT's what people refer to as "pushing politics" in games, even though it's the most dumbest reason to hate the new game. Especially since female protagonists are nothing new, and The Witcher 3 sets up her character as becoming a Witcher and therefore now getting her own game. Perhaps the incels need to get with the times and start accepting that female characters are just as good and important as male ones. I mean, Tomb Raider's been doing it since the 90s.

[Worldzworstgamer]

Gaming is supposed to be fun and relaxing and an escape from real life. Hopefully we can return to that in 2025.

[hechicero]

If Ciri has an annoying voice that repeats things like Hades 2, dear god help us all. Definitely don't play video games to be lectured or talked at by an annoying woman.

[Kweeb]

Originally posted by Iggy Wolf:

Does that include people now ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and moaning about The Witcher 4 having a female protagonist? Because it seems like THAT's what people refer to as "pushing politics" in games, even though it's the most dumbest reason to hate the new game. Especially since female protagonists are nothing new, and The Witcher 3 sets up her character as becoming a Witcher and therefore now getting her own game. Perhaps the incels need to get with the times and start accepting that female characters are just as good and important as male ones. I mean, Tomb Raider's been doing it since the 90s.

arn't the books mostly about her??lol

[Kweeb]

Originally posted by Worldzworstgamer:

Gaming is supposed to be fun and relaxing and an escape from real life. Hopefully we can return to that in 2025.

hopefully

[Logan]

"The fictionalized world can have their own fictionalized politics all throughout the game we don't care..."
What the f- does that even mean? How you can have "fictional politics"?

[Moogal™]

Can agree.

[Iggy Wolf]

Originally posted by Kweeb:

arn't the books mostly about her??lol

I mean, if that's the case, you gotta wonder why people are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about it then. No wonder the general public still thinks that gamers are nothing but incels living in their mother's basement.

[Original Cast Recording]

Originally posted by Logan:

"The fictionalized world can have their own fictionalized politics all throughout the game we don't care..."
What the f- does that even mean? How you can have "fictional politics"?

You can't. It will always be a potential allegory or metaphor.

[peppermint hollows]

Is that why you have 356 hours in New Vegas and 298 hours in Fallout 4?

[Heitor Villa-Lobos]

Originally posted by Talby:

Unfortunately global socialism demands societal conformity, including gaming, as we have seen over the past decade.

Dude a lot of the first videogames were built by socialists who still lived under the Capitalism regime. (And Tetris famously came from inside USSR)

Just like the majority of Physics and Biology from the last century came from socialists.

Most people working for the terrible conglomerates like Microshaft just want their check at the end of the month. It is because videogames are being build under the directives of huge soulless corporations that try to appeal to demographics that we get that identity politics BS.

And I say BS because it doesn't even hold. It is a fake discourse, like painting their logos rainbow for a month. *I* certainly don't expect any salvation for my causes from major corporations. At the end of the day, its like buying from ecocidal companies and believing its alright because they're named after some rainforest.

You're not impacting the world positively by buying AAA games with a stupid gender checkbox with three options.

But people also are getting fed up with this paranoia of "global socialists". People were a lot more socialist back in the day, and you call those the good ol' days.

[admiral1018]

People don't want modern-day identity politics in games, especially when that political inclusion is obnoxiously preachy and one-sided. Pretty much any game including current gender politics is becoming an immediate no-buy for many people.

[Blunt Raps]

The wildest was the trans bartender in hogwarts.

Bruh the game is about magic... People transforming with potions that school children can make, has been done before.

So buddy just chooses to be marginalized?
Pandering with not a drop of creativity.

[Joe Cool]

It wouldn't even be so bad if they could at least have high quality writing and a good story.

The problem is that they DEI hire talentless writers chosen because they check boxes and/or parrot the ideology, who go on to write god awful stories that don't make sense and lack character development.

[TGC> The Games Collector]

Originally posted by Joe Cool:

It wouldn't even be so bad if they could at least have high quality writing and a good story.

The problem is that they DEI hire talentless writers chosen because they check boxes and/or parrot the ideology, who go on to write god awful stories that don't make sense and lack character development.

It's like they're all insufferable people that can only write insufferable caricatures.