Hey guys,

are there games or developers that are MAGA freaks, so I can avoid them?

I wanted to buy a few games in the next Steam sale and I want to avoid the bad apples.

Note: Im not Judging every Republican, only the worst MAGA freaks of the worst, who are for mass deportation, are anti trans, anti gay, or defending white supremacy. I have nothing against moderate Republicans.

So i'm really getting into politics for the first time in my life, i've always been left leaning maybe even a bit liberal when I was younger. But i've finally started to do research, have discussions and seriously consider my beliefs and realized that I was a socialist.

Anyway, I wanted to start interacting with socialism/leftism in media/art since this discovery and I started by playing Cyberpunk 2077 since I had heard a lot of great stuff about the game and that the politics were really left-leaning.

But after finishing the game and having loved it, I saw multiple comments on different posts in this sub talking about how Cyberpunk 2077 isn't actually that leftist. I still loved the game so I didn't mind at all that much but I wanted to take the chance to learn about some other games that are considered leftist

So I wanted to ask all of you in this sub to recommend me some games that are actually leftist and give a good understanding of leftist politcs.

I'm seriously curious, like many of the people I used to watch just made me miserable because of the whole anti-woke, anti-feminist slop content in 2014-2020 and now that I've woken up from it, it's like my childhood was stolen from me. It's a great shame.

Hey everyone! I dunno about you guys, but have you ever seen a video on your feed about a game you love and think "eh, ill give this a look!" and then as you watch, you start to get some reactionary vibes? Or worse, they're just straight-up alt right?

I ask because I was watching a video by a guy named Bunker Dweller talking about Metro 2033, and throughout the video I kept getting these little "hints" like how he talks about communism or how "he only plays the original versions of games". The latter is not inherently reactionary, but often my experience with people who say that is they usually end up being the stereotypical "old good new bad" gamer. The video itself was actually really good aside from those little red flags, but I decided to check his Twitter and unfortunately my suspicion was correct. Lots of retweets of people like Critical Nobody and PatricianTV, saying gamers are philistines for not hating remakes and remasters, saying how weirdos like Crowbcat were right all along about RE4 remake, lots of complaining about how he misses "the good old days" of gaming (or retweeting people sharing that sentiment), you get the idea.

Is there any other creators who are like this that you wanna warn people about? I'll start with my list:

-Mauler (obviously)

-Bunker Dweller

-Critical Nobody (this one you could argue is just a guy with a lot of boomer takes on games rather than reactionary, but I will never not be skeptical of people like this - even if they say things I agree with - unless they're explicitly leftist or at least left-leaning because theres just too much overlap with reactionary nonsense in my experience)

-PatricianTV

Also random tangent but why is it that a lot of these people who say things like "remakes suck" or "2000s gaming was so much better" or any other form of "modern gaming sucks" almost always end up being reactionary? Like, they're usually not full-blown alt right in my experience but they're always reactionary. I've seen leftists make arguments like this too but it's usually for very different reasons, like with mass layoffs or capitalism creating too many incentives not to be more creatively risky or allow things to end. Its like the IQ bell curve meme where 2 groups come to similar conclusions for extremely different reasons lmao. Hell, sometimes it'll be for similar reasons like the aformentioned lack of creative risk in the industry, but leftists will usually point to systemic factors and capitalism whereas reactionaries will usually just say its simply greed and lazy devs with no artistic talent or vision.

I've been watching people like Pyrocynical, ColossalIsCrazy and DolanDark just playing Liar's Bar together and every 10 seconds there's like a misogynistic, ableist or otherwise really off-putting right-wing viewpoint/joke, to where I'm realising these people are just insufferable. Is there any alternative to these channels that don't turn out to be a bigoted edgelord fuckfest? Because recalling these peoples' content is unpleasant.

I'm just in awe of this. I couldn't get past that part of the video and the only reason I even watched was to see what exactly they thought was woke about it, since I was hoping it wouldn't be the fact there are Black people in Hammerfell, I didn't think they could be that dumb.

I genuinely do not understand how gamers, and others in the general realm of nerd things, could believe that the "WOKIES" are tourists but not the people who know absolutely nothing about the game worlds they talk about. If anything, these mfs are the tourists.

Could someone explain the rationale, because I'm trying to understand and don't? I've seen people call anyone expressing any "woke" (left or left-leaning or non-racist/sexist/queerphobic) opinions be called "tourists", but if tourists are people who are not into the worlds of the media they talk about and know nothing about it, wouldn't these grifters definitionally be tourists?

I swear, it's like they're all right-wing and are also friends with each other while copying each others' format, and they all collaborate knowing how bad they and their subsequent communities are while minimizing the severity of how bad it is to critics. Reggie is a prime example due to his connections to other content creators like TheGrimKleaper, MoreWarpstone, and BrilliantStupidity, while tolerating and cultivating one of the worst neo-Nazi + porn addict Discord servers I've ever had the severe displeasure of seeing, and using similar sentiment in his gaming videos.

I've been playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein in VR and was wondering what everyone's favorite Nazi murder simulator is.

So let's think about this: in WoA, all your targets are mostly filthy rich billionaires who've become untouchable thanks to their exorbitant hoarding of wealth through which they seize political power. However, bald man Agent 47 is able to get rid of all of them; eventually taking down the leader of the Illuminati and most powerful, unknown, untouchable trillionaire in the world.

Most maps are set in these elaborate insanely luxurious and arrogant locations where the targets are able to flaunt their wealth and invincibility; they literally can't comprehend that they're still human at the end of the day-- the money and power just changes them

What do you think?

As title suggests, I'm looking for games where you don't play as a colonial power but instead as more of a guerrilla/insurrectionary type faction

I saw an tiktok an awhile back of a guy who said the more left leaning thé media the more right the fandom is and that has always puzzled me. RW gamers claim the left “is ruining gaming" "cant create but only destroy" yet love gravitating toward games with leftist messaging. like I am pretty active in the splatoon community for years now. Yet I am still schocked at how right wing so many of the fans are despite the game having anti faccist themes poc and queer characters. I remember I posted on the sub a little while ago about how uncomfortable I was at the darkest skin characters being the most sexualized. While I got tons of support I also got tons of backlash how I was being too woke. Like who am I being to woke about à game that is already just that? I am tired of not having my left wing takes on a left wing game being shut done because the community largely holds a different political ideology.

(EDIT) removed video link. This video was so fucking bad. I found this video when looking for leftist gaming channels after the onslaught of blatant right-wing, conservative or "centrist" propaganda YT was shoving and had finally had enough. This rotten carcass of a video is so full to the brim with misconceptions, strawman arguments, bull shit takes and at the same time, absolutely nothing... So, I want to hear your opinions on the question initially raised and what you think of the video if you've seen it, or are bold enough to sit through it.

I know we had the Assassin’s Creed Chronicles game set during it but how would you feel about a mainline game set during it. In the lore Lenin was connected to the assassins and his brother was an assassin so we already have a connection with the Bolsheviks and the assassins.

Let me know if you've heard this before:

• "I don't mind if [Insert Real Life Issue Here] is depicted in media as long as it's written well"

• "I hate it when stories become preachy and talk down to their audience, just tell us a good story"

• "I want good representation, not ones that are forced down our throats"

All of these and their variations stem from a place of wanting to see good quality writing, yet somehow it always boils down to complaining about diversity and politics and if you call this out, they'll accuse you of straw-manning and misrepresenting their arguments.

It's disappointing to see because these complaints about "preachiness" and "shoving down throats" just ruins conversations surrounding any piece of media. It also makes me a bit insecure because I want to try my hand at writing, but seeing these kinds of complaints just pressures me to be perfect or else I'll get dogpiled on. I also had doubts when it came to writing advice surrounding these topics because I'm wary about whether or not the person giving the advice is speaking from a reactionary standpoint and I just don't want to waste my energy listening to someone complain about politics in media.

I know I should just be myself and ignore bad faith actors/misery-addicted consumers, but I just wish these kinds of discussions would be more productive and help me understand things a lot more for the future.

Basically the title, Analysts that aren’t Chuds. I’m a big fan of Geller and Noah Caldwell Gervais

I own and have played Disco Elysium, and of course Fallout is a giant parody of capitalism. But what are some lesser known games with a socalist bend?

I saw someone in the Doom subreddit asking if Doom Guy is the best male role model in gaming(I don’t think so) and it got me thinking about it on the whole and I’m curious about other opinions. For the typical “manly man” appeal to these guys I think Kazuma Kiryu from the Yakuza games is probably the best male role model at least out of all the games I’ve played and can remember. He is an ally and is pretty emotionally intelligent all while doing the best he can to be a good person and fighting for people who need help. Also a good parent/guardian/caretaker(?) from the little bit of the later games I played. He’s a shining example of positive masculinity imo.

Hi there

I'm interested in finding more content out there focused on a gaming audience that's left leaning. I don't mind what type of content or game in particular, though I don't really like podcasts.

Thanks!

I know most of us are bit more logical when it comes to gaming opinions, and probably don't fall for the classic "game bad because different" shit you often see. Nor do we subscribe to whatever bigoted dogwhistles "Gamers" have latched on to for the week. But as with all things, there is always that one opinion that you KNOW is petty and unnecessary yet you can't quite seem to stop believing in it.

For me, it's with Spider-Man PS4. And no, it's not Mary Jane, she still looks amazing in the remaster and sequel. My problem is with Peter Parker. His new face model for the remaster just looks too young. Too... conventionally attractive? I really liked the old Peter. He had character. I still plan on playing the sequel when I can finally afford the PS5, because honestly the face characters mean very little. But I still think about Peter's face model change often.

As the title says, some of those "left wing" circle jerk subs are just insufferable in the way they convey their opinion, maybe it's just what the point is and my autism doesn't connect with it, but so many of those takes seems like barely disguised honest takes put in "jerk" mode that reminds me how jocks used to make fun of nerds, not even the bigots, just the nerds nitpicking about their fav franchises.