• barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        There’s definitely room for a series of unskippable thirty-minute cutscenes where Snake, Ocelot and one of the booba women in a catsuit start a marxist book club and discuss various works in depth. Also add in Raiden and his talking robot dog.

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    He doesn’t shove politics into his games. That implies taking an otherwise non-political game and adding politics. His games are just straight up political.

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      WRONG. It was originally about a cool soldier spy sneaking into fight robots. It wasn’t until Kojima became woke that he started adding stuff about war profiteering

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        Metal Gear Solid 3 didn’t have any politics in it and it was awesome! There was this meowing guy who liked to spin his guns, a bee man, an electric guy, and some chick who’s tits were about to pop out of her unzipped jacket.

        The codec scenes didn’t interest me so I just skipped it all, but my point stands, it just isn’t political, sorry to burst your shagohod.

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    I absolutely hate “open world games” and “RPGs.” These games have ruined entire generations of consoomers because every game needs to be open ended and have every choice of personality available or else it’s bad. You can’t tell a story the way you want without some illiterate “BIBEO FAME FOR ESCAPISM” loser crying about how everything is political because the character doesn’t like conservatives instead of letting the player choose if he likes conservatives a little, a lot, or a centrist™

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      I fully agree, but it’s worth noting that Death Stranding is “open world” without the consumer-brain both-sidesism that plagues other games. Your only choices in DS are how much of a completionist you want to be (100% is the correct answer), but the core game mechanic is just delivering supplies to isolated people in need.

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    I have little explanation for this phenomenon bar I genuinely don’t think these bozos have a solid grasp of whatever language they play these games in

    You cannot look at a 90 minute kojima cutscene on the nature of life, war, politics and duty and think it’s random bits here and there. that only tracks if you mix the kojima-isms in with all the actual words that have meaning and are left marveling at “Snakes taste good” as minor bits of commentary