I want to go back to the time video games werent serious and when the whole world wasnt full of forced politics
I want to go back to the time video games werent serious and when the whole world wasnt full of forced politics
I want to go back to the time video games werent serious and when the whole world wasnt full of forced politics
>forced politics
imagine being this naive
its time to be a man and understand the nature of power, God, and the israelite
Speaking of that last part. It's dead.
I like many recent vidya and play old vidya as well. I just avoid AAA-games
More good games than I have time to finish in the end, so not gonna take stress over stuff. If I see an interesting new game, I'll look into it. If it isn't fun, I'll go back to (re)playing old games.
Rolling
hope to get alttp
bump
Dear God please 5
I want 5 pls
hmmm
Give me 5 or 2.
Damn it.
We rooll
>wasnt full of forced politics
funny that you say that because the image you posted is literally a bunch of ecoterrorists scaling a megacorp's building
og zelda a cute
Rolling
5 and 8 are the best
Rolling for 5.
Thank you for your post anon. I agree AAA games are disgusting and I am replying with the absolute certainty that I will receive a 000.
I just wanted to unite the warring Zeldas and bring peace...
All of the zeldas
Rollin
Let's fricking go
wowwin :3
Rollo
Aight, let's do it
2 or 7 would be nice.
FFVII is political as well. The radical environmentalism, anti-Western imperialism, and anti-technology messages are pretty obvious in the game.
It was game world political. Not real world political. You need to learn how to separate reality from fiction.
You need to go back to school.
You need to learn how to separate reality from fiction.
the fact you even made this thread shows that you haven't. The only difference between back then and now is that you weren't a moronic pol kidde getting mad over your immersion being ruined for including "political shit" you don't agree with.
You fricking moron, games exploring political themes through allegory isn't the same thing as them inserting real life politics to preach or to avoid controversy
I'd say you need to go back to school, but if you did you'd just get another gender studies degree and become twice as moronic
>eco terrorism and evil capitalist
>not real-world politics
>gay people existing
>real world politics
Exactly. Glad you understand.
>It was game world political. Not real world political.
This is a good way of putting it anon
Thanks. I thought so.
Yeah, that's what I was trying to get at with how the game doesn't date itself with current day issues but talks on ideology in general. You put it way more succinctly than I could have though, good work.
Yeah, a lot of people don't know that eco-terror was a big deal back in the 90s. Avalanche isn't very far off from EarthFirst or other similar groups that were around at the time. They never killed anyone but they did cost companies billions of dollars and paralyzed a lot of logging/mining/development/etc. projects. Maybe they would have eventually escalated to bombings and shit if they hadn't been infiltrated and largely defanged.
>Mako Power and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
Why hasn't anyone made a Ted Kaczynski game yet?
>Costs companies billions of dollars
Holy based.
Is this why they're b***hing about Barret and trying to get him changed? Calling him comedic relief and a token black guy when... Barret is one of the best written black characters I've experienced in a long time with Remake/Rebirth. Last one I remember being written so excellently was Lee from Telltale's TWD. To this day I still love Lee and his final charge.
Wasn't Barret a dark skinned Japanese man and not an African Black?
I can't remember the name for the dark skinned Japanese, but they're a thing. I think we just assumed he was black because of his skin color.
No, he's black. He's very clearly inspired by Mr.T.
Ainu exist but no way is Barret an Ainu, he's clearly a Japanese perception of an African American.
>but no way is Barret an Ainu
Why?
I think they went with a Mr. T persona just because they thought it would fun and sell well.
Because he doesn't act like an Ainu or dress like one.
What do you mean he doesn't act or dress like one?
What if he was a Native American Indian from an American story telling perspective. Would he have to act and dress like one of them to be one?
Ainu don't act like Mr. T or have flat top hairdos.
What you're saying just sounds very ignorant. The Mr. T personal could have been put in to make the character sell better. It probably did. It might even make the game better than if they hadn't.
You don't get to say someone can't act certain way or have a certain hairdo just because of their ethnicity.
It'd be pretty ignorant and even offensive of the devs of FF7 to make an Ainu character and have him behave and dress like a Mr. T caricature. Ainu have been traditionally looked down upon by the Yamato population so I guess you couldn't put it past them. But really it makes no sense if they wanted to give people any clue he was Ainu.
Unironically, yes. Otherwise there is no point to it.
I see no reason why the Character couldn't be Ainu and given Mr. T's persona for fun and relatability.
He's Mister T. He's not a japanese with black skin, he's an overly macho big nig.
Huh? Not as far as I know? All his old art and old in-game model are black, never really came off as.. gyaru? I think is the term? The super dark tan Japanese.
He was originally based off Mr. T if I remember rightly. Which was why he was a little more loud and brash in the original game.
Gyaru are the jap stacies bleaching their hair
Ah, sorry. I thought they were the ones that got the fake tans to look super dark. Outside of some basic ass anime and tasty food I don't really know that much.
They get tans to look western, like East Coast Beach chicks, not to look dark.
>He doesn't know.
Jesus christ the Shazbowl was 12 years ago.
Anyway, Gyaru-Oh are male gyarus.
ive literally never seen a brown nip that looks like barret
LMAO see
>face blind moron
nothing about Barrett's design is asian, schizo
>>face blind moron
Could you try and be a little less moronic.
look in the fricking mirror moron, how autistic do you have to be to think this looks like an ainu or a halfu? have a nice day, zoomer.
That's not the character model in the game moron.
It's the official art though.
Look at this Character Model's face. Is it so hard to see that they might put a Native Japanese Ainu in the game that deals with Ancients and mystic planet life blood shit? I don't think it's that hard to see.
In fact I think it's weirder if Barret was Black and not Ainu.
FFVII is political as frick.
Your understanding of politics is warped because you've spent your formative years on this shithole website. Your brain is mush. It might not be too late depending on your age. If you're 25+ it's over and you should probably just have a nice day.
Oh my god the Mako crisis is contributing to Global Warming TM.
If left unchecked the Ancients will outnumber us 4 to 1 if we don't close the border and build that city on a pillar.
Remember that part in ff7 where we got lectured about Black person dykes? No? Weird. I can name 5 games from the last year that had that.
Different times, different issues.
He means not forcing a very specific message down everyone's throats you retars
I scrolled through all the text because I was invested in the gameplay. Nobody gives a frick about the story.
Remake and Rebirth lack the realistic grit the original game had. The characters and npcs had character to them and actually talk to each other similar to real people. The NPCs in the new games are anime NPCs, shitty voices, lines and all. Shit was jarring ,especially when it came to NPCs in the slums.
>game where you play as literal terorrists trying to destroy a corporation
Is this a troll?
see
see
So when does James Bond come into play with the World Economic Forum?
It's a story in a video game. It's not about anything happening in the real world.
All fiction is inspired by the real world in some way. Nothing is created in a vacuum.
Inspired is one thing, but using your video game to cudgel people with a thinly veiled real world political hot topic is cancer. They're not even intelligent enough to do it subtly by using something analogous to the real world situation.
No shit. It's all copied and inspired. Doesn't mean the care bears are really about the cold war and therefore political.
Idiot, does it have to be 1:1 so that you get the point.
moron
I accept your concession.
see
>It's not about anything happening in the real world.
eco-terrorism isn't real?
When I was in college far too long ago, the Marxist (Castroist? He was mostly a Castro fan and would take students to Cuba) poly sci professor I was taking said that he went to see The World is not Enough and while he wouldn't recommend it as a movie, the villain's plot and the as of then modern day politics were on point.
He also said the previous movie, Tomorrow Never Dies, was also reflecting the real world with the villain's plot, and we're certainly seeing the truth of that in current year.
>leftshitters saw red when they read this OP and tripped over themselves to MEDIA LITERATE YOU
they're so annoying i swear
>moron is taboo
When I was a kid we got told off for saying spastic and were told to use moron instead lmao
It's called the euphemism treadmill. Any term used to refer to something negative or undesirable will inevitably become an insult. Although using something more verbose/less fun to say does seem to slow the process down, as evidenced by "intellectually disabled" holding up substantially better than "moron" and "autistic". Although the true winning move is to just not care. b***h, wiener, and ass are all still used in their original meanings by people who deal with those animals.
This is pretty much what happened with “Black” and “African American.” Both started out as PC terms for black, but became negative over time since it’s not the word but the character of the people behind that word that defines it.
They became 'negative' because every explanation for black behavior is negative. Non-whites hate being classified because it shows in no uncertain terms how subhuman they are compared to us.
Funny because people mad about others saying moron are the only ones associating the word with the disabled and being buttholes in that way. It's obvious that its modern usage isn't literal.
To be fair, FF7 was always a story based around fricking up the planet for free/cheap energy. Always was, the mako reactors are essentially nuclear power but function differently, directly sucking the blood out of the planet.
Bro, the ENTIRE main point of FFVII's plot is super political. Sure it does not take itself so seriously at times but it deals with prejudice (Midgard vs Wutai), Enviromental dangers, social class issues and more.
Exactly, it just did a good job of not dating itself by being too explicit with terminology. It talks on ideals instead of current day parties/issues. The Remake and Rebirth did this pretty well too.
i feel this way about the internet, not video games.
i remember when the most you’d see were atheist redditors arguing with christians while everyone was in mmo chatrooms spamming XD and you could talk without a troony barging in the conversation to start arguing over politics or yell at you for not knowing their pronouns
Theres no point in arguing if games are political or not. Just say that games are shit now because of the specific political content in them. Then you wont have people going
>uh oh chudley thinks games werent political someone get blud a media literacy test!
Tifa having zero edge in remake is to pander to waifu gays
Know what, you do make a good point. They did tone down her feisty a bit, kinda went right over my head until I start thinking back. While she still seems like Tifa, she wasn't AS soft spoken in the original.
>localizaton
have a nice day troony
Politics always existed, In fact, culture wars always existed as well. This doesn’t change the reality that both of these things are ten times gayer (both literally a figuratively) today than in the past.
Anon, you know that's not allowed nowadays! Play is a subversive counter-revolutionary act! There will be no escape from The Cult's politics.
I know, right.
We need MORE of this.
Me in the back far right
If you read into the deep subtext of this scene, you can clearly see that it is portraying the struggle that People of Impairment are forced to face in life, and the ableist way that society treats them. Additionally, it is a commentary on how BIPOC and queer individuals are often told by white society from a position of privilege that they need to be silent about their issues. You need to upgrade your media literacy, chud.
>chud
Chloud
I think the major takeaway here is regardless of intent (i still think the intent was black, not Ainu), the majority of people saw Barret as a black character and the majority of people enjoyed him in both the original and the remake/rebirth series. Which says... people don't care about skin color, they like good characters.
Don't worry, it's just one guy ITT who thinks he's Ainu, not even the Japanese think that if you were to stumble upon a FF7 thread on 2chan
>forced politics is when you busy x discriminated group
cry about it chud
FF7 was anti-communist which is based as frick though. Politics in games can be a positive
FF7 wanted us all to go back to living in hobbit homes and give up electricity. Its message was WEF through and through.
>FF7 was anti-communist
???
Shinra was commies
God, you homosexuals blaming it on "politics" are the most smooth brained homosexuals imaginable. The issue isn't politics, - which can enrich a story greatly. The issue are babby tier identity politics, and corporate pandering political correctness so companies can make the most generic, catch all sludge as possible. It's a low hanging fruit for pseuds who want to pretend they're "aware" and attempting to seize discourse by changing dialogue.
You want to revert into a child like state, but you can't anon. You have to grow up.
It was crazy when sephiroth called barret a Black person but it was just a different time
>when the whole world wasnt full of forced politics
Some pre-civilization caveman tribe isn't going to have good video games either
>Jannies delete on topic Persona thread talking about pic related
>Jannies keep up thinly veiled political thread with Final Fantasy tacked on it
That's fricked up
There's clearly a walkable city gay among the moderators. A number of threads have been purged when those b***hes start being dunked on by people who actually work real jobs for a living instead of clicking buttons at their computer while they sip their Starbucks slop.
Install retroarch. You can even run it through a CRT television if you're really autistic (like me).
The concept of purely escapist media that isn't based on anything in the real world or doesn't have some kind of message is a pipe dream unless it's something purely action based like DOOM. Almost every author or director is letting real life bullshit whether it's some unresolved trauma or politics or some long held belief influence their creative process because that's how people feel the need to say or express anything at all. The problem is if the political shit is boring or not or how well it fits into the main plot.
Spiderman's politics are incredibly boring and lame and the messages are something anyone that would agree with it already does and anyone that disagrees won't be convinced. They're also shoehorned into irrelevant sidequests and feel like guided tours separated from the main narrative. Even if you agree with the politics it feels like pandering. FF7's environmental politics make the game's setting more interesting and it's woven into the main narrative so that the uninformed don't even notice.
FF7 is about death
The planet is dying because shinra is sucking it up
The economy is dying because resources are drying up
People lives are fricked up because shinra used them as wageslaves
Peoples mental health is dying
The only thing left for those who are not top dogs in shinra is just hedonist life like going to wall market or gold saucer
People dreams are killed (Cid)
Aerith dies
I didn't need to be more depressed.
You can play remake/rebirth then which i dont know what the frick it is about, friendship?
We're only 2/3 of the way done, this may be me being optimistic but I'm thinking the final ending is going to lean more towards something depressing, they're just building us up in Rebirth in order to tear us down later. It will probably come down to a choice of whose lives are worth more, then making that choice. I expect the 3rd game's ending to be bittersweet.
>The only thing left for those who are not top dogs in shinra is just hedonist life like going to wall market or gold saucer
Skill issue, they should breed chocobos instead
Forgot, people's future is taken away (killed), Dyne
FF7 is about a homie with a big sword fighting a homie with a long sword
stop being such a nerd over children's games you're like the twitter mfs who say Steven Universe is the deepest shit ever
>you're like the twitter mfs who say Steven Universe is the deepest shit ever
Probably the same actual people
I liked how Bugenhagen was blackpilled and flat out said nothing the party could do really mattered in the long run. The Planet was close to the end of its natural lifespan anyway and stopping Shinra and even Sephiroth wouldn't do much to postpone it.
so many people in this thread don't get that the OP is satire. he knows that FF7 is political, that's his point.
i'm staggered at how moronic you all are.
FF7 isn't 'full of forced politics' politcal and no amount of cope on your part is going to change that
Anybody with half a brain can tell the difference, so what's your excuse?
I hope that anon doesn't have a massive brain tumor like you suggest, but you're right, there has to be some medical explanation for stupidity of that degree