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ellis123 posted...

His comment about the "all sides" thing is because Rockstar almost exclusively makes right-wing games and the "all sides" aspect is stuff like them having the LA Noire communist not actually be guilty (and that "communist" really needs quotes because he is basically anti-communist in every political sense), or GTA having a general disdain for authority. Inversely its actually "heavy" stuff is like how they cover basic "thug life" stereotypes in GTA (and by that I mean just play them straight) or replace the stuff that actually happened in LA Noire with caricatures to completely distort the reality of the situation (the "throw everyone out + doze everything for a highway" was real, but instead of it being a government conspiracy it was General Motors pulling the strings).

Combining GTA and South Park having been brought up, I think they share a lot in their worldbuilding and message. Between being set in a world populated by the worst pastiches of American society and having a core cast focused around the idea of either personal gain or their own personal morals, framed typically as either being "preferable" or at least somewhat desirable, I get a libertarian bent from that.

Consider in both franchises people in prominence are reduced to ineffectual joke versions of themselves. No one actually "knows" what they're doing. Whenever they get involved, it's to get in the way of the main cast. It's anti-authority yet also anti-expert. It brings forward ideas only to mock them outright.

The idea of "making fun of both sides" is meant to imply that the individual is the best one to shape the world, whether it's the player in GTA or typically the four kids in South Park. That's a very libertarian perspective.