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| Topic | I miss the days when games were apolitical |
| PaunchyTurtle53 05/09/21 1:33:21 PM #46: | hockeybub89 posted... Remember: Knowing a character is gay is heavy handed political messaging, but "Fuck the government, fuck religion, fuck war, and fuck you" is just a design choice.Here's the difference. Let's take the children of atom in fallout 3. They're some religious kooks that worship a bomb. (Ignoring fallout 4 for now), but overall, they're harmless and just a little nutty. It's a satirical take on organized religion. It's not heavy handed. If they just abducted children and bathed them in the radiation of the bomb for religious reasons and you had to kill them all to save the children, that'd be heavy handed. And yeah, war is a bad thing. Is anyone in disagreement? Of course that one is heavy handed, it's what the entire series is based around. Your post has nothing of substance. --- The best advice my dad ever gave me was, "Life's full of idiots, don't be one." ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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