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Famously conservative video games Bioshock and Metal Gear Rising.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Horror can be reactionary but it cannot be conservative. As a genre, horror is defined by its subversive elements. Remove those from a horror game and all that you're left with is a poorly lit walking simulator.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. Some zombie fiction is reactionary (there are definitely reactionary elements to The Walking Dead, not my precious beautiful baby boy Telltale game version though!!!!) but I wouldn't call them conservative. Conservatives dont call themselves reactionary though, so you get a conflation. But also Silent Hill 3 and Dino Crisis are both like, actively NOT reactionary or conservative. Also the anti-wokes would hate both if they were released today right like? Heather and Regina would be despised? Not overtly sexualized strong female main characters?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

NOT MY FIRE EMBLEM 3 HOUSES IT BASICALLY HAS A COMMUNIST REVOLUTION TO OVERTHROW THE LANDLORD CLASS

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes, Silent Hill 3, where you play as a woman and perform an abortion on a god, where all the religious people are depicted as murderous lunatics and the most powerful deity in the game is a disabled woman.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Heather make me pp hard therefore game is for republicans.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Heather Mason got tired of women's clothing having no pockets, so she found an outfit made entirely of pockets instead.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

essential commiecore:

  • spider solitaire
  • harvest moon ds
  • purble place
  • morphman
  • hyrule warriors definitive edition
  • battle tetris
  • bloons tower defence 5
  • banjo-kazooie: grunty's revenge
  • hotel dusk
  • cartoon network's summer resort, episode 3
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

de-authority This is Disco Elysium erasure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sorry, buy I'm only listing the essentials

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

de-shivers How dare you.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The funniest part is that the original tweet that triggered the chud was this

transcore chart

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

is there 2 fallout new vegas

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

MUCH better games.

Trans people stay winning.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Love how FNV is there twice, its just that good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is way too accurate. Every trans person I've known in person is really into Touhou, Persona, and Disco Elysium.

Also every leftist I've met is a Sonic enjoyer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Also every leftist I've met is a Sonic enjoyer.

no-copyright was directly fighting industrialized colonialism which was destroying the home he shared with his animal friends in the original run.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Gotta go fast

Sonic teaches us about accelerationism

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So lets see, we have:

Literal CIA funded military shooters,

games like Fallout, Space Marine and Bioshock that are satires making fun of conservatives,

Games like Zelda whose story is just an excuse to go dungeon crawling,

Persona 4 checks out though, conservatives love games where they get the option to groom underage girls,

Mega Man?!

Morrowind? I played Morrowind as an Argonian and spent a good chunk of the game freeing slaves and killing slave owners. Not exactly conservative unless you play the most boring character.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not exactly conservative unless you play the most boring character.

Conservatives playing boring characters? You cracked the code! only-good-gamer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Metal Gear Rising really is the funniest one on this list. The game's main antagonist is Dick Cheney with nanomachines who verbatim says he wants to "Make America Great Again" a full two years before the Trump campaign starts. You kill an insane amount of cops. One of the bosses, who is shown to be nothing more than a psychopath who enjoys war, wants the world to go back to "the good old days after 9/11" when arms manufacturers could do anything they wanted. It portrays a world where war is nothing but a vehicle for profit, and the main characters realises he wants nothing to do with this, leaves his PMC outfit, and fights for himself against these evil corporations. It's not subtle, in the slightest. I have no idea how you can read this game as conservative.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have no idea how you can read this game as conservative.

I can.

A lot of freeze-gamer seriously say that Senator Armstrong was based and quote him as some ideal politician the way they also worship Walter White and Patrick Bateman.

walter-breakdown bateman-ontological

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I guess I can never underestimate the shockingly low level of media literacy in our beloved modernity, huh.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who wants to help me crowdfund a bribe to Trump's speechwriter to have him say the entire Senator Armstrong monolog at a rally?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There’s no way Trump could ever stick to a speech — you get the comedy gold by winging it

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Hmm they seem to enjoy FPS games but Wolfenstein is suspiciously missing sus

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ocarina of time

Are they not offended by Sheik?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For anyone confused just remember that a "conservative gamer" is good ng to be kind of a dumbass and be almost entirely media illiterate.

Everything on here will be there because of

  • played it when they were a kid and liked it a lot
  • aesthetics
  • presence of cultural signifiers
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

played it when they were a kid and liked it a lot aesthetics

If the movie Aliens came out next week, conservative freeze-gamer would be stalking the cast, doxxing them, and declaring cultural holy war because of the Vasquez character alone, Ferro the pilot, and especially Ripley not only singlehandedly saving Hicks' life but also going all the way back into the hive to rescue Newt. They'd see Hicks' getting carried to safety as "cucking" or vaguely emasculating and Jordan Peterson would have hours of sermons against it. up-yours-woke-moralists

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

my take is all video games are conservative and video games that are about killing people are fascist

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Wolfenstein struggle session, who up? sweat

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Sorry to ruin your "fun"

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