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This is the era of de-politicized political games. CoD, Far Cry, Battlefield etc. where politics and war are just an aesthetic and they don’t actually mean anything.
Also I’d like to congratulate them for managing to turn the fucking incoming climate apocalypse into a product
Gonna copy and paste the real question and answer here since the title of the article is a bit misleading:
IGN: “[Battlefield 2042] is talking about de-patriated people, we’re talking about citizens who’ve been displaced by climate change and war. Is there any sort of sensitivity towards those issues for you guys? Is there any social commentary anywhere with what you’re trying to do? Or is this purely just a multiplayer game?”
Berlin: “It is definitely purely a multiplayer game for us. The reason we decided to go down this route is so we could create a narrative with this world that we could create through the eyes of the No-Pats. [The in-universe term for the refugee warriors.] We wanted to get more spectacle in there, and more massive events happening. The setting fits that perfectly. It fits that scale, and it gives us reasons to go all over the world. […] It’s for gameplay reasons across the board.”
It’s more that they didn’t really choose the setting for the explicit purpose of making a political statement but instead chose it because it is suitable for the game (and like, honestly, if you want a war game set in the near future, what the fuck else is it going to be about?).
Anyone ready for g*mers to explain how women actually didn’t exist until 2050?
Red Faction series are classics of FPS genre, and literally about violent struggle of workers against corp/state forces.
It seemed there was a sequel in the works called RF Evolution in 2019. I guess with all that’s happened in the last few years most publishers would not want to touch this IP … as it’s become ‘too political’.
Red Faction series are classics of FPS genre, and literally about violent struggle of workers against corp/state forces.
Hey didn’t know it, Imma check if I can run it.
Hell ya! I’d recommend Red Faction Guerilla if you have a decent gaming PC. It’s a GTA-like in many ways. RF1 should be able to run on most any fairly modern system and introduces the trademark destruction mechanic aka GeoMod tech.
If you run linux, they all run pretty well via proton/wine. https://www.protondb.com/search?q=red faction
I should be able to play RFGuerrilla (original one) it costs 2 USdollars and has platinum status in protondb
They have a Korean map so you can guess who their totally apolitical game is going to paint as the bad guys.
There’s no way a big game studio is gonna pull a Homefront. Even chuds thought that was silly.
Surely???
They could just make it China vs US with Korea as the battleground. They did it for BF3 with Russia vs US in Iran.
I’m at least hoping they’ll want to sell the game in China or something and won’t have China as an enemy.
they’re going multiplayer only, so hopefully they won’t be painting one side (China or Russia) as “the bad guys” like they did in 3 and 4 which had a singleplayer story.
