I can think of some obvious examples to start with, but my subtle but insidious nominee is Fable III. Fittingly for a pretentious grifter like Molyneux, the game requires you to raise a specific amount of gold or your kingdom is destroyed and you get a bad ending. The goalposts are moved by the game if you raise money in ways it doesn’t approve of, and it is simply impossible to reach the fundraising goal in any way that isn’t at least Enlightened Centrist levels of evil, the kind that lanyard-wearing neoliberals giggle about. That’s right, you need to be at least this evil or your kingdom is destroyed. So deep and really makes you think about the hard decisions that are made by the ruling class, doesn’t it? :zizek:

  • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    3 years ago

    Red Alert 1 having Stalin as some expansionist warmonger is hilarious if you actually, you know, read history.

    They should have gone for Trotsky instead. Even if that would be a hyperbole of his ideology, he would at least fit more.