Modern Gamers: “Gah! When did games get so woke!! Blech!”
A Japanes role playing game in the mid 2000s:
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@[email protected] I’d say it’s more that the modern asshats have become so anti-woke.
Gaming has never been better, and any “wokeness” hasn’t gotten in the way. Hell it’s not even part of the story of the majority of games. Just more options.
Said it before, I want a “Woke” sticker on games, so I know which ones to play. The woke ones.
@[email protected] you’re choir preaching, my friend. Gamers have been sent down a horrible rabbit hole where reality = wokeness. It’s dumb & ignorant. Games are & always have been “political”. FFS, people have been playing military games since the dawn of time…. MIL-I-TARY. Which is like… the purest expression of poltics!
@[email protected] That’s because the choir is the only ones I still can talk to, they are just beyond at this point:(
Same with music etc. It’s all been there. From anti-war songs to anti-establishment to anti-capitalism.
Been playing games since it was big pixels with only a few colors and more diversity as been the best damn thing for gaming. Sometimes it produces games I personally don’t want to play, but am very happy they exist, because I know they will be loved and enjoyed by others.
Sorry, but I always get up in arms about this :)
@renwillis Trails FC was delightfully political and human in a way most JRPGs aren’t.
(Too bad they went away from that in SC.)
@tess I feel like all the first games in an arc tend to be a bit more “local politics” before shit goes off the rails in the 2nd one. From Crossbell to Cold Steel to Daybreak, though Daybreak had tons of local politics and also went nuts at the end lol
@[email protected] I want more JRPGs that keep that local scope - that, “wow we gotta stop this bad thing from happening in our country” but not “I guess we have to save the world”.
I also loved how the series broke expectations by e.g. not letting you rummage though people’s houses for stuff, since unlike every other JRPG protag, you can’t steal.
@[email protected] I love it! Trails is so incredibly thoughtful. Even when the stakes are through the roof, it’s still generally for city-state or country we are in.
I have to imagine when the series begins to wrap up, fucking Ouroboros will do something that threatens all of Zemuria or the planet, that all our heroes across all countries will need to work together to defeat.
But we got time before that… The Calvard story isn’t done yet!
