Mnementh said:
Dante9 said:
Culture of course changes over time and culture can be depicted without taking a political stand. Showing things that were/are real doesn't mean taking a stand, it's just using real things as a setting. It's not to say that things were good or bad, but that this is how they were.
Sure, there can be unconscious bias, such things are unavoidable and mostly go unnoticed as well. Your own slant also affects how you see things, even things intended to be neutral can seem like something else because of your own biases, so it works both ways. However, a truly political game is very much in your face, deliberately talking about a certain subject and it often feels awkward and out of place, like a lecture out of nowhere that doesn't really pertain to the plot at hand. Only leftist stuff has made me feel this way in games, and I'm not even a right winger myself.
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Oliver North in COD doesn't feel in your face? America's Army (while neither left or right wing) doesn't feel in your face?
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As I'm not American and I was very young at the time he was on the scene, I must say that I'm not really familiar with Oliver North. I've heard his name and I know he has to do with the military, but that's about it. But if you make a game that portrays American warfare in the eighties, I'd say Oliver North fits in there rather naturally, don't you think?
I don't know anything about America's Army either, but from the name alone I guess you could say that it's a bit pro military. Is the military a right wing thing?
