Poll: Are video games the last right wing medium?

[norsef]

Can you not bring Americas frankly laughably jaded 2 party system into utterly EVERYTHING, especially considering most games are developed by japanese companies.

Well I'm British but I know the audience for here is predominantly American so I used Republicans rather than just conservatives. Like wise most games seem to be set in America or at least with predominatly cast so using the American two party made sense. It's probably closer to the Neo-conservative views actually.

Regardless, if you want to paint with such a broad brush you can lump literally anything ignoring time, logic or rational into a bleeding left/right wing view it just doesn?t make any sense to do so. If someone came up to me and told me Shakespeare?s works were clearly left or one of my sketches was right I would bloody pound them for being a twat.

Shakespeare WAS liberal/left wing. Just look at the anti-antisemitism of Merchant of Venice.

 

[Halfbreed13]

I label this a fail...

Ever notice that whenever a game comes out FOX shits their diaper? Yep, makes perfect sense that they loathe and denounce their last medium....

Well if you mean the insane Mass Effect thing then its uproar was because of its liberal, so corruptive, view on sexuality.

A game being based in and starring Americans is certainly NOT a point indicative of a conservative medium. How exactly do American characters and settings make a game conservative? Liberals aren't Americans?

Well I'd argue they reflect a perceived conservative trend in the audience who would not be able to accept or understand an alternate culture.

Not even mass effect. Games where the story is so simple with MARINE HEROES vs. ALIEN DEVILS like Halo, they throw a temper tantrum. They think all games are awful child murdering satan disks. They don't think rationally, they would not have the idea to even make a video game as propaganda. They are too busy freaking out over a dead hooker in GTA.

 

[junesongprovider]

A game being based in and starring Americans is certainly NOT a point indicative of a conservative medium. How exactly do American characters and settings make a game conservative? Liberals aren't Americans?

Well I'd argue they reflect a perceived conservative trend in the audience who would not be able to accept or understand an alternate culture.

Perhaps in some games with distinct xenophobic themes, one in which you play an American keeping all the commies and japs out of his great nation, that argument could be valid. But it's fallacious to imply that any game set in America or starring Americans is the result of conservative bias. Its completely natural to write about what you know, and in the absence of any country-specific plotlines, why wouldn't an American developer set his game in America? That doesn't mean he hates foreigners or ascribes to a conservative ideology. Take Fallout 3, for example. True, the game touches thematically on some of America's problems that still exist 200 years in the future, but primarily it is about coping with the apocalypse, and what humanity can do to rebuild. It could just as easily taken place in the charred remains of Mexico or Russia or France. But it takes place in America, in (what used to be) Washington DC. And guess where American developer Bethesda operates out of? Rockville, Maryland.

 

[Halfbreed13]

Can you not bring Americas frankly laughably jaded 2 party system into utterly EVERYTHING, especially considering most games are developed by japanese companies.

Well I'm British but I know the audience for here is predominantly American so I used Republicans rather than just conservatives. Like wise most games seem to be set in America or at least with predominatly cast so using the American two party made sense. It's probably closer to the Neo-conservative views actually.

Regardless, if you want to paint with such a broad brush you can lump literally anything ignoring time, logic or rational into a bleeding left/right wing view it just doesn?t make any sense to do so. If someone came up to me and told me Shakespeare?s works were clearly left or one of my sketches was right I would bloody pound them for being a twat.

Shakespeare WAS liberal/left wing. Just look at the anti-antisemitism of Merchant of Venice.

/facepalm
there is no left and right. ESPECIALLY when it comes to the arts. Sure there may be conservative or liberal points, but the whole Left/Right idea is flawed anyway to begin with. This is a waste of precious kilobytes on the escapist. Thank you for massacring those poor braincells of mine as well.

 

[MrPop]

Of not all games are but I do get your point that generally they do fit a right wing agenda. I just love the quote from Resident Evil 5: "It doesn't matter what they say. They're just terrorists". Ahh Good times.

Guns do tend to (generally) be the solution and it is quite often narrow and branding as terrorists so there has to be no arguement as to why you are killing them. This may be down to lazy writing though and not intentional. Also gunplay is a really well done game mechanic and waving a flag in protest or campaigning for change, equality and rights wouldn't make a good game.

 

[CoffeeMonkey]

OP: If by "right wing" you mean "has lots of guns in it" (and that's pretty much what I'm reading into your post, then SURE.

But isn't that more a product of game developers, firstly, being guys for the most part, and secondly, wanting to make cool games? It's an advanced game of "cowboys and indians", but instead of yelling "BANG" at your friends you can pretend to be a very well rendered super-clone-cyborg-incased-in-übertech-suit-working-for-the-secret-government-agency-soldier.

If I owned a gaming company and has the ressources to make a AAA title, I'd include (right wing) guns for sure.

 

[Agayek]

Can you not bring Americas frankly laughably jaded 2 party system into utterly EVERYTHING, especially considering most games are developed by japanese companies.

Well I'm British but I know the audience for here is predominantly American so I used Republicans rather than just conservatives. Like wise most games seem to be set in America or at least with predominatly cast so using the American two party made sense. It's probably closer to the Neo-conservative views actually.

Republicans are not right wing. They're more to the right than Democrats, but both parties are fairly heavily to the left.

Also, no form of media is predominantly more towards one side of the political spectrum, as best I can tell. If there are political messages (and the vast majority of entertainment medium does not carry any) then they are for whatever the creator/author believes in, and that tends to be rather varied.

 

[Jupsto]

I was going to disagree but you (or what you read) actually made some pretty good points. I've noticed comedy as a medium seems the most left wing. at least all the stand ups are I've ever seen.

you have alot of games where you kill nazis tho, who are as prolly as right wing as you get. I think alot of games imitate hollywood films. thats why you get developers outside america making games where you play an american hero.

 

[A random person]

On one hand video games are somewhat more militant, but on the other hand they don't support traditional family values too much. Moviebob did a video on the subject.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN5fUsgC2-c&feature=channel_page

 

[Lazzi]

First, go learn the meaning of, "Right wing."
Then we'll talk.

Also, is there really a need to stuff video games into a single category?

Now now now, there is no need to be so brash. Look at his post count and you can see hes new, so we need to give him a little freedom befor he figures out how e work.

Then we can flog him!

 

[RicoADF]

Can you not bring Americas frankly laughably jaded 2 party system into utterly EVERYTHING, especially considering most games are developed by japanese companies.

Agreed, not everything revolves around the Americans

 

[Halfbreed13]

First, go learn the meaning of, "Right wing."
Then we'll talk.

Also, is there really a need to stuff video games into a single category?

Now now now, there is no need to be so brash. Look at his post count and you can see hes new, so we need to give him a little freedom befor he figures out how e work.

Then we can flog him!

I am still going to fetch my bat...

 

[Beltaine]

Keep your politics out of my games, thanks.

 

[sneak_copter]

I label this a fail...

Ever notice that whenever a game comes out FOX shits their diaper? Yep, makes perfect sense that they loathe and denounce their last medium....

Hold on, are you saying games have the same political stance as FOX?

*writes suicide note*