Get Out was wildly effective going after "benign" issues of race/culture. FC5 needs more than "white supremacists are bad" because, no shit?
Far Cry 5 has potential, but success as analysis/satire will depend on skewering "moderate" politics as well as extremism (see: Get Out).
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but watch dogs 2 often felt like the most overtly political AAA game of 2016 so it's not like it's impossible that FC5 could pull it off.
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WD2 was interesting because it skewered a progressive-ish Valley that seems way more all-powerful than it did in real life post-election.
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At that point it felt almost like a reassuring power fantasy to imagine that, say, Google effectively controlled the world.
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yeah, i think that was its ill-fortune to exist in a different reality on 11/9 than anybody had hoped it would. at least it had opinions.
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Yeah it also avoided the “all sides are just bad” cynicism that political games tend to fall into.
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It was vigilante justice but in a weird, goofy Hackers kind of way.
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emphasis on justice, as opposed to revenge. which is the polar goddamned opposite of the first game.
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Hurr durr
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Thank you for putting words to the gut feelings I was having after seeing the reveal.
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I sincerely hope they at least attempt to go in this direction. Even if it fails.
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As a strategy to avoid backlash or to fully realize a complete message?
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Also probably not the games goal, hasn't been in the past
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