The vilains are Russian and Soviets, and they use cyrilic alphabet wrong, as if it was a dead language and no one would see.

Ridiculous, i dont even know if i want to play this shit anymore…

  • Z_Shurawi_Z@lemmygrad.ml
    101·
    3 years ago

    Dont. Usually i dont do so if game does that and i dont find it funny. Here we call it “Cranberry” (Russia bad, Soviets bad etc.) And there is fine line between stareotypical portrayal and streight up propaganda. Examples can be the new rebooted COD:MW which is not even funny and straight up propaganda and say Red Alert series. IMO The tomb rider reboot game is cringe but not really as offensive as COD:MW. Its expected from western gamedev and there is nothing different from most games (from faux cyrillics to cringy sobiets bad) However i prefer to ignore games with messages like that and not waste my time on them.

    • xpladv570@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      3 years ago

      that cod mw reboot was actually a new low for call of duty propaganda. bunch of fucking drivel, of course false advertised beforehand about how “morally grey” it would be, lmao. other than that, good gunplay if they actually let you shoot and not do some scripted bullshit like these child sections. one of the most overrated cod campaigns ever.

      one can say a lot (nothing good) about portrayal of soviets in black ops cold war, but the fact that they actually let you give a finger to the muricans was rather shocking, and gave me a huge grin on my face. the ending almost redeemed the game, almost. because sadly it was a mechanical downgrade from mw2019 in almost every way.

  • Kind_Stone@lemmygrad.ml
    8·
    3 years ago

    Idk, being Russian I find all this stuff funny. Nothing extraordinary, our own propaganda here does the same kind of bullshit about the Soviets.

    The game itself is IMHO not worth playing anyways, that Tomb Rider reboot series is meh and not worth your time anyways. You’re not losing much.

    • asdfghjkl@lemmygrad.mlOP
      4·
      3 years ago

      Yeah, i think its not worth to waste my time seeing capitalist propaganda while i could play some games with a nice history like The Last of Us, Doom (who was sent to mars after recusing to shoot a civilian), bioshock, etc…

      it would be nice to see a list of games with anti-capitalism historys, without spoilers.

      • xpladv570@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        3 years ago

        well bioshock is probably not what you are looking for, maybe the first game is against wild capitalism but both 2 and infinite try very hard to do the “both sides bad” thing. still worth playing though, good games.

        red faction 1 is an ancient game, and doesnt really have much of a story to tell, but you play as a miner that slaughters every capitalist guard on his way, eventually doing the same to mercs. so it gets points for the theme alone, even if the characters all suck. great fun if you like older fps games.

        oddworld abes oddysey is another classic, it is heavily about worker exploitation and slavery. ratchet and clank trilogy also touches on such themes.

        to be quite honest, you can find a lot of games where the capitalists/fascists and other bourgeois scum are the main villains, for example: fallout series, cyberpunk 2077, even star wars knights of the republic. but problem with these and many others is that they dont offer an in-game alternative. in fallout universe, capitalism literally ruined the world but for some reason there arent any powerful leftists factions. same with cyberpunk, corporations run the remains of america to the ground but all you care about is your own sorry ass and dont even attempt to do something good for the world. dissapointing but not unexpected from cdpr - they lost their political touch after witcher 1.

        so it really is hard to recommend anything. it is best to shut your brain off and just enjoy games for what it is, trying to make sense out of it is rather pointless.

        • asdfghjkl@lemmygrad.mlOP
          3·
          3 years ago

          i think its okay to play something without some revolutionary endings. Its okay to see some nice plot twists, some vilains becoming heroes, or the heroes becoming villain, etc.

          But portraing soviets as villains just for the lulz is pure imperialism propaganda.

          maybe I expressed myself badly, the thing is, its sad to play a game, ‘become friends’ with a character, and then find out you will have to burn some soviet flag and steal some indigenous people, and see this beeing portraied as the hero.

  • Soviet Snake@lemmygrad.ml
    52·
    3 years ago

    But anon, everything is Superstructure, you shouldn’t worry about those things to enjoy a work of art.