In a previous post I made back in May of last year, a lot of people are like wanting Far Cry 5 to be about Trump for idiotic leftwing reasons instead of like letting it speak for itself and not bother with the dumpster fire of politics. It's one thing to make a statement about how trash politics are in the USA for a multitude of reasons (and the Alt Right is part of the problem) but it's another to make it a flatout propaganda...game that blatantly takes one side and nothing else to the point of harming the game's quality. It's what Extra Creditz warned about, but then again they made the Division out to be some "commentary" on the US government acting like the frickin' SS but I digress. Anyway, Far Cry 5 is out (and again I'm not bothering to get it) and now the gaming "press" is in a tizzy about it; they are extremely confused that the rightwing white Christian people aren't the baddies but rather the multi-racial cult is. Gee, it's as if the cult that took over the town in Montana are supposed to be the ones that the player is going up against and rightly so; I mean cults are wackos, remember the one led by David Koresh? He didn't care if his followers were of different skin colors and indeed the game reflects that, sometimes cults don't care about race (though granted some do) and in fact the cult in the game is more reminiscent of ISIS, I mean it's no secret that the thuggish criminal organization attracts anyone regardless of skin color to their warped cause (except for Jews though). But the gaming "journalists" don't want that, they want it to be the Trump-bashing work of "art" they make the game out to be when it got announced. But when it wasn't, one of them went of his way to give it a low score for "not taking a clear stand", classy (sarcasm).
When people say keep politics out of gaming, this is what they meant. If a game isn't about current politics and never intended to, it's best not to make it out to be otherwise; it makes you look like an ideologue and an idiot. It's a small wonder why people are annoyed when Wolfenstein II (the 2017 one) was being made and people in games "journalism" tried to make out to be about the mess in Charlottesville regarding some Alt Right clowns and Trump (again) even though the context of the game's setting is obviously not so, I mean it's set in the USA occupied by an unambiguously evil power that are the Nazis. And I also made a post on that back in October, and also that the marketing campaign is cringeworthy for the most part (except for the whole "Make America Nazi-free Again" which is probably the okay part since it sums up the goal of the game). And thinking about it makes me more reluctant to have media with Nazis in them again if (and when) they're going to be made again since likely more and more people will think they have to be about Trump and whatever goofy nonsense the Alt Right comes up with (though granted they are technically Nazis but of the hermit kind) and I find that stupendous as hell. It's almost as if we won WWII just to have ideological zealots of the Alt Left calling anyone right of them "Nazis" without context (of which is seriously a harmful thing by now) but that's another story for another time. Anyway, point is, if anyone tries to make some medium that just happens to be set in the USA and has a baddie organization who happens to be led by a white guy that doesn't follow anything on the lines of Neo-Nazis and the Alt Right to be about the Oompa-Loompa man with the funny haircut, chances are I'm not going to take them seriously ever. I mean it shouldn't be a political issue in dealing with evil organizations that aren't meant to be representative of Trump's administration in anyway but what can you do when the gaming "journalists" are desperate for views.
I'm sure there is a good article on how good Far Cry 5 avoids the dumpster politics but unfortunately it's part of a subscription only news site and you can only view 3 articles for free (and I hate that, I mean why should news viewing cost so much on the internet but I digress) and I'm hesitant on showing that. So instead I'll provide a video by Colin Moriarty (good dude he is!) on this nontroversy nonsense:
