Yes I know that fascism 
is a playable ideology in Disco Elysium, but presenting fascism as with its integral ugly reality, glaring contradictions, and unsustainable death drive is a pretty leftist (and correct) way of portraying it. 
the entire CoD Modern Warfare franchise
Resistance Records’ Ethnic Cleansing, White Law, and ZOG’s Nightmare
Rogue Warrior (cw: so many slurs lmao)
I think that’s a contender!
I remember this only from the ChipCheezum Let’s Play lol
That shooter game the US Army made in like 2006
Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?
bbnh69420 has it, America’s Army was literally “published by the U.S. Army, intended to inform, educate, and recruit prospective soldiers.”
The Windows version 1.0, subtitled Recon, was the first released version on July 4, 2002. As of January 2014 there had been over 41 versions and updates released including updates to America’s Army: Proving Grounds, which was released in August 2013. All versions have been developed on the Unreal Engine. The game was financed by the U.S. government and distributed by free download.
In AA3 team black or team gold would always appear to be americans on the player side and not!Chechens on the enemy side.
America’s Army?
Yep that’s the one
Left 4 Dead
But there are playable political people in it!
Any of those jingoistic games that came out after 9/11 about mowing down terrorists and fistfighting Osama Bin Laden in a cave.
yeah maybe just like an archive snapshot of newgrounds in 2003
I’m imagining a really cursed version of Last Call BBS lol
Rome: Total War. Really any game thats about taking over the world, but Rome specifically is meaningful to chuds
I didn’t think about Rome yesterday! The chain is broken
Fuck! My masculinity!
This is why you play as a “barbarian” faction and destroy Rome first.
The chuds would still say Disco Elysium
The cryptofascist chuds that already linked to this thread on Reddit, according to another reply here, suggest that you’re right.
Way too easy answer: Ethnic Cleansing
Slightly less easy answer: I think Postal 2 is the ur-chud game. Even as a teenager the racism, misanthropism and overall edgelord content was way too much for me, and it’s all covered in that supposed plausible deniability :smuglord: “Well, it was your choice to do that edgelord shit. The game allows you to play it peacefully” shit that chuds love so much because it’s essentially another version of the
“I never said the welfare queens in my story were black. Sounds like you’re the real racist here” deflection.Off topic, but I do think there’s an interesting game to be made with the whole “the player chose to do these bad things” narrative mechanic, which you could say Spec Ops: The Line and Undertale did to various degrees. Of course, Postal 2 was never going to be that game since it was made by sophomoric edgelords.
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The rest of the game is a time capsule incomprehensible to anyone who isn’t a white teenager just after 9/11. Maybe it has some little value that way.
Say what you will but no other game is as pure a distillation of the mid-2000s cultural miasma
Slightly less easy answer: I think Postal 2 is the ur-chud game. Even as a teenager the racism, misanthropism and overall edgelord content was way too much for me, and it’s all covered in that supposed plausible deniability “Well, it was your choice to do that edgelord shit. The game allows you to play it peacefully” shit that chuds love so much because it’s essentially another version of the
“I never said the welfare queens in my story were black. Sounds like you’re the real racist here” deflection.
Off topic, but I do think there’s an interesting game to be made with the whole “the player chose to do these bad things” narrative mechanic, which you could say Spec Ops: The Line and Undertale did to various degrees. Of course, Postal 2 was never going to be that game since it was made by sophomoric edgelords.
I enjoy Civvie11 videos on Youtube but I can not sit through even his abbreviated playthroughs of that edgelord trash. I don’t even try to anymore.
I came here to mention Postal 2. I still think the premise is kind of clever, in that you’re never truly forced to act violently and you can escape every confrontation without harming anyone if you know what you’re doing. That could probably be done better though, but I personally have a soft spot for games that use the player’s frustration as a mechanic.
But it really does communicate the American reactionary mindset. It’s racist, it’s smug, it presents a world where other people are aggressive and horrible for no reason. You fight against leftist-coded protestors at various points. It presents mass murder as a cathartic solution to problems. The developers seem like they’re chuds as well, like deep in the weeds variety. They put that Milo Yiannopoulos guy in a DLC, voiced by himself.
I enjoy those types of games but stuff like SWAT 4 and Ready or Not where you’re the hyper-competent police who are the only thing saving the sheeple from drugs, politicians, and corruption. And if you happen to kill a civilian then you get an Oopsie-Daisy sticker on your performance sheet.
Zero Hour is similar in that you play as a counter-terrorist agent and it focuses on tactical play. I’ve never shot a civilian in the game, but it certainly makes it seem like there will be big consequences for doing so. I usually don’t make it past traps setup by the enemy because I’m blind and step into the wires
I misread that as Portal 2 and was confused as fuck for the next sentence
That’s impossible, because Portal 2 was released several years after I was no longer a teenager
halo
those people are actually the multiethnic alliance that fights the Xnophobic Call of Duty empire that somehow has not a Single
Alien in its Ranks , only in front of the Gun. while they are Multiethnical
the player has to murder millions of them (especally the small) ,
the player is named after a Slaveolder warrior society.
.Master Chief.
Bioshock 1-3 maybe, especially 2 which is explicitly anticommunist. They’re explicitly political games with some RPG aspects so they kinda’ match Disco Elysium’s genre.
those games are kind of all over the place politically and don’t reach any meaningful conclusions. They exemplify the liberal “both sides” mentality though, absolutely. They’re good if you want to explore that angle, because I don’t even know if it’s by design, but Ken Levine is very clearly what MLK Jr. referred to as a white moderate. They’re kind of like the ultimate liberal games, where you’re supposed to draw no conclusions other than feel bad and believe all political motivation is incorrect.
“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”” - MLK Jr, letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963
Bioshock Infinite is this explicitly, where the negative peace of Columbia’s typical existence is presented as superior than the violent revolution waged by the Vox Populi. The game condemns both sides, but condemns the leftist side harder.
Ken Levine is an oil company-defending libertarian I thought.
He is, but he’s the worst kind of libertarian. He’s the high minded kind who always believes in a middle ground compromise. Same ideology as the South Park guys
I am not sure it is a great answer but do consider. GTA. The games are about cars, driving fast, might makes right, not caring about others, making fun of minorities, punishing deviant behavior, and the hypocritical doing said deviant behavior.
The GTA games are satire, but it’s like how whatshisname said how it’s not possible to make an anti-war movie. The action is too thrilling. The GTA games are too fun to meaningfully impart the satirical messages about American society.
Is the story in GTA not sympathetic to the struggles of urban dwelling minorities?
Sympathetic sure but also comedic in ways that can prevent any real critique
I mean you kind of answered the question, DE does it best because it does it ugly.
Chuds don’t want fascism ugly in a way that embarrasses them, though.
Chuds don’t want fascism ugly in a way that embarrasses them, though.
They’re literally too stupid to tell though, that’s why they think Judge Dredd, WH40k and Starship Troopers argues in their favor.
They don’t seem to stan for the nazis in The Producers, or for that matter the bigots in any Mel Brooks style presentation. I also don’t tend to see anyone praise the nazis in Inglorious Basterds.
They would if the nazis were the main characters; any depiction of fascists as the protagonists, they’ll support, even if the depiction is extreme. This is why they also liked Thanos, who was given a semi-protagonist role/depiction in the first movie.
Wasn’t Mr. Bean a nazi main character once? I don’t see nazis stanning that portrayal either.
I don’t believe so - he was a British WWI officer in Blackadder Goes Forth, which might be what you’re thinking of.
Here’s a better example: do the nazis stan for Hitler himself in Downfall?
Domina?
Also, Mario incorporates monarchism apology, damsel in distress tropes,
, and animal abuse. Make of that what you will.Now that you mention it, the Zelda franchise is full of inherited destiny ideology, monarchist divine command theory, and is locked in inescapable cycles where nothing can really change or move on sociopolitically, just collapse in on itself and repeat. Also the hero must be a boy and the damsel in distress must be a girl because a game from the 90s said so. Forever.
ahem
https://hexbear.net/comment/4047117
link is a simp for the monarchy just like that labor aristocrat mario. we need a true anti-imperialist game starring the gerudo hunk ganondorf and his lesbian moms koume and kotake
America’s Army comes to mind. Apparently it shut down last year though.
And yeah, CoD
