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Famously conservative video games Bioshock and Metal Gear Rising.

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[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Metal Gear Rising really is the funniest one on this list. The game's main antagonist is Dick Cheney with nanomachines who verbatim says he wants to "Make America Great Again" a full two years before the Trump campaign starts. You kill an insane amount of cops. One of the bosses, who is shown to be nothing more than a psychopath who enjoys war, wants the world to go back to "the good old days after 9/11" when arms manufacturers could do anything they wanted. It portrays a world where war is nothing but a vehicle for profit, and the main characters realises he wants nothing to do with this, leaves his PMC outfit, and fights for himself against these evil corporations. It's not subtle, in the slightest. I have no idea how you can read this game as conservative.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have no idea how you can read this game as conservative.

I can.

A lot of freeze-gamer seriously say that Senator Armstrong was based and quote him as some ideal politician the way they also worship Walter White and Patrick Bateman.

walter-breakdown bateman-ontological

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

I guess I can never underestimate the shockingly low level of media literacy in our beloved modernity, huh.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who wants to help me crowdfund a bribe to Trump's speechwriter to have him say the entire Senator Armstrong monolog at a rally?

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[–] TheWorldSpins@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Alright I'm downloading this.

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Sasuke@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

essential commiecore:

  • spider solitaire
  • harvest moon ds
  • purble place
  • morphman
  • hyrule warriors definitive edition
  • battle tetris
  • bloons tower defence 5
  • banjo-kazooie: grunty's revenge
  • hotel dusk
  • cartoon network's summer resort, episode 3
[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

de-authority This is Disco Elysium erasure.

[–] Sasuke@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sorry, buy I'm only listing the essentials

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

de-shivers How dare you.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

I nominate Skate 3 for this list, as you can choose an AK47 for your team logo

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[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Darktide

cat-confused

DoA Xtreme

Nobody ever actually played those

Fallout 3, CoD4, and MGRR

The bad guys are literally the US government lmao

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

Darktide, a game about killing militant antivaxxers.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (9 children)

DoA Xtreme

Nobody ever actually played those

B-b-b-b-but The Quatering told me that "Boner culture" is so important to defend!

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[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

These games are all either a handful of explicitly NOT conservative games, military shooters, a couple games that sexualize women, and then just "games I like".

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

DoA: Xtreme Beach Volleyball

farquaad-point bonk

[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

So the core of their ideology is "I LIKE KILLING THE OTHERFIED LESSERS. I IGNORE EVERYTHING ELSE SAID BECAUSE KILLING THE LESSERS IS THAT EXCITING." I already knew that, but they're helpfully pointing it out.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you really call this the "conservative essentials" without gems like Custer's Revenge and Hatred?

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[–] Moonguide@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago (11 children)

The basic rimworld colony is basically anarcho communist, what the hell.

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[–] Big_Bob@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ah yes, Silent Hill 3, where you play as a woman and perform an abortion on a god, where all the religious people are depicted as murderous lunatics and the most powerful deity in the game is a disabled woman.

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[–] good_girl@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (11 children)

The funniest part is that the original tweet that triggered the chud was this

transcore chart

[–] Gucci_Minh@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Love how FNV is there twice, its just that good.

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[–] PZK@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I would say a third of those games make sense.

Anything WW2, Shooters, and anything 40K related would be my assumptions. I would also throw in Madden. Top of the chud pile would be Call of Duty.

Oddly enough BioShock still has Ayn Rand fans despite the story. Naturally they can't understand that it is a deconstruction of Ayn Rand. They also say the only reason Rapture failed was because Ryan abandoned his ideals...

hypersus HE DID BECAUSE HE FUCKING HAD TO BECAUSE HE WAS LOSING UNDER HIS IDEALS. That is the entire point of that story. It's a self contradicting society.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

anything 40K related

Actually quite funny that they chose Space Marine because one of the universally hated characters in that is your rigidly doctrinaire squad member who refuses to deviate from the words of a 10,000 year old text even when they don't make sense in the current situation.

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[–] TheWorldSpins@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

These games are really old.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

Back before pronouns were invented.

[–] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ocarina of time

Are they not offended by Sheik?

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rowling is too woke for the conservatives and too conservative for the woke. Everybody is disillusioned with Rowling for different reasons

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[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

but you kill Nazis in Sniper Elite and we've all seen that Republicans won't even denounce Nazis, let alone kill them.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

This here triggered them so hard but since the previous came out in 2014 it got a pass. What happened between the release of The New Order (2014) and The New Collosus (2016)..? 🤔

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[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What sort of fucked up reading of Silent Hill 3 do you have to have to make it a conservative game?

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[–] aen@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So I just checked the source, and I think this person is serious

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

dead-dove-1

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Nazi uses a Confederate-popularized slur to wish death to trans people

dead-dove-3

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[–] let_me_tank_her@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Parasite Eve is the funniest one on there.

Mitochondria are definitely fascist.

[–] Facky@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Out of context this is hilarious

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[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did they play Persona 4 and pick the wrong suspect at the end? That game is not sympathetic to their ideology lmao.

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

As you can see, Doom II isn't on the list because you can shoot Nazis in that game.

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