/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4829583
Video games were just video games back then, not political pieces of SJW propaganda etc. Nobody looked at Duke and thought it was "right or left wing". Right and left wingers alike gave no fucks about video games. This train of thought is completely absent from that generation. The only time video games were featured in the media was when they were being blamed for school shootings, think of the children, etc.

It wasn't really until the Call of Duty kind of games where video games started being used as propaganda tools, but that was for American (or Israeli really) jingoism. The SJW angle is a much more recent phenomenon. For example God of War 3 came out in 2010 and the mainstream media celebrated it. GOW3 could not be made today as it was without many a reviewer a la Polygon shitting all over it. You see the difference now with God of War 2018, where Kratos is a babysitter and is far more "humanistic" than before. Even if GOW4 is not really an SJW-fest, it's been significantly toned down from the raw anger and relentless nihilistic brutality the series used to be known for. That kind of extremity just wouldn't fly with the special snowflakes of today. No more of this either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5S-d9Eqgdw

I don't know what happened but something changed within the last five years or so, with mouth pieces like Anita Sarkeesian popping up and getting a much bigger say. Even disregarding video games, in general people are absolutely bonkers now. Everything's about race and identity politics are now the most important thing ever; we've even invented new genders and idiots wonder what the politically correct term to call them is. It's such a waste of time, distracting from real issues, with the media fostering dichotomy and division. The fact that someone today is looking back at Duke Nukem 3D and claiming that it is "liberal media" is something that would make a '90s gamer squint at him like what the fuck are you talking about.