/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5761964
Wolfenstein was barely political at all until TNO, before then it was just a pretext for action adventures with politically acceptable targets; nobody that matters objects to Wehrmacht and Schutzstaffel troopers being gunned down en masse, or shooting Adolf Hitler in the mouth with a machinegun.
They didn't ever show much of the actual atrocity side of Nazi Germany, because a lot of that shit is fucking dark, disturbing, haunting, and depressing (which also requires being able to handle and convey it with certain grace and tact), and previous devs figured that would be too much of a bummer in what's supposed to be action adventure games.

TNO handled it really quite well, it genuinely managed to fit into the overall style and tone of the game. I'm rather impressed at it actually.
Then TNC handled it absolutely fucking abysmally and ham-handedly, with extremely cringy references to current events and memes, which will date the game in the worst of fucking ways.

Political themes in games aren't inherently bad, but the question is if you can make a poignant observation or likeness, or if you can even tell a decent joke about it, and without it coming across as shallow, cheap, and heavy handed. The New Colossus could not do this.
Comparing the 2016 American election and the climate at that time to an actual warmongering and genocidal regime that murdered millions is frankly extremely dishonest and comes across as incredibly cheap and crass, and not in a fun way.

All of this doesn't even get into how the game was not even close to as good, which is an even bigger concern still as to why they shouldn't touch Quake.