What universally beloved videogame you just can't enjoy? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Kimdracula@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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2 picks for me: Stardew Valley, most boring shit ever, I don't see the appeal, seriously how the hell did that thing sold 20 million copies?

And Witcher 3, I own that game since 2019 and I regret buying it, funny thing is that I've finished Dragon Age 1 and 2, which are kinda same genre but I actually enjoyed those games. I guess the old BioWare sauce carried those games unlike Witcher where there's nothing to enjoy in its massive pointless world.

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[-] TheHowTM@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

The narrative structuring around ghouls generally paints them as being unjustly denigrated, so even if they are race stand-ins it wouldn't be for the purpose of promoting white supremacism.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago

The narrative structuring around ghouls generally paints them as being unjustly denigrated... but still an undeniable "other" that diverges from the "norm" (ie, whiteness) - exactly the way liberal ideology has always excused white supremacism.

FTFY.

[-] TheHowTM@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

By that logic any depiction of any form of supremacy, or otherism as a concept, regardless of intent, is detrimental. So, homogeneity only? Commentary is an excuse? Critiquing about the problem is as bad as endorsing it?

It sounds like you're not mad at Fallout specifically, but one of the core tropes of literature as a genre, and basically the entire concept of social satire.

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