Does anyone know any good games where you kill fascist CIA and US army scum? Ideally as a Marxist-Leninist freedom fighter or as a soldier of a socialist country. Otherwise, games where you fight US puppets like Israel as say a Palestinian freedom fighter are also more than welcome.
Spec Ops: The Line is probably the first example that comes to mind.
They get a bad rap because of the sometimes fascist leaning fanbase, but paradox grand strategy games do let you play whatever side you want. Everytime I tried Hearts of Iron (admittedly my least favourite paradox game), I played as the USSR.
Some of the Metal Gear games, though that’s still “the good americans vs the corrupt government” which isn’t really ideal either.
Yakuza 3 features CIA as one of the villain factions.
interestingly, Yakuza 3 is also the “wokest” yakuza game in the franchise lol
- a part of the main storyline deals with racism, with one of the girls (that kiryu adopted) outright saying she couldn’t like this boy (also adopted by kiryu) because he’s black, and in typical yakuza fashion, she’d later see the error of her ways.
- a substory that essentially boils down to kiryu saying trans rights, though then again rgg studios also included a transphobic quest; but it’s since been removed in the re-release. also i heard rumors that it was exclusive to the western release - the original japanese release apparently didn’t have it lmao
all this in a game released in 2009. imagine that lmao. if you put any of this in recent games chuddies would hue and cry about “forced diversity and wokeist propaganda being shoved down their throats”
This was also developed by a single comrade. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1714420/Fursan_alAqsa_The_Knights_of_the_AlAqsa_Mosque/
“comrade”
guy doesn't support LGBT as a muslim, insinuating that being muslim must mean you have to be anti-LGBT; also has called LGBT a "lifestyle"
he doesn't want democracy (hopefully by that he means western bougie democracy, ugh); wants sharia and an islamic caliphate
thinks "islamic" monarchies are better than western style democracy (even though both are bad)
lmfao, reminds me of people going “capitalism may be ruining and destroying our lives but it’s still a good, working ideology”
more anti-lgbt nonsense, about how gay things are admonished by ALL religions in the world and is somehow against muh human natoor (living in concrete, eating modern food, playing video games+making them is also against human natoor, you dipshit), using reich-wing language like "pro-LGBT propaganda", implying LGBT is le western culture even though historically every place in the world had their own unique queer culture that the western world has violently destroyed because "it's against human natoor and a crime committed against nature"
though tbf even i felt the pro-lgbt message in qatar felt a bit forced
this guy is anything but a comrade imo, especially with him expressing his wishes for a religious caliphate with religious laws.
here’s his comments section, for what it’s worth (cw: reactionary bile, it is a steam comment’s section after all)
i wonder what all the pro-lgbt/lgbt-neutral muslims here have to say about this
EDIT: fixed an image
Well that sucks. Guess I extrapolated more from a game about taking out IDF soldiers than I should have.
I’ll never understand the anti-gay argument that it’s against human nature. You can’t say other animals aren’t gay, Sea Lions and Giraffes and Bonobos have plenty of gay sex, Rams too, why is the line drawn at humans? Like it goes beyond HUMAN nature, it’s literally just nature
Sea Lions and Giraffes and Bonobos have plenty of gay sex, Rams too, why is the line drawn at humans?
probably because we’re supposed to be “better, intelligent and more civilized than animals”, whatever that means 🙄🙄🙄
Might be because the reactionary version of human nature is the official kind of human nature of the west during early to mid capitalism, which is then universalised. Not only are they not considering your point, they’re also ignoring that fact that for most of human history, it’s been ‘human nature’ to be quite gay. Or at least to be very close roommates.
Even in a vacuum, “human nature” arguments for individuals make very little sense against things humans already do or want to do. Here we have humans which are pretty natural doing that very same thing, so in order for them to not obey “human nature” they’d need to have been influenced by space aliens or something.
Obviously Nazis effectively already believe that, but it’s odd how “well meaning” libs often fall into that same trap.
it’s still dumb to conflate social progressivism (queer rights and womens rights) with usanian imperialism
queer people like me in the global south, particularly in muslim-majority countries are forced to flee their own homeland because of this, because they’d rather see our heads on a pike than leave us alone and live. even without the conflation with usanian imperialism, some of them try to use religion to try justify this and demonize us.
Pretty sure this is the entire idea of the new wolfenstein games
hopefully it continues to be and they don’t wuss out with the amount of fascists/reich-wingers that have started coming out
the amount of people who screeched at wolf2 being “woke” and flirting with communism (despite BJ, who comes off as a liberal to me, outright admonishing the commies in wolf2 for being against usania and not joining in “their fight” against the nazis during ww2… lmfao)
but they did join the fight, moscow got taken in 46 I think.
Also Stalin is canonically not dead in that world, he’s in hiding. Same with Mao uniting china but then being driven to hiding when germany invaded.
This land is my land - killing colonialists
Most multiplayer FPS/TPS games featuring the US will also have other factions that can fight them.
rising storm 2 lets you play in multiplayer matches as the people’s army of vietnam/national liberation front fighting against american imperialist invaders. you can use traps on them, blow their helicopters out of the sky, etc.
