What makes TLoU2 a "political" game while Bioshock is not?

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[–]IMissPorn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't know if your premise is correct. People hate TLoU2 for having a shitty plot that doesn't logically follow the first game, and blame politics for causing that, but I don't know if I'd even say it has a coherent enough message to be a "political game" itself per se.

[–]proc0 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The politics isn't explicit in your face, but rather shows up as what influenced the designer and director of the game. It's obvious to see there is a preference for the gay, androgenous and weird looking characters, that are glorified throughout the whole game, meanwhile the protagonist of the first one, who is a straight white male, gets his face destroyed and then his murderer gets humanized and survives in the end.

I think what they tried to do is teach white straight males a lesson. They wanted to make people feel bad for liking the first game.