I was replaying Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura game recently after some years and I noticed it had modern day politics for the time the game was made. Intolerance against orcs or how industrialization has led to deforestation and pollution.I still enjoyed it and I found this topics to enhance the game. If politics has always been in games then why does it bother me so much now, what actually changed?
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I think it was always like that although much less across the board in all types of media. There were loads of movies that didn't try to make a statement. Now it seems way less so, everything has to have a message. Games though, back in the 80s-90s many games didn't have a lot of story and were just about better graphics and different mechanics. As one older example there were some politics in Metal Gear Solid. It wasn't the racism and sexism politics we are used to today and I'm not totally sure it was even 90s politics, but there were certainly some statements being made on military enterprise, nuclear weapons, etc. I wouldn't go as far to say it was so bad that it ruined it but it's definitely something I noticed in a game that's over 20 years old.