u/KarmaEWE

With the latest trailer for the brand-new Metro 2039, the argument has surfaced again: "video games shouldn't be political."

I'll be rather blunt, leaving aside the fact that if someone has played the Metro saga, it means they truly don't understand the messages books and video games are trying to send us consumers.

Secondly, since video games are art, they can (and should) send rather important social messages. Just look back, with titles like Metal Gear for example, where we can't say, "Oh, okay, the game is trying to tell me that people can hide under cardboard."

It's banal how we have to address the same argument over and over again for years, repeating the same concepts just because the authors said the war in Ukraine influenced them.