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10 Sep

We need more PC games. And not THOSE PC games.

Where’s the sex? Only a few years ago, you’d find sex in many games. (Tomb Raider DOESN’T count.) But where is it now? In fact, let me widen the net here: Where’s the non-politically correct games gone?

Remember Redneck Rampage? Or Shadow Warrior featuring Lo Wang (smirk)? Duke Nukem tested the ESRB hard, and Forever STILL isn’t out. So why is this?

To begin, we must start with the most un-PC game of them all.

Redneck Rampage began with two moronic Southern brothers rescuing their prize pig from aliens. Fighting through the cornerstones of redneck society such as a trailer park, they drank alcohol to regain health and ate pork rinds to gain hit points. The brothers Leonard and Bubba fought through the fictional town of Hickston and used powder kegs as weapons. You could ride swamp boats and fart (though not at the same time). Hillbilly music was played in the background.

So why was it so un-PC?

You tell me. Poking at a bunch of (angry) people, making fun of a way of life, probably marking the Interplay offices for torching, it was un-PC because of everything. And it was fun. The idea of killing aliens while being stupid NASCAR dads is a total rush.

Games like this don’t exist anymore, paving the way for yet another tactical Tom Clancy shooter and yet another Generic Sport Game X. Society made sure that it wasn’t cool to poke fun at other people (tell that to the people that still make WWII games) and it was called bigotry. The current political and social climate tells us that it’s only OK to kill Taliban warlords or North Koreans or Nazis or facist white supremacists or Communists or Soviets. Rednecks? No.

So developers, please get over the damn PC-ness and make us some controversial games. Jack Thompson might hate it, but we want it.

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Posted on Sep 10, 2009 at 11:03pm by Michael Leung
Tagged pc games pc gaming political correctness is evil political correctness pc
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