People don't generally like being preached at, be the subject politics or religion.

Despite rumors to the contrary, gamers are people. :)

I think there's a wide area between political messages (or social messages) and being hit over the head with a tire iron preached at by someone who thinks their opinion is OBVIOUSLY morally correct. The latter happens far too much in all media, games included. It also happens in the gaming media an awful lot.

Agreed. There's a place for expressing an opinion or two. It's the in-your-face quality that is the issue.

This video itself is an example of the very sort of preachiness that is so off-putting. It demands that its own point of view is the one true right-think and we must conform to it or be judged and condemned as hypocrites.

There's a number of errors this video makes as it tries too hard to paint me into an ideological corner. here's two.

Aggregation: "Games" are treated as a single common thing. That's like making generalizations about "restaurants" using Micky-D's or Chez Fru-Fru as your representative case depending on which best fits the argument. By this logic Tetris is guilty of GTA 5's sins.

Games must be judged on political content to be considered art. Excuse me? Politics = art? The video is asserting that all criticism is equally valid, so opening the door to artistic criticism requires equal respect to be given to political criticism. To which my reply is "why?"

Hey, if someone wants to go on a politics-heavy riff over a game or games, they can knock themselves out. It's still a free country.

What I reject is the demand that "games" must conform to their ideas. "Why not a female lead?" is very different to "You must have a female lead." I heartily endorse the first message, reject the second, even if it's dressed up as the first.

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It seems to me that gamers get upset when Bioshock Infinite or GTA V have their review scores docked because the political messages they send don't conform with the politically correct beliefs of the reviewer. For example, Gamespot outright lowered GTA V's review score for being 'politically muddled' and 'misogynistic.' The "keep your politics out of my game" mentality seems to focus on that. In other words, don't dock a video game because you don't agree with the political messages it sends.

We can see this notion with Civilization too. As this video points out, that series glorifies "American" notions of society. Should a reviewer give the game a low score because they dislike the American identity?