Terranigma. That game had no objection to showing off the negative consequences of human advancement.
Games with a moral message
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I get uneasy about games with overt messages. One persons 'morally uplifting' is another person's 'hateful bigotry'... Or maybe I'm overthinking things. Look at Bethesda's work. Was Skyrim REALLY teaching us that it's totally okay to be a cannibal? Or slay endangered dragons? Or to possess dead bodies?
I suppose games like GTA 4, or DE:Human Revolution can claim some credence as moralistic fables. Stories of good men who become entangled in the schemes of evil men, but overcome the challenges by either violence or cunning; but most of all, moral fortitude. In the depths of Nico Bellic's personal hell, he is still trying to live by the moral code he brought with him from Russia. True, he fails for the most part. But he tries nonetheless.
Or... maybe it's all just mind-warping videogames which are destroying the youth of today. Yea, that's a much better explaination.
I suppose games like GTA 4, or DE:Human Revolution can claim some credence as moralistic fables. Stories of good men who become entangled in the schemes of evil men, but overcome the challenges by either violence or cunning; but most of all, moral fortitude. In the depths of Nico Bellic's personal hell, he is still trying to live by the moral code he brought with him from Russia. True, he fails for the most part. But he tries nonetheless.
Or... maybe it's all just mind-warping videogames which are destroying the youth of today. Yea, that's a much better explaination.
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I had a hard time thinking of anything... most games I play don't have an agenda, or I ignore it
Then I remembered this.
Then I remembered this.
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Just because a game lets you do something, doesn't mean it's saying that thing is a good thing to do in real life. Pokemon didn't teach us to enslave animals and have them attack each other.
YOU CALL ME GAY I HAVE 6 GIRLFRIEND
YOU CALL ME FAG I AM COOL
YOU CALL ME LOOSER I LAUGH
YOU CALL ME REDARDED I HAVE STRAIGHT A’S
YOU CALL ME NERD IM DATING CHEERLADDER
99% OF BULLYS DONT KNOW THAT THE STUFF THEY SAYING IS ALL WRONG
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But Pokemon also teaches us about friendship
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Every game on the Virtual Boy taught us seizures are bad.
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17 February 2012 - 03:30 PM
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Cave story because it teaches you that too much power can be a bad thing 
. (or too much magic considering Ballos)
. (or too much magic considering Ballos)
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A good majority of games teach us that. Villains are usually power hungry and then it somehow backfires on them.
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I think Cave Story's defining moral would be the way it depict that some people will believe anything no matter how ridiculous it is.
"These flowers will help us win the human. if that is so, they better grow fast!"
"These flowers will help us win the human. if that is so, they better grow fast!"
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17 February 2012 - 10:57 PM
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They "will help us win the human"?
What is this, a carnival game for Mimigas where they have stuffed humans?
What is this, a carnival game for Mimigas where they have stuffed humans?
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