Oddly enough the point of Fallout was apparently (according to Tim Cain) never meant to be “capitalism bad” but rather “war bad”.
Of course any contemporary critique of war doesn’t work without a critique of capitalism so that of course ended up being a feature of the games regardless of intention.
Tim Cain was just one dude in a team full of creators, and they all frequently disagreed about various aspects -see the whole ghoul thing and if FEV was supposed to be a necessary component (it would make more sense since Ghouls in Fallout 1 were a bit more rare and mainly just focused on Necropolis/Vault 12/Bakersfield - even Fallout 2 had all ghouls claim heritage to the ghoul exodus post-destruction of Necropolis by the Master)
Tim Cain claiming “his” work to be an anti-capitalist masterpiece is also not conductive to his career (especially when the franchise is under the wings of Bethesda and Amazon)
The Followers of the Apocalypse who are portrayed as allies against the master, are explicitly stated to be anarcho-communists, so somebody on that creative team likely was not a fan of capitalism.
Where are they explicitly stated to be anarcho-communists? This is the first I’m hearing of it.
The Followers of the Apocalypse: Libertarians, socialists, communists, or greens?"
Joshua Sawyer: "They vary significantly, but range from anarcho-syndicatists to socialists to communists.
Tim Cain stopped contributing to the story after the first game so a lot of what he says about the franchise can be taken with a grain of salt.
The board game, Monopoly, did the inverse. It (The Landlord’s Game) was created as an anti-landlord, pro tax-the-rich, game, but later rule changes made it a celebration of greed. In true capitalist fashion, Lizzie Magie, the inventor of the game, got shafted out of any monetary reward by Parker Bros.
hitman: world of assasination
you only get peace after killing the most influential capitalist circle
Did anyone else notice that the new Fallout series seems strangely pro-communist?
Hollywood writers are unionized and overwhelmingly left wing. Whenever they’re left to their own devices they always create works that express left wing thought, such as what happened with Andor recently.
Whether that expression of leftist thought is placatory is another argument altogether, but the people making the art are absolutely all socialists or syndicalists at the least.
Andor was an anomaly in today’s time. And boy how a good one it was!
But now star wars will be about how the empire were always the good guys and just misunderstood /s
Yep, another reason to pirate Fallout games added to my list.
OG Deus Ex I would say, though I need someone with more energy to expand on this in case they agree with me. It shows some of the worst aspects of capitalism at the very least.
