I have a problem with games. A big one. I hate it, because its part of so many games that I love. It's an issue that has been far more addressed in other media, but still seems to run rampant in games. Like a handful of other issues *cough* portrayal of women *cough*, games seems to be abysmally behind the curve in discussing this topic.
This issue is the problematic trope of the frontier in games. The wild west, the new world, the final frontier, all these classic story and design tropes are so heavily prevalent in games that sometimes it is easy to forget the actual history they are based on.
This issue is the problematic trope of the frontier in games. The wild west, the new world, the final frontier, all these classic story and design tropes are so heavily prevalent in games that sometimes it is easy to forget the actual history they are based on.