OP is not exactly coming up with good examples, but I think the point is you can analyse anything and claim that there is some hidden political message, even if it was not intended by the developers. Even Gilgamesh, one of the oldest text ever found, has scholars discussing gender and sexuality. I don’t think Gilgamesh and Enkidus relationship was considered political at the time the story was written down, but in a new context and a new political landscape it can suddenly be political.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25766947

I will never understand why Pokémon fans keep buying thee very mid games.

How does that help shareholders? Democracy is when shareholders get richer! Something something pension funds and trickle down economics.

You can’t just hire a bunch of developers and expect them to fix things right away.

We need a second Gollum game.

How could anybody stop the AI robbers from stealing content from the fediverse?

They will probably use some version of DLSS that’s hard to emulate.

Are we forever stuck on 30 fps?

Microsoft… always two steps behind. They always just wait for someone else to demonstrate a successful idea, and then use their deep pockets to buy a piece of the pie.

It requires a Netflix subscription. That’s too bad.

Well that’s why they need to hire the original writers. I don’t think anybody would consider Baldurs Gate especially political, maybe expect for a few fringe right wingers. But Larian have the resources, technical expertise and know how to build a big RPG and if they bought the IP, I’m sure they would respect the source material. You wouldn’t want to make a Disco Elysium game if you where to afraid to get political.

I hope Larian Stusios will buy this IP, rehire the original writers and so great things with it.

And they have to live with the shame.