Man… How bout something constructive?
Here’s a couple ideas.
A farming simulator souls like
A community service Metroidvania where the world becomes easier to traverse the more people you help
An RPG where you play a pacifist where the classes is negotiator, construction worker, delivery person, fire fighters. Instead of fighting the war, youre building a better world AFTER the wars.
Im looking at the ps store right now and 95% of the games on offer is about beating up or killing people or creatures in some way.
Im a HUGE fan of souls like games and Metroidvanias and I used to be into FPS games.
But Im older now. And Ive come to notice that maybe the violence wasnt why I liked those games but perhaps it was the “kinetics” and meat and potato mechanics that made me like them.
I think Im just tired of all the violence being pushed and marketed to me as a gamer. It’s over represented.
I grew up steeped in shooters like Quake and Unreal Tournament-- which is why CoD pisses me off as much as it does. (And tangentially, why I won’t have shit to do with Fortnite anymore, either; but that’s less ideological.) I’d have significantly less issues with military spectacle as a genre if it was done like Ace Combat’s Strangereal is, but as it stands, the CoDs and Battlefields of the world are nothing to me but sloppily, blatantly blowjobbing the American military; and I fuckin hate it.