"I want politics in games but only politics I agree with"

There actually was a moment in Doom when the doomguy shows his opinion about the invasion. When he reloads his shotgun.

Hurk’s dad was about the most political thing in the game. “Obama-loving-libtard” was the most political line.

As a doomsday cult leader, I felt deeply offended by this game!

"Especially Jacob" "Umm... This is John." IM DEAD LMAO

“Especially Jacob” Rags: um, this is John That basically shows perfectly how stupid the critic of far cry is

about that DOOM stuff “Remember, demons can be an offensive word.” “The preferred term is mortally-challenged.”

Jason is actually one of the most interesting characters in the game. Not personality-wise obviously, but it's interesting in how his behaviors sync up with the player's behavior as well. As time went on, Jason actually wants to kill people and blow shit up just the same way the player also wants to blow shit up, which eventually turns him into wanting to become a monster and a warrior to the island because he is so engrossed in his new lifestyle that he doesn't want to go back. It serves as a nice deconstruction into the mindset of a player character. If someone is really into the violence the same way he does, he would be so detached from reality that he couldn't see anything but violence. There are no other characters in Far Cry 3 that are just as interesting as Jason. Sure Vaas can steal the show with his personality, but Jason is the one with the character arc. He's the one whose story have actual meaning and progression. To say "We all know that he's the least interesting character" is just wilfully ignorant of his actual story. Personality doesn't always make a character great.

Downward thrust? Oh that guy who called Warframe pay-to-win after playing for 50 hours even though his profile says 7 hours... This ought to be good ;)

Far Cry 3: Loaded with anti-western imperialist messages Polygon:"Stunning and brave! 9/10" Far Cry 4: Loaded with anti-western imperialist messages Polygon:"Stunning and brave! 9/10" Far Cry 5: Somewhat apolitical Polygon:"Sad boring and cowardly story in the drumpf era! 6/10" I'm beginning to sense a trend

Leaving politics out of a game also makes it fairly timeless. You can return to the game 15 years from now and the setup, and environment still work. Movies and games that set themselves in a particular time period or ideology tend to date themselves more quickly

If Downward Thrust wanted the protagonist to narrate his disapproval of evil cultists, he could have just played Outlast 2.

If you think far cry 5 is a serious game I have four words for you Cheeseburger the diabetic bear

"Not enough Trump hatred. 3 out of 10" - most negative reviews

Downward Thrust must absolutely hate Gordon Freeman.

You could say this game is a far cry from what the far-left journalists wanted.

I wanted to join the cult Game wouldn't let me 0/10

When it comes to silent protagonists, I hate nothing more than my own incapability of deciding if I like it. Silent protagonist: "so lazy, why don't they give them a voice." Voiced protagonist: "why did he say that? I would have responded very differently."

*Why [trending game] is worrying gamers*

They don't want just any political commentary. They want political commentary that fits their agendas and values.

Rags is destroying these KZfaqrs left, right, and center. Jesus Christ. Someone give this brilliant dog a nice tummy rub.

Downward Thrust's channel is very self explanatory. A Downward Thrust. Get it?

That feeling when people get upset because they say they were promised something that nobody even hinted about being a thing. It's like me saying "I'm ordering pizza" then getting angry because when it came to the door it wasn't pie.

This is the problem with these "video essay" videogame channels like Downward Thrust and Cleanprincegaming. They come up with these over sensationalized titles and thumbnails and argue a point that had no validity to begin with. They tout their opinion as fact along with other "facts" that they can't back up with a source. If you make a comment calling out one of these things you'll rarely get a response, but if you do it'll be something along the lines of "did you even watch the video?"

The game has a shovel launcher do I have to say more

Downward Thrust is for filthy casuls, Rags is the Dark Souls of KZfaq doggos

This dude would absolutely despise the Fallout games up to the fourth one with the whole "silent hero that decides the game's fate" problem hes got going on

There is a game like Doom, where the marine is always talking. It's called Serious Sam!

Downward Thrust was good a while back. More like you. Now he just makes weekly 10 min clickbait videos that everyone hates. I have never seen a comment section so negative. I guess enough viewers and patrons made him a sellout.

More and more I start to dislike downwards thrust, his videos present his own opinions as facts, and he doesn't ever bother to mention that they aren't factual information

"I sense a big but coming my way, and unlike other big butts this one makes me sad"

Right at the end of the game, the camera goes third person and your character looks directly at the camera and says, "this whole time I have been suffering from an eating disorder." A single tear rolls down his or her cheek. The credits roll. But what's this? Instead of music playing over the credits, we instead hear a book on tape version of "A Handmaids Tale" by Margaret Atwood. An image of Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch repeatedly flashes on the screen in a pulsating strobe, encircled by copies of "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut. Then, as the credits end, something truly meta occurs. The game itself communicates with the player. It comes out to you. This whole time, it was struggling with feelings it kept bottled up inside. "I guess society expects you to be a certain way," it says, "to like a certain kind of person." The game walks onto a stage in a crowded auditorium to give a TED talk about the effect of international trade on the third world. A red curtain closes. On said curtain is written one simple message in the finest Helvetica font: Please spay and neuter your pets.

I find most of Downward Thrusts videos to be very surface level and under informed/researched tbh.

This feels very familiar to a KZfaq video I saw, it was about that VR game where you can shoot guns and build them and whatnot, on one end you have a polygon writer just going on and on about horrifying that this game is about guns and in his past he was terrified about said guns. Then on the other side just some random KZfaqr just having fun with it having some knowledge about the game.

Ubisoft should give these people what they want, a game all about politics. Set it during the Russian Revolution when the communists were establishing their "worker's utopia". Show how wonderful socialism is.

The mindset that having a game set in mid America with a cult needs to be politically (because of the history of the region) is basically the same mindset as "all games set in Germany need to be about WW2" "All games in England need to be about the queen" "all games set in X need to be about Y"

"Far cry 5 sucked cause they didn't let me kill trump and sargon of akkad." - supposed gamers

As someone who lives in Montana I was kinda confused at how many black people there were in the game placed in Montana. It's rare to see a black person outside of a major city or a college if we're gonna be honest. Pretty sure we have a black population of about 1% of the total, which is even less than you may think considering we only have a million people in all of Montana and twice as many cows.

Mid 2018: "Heh... Downward Thrust is out of it." *January 2020:* "...Tonald..."

Did you know PETA ranted against Farcry 5 because you were able to fish and hunt. They said it would glorify the killing of animals and tell people that it's okay to kill animals. Ubisoft answered by saying that they think, the gamers know that you shouldn't just kill animals, or for that fact humans, which PETA forgot to mention.

Blood Dragon is still the best Far Cry.

This reminds me of when critics criticized DOOM 2016 for it's 'poor' narrative. Because you play DOOM for the narrative.

Seeing this now after watching Tonald on EFAP brings me a god damn smile. The character development is incredible.

Downward thrust dissecting FC5 is like a Highschool English Teacher dissecting a book. They find shit that simply isn't there

_I can't believe some people are still mad at you for calling out IHE. Great video, so far._

Downward thrust reminds me of that kid from middle school that lied about having every game console, and then you go to their house and all they have is one of those pac-man TV games because he “got grounded” and wasn’t allowed to play with them when you came over. Rags is a good boy

After Fallout 4, how could anyone ask for a voiced protagonist in any game, for any reason.

My favorite line was *“his ego will be more deflated then a patriots football”* No ideology no political agendas just pop culture references and tongue and cheek comedy

When KZfaqrs go at each other, but then Rags ups the ante with a poll within the first 60 seconds, get the popcorn folks... or bones.

A majority of Downward Thrust's videos are complete garbage. Don't get why he has so many subs at all.

Imagine In doom you reload your shotgun after blowing someone’s head off and doom bro’s like “Don’t be racist lmaooo

DT needs to step down while he can. did this guy praze FO4 because your character responds? did he hate FO3 and FO nv because you made the response?

I am so confused. Before it's release a lot of people were mad because they thought this game would be too political, but now this guy is mad because it's not political enough.

I’m right there with you rags. If I want to look at political agendas I’ll watch the news or go Facebook.

Oh Tonald, your incompetency is sonething few can rival.

mauler: exists rags: makes this video mauler: *triggerd*

Downward Thrust failed to deliver neutral sensible content when I subbed him 8 months ago. I unsubbed him soon after that. He would make videos criticizing games and game designs even before their launch or for reasons that makes no sense. For example, during that time he slated Prey for firstly being released without review copies and then made a video about how that type of game design cant work in modern day games. Prey is one of the best games of 2017 in my book and the steam userscore is around 90%. Moreover, every few weeks, he would jerk off to the witcher 3 to gain more fanboy subs coz witcher 3 has the most fanboys currently(any game of that level of acclaim does for a few years after their release). Edit : I went to his channel and it seems he hasnt changed a bit. There is a recent video of his slamming Rage 2. I mean, its his opinion obviously, but the reasons should atleast be logical. Rage 2 shouldn't happen just coz the first one wasnt overly popular or a critical hit? Anything that isn't advertised heavily or isn't pop should automatically be ignored then? Mad Max was an amazing game and suffered the same fate as most underselling games bcz of having the same release date as metal gear solid 5 and also bcz of youtubers and journalists like him.

Any video where Rag puts "Downward Thrust" in the title leaves me worried.

Praise Tonald, blessed be his name!

19:05 Now, now, hey, the DoomSlayer of Doom-2016 had some amazing characterization going on. And he actually did give his opinion on the events of the game on several occasions.

People thought it was political because it involved a cult. But a game about people defending their homes with guns they own, isn't going to push a anti gun narrative. People are just dumb and want attention!

Downward thrust broke a review embargo on Sniper 3 if I remember correct. Seems like a pretty hyperbolic guy hiding under that smooth voice.

Press F to debate

“I think some of the villains are really well done, especially Jacob..” “Um... this is John.”

"The intro is completely original to the series" Well. Running from the enemy completely defenseless through a forest - (Far cry 3) Driving away from the enemy while shooting back with an automatic weapon - (Farcry 4) K bruv

New video *Grabs the tub of Moisturizer*

Does Downward Thrust have something against Mutes? Seriously, does he feel that a mute person is unable communicate in any way or maybe they can't be a protagonist ? For F's sake. Has the phrase "actions speak louder than words" completely missed him?

Seriously, I CANNOT be the only person who thinks Rags looks like a dog version of Simba from The Lion King.

Downward thrust is overrated

Just went trough a shitty terrible day, i'm so glad i've got a rags video to watch

And by the way, though! Far cry 5 has never been anti-conservative in the first place. Geez! both the left, and right just need to relax, and not get butthurt over this game.

In his Defense one of the greatest games in the last few years was GTA V which was swimming in social commentary.

"the game has a very focused tone, but I just don't like the tone it has"

two videos in the span of four days? I must be having a wet dream

A Rags video was a great surprise for my birthday. Thanks Rags

What would the debates even be? "Hey, erm evil cult leader, how about we sit down and have some tea and talk this out?, how about stop trying to "save" everyone an.. "Hmmmm.. no child, don't you see im trying to save your soul from eternal damnation?" *walks off* "well.... erm good dialogue we had"

Why would I shoot an RPG at a cougar I don’t want no damaged meat.

A silent protagonist is an empty vessel for the player to take control of. it was my voice when I pushed the phrase rather than someone else's voice. That's the only thing I did not like about Fallout 4 there were less choices to choose from the text dialogue.

wooo he he's back baby ! Wasn't expecting a second upload so soon , sweet!

The real question is : Have you had your 'Monthly Thrust' yet?

I really enjoyed Far Cry 5, the only bad thing was that the story really wanted to be told. Oh what's that, you're playing the game doing a side mission? Oh because a prisoner van came in during the middle of it and you rescued them filling up the milestone, let's interrupt the side mission to give you plot! The story is a mixed bag since there are four villains and they stick to their regions. The moment you go to Faith's Region, Jacob and John don't get mentioned and vise versa. However when it came to politics in this game, I can tell that they are parodying everything, just light jabs to the shoulder to make you laugh and they were funny to see.

You can debate with Caesar in New Vegas because the game is supposed portray the Legion as a morally ambiguous, well intentioned, effective, and ruthless faction whose ends justify the means, and your character can disagree with that. The evil cult in Far Cry 5 is so batshit cartoonishly villainous that there's just no point to debate with them because it will never work.

Every suggested video was by Rags, this is fucking great!

Came here from bearded wonder- gave you a nice shout out my finely furred friend. Another pleasant bjork fest that I enjoyed listening to. Thank you for being sane in a world of normalized insanity Ragman.

19:25 today i learned people who are mute have no feelings

"The game goes into great lengths to not piss anyone off" I don't think that's entirely true, after all he did make a video saying it wasn't political enough

I wish youd come out with a 10-min video every once in a while.

I like your channel. It’s always well researched and I love when people try to nitpick you and present them as hard facts.

FC3's pirates were my favorite common enemies ever. Their dialogue always made me laugh.

If the silent protagonist is such an issue to Downward Thrust, I wonder how he tolerated the Half-Life series.

Honestly Rags You Really To Have This sort Of Talent For when you talk in Your Videos That Sharpens Thoughts. Just Listening to Your videos in the background Helps me Focus While Playing Fire Emblem

The game is so apolitical and inoffensive that it's offensive? Okay.

Actually doggo, the game did make a direct mention of North Korea on the radio as you drive a car that directly explains why the cult thinks the end of the world is coming. It's not just a name drop either, it actually does explain a lot of the story that you'll see in the last couple hours of the game.

4:45 Doggo voicecrack lmao

watching this for me is like watching 2 of the biggest players in a story who haven't met before finally go at it, SO entertaining!

This is the first video I've ever seen from this channel... Good god those dog slides are hilarious.

Downward Thrust just released a trainwreck of a video on Rage 2... kek

That opening music tho.

hey, Rags. Just wanted to say I enjoyed this video. I don't always agree with the stuff you talk about on your channel, though the vast majority of stuff I do, I still love your content and I respect your opinions. I think you're really intelligent and you seem to have so much passion for what you do. I recently subscribed and I can't wait to see more from you. keep up the good work!

This dude really thought it was gonna be a serious game when there is a bear companion named Cheeseburger