I mean, "we're the baddies" and all that. I think the CoD has kinda lost any semblance of resonability a long time ago (maybe it never really had any), but hell if this isn't going full villain mode into a remake (?) of a mainline game.
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I think it should be more about pushing video games in a healthy direction rather then just saying no to video games altogether. Neglecting consumer desires is a big reason the USSR lost the war of influence against the USA, and likewise a big reason China's global image has been beginning to rise in recent years with it's advances in the entertainment industry. Video games and media in general should exist to as a medium to express art and ideas, today generally they are the exact opposite of that and exist as pools of toxicity and stagnation instead.
That last part was a joke mostly. Video games are currently propaganda for bourgeois ideologies because that is simply the conditions they are produced. Even video game addiction is itself a product of life under capitalism and the supremacy of the profit motive. I'd say that neither of these would apply under socialism and that there are exceptions to the rule presently, mostly in the FOSS/Libre space.
Nonetheless, I'd maintain that this medium has a tendency to either attract or create people who are anti-social and reactionary. The racist portrayal of PoC, objectification of women, and strong lean toward imperialist propaganda might not be unique to games as an entertainment medium, but are certainly way more in your face and the defensive posture consumers take whenever these issues are raised is quite damning.
It's not so much the medium itself as it is the content of that medium, in a Capitalist system it will be contaminated with the various toxins of that system, sometimes very deliberately.
In a healthy system, like one of the stages of socialism for example, it is far easier for it to be made healthy, will be increasingly encouraged to do so, and if it's too toxic it may even get the axe.