Satire

CONCEPT

Satire is a form of humor that ridicules aspects of real-world society and culture, usually making a serious but indirect point about the subject that the player is allowed to infer. Games such as Metal Gear, EarthBound, Grand Theft Auto, and Fallout, for example, satirize American culture.

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Note that satire is different from parody, which targets specific rather than generalized subjects for its mockery; for instance, the movie Spaceballs is a parody, while Dr. Strangelove is a satire.

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• Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON’T KNOW! (Game)
• Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed (Game)
• Akiba’s Trip (Game)
• American Dream (Game)
• American McGee Presents: Bad Day L.A. (Game)
• Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures (Game)
• Anodyne (Game)
• BMX XXX (Game)
• Bully (Game)
• Bully: Scholarship Edition (Game)
• Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (Game)
• Conker: Live & Reloaded (Game)
• Dead Rising (Game)
• DeathSpank (Game)
• Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (Game)
• Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick (Game)
• EarthBound (Game)
• Eisenwald: Blood of November (Game)
• Election (Game)
• Escape From Hell (Game)
• Exile (Game)
• Exile: Wicked Phenomenon (Game)
• Faith Fighter (Game)
• Fallout 3 (Game)
• Fallout 4 (Game)
• Family Guy Video Game! (Game)
• Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse (Game)
• Famousity (Game)
• Floor 13 (Game)
• Going Under (Game)
• Gun (Game)
• Harvester (Game)
• Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law (Game)
• Helldivers II (Game)
• How to Win (Game)
• Hyperdimension Neptunia (Game)
• I'm O.K: A Murder Simulator (Game)
• I'm Sorry (Game)
• Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love (Game)
• Joyful Executions (Game)
• Lair of the Clockwork God (Game)
• Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards (Game)
• Life of D. Duck (Game)
• Life of D. Duck II (Game)
• Magicka (Game)
• Metal Gear (Game)
• Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (Game)
• Metal Gear Solid (Game)
• Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Game)
• Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (Game)
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Game)
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (Game)
• Metal Gear Solid HD Collection (Game)
• Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D (Game)
• Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection 1987-2012 (Game)
• No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way (Game)
• Outlaw Volleyball (Game)
• Overlord II (Game)
• Postal 2 (Game)
• Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend (Game)
• Postal: Brain Damaged (Game)
• Segagaga (Game)
• South Park (Game)
• South Park: The Fractured But Whole (Game)
• South Park: The Stick of Truth (Game)
• Soviet Unterzögersdorf: Sector 1 (Game)
• StarCraft (Game)
• StarCraft: Brood War (Game)
• Stay! Stay! Democratic People's Republic of Korea! My First (and only) Trip to Korea (Game)
• Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse (Game)
• Subscribe My Adventure (Game)
• Szkeletal: Estrogen Dracul's Potato Hunger (Game)
• Takeshi no Chousenjou (Game)
• The Document of Metal Gear Solid 2 (Game)
• The Doonesbury Election Game Campaign '96 (Game)
• The Kingdom of Loathing (Game)
• The Last Hero of Nostalgaia (Game)
• The Operative: No One Lives Forever (Game)
• The Outer Worlds 2 (Game)
• The Political Machine (Game)
• The Political Machine 2008 (Game)
• The Political Machine 2012 (Game)
• The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything (Game)
• The Simpsons Game (Game)
• Total Overdose (Game)
• True Crime: New York City (Game)
• True Crime: Streets of LA (Game)
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (Game)
• XZR (Game)

Concept details

Name

Satire

Aliases

Games

• Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON’T KNOW! (Game)
• Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed (Game)
• Akiba’s Trip (Game)
• American Dream (Game)
• American McGee Presents: Bad Day L.A. (Game)
• Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures (Game)
• Anodyne (Game)
• BMX XXX (Game)
• Bully (Game)
• Bully: Scholarship Edition (Game)
• Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (Game)
• Conker: Live & Reloaded (Game)
• Dead Rising (Game)
• DeathSpank (Game)
• Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (Game)
• Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick (Game)
• EarthBound (Game)
• Eisenwald: Blood of November (Game)
• Election (Game)
• Escape From Hell (Game)
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Franchises

• Has franchises: Adult Swim (Franchise), Grand Theft Auto (Franchise), Command & Conquer (Franchise), Conker (Franchise), The Simpsons (Franchise), StarCraft (Franchise), Dead Rising (Franchise), Duke Nukem (Franchise), The Political Machine (Franchise), Bully (Franchise), Total Overdose (Franchise), Fallout (Franchise), Disgaea (Franchise), Postal (Franchise), Leisure Suit Larry (Franchise), Gun (Franchise), True Crime (Franchise), Family Guy (Franchise), South Park (Franchise), Vampire: The Masquerade (Franchise), Matt Hazard (Franchise)

Characters

• Has characters: Homer Simpson (Character), Brucie Kibbutz (Character), RoboCop (Character), Max (Character), Sam (Character), The Postal Dude (Character), Peter Griffin (Character), Bosco (Character), Sybil Pandemik (Character), Eric Cartman (Character), AFGNCAAP (Character), Rocket J. Squirrel (Character), Boris Badenov (Character), Natasha Fatale (Character), Bullwinkle J. Moose (Character), Altos Tratus (Character), Mike Doonesbury (Character), Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (Character), Don Patch (Character), Foxbat (Character), Senator (Character)

Locations

• Has locations: Japan (Location), The United States of America (Location), Liberty City (Location), Vice City (Location), Los Angeles (Location), Bullworth Academy (Location), Tokyo (Location), San Andreas (Location), San Francisco (Location), South Park (Location), Columbia (Location), Hent High (Location)

Objects

People

• Has people: Vince Desi (Person), Trey Parker (Person), Matt Stone (Person), Charlie Brooker (Person)

Related Concepts

• Has related concepts: Zombie (Concept), Controversy (Concept), Gangs (Concept), Dark Humor (Concept), Parody (Concept), German Accent (Concept), Racial Stereotypes (Concept), Religion (Concept), In-Game Radio (Concept), Pop Culture Reference (Concept), Nuclear Fallout (Concept), Incest (Concept), Nuclear Holocaust (Concept), Nuclear War (Concept), Running Gag (Concept), Unitology (Concept), Helldivers (Concept)