Starfields is one of the biggest games of 2023 – but it’s joined other recent games like Baldurs Gate 3 in being boycotted by conservatives because of the way it interacts with gender.
Starfields is one of the biggest games of 2023 – but it’s joined other recent games like Baldurs Gate 3 in being boycotted by conservatives because of the way it interacts with gender.
TOS Star Trek had a great episode called Devil in the Dark dealing with that subject, where an inhuman monster is killing miners and it turns out that it was an intelligent life form that was protecting its eggs.
The Horta did nothing wrong!
Yeah maybe my mind is getting muddled with age but I vaguely remember several sci Fi settings with that kind of “from a certain perspective” moments in the 80s/90s. The matrix backstory is another just replace aliens with robots. Hell mars attacks though the late 90s early 2000s kinda flips that on its head by having several scenes where humans think they’re just misunderstanding the martians diplomacy and the martians having 0 interest in diplomacy.
I think in most of them, the aliens were basically anthropomorphic. The only one I can think of off the top of my head that’s similar to Devil in the Dark is the movie Monsters (which I personally did not like), where the aliens were viewed as a threat, but they actually just didn’t care about humans.