I should get back into this game soon.
-"The game is not 'A civil rights metaphor' in my understanding. Also, in my understanding, death camps are way beyond the basic definition of civil rights you give, since yourself acknowledge that s relevant BEFORE the final solution."
But as I already stated, HOW did we get to the point of death camps? Through the gradual & systemic disregard of Jews' civil rights (lowercase c defintion which you can look up).
-"It just...
-"How do you fit the extermination camps in your 'civil rights' allegory?
That's two different angles. Yes it's part of a similar theme but labelling the whole game as a civil rights metaphor seems very reductive dont you think?"
I'd argue you've just validated the journalist's opinion. It's important to note that the Civil Rights (capital C) Movement in America isn't the end-all of what that definition means. As I al...
-"There are many civil rights metaphor in it (and many other metaphors). That doesn't make it the whole point of the game."
I just don't follow the logic here, esp. when there's multitude historical moments coursing through the game. Jesse Williams-bot literally infiltrates a TV station to spout their demands: freedom & total equality for androids. That's nearly a 1-to-1 definition of civil rights. That may not be the ONLY themes & lesso...
But the measurement Qt3 goes by is whether he liked it or not. In this case? This just translates to him hating his experience with Sea of Solitude. And I somewhat can't blame him.
"Also shows they dont understand much else though."
Our introduction to the 'black' playable character literally has him and other androids forced to stand in back of the bus. It's really not hard to miss that and a PLETHORA of other civil-rights allegorical examples. I'm not one to shy away from shooting down game journos' bad aggregate takes, but this ain't one of them.
That's not his review methodology though. A 1/5 just translates to "I hated my time with Sea of Solitude."
@rainslacker
Neither I insinuated that was the case nor, did I think Genji believed so either. It should be easy to understand lung cancer as a means of shorthand vs. HAVING to make a Wikipedia list for all related illnesses here.
Speaking as someone who's lost a family member from one of those others you've listed, I get that they exist too but, in the context of my response, I don't see the imperative to bring them up. And in regards to ig...
"Besides, even heavy smokers won't die or get diagnosed from lung cancer until their 80s when their lungs can't hold anymore. It won't kill anyone in their youth."
In your attempt to make an overarching point about Ferguson's unnecessary stance you come off looking incredibly ignorant or uncritical in your language. I mean...those heavy smokers who make it are either the RARE exception who avoided lung cancer, had costly surgery, or made complete...
Riiight...RDR2, which released in 2018, belongs on a disappointing games of 2019 list.
Indeed. I dig that it's affecting some people positively, but I'm on the more negative side for this one.
Oh sure, it definitely wasn't solely his choice to make. But regardless of how many were involved, it still comes off as...weird to see that kind of disconnect between an artist and fanbase. No doubt millions would buy/rent a SP Star Wars covering Chewy's adventures between Ep. 3 & 4 too.
-"Anyway it's not the look that matters but the personality. "
Yeah, I really hope they pull off Cal's arc.
No, his quote essentially boils down to "we didn't do an alien protag b/c we feared that would ALIENATE the player." Like I said, I have no beef with anyone calling Stig out for that bad rationale.
"I can see journalists complaining the alien would be too lizard like or too white, or too small etc"
Do you mean journalists as a collective here? B/c I think you're acting in bad faith if you believe that's what they'd ...
"Kojima's promotion for his games is always a lot weirder than the games themselves."
-Radio Call-
Col. Campbell: MGS2 would be disagree with you there.
-End Call- ;)
*Sigh*
I don't mind where Luke Luby is initially going in critiquing that bad defense. No meaningful amount of SW fandom would lose 'connection' with Kal were he a non-human protag. We've seen cartoons as early as Droid Adventures showing that shouldn't be a legit worry. But onto the terrible fumble(s) in the rest of the piece...
-"Believe it or not, he blamed Rey - the current lead in the cinematic trilogy - for filling the fr...
@MasterCornholio
You're misapplying that question to my question--which normally doesn't help a discussion. Just b/c I'm curious about FallenAngel's claim doesn't mean I'm resolutely on the opposite end (it'll be easy for MS to replicate US success). For one, I'm not sure how we'd be able to quantify what's hard/easy about that task at hand.
But just to go along with the question: I'd point to the fact that th...
How so?
*Looks at disagrees*
Now I'm really curious about this response. I mean...c'mon even one of the bads listed out at the end says "Dialogue constantly spells out metaphors." If it's THAT MUCH of a drag I'm not sure how you can rectify it also being briefly & clearly expressed or stated ("succinct") for the conclusion. Not trying to sound too much like an a** here but I anticipated something to at least explain this error.
I'm having some trouble buying his reasons though. Because the two he's listed (i.e. communication & community) are "regulations" that don't apply to other games already. I'm pretty sure Dauntless is a good example.
If only someone could've seen through that and blogged about it ~1 1/2 months ago. :)
It shouldn't really be that tough to see though. We're just in a weird time there's money to be made by disregarding any context or subtext in the work you put out.