The review is solid overall, but the 'white savior' bit reads like the meme (paraphrased) "tell me you haven't read Dune without telling me you haven't read Dune".
Makes me feel bad for Villeneuve in a way; Arrival's biggest minus came about because he felt like he needed to beat the audience to death to make sure they 'figured it out', and now I'm wondering if (unfortunately) he needed to do it here, too.
@saturatedbutter: I don't think anything SJW really applies here. It's more that it is kind of a half-baked feature; you went from being stuck playing a single model, to being stuck playing whatever random model they give you. If there is no player agency involved, why bother? Variety? Of what? Models no one still gives a crap about?
It just seems like a waste of everyone's time involved.
... I'm just now trying to make my way through DS1. I'm like 30 hours into it, and there isn't much of a story to speak of. I die a lot of cheap deaths, too (like rolling and getting stuck on nothing, just rolling in place and getting smashed.)
Still, the games get great reviews and people seem to like them, so I push on... I figure it will click at some point. :)
It makes it weirder when you consider that Martin Sheen is a fairly outspoken Liberal.
I do have to question whether the designer quoted saying "who is verifiably the bad guy in the game" actually played the games, if he believes that is a legitimate distillation of the story and characters.
Well, Vita owners - if you're lucky, you'll get support again when this division starts tossing you table scraps. Alternatively, this is Sony extending the middle finger they're already giving you by putting on one of those giant foam hands, just to make the message clear.
Overall, this is probably a good thing. The consoles are all x86, so backwards compatibility can be maintained easily through succeeding hardware revisions. Eventually, developers will either put in the kind of graphical option flexibility PC titles offer, or they will just have profiles - if you're on X console, X settings get loaded.
The aspect of this that worries me is wondering if they're heading towards an Apple style hardware system - yearly refreshes to keep that year to year new hardware buzz constantly going.
It's somewhat funny, how that weird, almost puritanical sexual repression that has pervaded American society forever always seems to be doing the 1 step forward, 2 steps back thing. You have people of all stripes pointing out how ridiculous it is that you can shoot and de-limb people on TV but can't show a boob, but turning around and slap a chastity belt on anything remotely suggestive as it relates to video games.
They'll campaign to hang out on their college campus without tops on, then trigger on dancers at a party. Sexuality and gaming are now supposed to be mutually exclusive because it might offend someone, but we have LGBT gaming conventions and a focus on getting characters of varying sexuality IN to games.
Am I the only one that has a hard time figuring out what the hell people actually want? Personally, I'd prefer games to be inclusive of the tastes of a variety of groups, and let the people that trigger on each of those pound sand and stop sucking the enjoyment out of life for everyone else.
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