Your video game hot take(s) thread
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I wonder if any of them know about the whole pederasty thing....
Man, that would’ve made the new God of War super creepy if Kratos had some remnant of that buried somewhere in his psyche. However I’d love to see if Sony had the guts to address it somehow in-game in some tactfully interesting way for the sequel. Certainly would add some dramatic weight to things, and the challenge of doing it in a way that gives players a gut check of sorts would be a hell of a thing to pull off for the medium.
Maybe it could be some backstory of Kratos where he rebelled against his master, and saved a bunch of kid soldiers from abuse. Something like that, but make it horrifying enough that it makes the player wonder what the fuck just happened from a video game.
The thing is though, it was so normalized that the kids most likely didn’t know any better, which is fucked up.
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I think the main idea was doing that with the kids of others rather than your own, so Atreus would likely be safe.
Actually I'm more disturbed by the future tastes of Atreus
considering he's Loki who among other things seduced and had sex with a horse.
Also the whole infanticide by abandonment thing. Not that either of these were apparently exclusive the the spartans mind you and the practice survived well into the middle ages.
I always gravitate towards PVE cause everyone in it to win it and its less intense I say so people tend to act like assclowns less.
My favorite community was Dragons Dogma. Everyone was willing to help people have the best pawns and give them the best gear, skill suggestions and inclinations. Plus just sharing photos and stories of what happened in game with them. Very unique community that have not seen anything similar in a while.
On the subject of Sparta, fun fact, when I was in primary school, be briefly touched on Greek history. I recall an essay we had to write where we could choose between Athens and Sparta. With the exception of one student, literally the entire class (myself included) wrote on Sparta. And why? Because Spartans are "kewl." I mean, obviously, Athens has had a more enduring legacy in Greece than Sparta, but, well, y'know...
And TBH, much as I'd love to say I'm enlightened now, I find myself still more interested in Roman history than Greek history (it's the other way round for their mythologies). On one hand, you could argue that Rome had a wider impact on the Mediterranean, but on the other, you don't become one of the world's largest empires by giving flowers. Basically, they fall into the club of "magnificent bastards."
And TBH, much as I'd love to say I'm enlightened now, I find myself still more interested in Roman history than Greek history (it's the other way round for their mythologies). On one hand, you could argue that Rome had a wider impact on the Mediterranean, but on the other, you don't become one of the world's largest empires by giving flowers. Basically, they fall into the club of "magnificent bastards."
I agree, but then I look at the people behind Star Citizen, and it makes you wonder if
At this rate I'm convinced that Gabe Newell is secretly building a city-sized real-world dystopia for gamers to experience as Half-Life 3.
I think at this point they’re using a roundabout way of getting there in a sense, and that Alyx was the beginning of the answer to what we’ve been waiting for.
It's taking so long because he has to build a real portal to let the aliens actually show up and conquer us.
Iconoclasts is a great game whose story is marred by a complicated lore delivered before the player has started caring about the story, and whose ending really drags on.
www.polygon.com/platform/amp/22436615/mass-effect-legendary-edition-police-ea-bioware-brooklyn-99
Blessed be the woke, praised be Polygon, this was the article GX was talking about