Recent content by orangeban

I'm not really sure why Rockstar included that scene. I mean, it's probably going to ruin a lot of people's fun, right? You go from wacky zany antics to torture, that's pretty jarring. Rockstar is way too proud of their satire honestly.

You seem confused about sexism in gaming. No-one's arguing that a group of men are sitting around cackling, all "And then we shall make women weak in our games! Mwahahaha man I hate women." Yes, it's mostly lazy writing. The fact that a lazily written female character is just a damsel in...

To be fair, Booker could have been male and you can talk about how this is indicative of an overall sexist trend in videogaming.

Well, I'm female, recently I've been playing Dark Souls, the Professor Layton series and Civilisation 5. What's important to me? I like games that say things, like, have a theme and talk about it. So, Spec Ops: The Line, but also more subtle things, Amnesia: The Dark Descent had things to say...

That's just moronic. Firstly, a lack of permadeath and the presence of save points do not make a game "easy", case-in-point, Dark Souls. But also, there's nothing inherently awesome about difficulty. Yeah, you get a big man-boner when you can win and no-one else can, but that's just feeding...

I don't care about if the incestuous couple makes kids or not, I'm concerned about the relationship dynamic in incestuous relationships. You'd have a tough time convincing me that a mother does not have a power over her son that makes any kind of relationship between them at best morally...

In a perfect world, no, of course it wouldn't matter. And in this world, it usually isn't a bad thing. However, when it becomes a trope and accepted that when you write a villain, that's what they're like, it's a problem if you contribute to that. Examples of this; having a typical thug...

Honestly, I'd distrust the Russian government's official message if I were them, so I can't really blame them.

Okay, let me take issue with your defence of both cases. 1) The problem isn't just that they're sexy, it's that their only character trait is that they're sexy. They aren't a great, deep and interesting character who is also sexy, it's that they're just sexy. This is why the comparison to...

Games about racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. are not the same thing as games that just *are* sexist, racist, homophobic, etc. Of course the former aren't a problem, if they're handled well. The issue is when it's the latter. For example, the recent Dead Island thing wasn't a comment on the...

Peruvianskys has basically summed up everything that really needs to be said. But basically, the statue taps into society's really weird feelings towards women. You've got this mutilated statue, but it's also sexy. And it's clearly designed to be sexy (the breasts are large and basically...

I adore Let The Right One In, but there's a scene where some cats attack someone, and it's the stupidest fucking scene. Like, in this dark horror story, suddenly you have the most ludicrously absurd scene which I couldn't stop laughing at, the cats look so fake and just... it's hilarious.

Hmm, I'm not terribly surprised by this. Not how I would have called it though, I probably would have said 1) The Walking Dead 2) Hotline Miami 3) Super Hexagon 4) Little Inferno But y'know, whatevs, Little Inferno is for all intents and purposes a crap game since it's meant to be a...

I guess stuff involving like knives and cutting and ugh, the whole idea just makes me want to cry and hide, I can't stand the idea of cutting my skin with a knife, it's honestly a horrifying idea to me. Also, autoerotic asphyxiation even though I think I may have that one? I dunno, the whole...

Are open world elements detrimental to story telling? I don't think so, all that's necessary is for the side-quests and fucking around stuff to be tied into the main theme/narrative. A good example is Saints Row The Third, you can spend hours and hours dicking around outside the main quest in...