Mafia 2 Producer Apologizes for "Gay Space Marine" Comment

[SelectivelyEvil13]

The word "gay" has become so common in daily language that it honestly slipped my "offensive" radar for a minute. Then I remembered we live in a world where selective and convenient political correctness is the plaything of the fragile-minded.

There certainly is a point to be made about how games tend to follow a similar path after one's initial success, as is the case of space marines or realistic shooters. His criticizing of the over-reliance upon space marines is a valid point, but it is somewhat undermined considering he made an Italian-American Mafia game that appears to take the notes off of every other Mafia movie or game.

He may also have been noting the shallow and predictable characterization of space marine characters. Often enough though, this critique comes off as puerile by lumping most space marine or even generally masculine characters as priapic gym-zealots. He makes it out like there are so many grievous offenders, but off the top of my head Gears of War is the closest "bromance" I can think of.

 

[The Austin]

Pfffttt, I don't see the problem, I like Gears of War.

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[obisean]

The biggest problem the video game industry faces at the moment is not "gay space marines." It's charging you DLC prices for content already on the disc. Ya know, kinda what they did in Mafia 2.

 

[SelectivelyEvil13]

Pfffttt, I don't see the problem, I like Gears of War.

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I do as well. There really isn't even much to support "bromance" for that game, either. The only big emotional thing I can recall from the last game was Dom and his wife, so that can't count ha ha. In fact, they're not even in space, either...

I dunno, maybe he was going "Freudian?"

 

[Don't Poke My Bobcat]

He should've picked better words instead of sounding like a fucking homophobe, full-stop. In an era where we can't even repeal DADT, people throwing the word "gay" around as a derogatory slur piss me off to no end.

I'm not a fan of Politically Correct language, but I am sick of the way the word gay is used. Yes I get it he was being satirical. But on the other hand there are people who will take it out of context.

This is what I mean about knee jerk, taking offence to something before context is applied.

Why must he accomodate for people with intelligence deficit? Its the same reason why saying 'black' immediately pricks people's ears up, regardless of what you were talking about. In the desire to not offend anyone we're turning our culture into molly cuddled toddlers and that is what annoys me.

The collective intelligence (read: not the average, collective. It is a separate definition) is plummeting because everyone is so desperate to cover their arseholes over certain aspects of society. Perhaps I should remove my last metaphor because it could be construed as homophobic?

He meant as a describing word. Many duos in videogames do behave in a gay manner, and that is offensive to point it out? Anyone that found it offensive needs to reallign their priorities in my opinion.

What I would actually focus on is that he's a hypocrite. Just because his game is full of different popular archetypes doesn't give him the right to sit in an ivory tower and cast judgment.

 

[Weaver]

I suppose it doesn't make it any less true. It's the 300 dilemma all over again. Oh sure, people like the almighty strong naked SPARTAAA moments that make manly men feel masculine, but that doesn't stop it from being incredibly homoerotic.

Kind of off topic, but the ancient gGeeks embraced homosexuality quite openly, so I don't really see 300 being homoerotic as anything surprising. The Athenians even had an entirely gay regiment in their army, with the idea that you would fight more effectively beside your loved ones - it worked too!