I'm quite sorry that they made you feel racist, but the episode's message is spot on: If you are going to use a incredible difficult and violent, ongoing conflict for the setting your game, you have better do it properly and with intelligence. No one argues against fun, but something wanting to be fun can never be an excuse to throw ethics out the window. I understand and respect your thinking that you want games to exist in a vaccum dimension where everyhting's fun and nothing matters, but considering the relevance the medium is gaining in new genereations and its role in creating a world view, vaccum world cannot exist for games dealing with touchy subjects. It's about thinking beyond ourselves and culture of egotism and unacountability that was been built up through the years.ABLb0y said:I don't watch it anymore. Not after they called me racist for liking Call of Juarez: The Cartel. Let me straighten this out: I like it because it's fun to play with my friends, not because you can shoot Mexicans.
Wait, wasn't there an achievement for killing black people in the game though? I mean, like literally. Something to do with there being a level with all black enemies in it and you get an achievement for killing a certain number of them. The only achievement in the whole game based on number of people you kill and the only level where there are only black people as bad guys. A good friend of mine actually had to stop playing the game when he earned that achievement on the first try. He put down the controller and said (literally) "Okay, at the point where I'm specifically being rewarded for killing black people, it's time to draw a line." He turned the game back into gamestop the next day for credit.ABLb0y said:I don't watch it anymore. Not after they called me racist for liking Call of Juarez: The Cartel. Let me straighten this out: I like it because it's fun to play with my friends, not because you can shoot Mexicans.
I found it recently about 8 months ago. I was enjoying it, Then the whole Rockethub thing happened. Before that I was getting a little awkward with it all.Comrade_Beric said:After a massive out pour of support back when the schism first happened, I have noticed a gradual drop-off of people mentioning the show. I'm curious to know if this is because people have simply stopped talking about it, or have people actually stopped watching EC?
Personally, I watched the show religiously every week when they were here and I did follow them to Youtube, but I got massively turned off of the show when James hijacked two whole episodes to talk about how he used to play games so much that he didn't function as a human being. The humor was gone, the intelligence was gone, the whole show had become a forum for James to lecture us about how terrible games had been for him...
Talking about an important video-game related issue does not constitute getting sidetracked; it's what they DO. But, at least you didn't decide to abandon the show in a huff because you didn't care for one topic.Father Time said:Yes, although I'm annoyed that they got sidetracked for 2 or 3 episodes.
I was under the impression that Father Time was talking about something more recent. People keep talking about how James seems to have hijacked the show again and they're not even talking about games at all at the moment.Semudara said:Talking about an important video-game related issue does not constitute getting sidetracked; it's what they DO. But, at least you didn't decide to abandon the show in a huff because you didn't care for one topic.Father Time said:Yes, although I'm annoyed that they got sidetracked for 2 or 3 episodes.