Reminds me of M. John Harrison's statement about worldbuilding as "the great clomping foot of nerdism"
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Replying to @Elpico72
It's like the people whose take on Bioshock Infinite was like "Wow this world is so intricate and beautiful I'd love to just spend more time exploring it instead of shooting it to pieces" and one guy just EXPLODED on them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Elpico72
"THIS WORLD EXISTS TO BE SHOT TO PIECES IT IS A MORAL ATROCITY NOT TO SHOOT IT TO PIECES IT'S A FALSE UTOPIA BASED ON CLOYING AMERICANA BUILT ON RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY YOU STUPID VACUOUS FUCKS"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Elpico72
Like I'm not really gonna go to bat for the Bioshocks, which are deeply flawed But they both have the villain try to call you out on the whole violent video game murder simulator thing You're an agent of apocalypse, you can only interact with the world via gun
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Elpico72
You only destroy, never create You can't talk to people or negotiate or propose any implement reforms All you can do is burn and smash and kill Doesn't that make you the real bad guy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Elpico72
And the answer is no This world needed burning and these people needed killing Sometimes a whole damn society is irredeemable and needs to be drowned in rivers of blood
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(Bioshock Infinite sucks because the game itself waffled all over the place on whether it really commits to this idea with the Daisy Fitzroy subplot A game that was just plain "Massacre slaveowners in an orgy of glorious redemptive bloodshed" would be a lot more subversive)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Elpico72
Lol what they really ought to make is the goriest bloodiest FPS ever, with Doom Eternal style execution mechanics and everything, and have it just be you as a Black person killing white people Mau Mau Simulator Call of Duty 1952: Kenya Emergency
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Elpico72
Suddenly watch all the "freeze peach in gaming" white boys go full Jack Thompson moral guardian "What are you teaching the kids"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I mean, almost every enemy in a Bioshock game practically screams, "I am a terrible person and I deserve to be set on fire and/or savaged by bees." Even if they weren't hideouskly mutated addicts you wouldn't feel much sympathy for them.
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Yeah like the original idea of Bioshock was all of the creatures weren't even humans, it was some hive of insect aliens you were exploring and the Splicers were the "evil" bugs (the Aggressors) preying on the Harvesters (Little Sisters) and fighting with Protectors (Big Daddies)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
And that goes back to the System Shock games -- the enemies are humans who've been irrevocably borged by SHODAN, the best thing you can do for them is to kill them.
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Replying to @Elpico72
Yeah the "bio" of the Bioshock games fell by the wayside pretty fast, like in the end the gimmick is still "genetic engineering" but it's much less of a literal genre thing The original idea was you exploring this actual hive colony ecosystem thing
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