don't want to make this another Deep Discourse thing, but discussion about criticism of TLOU2's violence from reviewers in the game industry led to a friend of mine pointing out that this is an industry conversation and it makes some sense for a huge game to be discussed. HOWEVER
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DOOM ETERNAL. Also came out earlier this year, was massively acclaimed as far as I can tell. It's not my kind of game for purely non ideology reasons (too twitch based) but can anyone tell me: did anyone bring up the pervasiveness of violence in video games in those reviews?
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Definitely saw this from the feminist frequency gaggle
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I certainly remember when Bioshock Infinite came out and the universal chorus of "this would be better without combat"
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This did and still does really bother me If you can look at this cloying Americana society built on white supremacy and NOT want it to end up walls of fire and torrents of blood then you're a fucking asshole
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The first part of the game, where you're rampaging across their little bucolic small town riddling it with gunfire and littering it with cop corpses, fucking owns Watching the Vox put Columbia to the torch fucking owns The game starts to suck when it starts questioning this
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the part where the designers of Bioshock Infinite can't tell the difference between Reconstruction and the Reign of Terror is just willful white blindness
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