It's thematically similar to the stuff Ellie is into in LiS and TLoU in that way, it just executed it really badly And yeah that's a shitty narrative that literally centers a white girl's feelings above everything else
-
-
Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
But I honestly don't think it's really that the message is "The Vox uprising shouldn't be happened, and it would be okay for the Founders' utopia to continue" The Founders' utopia was a track leading straight to Armageddon and the Vox were an attempt to stop that that failed
1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Ok but you can throw all the high-minded structural excuses at it you want, it's still a game where it explicitly has the rebellious PoC chanting triumphantly about how they're gonna rape the white women.
2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
Yeah no it's a game that kind of demands a lack of nuance and then pushes nuance on you anyway You can't make a grotesquely exaggerated Jim Crow slaveocracy with minstrel shows and shit and then ask me for nuance about it
1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
I mean, you find out Booker was at Wounded Knee and that he's a Pinkerton literally first thing in the game, before you see Columbia or its racism So you *know* you're a bad guy if you're paying attention
1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
I still consider a former Pinkerton better than a society that worships John Wilkes Booth and stones interracial couples to death with baseballs.
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
Absolutely. I'm just saying that the game is saying "you are not a good person" from the start
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
I don't think in those terms, bluntly. Plenty of people do crummy things and then spend a lot of their lives trying to make up for doing the crummy thing. it's a classic noir character beat.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
I'm not entirely sure we disagree on this beat, although I think it's clear from the base game and DLC that Booker does not achieve redemption
2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
The ending of the main game seems pretty clearly to imply that he DOES achieve redemption, that there's now a timeline where he neither became Comstock nor sold Anna to him (because the Comstock timeline has been destroyed) so Anna is currently alive
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.