An absolute must-read here. Carolyn puts into words so much of why I couldn't connect with this game, and why it feels incapable of saying anything remotely truthful about our world and human nature.https://twitter.com/carolynmichelle/status/1277730092160962560 …
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Makes me think about my favorite theory on the effects of media violence: Violent media doesn't make people more violent. It just makes people more afraid, convinced that they live in a more violent world than they actually do. That's TLOU2 in a nutshell.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome …
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Yes! At one point there was a short section in my piece that touched on how the game's commitment to a kind of superficial realism, combined with its negative view of humanity, made me feel even more wary and guarded while out and about in the world than I otherwise do,...
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...and it mentioned the terrible game Castle Doctrine as a kind of companion piece to this game, the endpoint of viewing humanity through such an ugly lens.
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