These particular people, the outspoken minority I refer to, do not want to "escape from politics," they want games that reflect & reaffirm their own politics. You cannot wholly "escape from politics" in media that tells any kind of relevant story about the world in which we live.
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And this, come on, this is just absurd. There is SO MUCH writing, SOOO MUCH, that uncritically revels in games without engaging with their politics much at all, writing by fans (passing themselves off as critics) for fans. This hysteria about such writing being verboten is ridic.pic.twitter.com/RgSA7XBrmP
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What you're advocating for, when you say you object to writing that engages with, say, Miles' relationship w/police, is writing that, by not engaging with these issues, tacitly approves your own politics. Because the politics are in the game whether we talk about them or not.
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Just even as a reader, I don't understand the idea of preferring writing that engages with works only on a superficial level. Like, even if I don't agree with a critic's conclusions, I get way more out of a piece that goes for it than one that coddles its fragile readership.
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Do I think there's bad criticism that reductively engages only with a work's political/social/representational issues to the detriment of its other facets? Absolutely. 100%. Art is complex, our relationship to it is complex, and criticism should reflect that, too. But come on.
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also (even though a lot of games crit is completely uncritical), it's such a funny position to be like "why aren't there writers who don't want to think about the things they're writing about!"
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"most people just love a grilled cheese. most people don't want fancy food. Why are food critics always writing about food other than grilled cheese"
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Ah, mainstream games criticism, famously known for ignoring the escapist fun factor.
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It's funny because games like let's say, shooters, can range from Call of Duty, to Overwatch, to Splatoon, and if I were forced to choose which of these are the "least political" it would probably not be the one all the angry boys love to play.
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