(1/2)Let's look at another shooter then, Spec Ops: The Line(SOtL). SOtL is a shooter that Generic with a capital G, at least in the beginning. It has their player base blast through legions of american soldiers (as an american soldier I might add) in an effort to highlight the-
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(2/2)brutality of the genre in general. If we wan't games to actually be considered art, we have to accept that they'll come under a level of scrutiny. It comes with the package. Just because golden eye doesn't self criticize like SOtL does, doesnt mean it can't be criticized.
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If that isn't something you want to participate in, that's okay. you don't have to. But don't scoff at others who do want to examine games in that way.
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It’s flawed? Your response to it seems to be “It’s totally okay for media to glorify violence if that’s what it wants to do.” I think we can still have the conversation about how those values are harmful to our culture.
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Sorry, but media has a tremendous impact on our cultural values, our feelings about violence, about what it means to be a man or a woman, etc etc.
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Violent crime may have decreased. That doesn’t mean we’ve started separating violence from our cultural notions of masculinity. We haven’t. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/us/mass-murderers.html …
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I’m a media critic. I’m interested in games, films, television. They’re an important part of this conversation.
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