@Turambar said:
New International Version or gtfo D:
OK. :)
You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
^^
@jakob187 said:
It wasn't just complaining about violence. It was more about the reaction to said violence. That very reaction was your typical "America fuck yeah violence blood and gore dudebro macho shit" reaction, and I'll be honest - it was even unsettling to me...and I've watched A Serbian Film. While I do enjoy a good spot of gore, and I'll even admittedly mark out like a muthafucker when it happens, there's something a little odd about an entire audience flipping out and basically saying "HELL YEAH" when the main character in The Last of Us shoots a guy that is pleading for his life directly in the face with a shotgun. There's something just...a bit fetish about that, isn't there? It's beyond the typical "yo, this is a fighting game and you ripped this guy's spine out of his body". The guy was PLEADING FOR HIS LIFE, and you flat-out murdered him in cold blood. It's a reaction that we don't typically see from the nameless fucks that we gun down in our games.
While the cheering for that end of The Last of Us was... Odd. There's something different there. I get the situation, obviously, just as I understand the backdrop of war in most FPSes, but still... I can't help but think the audience was missing the forest for the trees there. I've no doubt that The Last of Us is going to be a game I get because it's awesome, but I'm not going to be hopping up and down with glee when those instances come.
Oh, and in another moment of journalistic hypocrisy, there were people calling Treyarch's Call of Duty: World at War exploitative because of the increased gore compared to MW, probably a few people who work here or at GameSpot now, and certainly a good many of the people at that Last of Us showing.
It amazes me how quickly gaming journalism flip-flops on these issues, decrying them one moment and embracing them in others.
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