Is the "MOBA-space" really competitive? I know that everyone and their grandma is trying to make a DOTA clone, but are any of them any good / successful (competitive)?
LoL and DOTA2 are at the top - is there anything that could be considered 'third place' or are all these games just fighting over scraps and doomed to die?
I think big names leaving big studios to do their own smaller thing is probably good for everyone.
Ideally, this will allow Jade to have some real freedom to take risks without hundreds of jobs being on the line, as well as allowing new blood at Ubi to flourish.
If they came to me tomorrow and asked me how they could make the site more welcoming? Here are three things I'd suggest.
A. Patrick cannot be the only person trying to reach out to women. The rest of the staff needs to make an effort and they need to prove it to their audience.
B. They need to put women on staff.
C. They need to raise their consciousness on the industry issues that affect women. Again, heads in the sand.
Jeff Gerstmann has the privilege of staying out of this. For women like me, Zoe Quinn, Samantha Allen - we DO NOT HAVE A CHOICE. I can't ignore a freight train coming towards us.
Giant Bomb feels silence is not consent. That's because they don't understand very much about the realities we face.
I feel like what you are asking for (politicizing Giant Bomb) would destroy the site, for me. I bet the same is true for others.
More and more, it seems like 3rd party gaming sites are about politics, and less about games. There is definitely room on the internet for sites that deal with those issues, but I don't think is should be a requirement to be a "good" site.
It is poisonous for a "with us or against us" mentality to take hold. I do not want Giant Bomb to go on a crusade for women, but that doesn't mean I don't want women to be successful in gaming.
@yogibeast: From the trailer, I don't get the sense that this game is an intentional meta-commentary the way Spec Ops: The Line was, but I think this post still gets to the heart of the matter.
Shooting and killing is the fun, primary mechanic in tons of games. The only difference between this one and the other ones, is the excuse the story presents as to why it is allowed. It's refreshing for a game to be honest (if laughably edgy) about what it is, instead something like Destiny's "push back the Darkness, I guess?" mentality.
@beb: listen to the narration again. I really don't think they're mocking that kind of mentality. How is saying that about all of humanity any different than saying it about a specific race?
I agree they aren't making fun of the main character. They are playing it straight, and appealing to teen angst. But that isn't the same as endorsing the actions of the player character as applied to real life.
For example, in Bioshock: Infinite, I gunned down hundreds of people. I don't think that Bioshock: Infinite was made with the intention of teaching the player that it is OK to gun people down left and right.
As for the difference between targeting humanity at large vs. a specific race, the answer is in the question. There is no target when everyone is included. No one is being picked on. There is no obvious political agenda that I can see. You yourself couldn't answer my question about what the political statement was. The game isn't asking the player to go out and kill their neighbours any more than FarCry 3 was asking the player to become a rich douche and move to an island, or Dragon Age 3 is asking us to start a freakin' Inquisition.
I've been avoiding getting into this conversation, but I'd love to hear what people who think this is no big deal would think if all the victims were black/jews/muslims/women/kids/whatever.
Yes, I know even the creators say "...just don't try this at home and don't take it too seriously, it's just a game. :)", but you have to draw the line somewhere, right? Unarmed civilians isn't a good enough place?
GTA already crosses this line, with commerical and critical success.
If it was just {type of person} as fodder, then the game could be considered to be making a political statement, and might be considered hate speech or something like it. Just going from the trailer I don't get that.
All shooter games come up with some flimsy excuse as to why it is 'morally OK' to be dumpin' on dudes. They are aliens, or 'evil' soldiers, or something. In this game, from the perspective of the player, everyone deserves it. They exist only to be gunned down.
If the creators intend for the game to be some kind of statement or message, then yeah that is weird and icky, but not all games are trying to convey a message. Mario isn't about how sweet it is to do shrooms, it's just about jumpin'.
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