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#1 Posted by Jost1 (2063 posts) - 2 months, 13 days ago

@jost1 said:

@mbdoeden said:

@jost1 said:

The narrative dissonance in this game is far less jarring than in Uncharted.

I absolutely agree.

Nathan Drakes portrayal in cutscenes vs. gameplay is the story of a delusional mass murderer.

By the time you get to the temple to save Sam the first time with Lara her mass murdering seemed to come in line with her character.

Totally. It all seemed to fit as well as you could expect. Obviously it's still a BIT strange but yeah, Nathan Drake is a crazy genocidal maniac whereas Lara is a person pushed to their very limit.

I think the difference is that Drake is a caricature. His very demeanor tells the audience not to take him seriously. There's no dissonance because he has no depth to be dissonant against.

I completely disagree. I find it quite egregious in Uncharted. It bothers me that Drake gleefully murders thousands of people. I don't like it. In Tomb Raider, Lara does what she has to do to survive. And yeah it's very video gamey but Uncharted makes me a lot more uncomfortable.

#2 Edited by Jost1 (2063 posts) - 2 months, 13 days ago

@mbdoeden said:

@jost1 said:

The narrative dissonance in this game is far less jarring than in Uncharted.

I absolutely agree.

Nathan Drakes portrayal in cutscenes vs. gameplay is the story of a delusional mass murderer.

By the time you get to the temple to save Sam the first time with Lara her mass murdering seemed to come in line with her character.

Totally. It all seemed to fit as well as you could expect. Obviously it's still a BIT strange but yeah, Nathan Drake is a crazy genocidal maniac whereas Lara is a person pushed to their very limit.

#3 Posted by Jost1 (2063 posts) - 2 months, 13 days ago

The narrative dissonance in this game is far less jarring than in Uncharted.

#4 Posted by Jost1 (2063 posts) - 2 months, 13 days ago

I don't know, is Nathan Drake too handsome? Would you ask this question if it was a dude?

#5 Posted by Jost1 (2063 posts) - 3 months, 20 days ago

Both Halo and Halo 3.

Super Smash Bros Melee.

#6 Posted by Jost1 (2063 posts) - 3 months, 24 days ago

@algertman: I agree, I meant Kain. His pieces were really good.

#7 Posted by Jost1 (2063 posts) - 3 months, 24 days ago

@bvilleneuve said:

Ben Kuchera writes some okay stuff sometimes but this is completely unprofessional on his part, and this seems to happen to him pretty frequently. He should save his opinions for his long-form writing, because Twitter just seems to fuck with his head.

End of conversation. We don't have to canonize Eric Kain just because he has historically agreed with some of our opinions leading us to see him as a lone voice of sanity in the sea of out-of-touch madness that we think games writing has become. Entitled people don't think they're entitled, so when somebody says "You're not entitled! In fact, maybe you're right!" they all rally around them. Just another one of the interesting permutations of gamer entitlement culture.

But his pieces about ME3 were all pretty level-headed.

#8 Posted by Jost1 (2063 posts) - 3 months, 24 days ago

@Fattony12000 said:

I wish I could get paid to write about video games on the Internet.

Then I could get my ass chewed out on the Internet.

You normally have to pay extra for that AM I RIGHT

I'm not right

#9 Edited by Jost1 (2063 posts) - 3 months, 24 days ago

Erik Kain and Forbes run CIRCLES around PennyArcade's coverage. And every other news site. During the ME3 debacle it was a lone voice of sanity among a sea of moronic articles.

So disappointing to see colleagues of Kain ganging up on him for making a simple mistake that he even admitted to. It fucking sucks.

The boy's club that is games coverage is showing some serious cracks and breaches of character

#10 Posted by Jost1 (2063 posts) - 4 months, 3 hours ago

Great article, and some of the anger shows why it was necessary to post

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