The negativity is baffling. I think what hurt them is that the three games - last of us, ghosts and stranding are going to be story focused games and no matter how much you show you won't be able to get a sense (unless you suspend disbelief for a hot minute) of how they will affect you.
I like stories, I like games, I like great stories in my games. Thank you Sony for teasing us with some potentially incredible stories to experience. To hell with the negativity.
@indigozeal: By the same token when you get older you will realise that what a cartoon choices to satire on a particular week is not going to undo all the good that is done in the world. So when they do mock something that is personal to me I see it as a natural element of the discourse of free speech in entertainment and find my medicine elsewhere.
@indigozeal: You have hoisted yourself by your own petard sir. You claim people who find South Park humourous as showing an infantile superiority whilst at the same time showing your own disdain for that don't have the same viewpoint as you.
@alistercat: He mentioned once that their appearance was that of Mongolians but a degraded (I imagine read twisted) version. Does this mean that Tolkien hated Mongolian people? Or does it mean that the warrior race of Mongolian people which have been feared and revered in equal measure throughout history have some of the characteristics suitable for recharacterisation into the perpetually fighting orcs. Who knows. I know that for me personally to reduce the genius of Tolkiens symbolism into that "he thought foreigners were terrible" is just not fathomable in the slightest.
@coaxmetal: Im sorry but Tolkiens Orcs are not representative of people of colour. There more like a physical manifestation of the idea of the biblical idea of work. They represent fallen elves, creatures with innate beauty, warped by greed and fire and industry. A metaphor for the working class of England in the Midlands, more specifically the 'Black Country' (the area I am from). A metaphor that still maintains that these orcs were once pure though, so the orc to my mind is a figure to feel empathy towards. Its the evil industrialist force that marks them so gravely.
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