The multiplayer thing of DS & the letter game vs Apex really stands our to me.
The former is about engendering a sense of team work, comradery, etc, amongst strangers on the internet playing videogames.
Apex is about trying to systemically mitigate the horrors of strangers on the internet playing videogames.
That they're given equal weight, in a sense, I think says a lot about what multiplayer games are these days. I don't mean that in a nice way either.
I'm with Brad there on the idea of the one engendering a bit of hope in other people not all being awful.
Apex's stuff is just this slippery slope of saying the terrible people are here to stay, but if you mute chat we have context sensitive voice clips that say "Thank you" so that you don't feel bad about playing on a team of white supremacists.
Apex's systems are a fresh coat of white wash on top of the internet's usual poison. I don't know if that's "cool".
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