While still a bit iffy on how easy the character “tapped into his ancestral Native American superpowers,” the original Prey from 2006 did a pretty good job at giving us a non-stereotypical portrayal of someone who just so happens to be Cherokee and the lead of their own story, without that story revolving around his…
I mean, you blame slave owners for slavery, yes. Same way you that you blame racists—and those who profit from racism, whether directly or indirectly—for racism.
Not the point, my man. Yes, the North and South are ways to reduce complex groups into hegemonic power structures, and of course there were different factors and individuals and personal stories and blah blah blah.
I’ll be nice since you took the time to write all this out.
I’m sorry your education failed you.
This is a fantastic overview, and I def. did misremember that the monsters you fight at the end of U1 are descendants of Nazis. The entire series still really reeks as a colonialist/conquistador fantasy to me; but it’s at least a little—tiny; minuscule—comforting to see the creators seemed to have had sense enough to…
...does being a mercenary suddenly make you aracial?
The problem isn’t the tribal aesthetic or whatever. The problem is how it’s being presented—no one would care if the masks were yellow, their skin was bright neon pink, and their hair was made out of fire don up in a mohawk.
And there’s an argument to be made that black people weren’t considered actual “people,” and that the founding fathers/the North only supported abolition and freeing slaves for economic and political purposes.
I’ve played the first three. Good on U4 for moving away from the stereotype; but I very clearly remember at least U1 and U2 had me killing an awful lot of poc and indigenous people--even if they were cannibalistic monsters or whatever; my memory is a bit hazy--and that most of the major villains in the franchise were…
“The race of goons is irrelevant”
white people literally started a civil war because y’all couldn’t not take offense at the very simple concept—baked into the literal Constitution of the US—that all men are created equal.
How do you read anything Orwell has written and miss the point this much.
holy shit someone who actually takes offense because they remember the oldschool definition of grognard.
re: greys that want to tell me my viewpoint is racist
I love how games like this—esp. the Uncharted series—have you playing as these characters that love history, love treasure, and profess time and again to be good people...while absolutely never once thinking about, or showing a shred of remorse, of all the black and brown people they murder to make their money.
I understand literally nothing of what’s going on
Well, let’s look at their catalog.
