I love this new era of cat-based adventure that I’ve decided we’re in based on like two data points. Here’s what should be next:

Let’s do this. I’ll start. This is Cleocatra, my rescue from a truckstop parking lot.

I’m sorry but no. You didn’t discuss gameplay “for paragraphs.” You discussed that the objectives weren’t inspiring, and that the experience was a tad on rails.

You didn’t discuss gameplay “for paragraphs.” You discussed that the objectives weren’t inspiring, and that the experience was a tad on rails.

It’s not a review!

Wow...what an amazingly fucking stupid comment 

“PAINT MY CHICKEN COOP!”

Erm, it says in the same paragraph, “And it is very little fun to play.” And then dedicates paragraphs to saying why. It’s weird you missed that.

Inglorious Basterds works because it doesn’t pull punches or pretend it’s something it’s not, and it’s extremely self-aware. This game is the polar opposite, without any of the self-awareness. It’s crass and dumb, and it gets a lot wrong, even besides its clumsy handling of racism (and weirdly absent antisemitism).…

This isn’t new, it extends at least as far back as Captain America The First Avenger where, likely with the best of intentions, integrated units were treated as the norm with the only moment where anyone questions anything about it is the “I’m from Fresno, Ace” like by Jim Morita. Which not only did the obvious…

“We know the Germans are the baddies, because they’re the naughty racist ones. The very notion would never cross the indefectible minds of any of the Allied characters." I mean didn't Hitler literally take inspiration from the (ongoing) genocide of Indigenous ppl in the US and Canada 

I don’t think we will ever see a tasteful representation of history from AAA games anymore. I guess it’s too much work for the designers/writers to actually do some interesting research and give us a viewport into a plausible story of marginalized groups fighting for their country in WW2. Instead we get yet another…

“And while Britain was surprisingly lacking in racism during the war years” 

You can’t just say “let products be products” about pop culture media as though that media doesn’t actually influence how the public thinks about history and the world around them.

It’s also not something that everything has to address. You can tell a story about WWII that has real depth and meaning without dealing with the social ills of the time.

This is my problem with the push for diversity in games.

Few points:

The unfortunate thing about history is that we have a tendency to idolize and white-wash our cultural heritages to ensure that we can feel good about who we are and where we come from, when the truth is that every hero, pioneer or paragon in history had their dark side. We get this idea in our heads that if someone…

Something being made up, doesn’t mean it can’t have real world impact. The implication is merely that the subject in question, isn’t grounded by any sort of implicit variables other than perception.