What games would you nominate for that title?

are you laughing at mgs or are you laughing at videogames as a medium?  i don’t know what else even tries to comment on this stuff in the medium.  call of duty?

I’m not actually familiar with a lot of games that have these themes but I thought the conscientious was that in between Kojima’s nuttery it delivered the absolute best.

Remember, they said in *the medium*, so specifically video games alone.

Personal opinion, but Squeenix has just become that type of company that got too big for it’s own good, got involved with the wrong crowd, and now it needs to fail hard for a significant enough restructuring to correct it’s path, or it’ll keep doing badly until it eventually crashes and burn. It is by no mere…

It also didn’t sell particularly poorly. It certainly didn’t bomb and it’s not quite fair to compare it against FFXV, which launched way later in the consoles lifecycles to much, much larger install bases on multiple platforms.

I’d argue that from the very earliest pages of the book Eren is depicated as a little meglomaniac in the making. He craves violence, is utterly desperate to be idolized and is basiaclly a vile shit to everyone around him most of the time who sneers at compassion.

The anime has done a good job of smoothing over the clunkiness of the manga (which, to me, seemed to rely on a lot of flashbacks to redo/change things and the anime could integrate those more naturally into the narrative), and I hope they can do something similar to the ending.
I thought the ending was.. acceptable..…

I never understood this argument. Once the story goes outside the walls, the manga/anime hit you over the head with “fascism bad” with incredible aggression. As it should, course, because fascism *is* bad, and the outrageously bleat world of AoT is a fitting setting to show just how horrible it is.

yeah i hate it when stories have rising scope and tension. lord of the rings would have been better if it was just about gandalf and bilbo partying and smoking weed

“From the start of the game, it’s clear that XVI’s take on slavery is inspired by real-world historical events, most notably that of Black slaves in the United States”

Man, fuck Kinja. I had a long and thought-out reply written up that’s lost to the aether.

I may be misremembering but I believe originally it was promoted as a faithful adaptation to the books. I believe that may be where things started off poorly right out of the gate.

I’d much rather they embrace making the adaptation their own and acknowledging that...there have been many good adaptations that have done exactly that, changing what needed to be changed for the different medium in which the new version is told.

Arguably, a mandate to dumb the show down for young people and Americans *is* forcing creatives to not take risks and produce a boring adaptation.

People mean different things when they say it. Some people are just purists who want to see the source material realised in a new medium. Others aren’t arguing in good faith at all.

I remember building the starting area of a bridge. Then I had to travel for two weeks. When I returned I had 500000 likes and the bridge crossed nearly 30% of the map. It was incredible how others added and built on it. 

So I’m not one that liked it, but I can tell you one of my friends loved it.

Based on comments here and elsewhere I feel as if I’m in the minority, but I am one of the few that absolutely loved this game and it’s overriding message. Yes, Kojima loves the sound of his own voice and smell of his own farts, but the central theme of the game is accurate and true.

What else doesn’t make a lick of sense is that IO9 once again offers series analysis from a writer who admits mid-article that they haven’t seen the show.

The more I hear the voice the more it really does start to sound like a composite of Lou Albano and Walker Boone with a little Charles Martinet. In other words, it’s fine.