Okay, so you hate sports. Great. Lots of other people like them, video game or not.

Hint: let people enjoy things they like.

Or how about hyperbole can be fun sometimes?

I think Seifer’s arc was pretty great,

Whatever

“Police are an unimpeachable group in Spider-Man. They show no real flaws and make no mistakes.”

A very well written opinion for sure, but I still can’t believe this is turning in to a thing? I am somewhat bothered by the fact that we can no longer enjoy works of fiction, such as the Marvel universe, because it doesn’t reflect the negativity of the real world.

My quibble with this, and the other article I’ve read about this particular criticism of the game, is that—well. Historically (fictionally), this is a world where good guy cops are in the majority, and not the minority.

It is not, in any way, the responsibility of Insomniac (or any developer) to wrap their game in real-world politics. It is a work of fiction, set in a universe where a super-scientist with the powers of a spider fights crime in a colorful costume. If they didn’t set out to make a topical game that reflects the issues…

Police are an unimpeachable group in Spider-Man. They show no real flaws and make no mistakes.

There are also several lines where he talks to officers and makes comments like “Tell your colleagues to maybe not shoot at me next time”. It’s addressed a bit, while not being the focus of the game. He helps the cops when it’s the right thing to do. He stops crimes. He’s not raiding people in their homes whose only…

It’s straight from the comics...

I’m not saying the entire crux of the article is wrong, but to say that cops are unimpeachable and make no mistakes is incongruous with the first mission of the game, where a group of corrupt officer attack Spider-Man.

Spider-Man’s portrayal of policing feels divorced from reality

That was pretty obviously a joke. 

You’re looking too far into it, sometimes a video game is just a video game.

I mean, almost all superheroes are “cops, but like, actually competent and not racist.” It’s also a fictional world where presumably people have been inspired by heroism, and where there’s approximately 292839 different heroes operating within a block of each other, so you’d expect the fictional NYPD to not be the…

Did you intentionally miss the game beating you over the head with the fact that Spider-Man isn’t working with the police explicitly, and that it’s not a mutually appreciative endeavor? Or did you just ignore it so you could write a disingenuous article about how terrible cops are?

“I’m not grasping for as many straws as it may appear.”

I disagree. This is silly.