Totally agree with you. I would play the hell out of the game if it ran some approximation of that art style (or even switched in and out of it). Was really kinda awesome.

Hi Gokart,

Few things...first is perhaps most important.

Heh, I argued almost the exact opposite point earlier in the thread. The honest truth is that both sides have figures that lack any nuance in their understanding of a particular text. In the third game (arguably the least sexist of the three games) there are moments where Geralt is objectified (though I would argue…

Ack, I don’t know why but my spaces didn’t register in the last part of that post...sorry for that.

Good, strong characters don’t preclude there being issues in something. I love Witcher 3 (and the Witcher series in general) but the portrayal of women in those games goes REALLY far back and forth. You are trying to argue that because it has some good characters it is protected from being critiqued on this front, but…

To a certain extent, I agree with you.

Honestly, there are definitely different kinds of offensive out there. I don’t watch his content so I don’t know how he acts now, but the things that were specifically mentioned in this article are some offensive things that I’m extremely careful to avoid and for very particular reasons. The terms gay and retarded,…

Bernie Sanders was at the top of my set for an extended period of time :)

I love that Dark Souls art so much. It’s such a different take and gives the usually very dark Dark Souls a very new tone.

Oh, and one other issue with the argument you made (sorry...I was trying to address it all in one post but I missed this). You claimed I made the “classic mistake of assuming they must all represent the author’s own beliefs.”

Also, in writing, if I was going to make an argument about good writing and strong political arguments, I would choose something like Toni Morrison’s Beloved or Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.

That’s a valid attack on my argument, but it doesn’t take into account the fact that the way I made my argument was specifically relevant to the argument being made in the original comment. Elbarto made the claim that writing with a political agenda was outside the creative process, so I chose some of the ones with…

Wow...what do you think of as a good story? I can think of so few things that don’t have political ideas that...at the very minimal...inform their core that I’m not even sure what you are talking about when you bring up your idea of a good creative process.

Ok, let’s make something clear. The creative process is ALWAYS political, and is always influenced by political awareness to some extent. It’s pretty near impossible to not be involved in storytelling and not be political. But to be fair, that’s not precisely what you are talking about. You are trying to discuss the…

I don’t know. Usually I’d agree with you but as long as they don’t have some special perk or perk set, these essentially seem to be reskins. Ways of looking a particular way.

Honestly depends on the kind of story you’re trying to tell. Just like with books, there are different kinds of protagonists. Link is a lot like many fairy tales, in that he doesn’t have much in the way of defining traits (he is a blank slate). This lets players put themselves into the role of the character more…

Ummm....because for the person creating the mod, the character influenced him, and he wants to pass that experience on to his daughter? It sounds like a personal response (based on a character who was designed to be a self-insert, even according to the developers) that he is hoping to share with others. All he has…

Exactly. Have you seen the amount of riffs done on the Mona Lisa? A quick google gives a couple thousand examples at least.

While I understand what you’re saying...I just can’t think that games always have to be about fun. I love a good fun book, or a fun blockbuster movie, but if that is all my diet of those two types of media involved...well, my life would be a lot more dull. While I’m not interested in this kind of play (I don’t have…