Here I was hoping Microsoft would stab Kotick in the back by preparing a binder full of just cause for firing after everything is said and done. Kotick sucks up so much potential gaming content with that pay grade and leaving costs as much as a low level MCU film. 

I get being pissed at broken games, but we should always treat our relationship with developers and publishers (especially big ones) as adversarial. If EA could charge you $60 for nothing, they would.

I think it’s fine to have fun with the game, but I think there are definitely many valid criticisms of the game. What isn’t okay is the toxicity, and petulance that so many gamers are directing at people just trying to do their job in shitty conditions. 

Setting aside whether the label truly fits Levine, the only way to get art out of an auteur is to give them a budget and a deadline and stick to it. If you do that, you’ll get art. It might be good or bad, and it might even be great.

As mentioned by one of the commenters in the article, the “look” could be accomplished without actually ruining most of the real hardware. Authentic, original hardware may still be relatively widely available, but it won’t be that way forever and once they’re all gone that’s it.

My opinion is valid, as is yours that you do not think it is body shaming. I’m not going to be antagonized by you. 

no reason to body shame in the same breath as you try to defend people’s rights. ugh i hate the phrase small dick / big dick energy

BotW is a five-year-old game, btw, so it'd still qualify even under your proposed moratorium.

Breath of the Wild might have staying power. It’s been almost 5 years and it’s still in many people’s top 10.

This seems like a bizarre argument to make when the work on its own merits contains nothing objectionable. Condemning it for partially deriving from a problematic history seems like a poorly considered reaction when practically speaking, the same is true of everything. Not everybody who uses a lightbulb needs to know…

Y’all. I love the stuff you discuss on this website, but I have an English degree, too. I know how to churn up BS for the sake of “discussion,” too. Making the creators out to be gun-shy at best or secretly racist at worst is irresponsible of you.

I won’t rehash some of the points that other comments covered better than I can articulate, but why can’t we just enjoy it for what it is? Why does there have to be a search for hidden meaning or lack of meaning? To draw a parallel, it feels like this article is saying that when you go to a museum and look at a Damien…

I’m sorry but the argument the essay makes is a load of bull. The writer is just to steer the direction towards “Cuphead is racist” in any way possible. Do you seriously think that “not depicting the era in its entirety” actually and logically leads to “meaning that they’re hiding it and that’s intrinsically racist?”.…

Where characters of color were originally depicted with racist imagery, they now risk not getting depicted at all.

Ethan, you’re criticizing the game for something that it’s not and doesn’t have any moral obligation to be. Not every game needs to give us an history course on eras or artistic ideas it borrows from.

No actually it’s super easy to seperate the game from the era of it’s aesthetic inspiration.

Are you arguing that this side scrolling bullet hell game would have actually been better with some deep narrative confrontation with America’s entrenched racism in the early 20th century? What would that even look like, in a frenzied arcade style action game? Furthermore, is it actually failing of the game that it…

As a “gamer of color” I’m immensely glad they removed the “garbage” and kept the technical mastery and attention to detail. My eyes can’t roll far enough back in my skull at the (largely) white critics complaining (!!!) that they adhered to the artistic style and removed the racist overtones. I can’t thank them…

Were you really expecting a 2D platformer with almost no dialogue to have a stance on racism and to make an important statement on it? I don’t know how people can take articles like this seriously. Making a big deal about nothing and getting offended for no reason is the epitome of white people shit.

Or that you can borrow from the past in ways that don’t try to pretend the bad stuff didn’t happen or wasn’t a part of it.