Ghost of Tsushima had a TON of hype. There were a half dozen individualized commercials showing every aspect of gameplay. There were behind the scenes exposes. There were ads on every site. Sony went all in behind this game.

They weren’t offended though. That’s a failure in your reading comprehension. They just read between the lines and knew the game is glorifying police violence, based on that Steam summary. That’s savvy consumer research as opposed to taking offense.

Ethan Gach writes about video games for a living. This is actually the perfect place for him to channel some energy.

Motivating somebody to commit an act of literal violence is a much higher bar than motivating somebody to root for a republican politician.

Well said…er…typed. But you get my point.

No one asked for everything bad to be scrubbed. Thats a strawman you just made up yourself.

Guy who is definitely well-read on the police state just jumpin’ in to tell you copaganda is cool and has nothing to do with the police violence I am upset with. Culture and media have zero impact on the “reality rotting around” us. Sounds good!!!

Same here, especially since, as far as I can tell, the game doesn’t have a “terrorist” mode. The statement seems completely unnecessary except as a dog whistle. 

Way to completely miss the point, which is that there is nothing wrong with tactical shooters and they can be fantastic when they don’t fellate the power fantasy of a corrupt state institution.

Yes, we should never interrogate games beyond genre. Kotaku is the perfect website to expect a one-sentence review from. I am very smart.

lmfao he’s not complaining about it being a tactical shooter, this is exactly the kind of response I’d expect 

The gameplay isn’t the problem.

i dont like games where power hungry cops living out their military fantasies of gunning down civilians

“At its core, the game honors the work of dedicated law enforcement officers across the world and in no way intends on glorifying cowardly criminal acts.”

No, actually, it won’t be normalized until people like you stop getting upset every time you see the word “trans.”  Shoving somebody’s gender under the rug is the opposite of normalizing it.

I love how the crypto bros always bring up marketplaces and being able to sell and trade items when they talk about how wonderful it will be for gaming. Because obviously they don’t care about something unless money is involved in some way. But they really don’t realise that this is just a terrible feature to add to a…

If you are trying to sell me on something it is on you to get that message out. Right nearly all the news is negative. But instead of trying to provide a positive spin you throw the now expected cryptobro tantrum and which is to look down your nose at everyone while yelling about how we just don’t understand.

Jason Schreier did the reporting, and he is a capital “J” Journalist. You’re falling into the same trap that the video game media did a decade ago: thinking the quality of Levine’s previous projects are because of him, rather than in spite of him. Every single one has the same development history: Levine dicking…

Obvious “I created this account just to make this post and sway as many people as possible into my scam. If even one person falls for it, I’ve won.”

As someone who is invested and understands NFTs