I Think Video Game Scandals Should Get Even Weirder
… We’re all so tired of arguing over stupid crap that doesn’t matter that it’s easy to forget there’s even stupider, less meaningful problems in games we can hate each other for. …
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Or, hell, look at First Light. I’m enjoying it, even though I’ve never been the biggest James Bond fan. I’ve got nothing against the franchise, even if IO making an Austin Powers game would’ve been a thousand times better and a million times funnier. But it’s a fun game. James Bond is charming. Hot ladies hit on him. He kills people. He has - and don’t tell my mom! - sex. And yet even that game has had bad faith YouTubers and streamers poking at it, saying, ‘This must be woke, right? What about this part? Is it woke that Bond is younger than my average viewership?’ Of course, two of Bond’s co-
The Video Game Culture War Well Is Running A Little Dry… We’re all so tired of arguing over stupid crap that doesn’t matter that it’s easy to forget there’s even stupider, less meaningful problems in games we can hate each other for. …
… The Culture Wars Have Never Been This Boring To be fair, video game culture wars have always felt somehow like the stupidest thing possible and the longest-lasting discussion on the internet. Hell, it was stupid long back when the American government was holding hearings on Mortal Kombat . …
… It looked stupid. It sounded stupid. …
… "I've never been more mad at a studio ... Just because people signed off on it doesn't mean it's automatically good. They sign off on the stupidest sh t." "Thinking about it more, this is pretty damn gross," wrote one fan . …
… It does feel like a roundabout way of saying that you're never playing it again, after all. …
… While much of the 30-second video is footage we've previously seen, it contains some never-before-seen clips tucked away. …
… The B-team games you never played, the D-list games you had no idea existed. Not every new experience is going to come from the future, and there is still a lot still out there that all of us - including me - have never played at all. …
… I got close, with only two more regions to go, but then Caedmon died when he was just 79 years young, and his stupid son let it all fall apart. …
… Some of the biggest games of the last year have never cost that much. …
… I never felt annoyed by the game. Maybe frustrated at myself for ruining a run, but never mad at the game for getting in its own way. …