ArtznCraphs on 10 July 2008
| ocnkng said: @Pristine20 There are nearly 2 billion people in India and China who don't care about gaming coz a gaming console costs more then what they make in a month. People in a lot of non-white poor countries are still too busy taking care of the other important things in their lives (getting a home, food, a job etc) to have any time or money to play. This is a big reason but it still does not justify why a lot of the modern western shooters seem to have the same message as the american government of fighting terrorists, russians and justifying police brutalities. Even a game like crackdown, which featured an african-american central character is almost exclusively killing Mexican, Asian and east european guys all of whom are 'crooks' and 'gangsters' |
Symptomatic of the game industries' inability to craft narratives and concepts with real world truths, and why games are not being taken seriously next to film. Even fantasy fails without nods to truth.
So American militaristic and law forces are always the good guys, or heroes, even though militarism is not a very heroic or moral concept, and many police are "just doing my job/whatever I'm told)." Black culture can only exist in primitive poverty or crime ridden urban sprawl, or athletic competition. The only conflict worth portraying is saving the world-kingdom/killing god(s) and it can be done by a ragtag group of young people.
