Speaking of racism,
that’s what i find so fucking offensive about bioshock infinite, is that it makes black people props in a storyline in which white people get to revise white history through all kinds of fanciful sci fi wizardry in order to make themselves feel better while STILL excluding and marginalizing black people, and we’re supposed to be happy about it.
Fuck no, we’re not. Great article, you can feel the anger at the end.
To see people like Cliff Bleszinski claim it to be “true art” really goes to show how much the violent, racist oppression of other people sidelined for the sake of white-centric science fiction is nothing but entertainment to the white-dominated games subculture.
It’s so embarrassing. Maybe it’s anecdotal but making music for games, I’m never saying the letters “R&B” because culturally I’ve seen white people go nuts and angry just by saying those words, like saying “rock” would make you think that this entire genre fucking sucks to oblivion and that really, you’re right. Meanwhile J-pop -popular in the games subculture- is Asian R&B but then, it’s different.
A shame.
Regardless of racism, Bioshock has flaws even in its core mechanics as Jonathan describes it perfectly:
You need to read the next one from bottom to top, though sorry.
How do you call a situation where a game is full of flaws but is widely acclaimed as what the game industry can really do? Shit.
Jaw-dropping graphics don’t fucking cut it and never will. And you game journalists I don’t even, ugh.