PS3 report (Gaming)

by Kermit , Raleigh, NC, Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 16:17 (3965 days ago) @ Cody Miller

I actually found a lot of merit in that piece. I'm disappointed by games much more frequently than I'm pleasantly surprised by them. (It's the same with game reviews.) I think using BIOSHOCK INFINITE as the whipping boy for all that is wrong with grade inflation among game reviewers grew a bit tiresome. I get the criticisms of BI, but there's some righteous belief in there. It's not a perfect game--far from it, but it is more imaginative and more ambitious than most, but I guess I'm grading on a curve myself. The fact that racism does not occupy front and center, (or, I would say, the fact that racism doesn't occupy front and center in the way we've come to expect in the standard narrative we all know well) is an issue of great offense to some. I disagree with that take on it, but I won't go down that path here, except to say that racism expressed toward young Booker (and his self-loathing) is the original sin that fuels the entire endeavor.

I didn't mean to restart the debate about it here and now. I mentioned BIOSHOCK INFINITE only because Jilly admitted her perceptions might have been affected by having watched THE LAST OF US and played DISHONORED. I haven't finished either, so felt a little like I needed to to participate. I think I will at some point, and my initial admiration of BI might be diminished.

In the meantime I'm going to seek out more writing by Tevis Thompson.