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theladyfeylene

On Video Games

Feb 23, 2009 11:13

Okay, now that my viewing scheme is fixed....

My list of games for the XboX is growing. Despite controversy, I do want to play the new Resident Evil. I've heard all points of view on it, read the arguments and dissertations, and figure I'll just make my own judgments upon playing the game myself. I think that's all anyone can do. And as I'm ( Read more... )

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aqua_karen February 23 2009, 19:18:46 UTC

I can't speak for the others, but Fallout 3 is pretty great, so long as you're not too goal-oriented. It has a nicely wide world to explore and, while it doesn't have the same variety of options earlier Fallouts enjoyed, it's still flexible enough that I find it a good time, and of course there's the vastly improved graphics and what-not to make up for that.

Fallout is one of maybe 3 or 4 game series I actually follow, but this comment reads like a review on a website. XD;

theladyfeylene February 24 2009, 20:08:06 UTC

I...never play Fallout games for any sort of goals. :D I've heard nothing but good about it, and epic amounts of praise for the character creator function. :D

rosehiptea February 23 2009, 19:47:24 UTC

I own Star Ocean 3 and haven't played it yet. I really should.

I doubt I'll get an XBox 360 soon but then again you never know.

Nothing wrong with a wish list at all.

theladyfeylene February 24 2009, 20:09:02 UTC

The Star Ocean games are really, really great games. I still go back and play the original PS one even now.

They're starting to go down for used ones, so you never know. Having experience with it now, I definitely recommend it.

animeshon February 23 2009, 19:50:16 UTC

Ahhh Fallout 3. Everyone tells me I will love this game seeing as it uses the same engine as Oblivion (which is currently one of my favourites). I am playing too many games at the moment though, so I've put that one on hold

theladyfeylene February 24 2009, 20:09:55 UTC

I'm a big Fallout fan (I've spent days worth of time just running around doing random side quests in Fallout 2) and they're really awesome games. 2 is full of clever pop culture references, and it's such an open, non-linear game. I've been dying to get 3.

animeshon February 24 2009, 20:10:38 UTC

I don't know if my boy has 2 but I know he has 3, and my general plan of attack is just to play through the many, many games he has first :D

pyramidhead316 February 24 2009, 21:26:31 UTC

What happened with Silent Hill: Homecoming? Are you still playing the game?

What's the controversy with RE5? I haven't heard anything about that, but then I don't read much about the series. It doesn't quite have the same appeal for me as SH, but it's still very fun to play. Is this about the whole 'taking place in an African village' thing? Because if so, that's old. I can't believe anyone would still make a deal big about it. Or is it something else that's causing controversy this time, like the new partner system they added?

theladyfeylene February 24 2009, 21:38:03 UTC

It went back to the rental store, and I haven't been able to afford re-renting it, sadly. :/

The racism controversy. It came out with the trailer, with scenes that...well, I can understand the point of view. A group of non-infected black men hostile-y dragging a white woman into an alley out of context does look bad. And the other scene, involving villagers brutally beating 'something' in a sack was a bit stretching it, but again, I can understand people discussing it and dissecting it as how it can be seen as a racist image.

But my biggest issue with the controversy is that when this all started, there was no context. All the hooplah was based on the trailer. The PA guys did a news article on it, and compared it to a Magic Eye picture after playing the game. It's a case of 'don't see it, don't see it, don't see it...someone points it out and outlines it and then you see it. Which, as was pointed out, says more about the person reacting than the image and theme itself ( ... )

Edited post pyramidhead316 February 24 2009, 22:49:51 UTC

I figured that was it, though I suspected the new team mechanics might have stirred something up too ( ... )

Re: Edited post theladyfeylene February 24 2009, 23:06:03 UTC

I'm honestly not making any assumptions or anything until I've got the game myself. There are so many ways that, in context, those images could be - while uncomfortable for various reasons - not at all what some people are making them out to be. And it always bothers me when people jump on little bits of information and try and make an entire case out of it.

I think the whole problem with racism (and sexism) in Japanese games is that we, here in the Western world, can only look at it in our own context. We come at them with our own American sense of history and racial/sexist issues. And I'm of two minds on it. On one hand, yes, we're bringing our world view and our historical view to it, and that can lead us to seeing things which weren't intended. But Japan isn't an isolated fortress, and isn't completely unaware of the history of racial issues in the US. I don't think there is deliberate racism going on in mainstream games, but is there casual racism? Sure. It's alive and well today, all over the world ( ... )

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