[QUOTE=MisterMooth;47652162]Trailers are meant to show off the game and get people interested, and clearly these are just trying to sell it as a brutal shooter about mass murder with an angsty anti/protagonist. I just really can't get over how bad the dialogue is in the trailers, and I think that gives enough indication about how the character is going to be in the final game. Even if the gameplay is fine, I don't think I could be able to play through that.[/QUOTE]
And? That just means the game isn't for you.
I like how over the top and not really serious it is, and the fact that you can become a kind of one man army against thousands is is entertaining in a way.
You're expecting too much, especially if you are going only by trailers.
If you really wanna shitpost about it then do it when you know how the game actually looks. ([URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_A6Z3gkXlk"]Watchdogs[/URL] comes to mind)
[QUOTE=MisterMooth;47652162]I'm not saying it's absolutely going to be one way or another, but as it stands I think it looks pretty dumb. Trailers are meant to show off the game and get people interested, and clearly these are just trying to sell it as a brutal shooter about mass murder with an angsty anti/protagonist. I just really can't get over how bad the dialogue is in the trailers, and I think that gives enough indication about how the character is going to be in the final game. Even if the gameplay is fine, I don't think I could be able to play through that.[/QUOTE]
So what if it's just a brutal shooter? Clearly there's an audience for that.
and the writing isn't that bad, they're clearly going for a cheesy super-dark game, and to be honest I think the starting monologue of the first trailer was pretty good. There are also going to be tons of one-liners a la serious sam (ex. "you don't deserve a natural death"). If you don't like it then fine, but at the moment I don't see any fair points of criticism other than "it doesn't look fun" and "so edgy omg".
If we're going to try and justify violence in videogames from a moral standpoint (which we don't have to, since it's fiction and therefore doesn't bring any harm to real persons), like a lot of people are apparently trying to do here, wouldn't a game where violence is depicted in all its gut-twisting horror, giving no lame, fake excuse for the atrocities you commit and actually ends up making you feel guilty about it be more morally sensible than one where it's depicted as something fun and free of consequence? If fictional violence really had a substantial effect on how people are likely to commit violence themselves, then I'd say the kind that rids it of everything that makes it repulsive and present it as something righteous would be the most dangerous.
The conversation about the game being narratively poor is even more ridiculous. Since when do videogames require a breathtaking story to be considered fun? Just because more and more modern games try and mimic the cinematographic feeling (and, let's admit it, still end up with rather mediocre stories compared to their role models) doesn't mean they have become interactive movies. So many great game have basically no story at all that I don't understand why a story being uninteresting would necessarily make a game bad.
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