Rumor: PS4 Director's Cut of Beyond: Two Souls in the works
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Explain to me something. When David Cage puts multiple attempted rape and shower scenes in his game critics love him for pushing the envelope. When MGS5 shows (let's you listen to) rape used as a torture and portrays it as the disgusting thing it is, it gets slammed for exploiting the subject.
david cage isn't japanese
gaming media hates the east
[QUOTE=Marden;44622700]Explain to me something. When David Cage puts multiple attempted rape and shower scenes in his game critics love him for pushing the envelope. When MGS5 shows (let's you listen to) rape used as a torture and portrays it as the disgusting thing it is, it gets slammed for exploiting the subject.[/QUOTE]Moral outrage in the media is often directly proportional to how popular the product is, and thus how much attention one can get by focusing on it.
[i]Mortal Kombat[/i] and [i]Doom[/i] were the central pieces of the nineties "violence in the vidya" row, even though [i]Eternal Champions[/i] and [i]Blood[/i] objectively beat them at their own gory games. [i]Duke Nukem Forever[/i] went down as "That really shitty Duke game" instead of "That Duke game with a level based entirely around rape puns" while online writers bent over backwards attempting to construe [i]Far Cry: Blood Dragon[/i] as homophobic or rape-apologist. [i]GTAV[/i] and the [i]Tomb Raider[/i] reboot got into trouble because groups of cannibals and psychotic madmen could be mistaken for rapists if you didn't have any context, muted the dialogue, and squinted real hard, but [i]F.E.A.R. 2[/i] ended in a first-person perspective of rape which gets brought up again in later installments without much fuss. These things are often on a case-by-case basis, and most forms of media will almost always choose the examples which will attract more viewers/readers over the ones which are the most solid in argument.
[QUOTE=Marden;44622700]Explain to me something. When David Cage puts multiple attempted rape and shower scenes in his game critics love him for pushing the envelope. When MGS5 shows (let's you listen to) rape used as a torture and portrays it as the disgusting thing it is, it gets slammed for exploiting the subject.[/QUOTE]
it's so ridiculous because in david cage's games they aren't even "tasteful" or have meaning. it's just one minute you're talking to a creep and next minute he's chaining you to a torture device so when he's done he can cut your limbs off one by one to toss you in the ocean to never be found. and it has nothing to do with the plot whatsoever.
and this happens like 5 times in heavy rain.
david cage is awful at what he does, trying to make game movies. That's not even the bad part. it's that they aren't even worth watching as movies alone. He's the B-movie reject that thinks he can make it in the gaming industry because people take it less seriously (and they do, so he [i]has[/i] made it.) and then he uses his shit games as examples that the game industry should be taken seriously? really, don't flatter yourself david.
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david cage is awful at what he does, trying to make game movies. That's not even the bad part. it's that they aren't even worth watching as movies alone. He's the B-movie reject that thinks he can make it in the gaming industry because people take it less seriously (and they do, so he [i]has[/i] made it.) and then he uses his shit games as examples that the game industry should be taken seriously? really, don't flatter yourself david.[/QUOTE]
You're kinda too late with the flattering himself thing, considering Cage actually thinks he's gaming's Orson Welles (no seriously, there's a poster in Indigo Prophecy styled off of Citizen Kane called Citizen [I]Cage[/I]).
Also there's no way Cage considers himself a B-movie reject, because that would require him to have a shred of self-awareness. :v:
The more I think about it, the more I think there's not much of a difference between Cage's games and the SP campaigns of military shooters like Call of Duty he claims to hate so much. Both have ridiculous plots and inept writing that takes itself with the utmost, po-faced seriousness possible. Both place so little trust in the player that the actual gameplay content is non-existent or very tightly controlled. Both think they are a credit to their medium in that CoD's story wants to be as well-regarded as The Hurt Locker and Saving Private Ryan while Cage is so deluded as to think his shit is capitol A [B]Art[/B].
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