Well having just watched a documentary on how the US spends billions on helicopters to spread herbicide on Columbia instead of treatment for addicts, a plan for the 'drug war' that even the conservative Rand corporation said was the most economically inefficient and in reality the most ineffective, (not to mention very unhealthy for the people we're spraying that crap on) but done anyway for nothing other than military contractor and chemical corporation greed, I resent that remark slightly. I also know a thing or 2 about Guatemala, Nicaragua and Chiapas, let alone the fucked up policies in the middle east and the spoon fed BS terrorism threat that the current regime is using to bamboozle the stupid with. I know the feeling of being overwhelmed with the evils of greed and power creating worldwide misery that I feel too insignificant to do anything about, but that doesn't mean that a good Utopia gone wrong story involving people and their twisted political ideals turning paradise into smoking ruins will turn me off. Its just the opposite, I think if this clues one uninformed gaming idiot into thinking about broader issues than the tired old 'fighting the alien menace with buffed out space marines' then I say there should be more of it. I'm kind of surprised that someone like you would cringe away from such a thing, but you must have not really read the article or ever played the Shock games, its not about giving you some hippy dippy notion about how we can all get along, its about giving you a thought provoking story amid the same kind of power struggles and real problems that people face in the real word, even if it is set on some spaceship or underwater facility. I do think a hell of a lot about the things going on in this word, and the absolutely brain sucking moronic state of the whole entertainment industry is not helping, and its certainly not entertaining to me.
Wow, what a steaming pile of intelectual douche-baggery. First you come off like your snobby ideal of what an interpretation of Tolkien 'should be' must be applied to have any credibility, and then piss away all credibility, "If these video games want to compete on an artistic level they're going to have to hire writers such as Michael Crighton" You mean like "Timeline," that all time classic? Or I guess you never heard of it since it was pure sheite. Your concept of what great story telling should be probably would stifle any game's plotline into convoluted drivel.
RTFA and then get it straight, just because it says the word 'capitalism,' and touches on the perils of unchecked greed, this game is a big rant against capitalism? If anything its about taking social darwinism too far, but I guess since thats conservatism's most cherished concept you have to flip out into reactionary mode. And I'm sure that in your mind ranting about the evils of greed is just for commie pinko bastards. Like that bearded guy, what was his name?
Oh please can I live in your perfect world where entertainment is mindless and blatantly and purposefully sidesteps any issue that might be thought provoking or have anything to do with philosophy or idealism? Oh yeah, we're allready 99% there, Beavis. God, 1 or 2 games come along in a generation without the same tired and derivative storyline and rather than welcome a refreshing change of pace you go crawl under your desk. Go ahead, I just hope theres better reaction to this game as well as the concept of having some depth to the story in a game then people like you whining, "Wah! its making me think about stuff... stuff bad."
And I hardly think this game is going to shove some 1 sided ideology down your throat, if its anything like the previous games its going to be an interesting tapestry of competing insane ideas, all of them just as flawed and tainted with fanatacism as the ones in real life, that place you seem so desperate to ignore. Go ahead, theres the rest of the game industry output to choose from if thats what you want.
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Well having just watched a documentary on how the US spends billions on helicopters to spread herbicide on Columbia instead of treatment for addicts, a plan for the 'drug war' that even the conservative Rand corporation said was the most economically inefficient and in reality the most ineffective, (not to mention very unhealthy for the people we're spraying that crap on) but done anyway for nothing other than military contractor and chemical corporation greed, I resent that remark slightly. I also know a thing or 2 about Guatemala, Nicaragua and Chiapas, let alone the fucked up policies in the middle east and the spoon fed BS terrorism threat that the current regime is using to bamboozle the stupid with. I know the feeling of being overwhelmed with the evils of greed and power creating worldwide misery that I feel too insignificant to do anything about, but that doesn't mean that a good Utopia gone wrong story involving people and their twisted political ideals turning paradise into smoking ruins will turn me off. Its just the opposite, I think if this clues one uninformed gaming idiot into thinking about broader issues than the tired old 'fighting the alien menace with buffed out space marines' then I say there should be more of it. I'm kind of surprised that someone like you would cringe away from such a thing, but you must have not really read the article or ever played the Shock games, its not about giving you some hippy dippy notion about how we can all get along, its about giving you a thought provoking story amid the same kind of power struggles and real problems that people face in the real word, even if it is set on some spaceship or underwater facility. I do think a hell of a lot about the things going on in this word, and the absolutely brain sucking moronic state of the whole entertainment industry is not helping, and its certainly not entertaining to me.
Wow, what a steaming pile of intelectual douche-baggery. First you come off like your snobby ideal of what an interpretation of Tolkien 'should be' must be applied to have any credibility, and then piss away all credibility, "If these video games want to compete on an artistic level they're going to have to hire writers such as Michael Crighton" You mean like "Timeline," that all time classic? Or I guess you never heard of it since it was pure sheite. Your concept of what great story telling should be probably would stifle any game's plotline into convoluted drivel.
RTFA and then get it straight, just because it says the word 'capitalism,' and touches on the perils of unchecked greed, this game is a big rant against capitalism? If anything its about taking social darwinism too far, but I guess since thats conservatism's most cherished concept you have to flip out into reactionary mode. And I'm sure that in your mind ranting about the evils of greed is just for commie pinko bastards. Like that bearded guy, what was his name?
Oh please can I live in your perfect world where entertainment is mindless and blatantly and purposefully sidesteps any issue that might be thought provoking or have anything to do with philosophy or idealism? Oh yeah, we're allready 99% there, Beavis. God, 1 or 2 games come along in a generation without the same tired and derivative storyline and rather than welcome a refreshing change of pace you go crawl under your desk. Go ahead, I just hope theres better reaction to this game as well as the concept of having some depth to the story in a game then people like you whining, "Wah! its making me think about stuff... stuff bad." And I hardly think this game is going to shove some 1 sided ideology down your throat, if its anything like the previous games its going to be an interesting tapestry of competing insane ideas, all of them just as flawed and tainted with fanatacism as the ones in real life, that place you seem so desperate to ignore. Go ahead, theres the rest of the game industry output to choose from if thats what you want.