Games you refuse to play on Principle

Shady3011

Basically, what you experienced was bad writing. A new feature in Bioware games.

Kadoken

GnomeTank wrote:

TychoCelchuuu wrote:

GnomeTank wrote:

Mahoshonen wrote:

Alucard6986 wrote:

that's a bit dramatic. I don't remember anything particularly offensive about that quest.

As a Jew who has an entire branch of my family tree ending in a stump at around 1941-1945, I admit that I'm rather touchy about potrayals and direct references to the Holocaust in the media. Needless to say, Bioware hit all the wrong buttons for me.

Genocide happens all the time...so no game can ever touch on the subject of genocide without it being about Jews and the holocaust?

The issue is that the quest name is a direct reference to the Holocaust, but yeah, he's getting way bent out of shape. I mean I have a whole family tree stump in Europe too but I don't flip out when people bring it up obliquely.

I'll concede the title of the quest is...thought provoking. That said, I find the No Russian mission in CoD to be far more offensive than a reference to the Final Solution, but I am not Jewish so I can't judge.

Why is No Russian offensive? I've killed more people in GTA and RDR then in that mission. They're just AI anyway.

CaptainNemo

Shady3011 wrote:

CaptainNemo wrote:

Shady3011 wrote:

Look, as long as we all agree that Dragon Age 2 is a shitty game, we can move on.

I liked it, but I'm not going to purge all of my Shady3011 products off of my computer.

Well, that's because you have simple tastes unlike my refined ones. 8->

Fuck that noise, I'm refined as shit.

Henroid

Shady3011 wrote:

Basically, what you experienced was bad writing. An existing feature in video games.

Fixed that for you.

reVerse

Shady3011 wrote:

Look, as long as we all agree that Dragon Age 2 is a shitty game

Why would we agree on that when it's one of, if not the best game BioWare has made?

More on topic

Shadow Complex. Not that I have an Xbox or anything, but even if they put it out on PC or something I'd have nothing to do with it. The virulent and hateful anti-gay views of Orson Scott Card, who was involved with the project, are way too much for me being comfortable giving money to anyone or anything that might in any way benefit him.

GnomeTank

Henroid wrote:

Is it me or is there some level of irony where instead of hating a single product or the writers involved, this guy is raging out against the company and all its assets?

Yes, there is some irony there.