weird to think what this is even comparable to in terms of sheer repellent prestige, I was thinking rockstar but rockstar themselves only really got that bad after max payne 3 / LA noire / the first RDR and before GTAV
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Actually when you put it that way, thinking on how people talk about pets on the internet that reaction actually sounds fairly plausible.
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Oh, no one told me the paragraph in question wasnât from Sony but actually from a Gamestop webpage I could go look at and witness with my own eyes. Add it to the list of Gamestopâs incredible decisions in its final years.
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games about teens and games about dads are now banned
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When Wolfenstein 3D came out my cousin would tease my sister while she was playing to make her feel bad about shooting the dogs.
âOh why you gotta do that? He wasnât born mean someone made him that way. Poor puppy!â etc.
We had no problem shooting the nazis because, while human, we rationalized that they had made their own decisions and no one had forced them into the life they chose. They could have chosen to oppose Hitler and what was going on around them.
But we assume dogs are born loyal to humans. That itâs in their breeding and they donât have the kind of agency humans have. We assume the dogs are purely innocent. That they donât tell themselves stories about the nature of good and evil like we do. That they simply exist in a way we easily forget how to once we reach grade school. So it somehow feels more wrong to kill a dog than a human.
Itâs messed up.
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oh how far weâve come in these ten years.
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Iâm sorry but this whole emphasis on how cool itâs going to have to be to grapple with the moral choice of killing a dog on a regular basis in this videogame is completely destroying my brain right now. What the fuck is wrong with AAA videogames?
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jeez o pete i hate the âcan you pet the dogâ twitter account as much as the next guy but this is ridiculous
i like that people were talking about how trite that âthe only way to win is not to playâ trope because this is definitely going for being touted as that kind of deep meaningful bullshit
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thank you
I canât stand how it became an easy cute nose-flick for our current generation of games media and all the starving game developers eager to find something new, instead of a meaningful interpretation of the meme. It should be so easy to not just glom onto the idea but to reflect and say, âmaybe what it really shows is the value of simulated physical contact, and the paucity of empathetic momentsâ. But instead itâs just another stock phrase we can mux with pop culture to print new sassy t-shirts.
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turning a big dial that says âdog killingâ on it and constantly looking back at gamers for approval like a contestant on the price is right
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yes Iâve made that dril joke before but fuck this please leave dogs alone in videogames already lol
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once you see the game for yourself you will be ashamed of your words and deeds. these are the âharmlessâ dogs you defend so passionately:
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Honestly cannot wait to kill all the dogs and wallow in graphic personmurder. Love to prestige my guts out
This is exactly the kind of trash that my brain is designed to drill through and process as pure comedy
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fable 2: 2
peter molyneux on a stage talking about how only the player character having a dog wasnât enough and now everyone in the world has a dog that they experience love with
what heâd like to explore is the idea of taking that love away from other people forcibly
this is the correct, intelligent way to play these kinds of games but unfortunately the people who are leading the âintellectualâ charge in games writing will fucking go all spec ops or whatever with it
like I donât read games writing anymore but i know when it has permeated into someone im speaking withs brain and its just SO FUCKIN ANNOYING TO HAVE THE SAME CONVERSATION OVER AND OVER
if you stream dog murder game tho im totally watching
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Whatâs next up the moral ladder after dogs? Kids? Cherubs?
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not going to play this until it is confirmed that the game keeps track of how many dogs youâve killed and you can use this to unlock some cheevos
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I hope thereâs a scene where you can choose whether or not to use an extremely powerful gun that requires dogs as ammo and fires dogs. To balance out the extreme power of the weapon players wonât be able to bring themselves to pull the trigger.
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shave and a hair cut, two bits!
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