You're making the mistake of seeing criticism as a bad thing, what makes you think that? I've just finished a major project at work, what am I doing, ripping big chunks of what we did to shreds so when it comes around next year it will be better. Criticism is what brings improvement, it's what gives you the best game possible. If that's what you want, embrace the idea. You might disagree with the criticism itself, and that's fine, but to disagree with the act of criticism is to pretty much cut the throat of improvement.
But is the plot and story a platform for social issues and should it be?
the way i see it Video games are at the cliff face there's two ways video games can progress.
on the one hand what music has become:
where there's thousands of musicians who write and perform the songs they want, criticism be damned. this results in genres of music in all forms.
everything from a children's song i hate speech.
If you can think it you can find and the industry is just so rich for there's always some music that speaks to you moves you and you play it over and over again. it may not be the most popular thing out their but its there. if any artist wants to write about it they can an will.
on the other hand what movies have become:
bland common denominator crap, where everyone's soo afraid to offend someone no of the classic films we cherish could ever hope to be made in our time. everything's focus groups and budget's. If the producer wants a to focus on social issues it becomes the main theme and plot duct taped on it. if not it becomes about explosions or stupid camera angles. all because everything is ground down to one singular point. Maximise profits.
forget anything controversial or unique lets go for the maximum dollars.
and the stories have gotten lost, nowadays in film the only time boundaries are pushed is so they can market a film as pushing boundaries. Nothings organic everything is bland, sterilised and utterly forgettable. how many films have you seen in the last ten years that you fell in love with? watched time and time and time again to the point where you can quote lines from obscure parts of the film?
compare that to song's over the last 10 years?
everyone has that song in their car that album that's sitting in the car that you switch on when the radio is just **** talk and ad's or you've had a really shitty day and you reach over cycle through that disk searching song after song after song of poorly formatted music with no names and inconsistent album sizes.
and depending on that how your feeling you just know which song you want. which song speaks to you at that time.
no movie compares to that, and thats because music has such depth and range. but that comes at cost. because music it's is still raw compared to movies.
and that comes at a cost. that coast is range. that cost is leaving the artist to perform what they want to perform.
if you don't like miley cyris singing about demolition equipment don't listen.
you don't want to lessen to tupac saying **** the police don't listen.
Michael buble singing about christmas don't listen.
aerosmith singing about a car crash don't listen.
and it goes on and on and on. but one thing you don't do is tell the artist to "improve" their work.
it's art if you don't like find what you don't do is walk up to Charles Willmott and tell him to "improve" his next painting because you didn't feel it handled an issue the way you liked.
would you give a serve to boarderlands for going cell shading? of course not. why because it was a design choice.
would you give a serve to 50 cent for swearing 55 times in a song? of course not because he chose to do it.
or any painter for their choice of colour?
Steven king for his pacing?
none of these because we understand this is art this is for something artist wants.
so why does bioware cop flack for the most artistic part of their games? the story! Sure say you don't like, say it looks like ****, that its not your cuppa tea. But spare me this idea that the game has to be to your exact social and political POV because that's not what at is about.
once video games stop doing things because people are offended is when we head to the movies route dull and boring. Hollywood isn't out of ideas they keep doing remakes because its becomes so politicised and scared of every action group under the sun that the studios are afraid to take risk's.
which means the very content your after becomes few and far between because its deemed controversial.
find me 5 movies that have been more opening to gender and sexuality as bioware games?
I'd understand if people just came out didn't respect the medium and said I hate it you can hate something that's perfect fine, but if you respect the artist and the medium you have to accept you will not like certain things and its ok for you NOT TO LIKE SOMETHING, instead find something you like grab hold of it and relish it. allow the industry to grow naturally.
but don't demand the industry change for you because like movies the more you try and change things the less growth and development the medium will have.
everything will wind up being bejewelled so its not offensive.
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