Showing posts with label opinion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label opinion. Show all posts

Thursday, 19 September 2013

MGSV: People are upset about costumes, but not child soldiers?

Let me start this off by saying I'm not at all oblivious to the over-sexualisation of female characters in a lot of video games, films and comics. There is a lot of valid criticism surrounding the outfits of Soul Calibur's Ivy and DC Comics' Power Girl.

I don't really feel in that great a position to comment on when it wanders into ridiculous territory, but I'm fairly certain something like Dead or Alive Beach Vollyball qualifies. I'm not here to enter the debate about the recently released full render of Metal Gear Solid V's character, Quiet, but I'm a bit perplexed by the discourse surrounding it.

Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Bioshock Infinite Makes Me Learn



As I made my way through interactive historical marvels, walked along marble floors listening to voxophones and stopped occasionally at the nearest kinetoscope to delve into the rich history of Columbia, I realised that Bioshock Infinite is the best museum experience I have ever had. I was learning, and it was fun – something was horribly wrong with me.

I’ve been to museums before, but this was something completely different. There were no droning lectures - no gentle, defeated murmurs coming from the hungover employees; there wasn't even a single stegosaurus in sight. I was being led through the long halls of a fictional, historical knowledge and was surprised at how much I was enjoying myself.