One little tweak... (Gaming)

by SonofMacPhisto , Wednesday, August 14, 2013, 14:53 (3931 days ago) @ Kermit

Power does corrupt, though. It's not like it's untrue or irrelevant nor do I think what Levine is doing is simplistic. I actually think the edgy thing to do to what Levine did--show the negative side of the Vox movement.

I really need to trim my book-length BioShock Infinite treatise.

We're definitely going to have to agree to disagree on that one. I'd say Infinite's about as edgy as a marshmallow.

Yeah, I say it's edgy if bitten into, and not just squeezed. :) I'll post more stuff this weekend.

I'm with Jilly, and I'm trying really hard to express why. Here's the best I've come up with.

Say you have a film like "True Grit" (the Cohen version, just for reference as to what's in my brain) and you're talking about the effect the drive for revenge can have on a person. The female protagonist (the name escapes me) pays a very clear cost for her campaign, but at the same time, you wonder if it was still worth it, at least to her.

I wish Infinite's use of the Vox uprising was more like that than what we got. Again, I refer us back to Booker's line in the elevator where we get hit over the head with it Master Chief Halo 4 style. AM I A MACHINE/THE VOX ARE BAD.