Social Issues in Gaming: Why we Nintendont Care

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Social Issues in Gaming: Why we Nintendont Care

Added: 30.05.2014 13:14 | 17 views | 0 comments

WASDuk's Arkworthy outlines the pros and cons of social issues in gaming, such as hailing the virtual boy: "Which brings us (unfortunately) to videogames, because as a growing medium, gaming now has to contend with a larger number of perceived social issues, rather than in the good old days, where all we had to worry about were church groups crying about Catholic iconography in Castlevania. Whats more, none of it appears in the least bit important. It seems like every week theres some fresh evil (though not really) being committed by some horrible (and no doubt heavily-closeted) games developer who happens to want to make a work of fiction that doesnt check more politically correct boxes than the quality assurance guy at a gollywog factory. The question that must be asked, of course, is why does any of this matter? Why does it matter if games are politically correct or not? Theyre never going to be historically accurate in the same way that books and films can be. No...