5.17.2008
gaming and "adolescent charm"
Although I have, for the most part, given up my gamer urges, I do occasionally indulge from time to time... today while reading a gaming blog I stumbled across an interesting article on certain games' tendency to promote an almost satirically excessive concept of masculinity. It postulates that these games are...
... the kind of stupid that feeds a real human need. After all, man does not live on Proust alone.Though I think the best games do manage to strike a balance...
- posted by vcmc @ 5/17/2008 07:30:00 PM
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not just "adolescent charm" -- it's Western homophobic male adolescent charm.
"... its core values are firmly, resolutely, undeniably Western, with barely a nod to anything outside the '80s-movie canon. And depending on the audience, this can be a little alienating. Chatting with designers trying to make pan-territory games, they describe a Korean gamer's bemusement when presented with a game like Gears of War: "Why am I controlling the bad guy?" The blob of protein and steel that Epic upheld as the ideal male specimen was something alien. Foreign. The product of a culture he didn't understand.
Western commentators, however, do understand it, and think it's the worst kind of stupid...."
If only i could understand western culture and their masculine ideals -- then i could be macho too.
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"... its core values are firmly, resolutely, undeniably Western, with barely a nod to anything outside the '80s-movie canon. And depending on the audience, this can be a little alienating. Chatting with designers trying to make pan-territory games, they describe a Korean gamer's bemusement when presented with a game like Gears of War: "Why am I controlling the bad guy?" The blob of protein and steel that Epic upheld as the ideal male specimen was something alien. Foreign. The product of a culture he didn't understand.
Western commentators, however, do understand it, and think it's the worst kind of stupid...."
If only i could understand western culture and their masculine ideals -- then i could be macho too.
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