E3 whatnot
Jun. 4th, 2012 10:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indigozeal- This is a late observation, and I've no real investment in Assassin's Creed, but my heart sank when I saw the protagonist of the new installment was going to be the stereotypical "don't worry, he's only half Indian" cop-out. The excuse in live-action movies for handing Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp roles the writers thought would be enhanced with a bit of weightless, context-free mystical mumbo-jumbo is the lack of big-name Native actors, but there's no reason for such casting in video games. It's so gutless. When will we see a full-blooded Native protagonist - or, at the very least, a Native protagonist whose heritage is given the gravity it deserves rather than invoked sporadically to give the lead a cheap exoticism?
(In a way, you could a similar argument against the new sidestory set in late-18th-century New Orleans, though I understand it'd be considerably harder for the heroine to move about freely in such a setting without her French heritage. I'm not against mixed-heritage protagonists; I'm frustrated with much of the industry's seeming inability to abide a hero who isn't at least partially white.)
- Why does Capcom want to make Resident Evil the next 24 now? Who told them they should be taking this franchise seriously? The cast for 6 is rivaling that of A Game of Thrones. Is there going to be room for virus monsters amid all the industrial espionage and boardroom shuffling and arguments over jurisdiction among the heroes' various law-enforcement agencies? Did someone get the idea that we were all following this series for the corporate restructuring?
(I'm amused and disappointed at "Neo-Umbrella" but not surprised. We all knew they were going to go back to repudiating big government interference in their industry and embracing reckless, high-risk business practices once the bailout cash came through.)
- It's strange to see the Vita being set so completely adrift so early. It's almost a comfort - a satisfaction - that it's being given such a clean, unargued death instead of being allowed to thrash around in desperate final throes. I never understood the idea, seemingly much-espoused by enthusiasts during the last few months, that the UMD-free backward compatibility was the system's real draw. You know what else plays the PSP library at a third of the Vita's cost, plus already has that vaunted PS1 support? A PSP.
In other news, my DS is dying. The upper screen displays a blank screen if it's tilted in a certain position, and its illumination is tinted faintly yellow in certain others. Normally, this would be time to consider upgrading to a 3DS, but half my library is composed of imports, and the choice between fuzzy, nonnative resolution or teeny-tiny displays for my domestic games doesn't appeal to me. Time to find a DS Lite somewhere, I guess. Hope the screens won't have too many scratches. Sigh.
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(In a way, you could a similar argument against the new sidestory set in late-18th-century New Orleans, though I understand it'd be considerably harder for the heroine to move about freely in such a setting without her French heritage. I'm not against mixed-heritage protagonists; I'm frustrated with much of the industry's seeming inability to abide a hero who isn't at least partially white.)
- Why does Capcom want to make Resident Evil the next 24 now? Who told them they should be taking this franchise seriously? The cast for 6 is rivaling that of A Game of Thrones. Is there going to be room for virus monsters amid all the industrial espionage and boardroom shuffling and arguments over jurisdiction among the heroes' various law-enforcement agencies? Did someone get the idea that we were all following this series for the corporate restructuring?
(I'm amused and disappointed at "Neo-Umbrella" but not surprised. We all knew they were going to go back to repudiating big government interference in their industry and embracing reckless, high-risk business practices once the bailout cash came through.)
- It's strange to see the Vita being set so completely adrift so early. It's almost a comfort - a satisfaction - that it's being given such a clean, unargued death instead of being allowed to thrash around in desperate final throes. I never understood the idea, seemingly much-espoused by enthusiasts during the last few months, that the UMD-free backward compatibility was the system's real draw. You know what else plays the PSP library at a third of the Vita's cost, plus already has that vaunted PS1 support? A PSP.
In other news, my DS is dying. The upper screen displays a blank screen if it's tilted in a certain position, and its illumination is tinted faintly yellow in certain others. Normally, this would be time to consider upgrading to a 3DS, but half my library is composed of imports, and the choice between fuzzy, nonnative resolution or teeny-tiny displays for my domestic games doesn't appeal to me. Time to find a DS Lite somewhere, I guess. Hope the screens won't have too many scratches. Sigh.
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