To Tom
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 6:21 pm
I've been playing Devil's Daggers. Is it racist towards demons?
"Political Correctness, the great malady of our times...
It's a throwback shooter about killing everything onscreen before it kills you. It's a game. Do you seriously think I care about how artists choose to represent Hell? The Lower Plane is what we make of it, so if some Australian developer decides it's a wide platform suspended in a black void that's continuously overrun with monsters straight of Quake's design philosophy, all the more power to him.
It's not exactly a constructive depiction, although it does say something about the Princes' fondness for custom-tailoring Damnation for generations requiring specific approaches: an unwinnable gauntlet where death is a touch away and never lasts; one where you're continuously tossed back into the wringer, sounds like something the Black Goat would want to set a focus group on. He'd consider it a win-win scenario, in any case: toss in Damned to beta-test, toss more in until the Alpha's ironed out - and then unleash upon the wider masses, no subscription or payment required."
He shudders.
"Come to think of it, I fear the day that'll see a damned game designer's soul earn the Goat's clemency to work on something like this. Gamification is one thing when applied to the mortal plane, I'm afraid of what'll happen when the Prince's lackeys realize they have points and achievements to earn if they reach certain quotas..."