"No Brothels to be in DA4" as per Mark Darrah Tweet.

Nov 3, 2017 22:18:32 GMT midnight tea said:

Nov 3, 2017 21:40:42 GMT Walter Black said:

Gotta love how the authors of both articles completely ignore the contexts of said violence, who is perpetrating it or why. As if creative people are completely incapable of depicting opposing thoughts and actions without endorsing them.

Critic: This game features violence against women and children!

Game Dev: We made it pretty freaking obvious that is was the villains doing those things.  

Critic: But you wrote them, therefore those "villains" are clear reflections of your thought patterns!

Game Dev: But the player character is meant to oppose them-

Critic: Doesn't matter! You created the entire scenario where violence is used, where the protagonist suffers!

Game Dev: So no fictional story can ever have anyone doing anything bad, regardless of history or context, without being accused of endorsing it? 

Critic: YES!!!

Except it's a strawman. Nobody (in the articles at least) was making anything close to this argument. 

I read both articles several times, and both cite what they consider the mere existence of objectionable content in judgmental terms with zero context. Hell, the very title of the second one, PlayStation defends domestic abuse in trailers: "A game made by adults, to be played by adults" , has to be one of the most leading, intellectually dishonest, unprofessional and disgustingly self serving titles I've seen in some time.

A proper advertisement should* give potential customers an accurate summation of what the product does. In my view, those trailers showed exactly what kind of game and story The Last of Us 2 and Detroit: Became Human would entail with no ambiguity or room for interpretation. Thus, they fulfilled their responsibility to the TRUTH. If the trailers had avoided or actively whitewashed such content, customers would have been given a false representation of the games, and be justifiably angry at being lied to. People who dislike such stories now know that these games are not for them, and can look elsewhere. With false advertising, the customer could not properly exercise their responsibility on voting with their wallets. If your response is "well maybe that content shouldn't exist in the games proper", then you've pretty much proved my point.

*I know most advertisements usually don't, which why I added the emphasis .