"Yes, these are exaggerations of misogynistic undercurrents in our own society, but not satirical ones. With nothing in the narrative to underscore how insane and wrong this is, all the game does is reinforce and celebrate sexism."
well, I ask you Carolyn, can you give me just one example from the game wherein it satires one thing and then "underscores in the narrative how insane and wrong it is"? no? because guess what, it's called fucking SATIRE, you don't need to or have to spell out the underlying meaning behind it!
as an example, michael's son shouting out obscenities while playing a parody of CoD is a satire, but the game doesn't come out saying it is a bad thing, it just demonstrates a thing that is out there in the real world...
i was starting to believe microsoft has become totally deaf and dumb, but looks like i was wrong.it's just funny how much they insisted on these policies for so long and now suddenly pulled a 180
I have a question for martin gaston. you admit that microsoft knows sales of kinect software hasn't been good or as good as it wants them to be. so how do you propose microsoft should court a broader audience other than "core" gamers? if kinect titles couldn't attract them enough, what sort of titles could? how can microsoft attract your girlfriend, parents or younger siblings ? and don't tell me with "a more diverse line-up of games", because frankly aside from skylanders, motion or (pretty much dead now) music games, what other titles have ever attracted those demographics in a mass-market sense anytime before?!
the question is do you meant from this article that microsoft should have a more diverse line-up for the "core, mostly twenty something male" gamer which mostly won't be attractive for any other demographic, or for the non-core demographic that you mentioned in order to be more taken seriously outside of the games industry? because frankly from the whole article I can't understand what you really mean!
what baffles me the most is the name. it just reminds me of the first xbox every time I hear it! what do we call that one know? just xbox, original xbox, o.g xbox?!
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