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It does seem like you missed the point again. It didn’t criticize the common military game it critized the players of those games. It equated the consumption of media to the actual thing i.e. If you enjoy military shooters, you enjoy actual human suffering.

This is blatantly false. The media we consume doesn’t have a real world impact on our actions or character. It is the same moral grandstanding video game players have had to endure since Mortal Kombat packaged in a more artistic manner.

Also stating that anyone can criticize anything is a truism.

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No the point of the game was pretty obviously that you, the player, are a bad person for wanting to enjoy media that portrays something as horrible as war. It’s made pretty clear toward the end with the loading screen “tips.”

The game was marketed as just another military shooter in a time when the market was saturated with those and then did a bait and switch trying to shame the player for wanting to play just that. The whole point falls flat if you consider that as stated there are no real world effects of playing or enjoying violent media. It’s pure moral posturing and self righteous wank.

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She ruined herself with plastic surgery. Sad.

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I agree. Also the message of the game was way too heavy handed and frankly wrong. There’s been decades of studies concluding that playing violent video games does not make the player violent or agressive.

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Even if it does come out at some point the game has been irreversibly fucked by the absurd pay to win monetization racket they’ve been running for the last decade.

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Is the sequel worth playing?

Dead Island 1 was actually a surprisingly fun game. Personally I’m not a fan of overly dramatic zombie games, but I’ve loved the tongue-in-cheek ones where you can kill hordes of zombies with a lawnmower or something.

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Wouldn’t this block VPN access from anywhere, not just EU?

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It was amazing on day 1. It wasn’t perfect, but a diamond in the rough just like every single CDPR game that came before. Put in hundreds of hours and encountered a few visual bugs, a single bug that caused me to load a save from a couple of minutes ago and some peculiar design decisions. Despite that the game was largely a masterpiece.

I understand some console players got completely shafted, though so I get why there was a backlash.

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I don’t think he was wrong there either. Of course all the death threats and the like Anita received were ridiculous and wrong, but presenting an opposing point of view to her opinions isn’t really “wrong.”

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