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My feeling is that game designers just feel like they should toss a few minorities in, but that they don't really tailor the roles towards those minorities. In other words, if a video game needs 8 gangbangers, 23 victims and 17 whores, they will say, let's make a few black and a few Hispanic...

This is a remarkably dumb little editorial. Basically it says, artistic games may never make money so why are we talking about whether there will be artistic games; let's just see what happens. Yet at the same time he admits Shadow of the Colossus was art and made money, which would seem to...

I do think the suggestions offered by the author are interesting and I would like to see games do that, but there are very few that do or will, and a lot of hardcore gamers would criticize games as being too easy on the player anyway. I'm not sure I agree with the idea that games are more...

If gamers don't like save anywheres, then DON'T SAVE. Why should hardcore, masochist gamers ruin it for those of us who don't have a huge desire for intense aggravation and don't think it's fun to play the same 10 minutes of a game over and over again sometimes watching the same 5-minute cut...