Recent content by SkepticalHat

I think it's more of a gamers choosing to go with the safe bet thing, than anything else. I mean think about it. Most games retail for $60 minimum, and up to $200 for that ultra limited special edition. Now if you had to spend that kind of money what you spend it on? The game that is new and...

The questions I posed are meant to be for a more general discussion of how certain mechanics and features of video games affect representation. Video Games are a different medium they ultimately have different conventions than film or literature. Just like film has different devices than...

Again it's likely just my interpretation of what they are saying, but I do think there is some desire to see certain things removed. And I've seen more people talking from the negative than the positive. I just want to see more " Y is good, because ...". I feel that a lot of the opposition...

Critical analysis never ends only moves to more other and/or more abstract things. Want to stop critically analyzing media? Critically analyze your critical analysis.

The discussion of representation in video games is a discussion that should be had. There are however more fundamental questions that need to be answered first. Questions such as: What counts as encouraging an action in video games? What counts as discouraging an action in video games? Is...

The reason, at least personally, for why people think that this discussion would lead to a "progressive checklist" is because most of the discussion about this is negative. Very few articles/videos/blog posts about representation in video games uses a positive perspective. For the most part when...