I feel like I'm reasonably good at picking at a game on the gameplay level, as per what works and does not and why and surface videogame essayist stuff like ludonarrative dissonance (or the rare examples of ludonarrative harmony).
I may offer you my finest insight into video games such as "Lara Croft has some sort of father complex going on" and "Shadow of Chernobyl is unintentionally about life in the collapse of the soviet union" which even by my own admission feels shallow and trite. You watch someone like Jacob Geller or Noah Caldwell-Gervais and they have fascinating things to say even on games you wouldn't expect it, like NCG on Quake.
How do I become that knowledgeable? Interesting? Analytical? about video games?
The amount of glaze TLOU still gets from "progressives" even after Neil's blatant Zionism was laid out in the open is maddening. I guess all JK Rowling needed to do to retain some of her progressive fanbase was to just be somewhat good about trans people and everyone would probably give her a pass for all her other gross shit
Game always looked boring as fuck to me since day 0, woow a 3rd person zombie shooter on the PS3?? Never been done before!
Doesn't help that it's also a weirdo Israeli fanfiction
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/video-games/news/the-last-of-us-part-2-ellie-evolution/
Legendary interview. I'm not surprised that such outright, blatant genocidal fervor was never an issue for so many. "Progressive" Zionism is such a fucking menace