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by Fussbett 06/27/2008, 12:10pm PDT |
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http://weblogs.variety.com/the_cut_scene/2008/06/civilization-iv.html
It's ironic, actually, because just a few months ago a friend sent me a link to some information about the original "Colonization" game from 1994 (pictured left) that this one updates. At first, I thought it had to be a joke, but sure enough, it was real. However, I dismissed it as a relic from a time when neither developers nor players took videogames seriously as media with moral implications.
But the idea that 2K and Firaxis and Sid Meier himself would make and release a game in the year 2008 that is not only about colonization, but celebrates it by having the player control the people doing the colonizing is truly mind boggling.
INC: haha 1994, a time before morals
INC: he can forgive that
Sanitario666: they were simpler times
INC: look at Pac Man - eat or be eaten
INC: no time for moral quandaries
Remember all the debate when Newsweek's N'Gai Croal said of the "Resident Evil 5" trailer with the African zombies that "Even if you are familiar with the franchise, if you are familiar with those images and their historical weight, you look at it and say, 'Man, that’s kind of messed up.'" Well, I agreed with N'Gai on that issue, but in my opinion, a game about colonization is about 100 times more messed up.
INC: haha 100 times more messed up than RE5
INC: that's pretty messed up
Sanitario666: Yeah, it's like Resident Evil 500
(And I'm not even getting into the offensiveness of using uncritically using the phrase "New World" in the marketing material.)
INC: there's nothing about this game that doesn't offend him
Whether it was British rule of India or slavery in Africa or Aboriginal children kidnapped and taken to Christian schools in Australia or the dislocation of Native Americans in the U.S., there were no positive colonization experiences.
INC: his statement about no positives from colonization is especially funny to me today
INC: as I was reading about the horrible "elections" going on in Zimbabwe and thinking, "maybe we should give colonization another try there."
(map of European colonization from the 18th century taken from here.)
INC: (colonizing other sites) |
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Variety gaming blogger learns about Sid Meier's Colonization, loses shit. by Fussbett 06/27/2008, 12:10pm PDT
I read a neat essay about Sid Meier's Colonization once. by Jerry Whorebach 06/27/2008, 12:43pm PDT
Oh look, some of it is actually applicable. by Jerry Whorebach 06/27/2008, 12:53pm PDT
Re: Oh look, some of it is actually applicable. by E. L. Koba 06/27/2008, 1:43pm PDT
Re: Variety gaming blogger learns about Sid Meier's Colonization, loses shit. by VORPoster 06/27/2008, 2:11pm PDT
Valve fires Erik and Chet? NT by You need Chet to make the website 06/27/2008, 2:24pm PDT
Yahztee doesn't count? NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 06/27/2008, 3:06pm PDT
http://www.affectionatediary.com/?p=414 <----------not bad, for THE INTERNET >:( NT by Jerry Whorebach 06/27/2008, 7:48pm PDT
RUN AWAY FROM THE RACISM ARBAGA BRGG NT by Grumah 06/27/2008, 5:38pm PDT
So I was reading the QT3 thread about this (that was my first mistake)... by Jerry Whorebach 06/30/2008, 11:13pm PDT
Re: So I was reading the QT3 thread about this (that was my first mistake)... by Fortinbras 07/01/2008, 12:15am PDT
Re: So I was reading the QT3 thread about this (that was my first mistake)... by laudablepuss 07/01/2008, 11:37am PDT
Yeah, it sounds like the ancient heebs were pretty much asking for it. Thanks! NT by Jerry Whorebach 07/01/2008, 12:46pm PDT
I guess a better way of describing it . . . by laudablepuss 07/01/2008, 2:27pm PDT
Re: I guess a better way of describing it . . . by Fortinbras 07/01/2008, 3:23pm PDT
Re: I guess a better way of describing it . . . by laudablepuss 07/01/2008, 3:44pm PDT
Re: So I was reading the QT3 thread about this (that was my first mistake)... by Happiness Engine 07/02/2008, 5:03pm PDT
Re: So I was reading the QT3 thread about this (that was my first mistake)... by laudablepuss 07/02/2008, 5:36pm PDT
You are a genuinely awful poster. You should go post on QT3 exclusively. NT by Zsenitan 07/01/2008, 11:57am PDT
Sorry, I'll worship your stench-filled dripping pussy, is it all better now? NT by Fortinbras 07/01/2008, 3:24pm PDT
No. NT by Zsenitan 07/01/2008, 3:28pm PDT
Goddamnit NT by Fortinbras 07/01/2008, 3:36pm PDT
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