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GamerGate - HOT OFF THE PRESSES AT POLYGON, TRULY THEY ARE A BASTION OF JOURNALISM

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esterday morning I found myself trying to play Shadow of Mordor. I look forward to playing more today, but yesterday I didn't get much further than the tutorial before putting the game down to share some feelings. There's a basic design mistake right at the start. One of the very first things you do in the game, following a brief sword-fight with your son and some Uruks, is kiss your wife. This isn't an ordinary kiss, it's actually a tutorial for how to sneak up on someone and murder them - that much is immediately clear from the controls, even before you actually kill Uruks moments later. You're learning a skill that will later be used almost exclusively in combat. Hold R2 for stealth. While in stealth, press to kiss your wife. The developers likely thought this was a good time to poke fun at boring tutorials witha joke, which, fair enough, some people who I respect enjoyed, although I'm curious if that enjoyment was sarcastic or sincere. I imagine that, after a lifetime of reviewing AAA games, it must be nice to catch an accidental little fourth wall break joke once in a while. I mean, it would have been a great joke about AAA videogames -"push button for emotion, push the same button for murder" if it had been intentional and in a game like No More Heroes, but in the context of a serious and emotional opening, it kind of ruined the start of the game. It's unaware of how terrible it is, while it's trying to poke fun at how terrible something else is. Allow me to explain

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TheSilverRaven

TheSilverRaven

Oct 01, 2014 at 06:02PM EDT

"I didn't get much further than the tutorial before putting the game down to share some feelings."

And that, my friends, is the moment this article became horse shit.

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Wisehowl

Wisehowl

Oct 01, 2014 at 06:23PM EDT

I've never seen someone get their panties in a twist over one little button prompt like this. I mean jeez.

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