Welcome to the club, Talion.
This post contains the least shocking “spoilers” ever for something that happens about five minutes into the game Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor.
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Even if you don’t care about the troubling gender politics of underdeveloped female characters constantly being sacrificed to fuel a male character’s rage and our sympathy for that character, how can anyone, at this point, not be so fucking tired of encountering the exact same piece of “gritty,” “mature” character development for video game heroes over and over and over? How can anyone start a game that trots out this trope and not think to themselves, “Please, for the love of God, not this shit again!” How can anyone not roll their eyes at the incredible laziness of writers who don’t spend a second trying to come up with new reasons for men to be angry and go around slaughtering hundreds of people or orcs or whatever? When there are so many stories that games can tell, is this really what anyone wants, still more heroes whose wives and children have no real agency or value on their own terms but exist only to be killed and then avenged?



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I’ve heard nothing but good things about this game but enough already with the dead family trope. ENOUGH. somehow the...
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