By displacing racism to fantasy races and demographic divides in games, writers raise an awkward question: how did real-world racism suddenly get solved?
Posts Tagged With: Mass Effect
3 Bill reflects on which videogame soundtrack compositions have influenced him the most.
My 10 Most Important Videogame Music Pieces
2 A small team against overwhelming numbers in tight spaces. On one level, a game of sci-fi battles, on another, a co-operative sport.
What It’s Like To Play Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer
Aaron and Oscar are joined by guests Shareef Jackson and Austin Walker to discuss the representation of police in games, with a focus on Battlefield: Hardline.
The OntoCast 4: Police
This time, I’m going to take a look at BioWare, who tend to come closer to depicting queer characters with actual dignity. Yet, there remain tremendous problems.
Queer Lovin’ Blues Part 2: “Character Matters, Not Race or Gender”
5 Despite their supposedly exalted role in Mass Effect's galactic hierarchy, the asari do double duty as the universe’s preferred sex objects.
The Sex Class in BioWare Worlds
6 Comparing Baldur’s Gate II’s romances to Mass Effect’s is not only an interesting way to look at how BioWare as a company has changed over the past twelve years, but also the way that gamer culture and video games in general have changed.
From Jaheira to Liara: A Brief Survey of BioWare Romances
Aaron Gotzon and Oscar Strik are pleased to bring you this first episode of the Ontological Geek's new podcast! Within, find discussions of game music, free-to-play games, gamer entitlement, and various other things!
The OntoCast 1
Without tangible game benefits or a preordained character personality to guide my decision, I am forced to really think about the choices being presented to me
A Personal Choice
1 Considering the practically unending amount of locales our universe has to offer, it is perhaps surprising that few games really make use of that limitless expanse.
A Guest Beyond the Final Frontier
2 FTL is chock full of moral choices, made all the more difficult and complex by the lack of any explicit moral evaluation system.
Moral Choice in FTL
Games frequently talk about religion, but rarely interact with the transcendent ideas of deities and the holy that religion is about.