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While this thread feels like another "I disliked popular game x, therefore it is bad" scenario, I do agree with you there.
It seemed like such a major theme, but they really played it safe in regards to the racism. Halfway through it stopped being a big issue, and even then I don't think they touched upon actual slavery or major racial slurs at all (unless you mean slavery in regards to the treatment of the working class and racial divide in Colombia).
It almost made the villains cartoony, particularly when they have a statue of John Wilkes Booth but won't actually say "the n word", as if they were made to be accepted easier by consumers.
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I believe games are a major victim of over political correctness. Right now feminists jump on every opportunity they can to bash the industry, even when they don't even play the games. In the past video games have been constantly accused of making children violent. Racism and whatnot would probably end up with people jumping down the developer's throats.
Lots of armature journalists across the internet trying to get their big break by making some outrageous claims do a lot of harm to this industry. Look at Kotaku's constant fishing for hits with their terribly written articles blaming nearly every new game of being sexist in some way or another. It's sickening. These people have no integrity.
Yeah I feel like it would be a chance for some anti games blogger to call it violently racist or something.
For a non game example, American Psycho was accused of being misogynistic by some due to some shallow dialogue on the part of some of the characters. In that case, we have a book AND film where it's blatantly obvious that it's a satire of yuppie culture and that saying it's misogynistic is like saying the film makes murder seem ok.
In other words, anyone with an agenda or need for attention will jump at the chance to further it, especially if it means criticizing something for being only vaguely related.
I'd say a great videogame example of this is when one of Kotaku's editors accused Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon of being homophobic because of an 80's type machismo joke that was in absolutely no way homophobic. It wouldn't be a stretch for someone to write about how Bioshock: Infinite is a racist white power fantasy if it were to have a slip of the n-word by one of the villainous characters. In fact I'm surprised Fox news didn't somehow jump on this as it is, but even more surprised I didn't see any bloggers refer to it as racist, probably because Infinite played it so safe and made it clear that only the bad guys were total racist jerks.
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