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Jun. 8th, 2009 02:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynHad a look at Point Lookout, the next downloadable content package from Bethesda for Fallout 3. Or rather, I had a look at the trailer, since the DLC won't be out until June 23rd.
Ain't gonna buy it.
For one, I'm not into the whole swamp horror thing- Point Lookout takes place in an area that used to be all coastal and boardwalky and now it's flooded and gross and there are dangly remains of trees and fog and the ground goes bloorp a lot. Looks like somewhere Inspector Legrasse would be hunting down the remains of a Cthulhu cult. I guess that's okay for some people, but I'm not into that.
And for two- and this is the big one: I am so. Freaking. TIRED. Of the 'check it out, inbred deformed crazy hillbillies with crude but deadly sharp objects!' thing. There's an awful lot of lumpy-looking people in badly fitting suspenders, armed with shovels, axes, and rifles, in the few moments of video we get. It's basically yet ANOTHER example of "rural Southerners are scary and weird and you should stay away from them if you want to keep all your limbs on". I don't care if it's radiation that caused it, or radiation plus weird chemicals (which is what created the trogs in The Pitt DLC), or what, but damn it all to hell, will the entertainment industry lay off the rural South already?? I mean, yes, there's a family of inbred cannibals in the main game, but they distinguish themselves by looking perfectly normal, acting perfectly cheerful, keeping themselves clean and upstanding citizens, and generally behaving like everyone else right up until you pick the lock on the basement door and find the corpses and chainsaws. Exactly what the hell is being accomplished by adding freaky looking, poorly dressed, deformed rural people into the game? Why the hell is it okay to pick on hill folk and use them as SCARY SCARY MONSTERS, NO REALLY, LOOK OUT FOR THE BIG LUMPY SOUTHERNER WITH THE AXE AND SHOTGUN?
Not cool, Bethesda. Not cool. I realize there's been an awful lot of other companies that've done the same thing in their entertainment offerings since the days when 'hillbilly humor' was popular on the comic strip page, but it's bloody well played out, okay? The people of the rural South are human beings, and just because they aren't the people of the cities you live in doesn't make this kind of treatment okay.
If I buy DLC again it'll be Mothership Zeta, which I haven't seen a preview for yet but involves being kidnapped by angry green aliens in flying saucers. But Point Lookout? No.
Ain't gonna buy it.
For one, I'm not into the whole swamp horror thing- Point Lookout takes place in an area that used to be all coastal and boardwalky and now it's flooded and gross and there are dangly remains of trees and fog and the ground goes bloorp a lot. Looks like somewhere Inspector Legrasse would be hunting down the remains of a Cthulhu cult. I guess that's okay for some people, but I'm not into that.
And for two- and this is the big one: I am so. Freaking. TIRED. Of the 'check it out, inbred deformed crazy hillbillies with crude but deadly sharp objects!' thing. There's an awful lot of lumpy-looking people in badly fitting suspenders, armed with shovels, axes, and rifles, in the few moments of video we get. It's basically yet ANOTHER example of "rural Southerners are scary and weird and you should stay away from them if you want to keep all your limbs on". I don't care if it's radiation that caused it, or radiation plus weird chemicals (which is what created the trogs in The Pitt DLC), or what, but damn it all to hell, will the entertainment industry lay off the rural South already?? I mean, yes, there's a family of inbred cannibals in the main game, but they distinguish themselves by looking perfectly normal, acting perfectly cheerful, keeping themselves clean and upstanding citizens, and generally behaving like everyone else right up until you pick the lock on the basement door and find the corpses and chainsaws. Exactly what the hell is being accomplished by adding freaky looking, poorly dressed, deformed rural people into the game? Why the hell is it okay to pick on hill folk and use them as SCARY SCARY MONSTERS, NO REALLY, LOOK OUT FOR THE BIG LUMPY SOUTHERNER WITH THE AXE AND SHOTGUN?
Not cool, Bethesda. Not cool. I realize there's been an awful lot of other companies that've done the same thing in their entertainment offerings since the days when 'hillbilly humor' was popular on the comic strip page, but it's bloody well played out, okay? The people of the rural South are human beings, and just because they aren't the people of the cities you live in doesn't make this kind of treatment okay.
If I buy DLC again it'll be Mothership Zeta, which I haven't seen a preview for yet but involves being kidnapped by angry green aliens in flying saucers. But Point Lookout? No.
