It can often feel as though some people who like video games want to have it both ways: They want games to be taken seriously and acknowledged as an exciting artistic medium, but the moment someone critiques a game’s politics they respond, as if cued by an invisible conductor: “It’s just a game! Stop taking it so seriously!”
It’s a conflict that’s likely familiar to anyone who cares about and engages in the broader video game discussion. And while most of us have figured out the fallacy evidenced by those two incompatible mindsets—heck, we’ve argued similar points here, from time to time—I still liked this video from Errant Signal video essayist Christopher Franklin breaking it all down.
You can read a full transcript here, and check out Franklin’s other video essays on his YouTube channel
