So like I don't make it a secret that I really dislike David Cage. His "games" are jokes that take themselves way to seriously for the terrible writing and most of the time terrible voice acting that are filtered with in them. But I realized that I haven't explained why I dislike this man and his ''games'' so much, so that is my job today. First of all I should probably explain why I put "games" in quotation marks. David Cage has gone on record saying that he wants to make movies and not games which makes a lot of sense if play his games. The game Heavy Rain is the one that put him on the map. And the only "game play" that the player does is walk your character and quick time events. That is it, the rest is just cut scenes. Don't get me wrong, this could work and it has before with games like The Wolf Among Us and The Walking Dead Season 1 but the biggest issue is that David Cage's stories are filled with plot holes after plot holes so the story is not gripping whatsoever. It is honestly just like watching a really boring movie. Also it does not help that David Cage is just a creep.
David Cage is just not a good person. He has done a lot of creeping things to his employees. For example, in David Cage's fourth game, Beyond Two Souls, they used a lot of facial recognition technology and they did this for the main characters. The main actress, Ellen Page, said that she did not want a nude model of her at all but David Cage made one anyway. This did not make it into the game but the model leaked on to the Internet so Ellen Page's privacy was invaded against her will. Another thing that was reported that he makes very uncomfortable and inappropriate jokes towards his employees and it overall being a toxic work environment. Also, he always has these tropes in his games that are really bad and unnecessary to the game. He always has some time of sexual assault and child murder in his games and when it comes up it just comes off as insensitive and inappropriate.
David Cage's newest game is honestly the worst one he has made up to date, this game is called Detroit: Become Human. The reason why I consider this game to be the worst one to date because it is the first time David Cage tried to hit on real world subjects like racism in America. An immediate problem with this is that David Cage is a white guy from France so he already has a disconnect with American history especially slavery and Jim Crow laws. Another problem is that he tried to do too much with too little time and resources. David tried to touch on Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, Anti- Semitism, Domestic Violence, Sex Work, and Xenophobia all in one game. These sensitive issues are too complex to be put together sloppy. But the biggest issue is that he tried to replace actual people with Robots. This is a big issue because these types of issues do not hold the same type of weight with robots because they are machines not humans. In this game they do look human but they run on computer logic and are made of wires, so when you are trying to do a side by side comparison to how white slave owners justified slavery and how people do not think robots are human it falls apart. It ends up with you looking like you are justifying slavery and downplaying it. You cannot try to talk about these real word issues using robots because they are inherently different on the inside unlike slaves who were always humans and will always be, they felt real pain and emotions and cannot just turn it off like a robot in this game can and does.
David Cage is a bad writer. He is really incompetent and honestly really should stop making games, but until he does we can always laugh about how badly written these games really are.
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