Um FallOut melhorado!

Sempre fui fã da franquia FallOut e tava ansioso demais pra testar The Outer Worlds. Com a promoção da Epic, acabei pegando o jogo e tive a oportunidade de zerar essa obra-prima! Que jogo incrível, posso dizer que é um FallOut melhorado, com personagens cativantes, uma ótima história, gráficos lindos e uma gameplay que cadencia entre o intenso e o diplomático. Praticamente tudo no jogo consegui resolver com diálogo, mas com a opção de ser um Rambo também, e adorei isso, todas as decisões importam e pesam lá na frente, dá pra perceber conforme a história avança. Os companions são um dos pontos mais fortes na minha opinião, dialogam entre si, tem quests interessantes e opinam sobre as decisões do player, algo que eu via na franquia Dragon Age e fiquei surpreso quando encontrei aqui. Quero dizer que recomendo demais, a versão Spacers Choice tem os seus problemas de performance, mas consegui resolver com o DLSS.

Deem uma chance, o jogo é incrível!

Growing up, I really liked listening to Eminem, to the point where it pretty much was my defining personality trait. And while it is cringy to admit this looking back on it, there really was no better time capsule of the late 90s and early 2000s than his discography.

See, you really had to be there to get it: Family values and conservatives nuclear families were at a potent cultural war with media that made an active effort wanting to provoke them. Even if you were tactful in your criticism fo society and tried to cleverly layer your message and commentaries, people would still find a way to twist it into their narrative and censor it becuase it would be harmful to kids and their good morals.

Of course, that war would eventually come to all media outlets, including Rap and Hip Hop Music. Now some would argue that violence is inherently to this sort of genre, if not the vast majority of more narrative fictions. To never mention certain topics and ban their discussion (which happened even if you complied to their norms and were as tame as possible) would be to dumb down all products and consumers as a whole for being forbidden to consume and think for themselves.

Which traces back to Eminem. While a lot of it's contemporaries did have edgy humor to ragebait audiences into paying attention to their messages (that flew over their heads anyway), Eminem did it in a way that really, made it's entire personality to be offensive without barely having anything to say. It was edgy and in your face because that's all it really had to offer, not realizing that his music would have aged a lot more gracefully had he just taken more time out to see that there's more to adult topics than simply making an entire verse out of your songs about your ballsack being big.

I'd be lying if I said everything about Eminem's sense of humor is garbage, because some jokes do land, his lyrics are ridiculously quotable and the production does have it's charm. To this day, he's ridiculously popular and people from younger generations than mine can clearly appreciate something that I don't. Even if I find it hilarious that he's the favorite rapper among both experienced listeners who personally, I think should know better, and white conservatives who barely listen to hip-hop and delude themselves into believing that the character of shady is just like them when at the same time, complain when music artists get 'Too woke' with their artistry.

But there's a reason this type of offensive South Park-esque humor fell off in mainstream media. Young people bought offensive things out of the counter-culture principal that their dad didn't like it, so it must be good. But culture nowadays became so multifaceted that the need for a counter-culture barely exists anymore. Our knowledge of the word became a lot more vast, to the point where you think that if you had the popularity, time, money and range to spread a world-wide message that you believed in when making a product, you sure as fuck wouldn't use it to diss a minor celebrity like Gary Coleman, not only it would date your music horribly, but you would look incredibly goofy and shallow for it.

Maybe that's the point, maybe I'm just overanalysing an artist that was never meant to be taken seriously. But am I really supposed to be surprised when people say his others releases aren't nearly as well recieved? That everything that came after the fame of this release (Or the one before it that no one listened because it wasn't good either) failed to capture the same magic because it's just rehashing the same thing that made it popular ad nauseum when it wasn't even genius the first time?

I have a lot of soft spots for Eminem and I can appreciate him being self aware in it's sillyness, but I wouldn't blame anyone that said his discography was never good to begin with for the reasons mentioned previously.

admito que minhas intenções ao experimentar “baldur’s gate” (1998) pela primeira vez eram puramente vindas de um interesse histórico: já tinha observado de perto o ancião “wasteland” e queria fazer o mesmo com um dos jogos responsáveis por dar nova vida ao gênero crpg, junto do fallout original. pensei que iria jogar por um tempinho, fazer graça com as regras estúpidas da segunda edição de dungeons and dragons (não vou entrar em detalhes aqui mas vai por mim, são estúpidas) e parar logo em seguida. tenho que dar esse mérito para “baldur’s gate”: ele é engajante. a experiência grudou de uma forma que eu não esperava. os cenários rurais pitorescos são deliciosos de explorar, as quests são interessantes e a atmosfera é muito cativante, por mais que muitas vezes os conteúdos são espalhados de forma dispersa em um mapa. eu nunca tinha jogado um jogo do estúdio bioware, mas “baldur’s gate” me deu um interesse pelo catálogo da empresa.

algo na narrativa que me surpreendeu foi o quanto que esse jogo possui um viés político bem específico para a época. assim como “fallout 2" fez críticas bem apontadas à propaganda anticomunista norte-americana, o conflito principal de “baldur’s gate” apresenta em seu antagonista uma figura militarista tentando ganhar poder através de um plano que usa da xenofobia e pânico moral para forjar uma crise de recursos ao mesmo tempo que tenta ao máximo personificar o mito do “grande homem”, algo que todo direita-facistóide eventualmente tenta executar em sua carreira miserável. estou dizendo que bolsonaro é uma cria de bhaal, o deus do assassinato? sim. (gravação vazada de jair bolsonaro após comicamente perder as eleições de 2022.)

esse elemento da narrativa é algo que se mantém relevante mesmo nas duas décadas que se passaram após o lançamento do jogo original, ao ponto de que se fosse lançado hoje em dia seria recebido com ódio fervoroso pelos mesmos supostos fãs da série que fizeram campanhas de assédio aos desenvolvedores após a expansão “siege of dragonspear” (2016) introduzir uma personagem trans. se você for jogar “baldur’s gate” utilizando a “enhanced edition” (que é a única versão disponível na steam hoje em dia), eu te imploro: baixe o mod com as cutscenes originais. não tô nem aí se você não gosta de fmvs antigas: elas são melhores que as versões novas

falando em dragonspear eu dei uma cinta de trocar o sexo pro khalid e depois dela ter virado uma garota trans ela ficou insanamente mais forte. claramente não foi coincidência é isso que aconteceu comigo