Far Cry 3: The creative failure of industry ‘commentary’
How a writer thinks critics didn’t ‘get’ what wasn’t there to get Far Cry 3has been accused of racism, sexism, and relying too heavily on exploitative narrative tropes. Lead writer Jeffrey Yohalem, however, thinks the critics have missed the point, and toldPenny ArcadethatFar Cry 3is supposed to be a commentary. “It’s set on an island in the South Pacific, so immediately the thing that comes to mind is the white colonial trope, theAvatartrope,” he explained....