IO Interactive claim they chose to tell the story of a younger James Bond in 007: First Light because it would make him “more relatable” to a “younger audience.”This Substack is reader-supported.
Io Interactive already had their shot to tell an original story with Agent 47 in Hitman and the developers did it well. They have their bona fides and thus nothing to prove in my opinion. I am disappointed that rather than honor Ian Fleming's work, the heads of Io Interactive threw it out using James Bond as a skin suit.
Maybe it's the consultants they chose, maybe it was stipulations from Amazon, but I don't want a game to be "relatable", I want a game to be awesome and fill the shoes of an experienced and most importantly competent hero. While playing Call of Duty or Gears of Wars knowing many friends who have served in the US military that it tough, harrowing, and sometimes deadly work. I want the distilled experience of combat without the actual combat!
To be uncharitable, video games are the junk food equivalent of reality. If I wanted to weeb out I'd play a classic Bioware RPG and inject myself into the character and even then I look at the classes and styles available first. I wonder where the self-centeredness and narcissistic obsession with the self came from. Maybe a lack of reading and too much social media. I remember when gamers were also avid readers!
I just don't have faith in this. Major studio doing a character that is "problematic" is a sure-fire way to fail. Bond doesn't need an "origin story", he's an INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY. I don't think modern writers get how characters don't need to be relatable figures, especially one with a fifty-year history. His stories should all be one-off missions that occasionally reference one another vaguely and leave it at that. We don't need to know he was abandoned as a child, has mommy issues, doom scrolls or feels bad about killing.
We are so far removed from Ian Fleming's vision and at this point, it should just be a new IP at this point. Amazon is just desperate for some money to go into this property.
Too much focus on the devs "story to tell" for me. Same language is used in all the "gender-journey" garbage put out in the guise of "games."
Bet? This younger Bond is pansexual - or some such anti-hetero slop pushed by the (Keebler Elves).
Io Interactive already had their shot to tell an original story with Agent 47 in Hitman and the developers did it well. They have their bona fides and thus nothing to prove in my opinion. I am disappointed that rather than honor Ian Fleming's work, the heads of Io Interactive threw it out using James Bond as a skin suit.
Maybe it's the consultants they chose, maybe it was stipulations from Amazon, but I don't want a game to be "relatable", I want a game to be awesome and fill the shoes of an experienced and most importantly competent hero. While playing Call of Duty or Gears of Wars knowing many friends who have served in the US military that it tough, harrowing, and sometimes deadly work. I want the distilled experience of combat without the actual combat!
To be uncharitable, video games are the junk food equivalent of reality. If I wanted to weeb out I'd play a classic Bioware RPG and inject myself into the character and even then I look at the classes and styles available first. I wonder where the self-centeredness and narcissistic obsession with the self came from. Maybe a lack of reading and too much social media. I remember when gamers were also avid readers!
I just don't have faith in this. Major studio doing a character that is "problematic" is a sure-fire way to fail. Bond doesn't need an "origin story", he's an INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY. I don't think modern writers get how characters don't need to be relatable figures, especially one with a fifty-year history. His stories should all be one-off missions that occasionally reference one another vaguely and leave it at that. We don't need to know he was abandoned as a child, has mommy issues, doom scrolls or feels bad about killing.
We are so far removed from Ian Fleming's vision and at this point, it should just be a new IP at this point. Amazon is just desperate for some money to go into this property.
The trailer for this game was DEI puke. Bond should already be an established character and a man.
It looks FUCKING AWESOME!!!