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Far Cry 3 writer battles critics on Twitter, summons drug PSAs for defense
Far Cry 3, with its torture scenes and male-and-male rape and its leading millennial star named Jason Brody, is positioned as a work of cultural critique, a meta-commentary on the addictive gameplay systems and unsightly tropes found in popular shooter videogames. We’ve written about that before. But the crowd wasn’t buying it on Tuesday during a session at GDC featuring the game’s lead writer, Jeffrey Yohalem. The general mood in the room and, as a corollary, on Twitter, was dismissive. Part of the problem is that Yohalem wasn’t speaking, but rather flying through his script (by my count, at about…