[10 / 4 / 1]
Quoted By:
Recently I eavesdropped on a discussion at my library between a bunch of guys with one of them saying how things being “Dark and Gritty” or “edgy” is dead and that’s apparently not a good thing because this shows how oversensitive people are and they cannot handle things being different or serious or even LOOK cool without some plebbitor calling it cringe.
He's probably dead wrong but in the back of my mind I find that the word “edgy” has lost its meaning. I remember playing the ENTIRE DMC series just to see if the 2013 reboot was as edgy as people say it is. If you remember that one Daria episode saying that edginess is just shallow attempts at looking cool and dark and mature by people who don’t know any better, that was what I was expecting…and after playing through it and the DLC, I was immediately disappointed. Don’t get me wrong, the story is BORING but 2013!Dante is NOT some edgelord like everyone else says he is, at WORSE he’s just asocial and cynical, but he’s just a more serious and subdued version of Canon!Dante, to ME at least. The director of that game (don’t remember his name, don’t care either way) compared him to Tyler Durden. He’s fucking wrong, at WORSE he’s more like Christian Bale’s character in the Machinist, but that’s it.
This made me come to the realization that being edgy is A – trying WAY too hard to look mature and cool and reeks of being insincere and insecure, or B – just a buzzword used by people with shit taste and a large platform to invalidate something because they hate how cool or dark they THINK it is, kind of like how twitter freaks will use “media literacy” to shit on a person’s opinion
As such, I have come up with a list in no particular order of games that people have (rightfully or wrongfully) called “Edgy” which I will add in the next post. I would like whoever sees this to give me a game that is usually seen as “edgy” and tell me whether or not it’s true or BULLSHIT
He's probably dead wrong but in the back of my mind I find that the word “edgy” has lost its meaning. I remember playing the ENTIRE DMC series just to see if the 2013 reboot was as edgy as people say it is. If you remember that one Daria episode saying that edginess is just shallow attempts at looking cool and dark and mature by people who don’t know any better, that was what I was expecting…and after playing through it and the DLC, I was immediately disappointed. Don’t get me wrong, the story is BORING but 2013!Dante is NOT some edgelord like everyone else says he is, at WORSE he’s just asocial and cynical, but he’s just a more serious and subdued version of Canon!Dante, to ME at least. The director of that game (don’t remember his name, don’t care either way) compared him to Tyler Durden. He’s fucking wrong, at WORSE he’s more like Christian Bale’s character in the Machinist, but that’s it.
This made me come to the realization that being edgy is A – trying WAY too hard to look mature and cool and reeks of being insincere and insecure, or B – just a buzzword used by people with shit taste and a large platform to invalidate something because they hate how cool or dark they THINK it is, kind of like how twitter freaks will use “media literacy” to shit on a person’s opinion
As such, I have come up with a list in no particular order of games that people have (rightfully or wrongfully) called “Edgy” which I will add in the next post. I would like whoever sees this to give me a game that is usually seen as “edgy” and tell me whether or not it’s true or BULLSHIT
