Maybe not "pretentious" but its faggy aura certainly put me off buying the game.
Has anyone here played Receiver 2? It's a game with hyper-realistic bloody eyes simulated guns.
Anyway, from what I can tell - the developers seem terrified of you pointing them at anything vaguely humanoid and the game has to bring up the very very real serious issue of gun suicides in a very somber and not unintentionally side-splitting manner,
I've played it, it's not really gay or anything since manipulating your gun is the whole entire premise of the game. That mechanic is actually fairly cool (and the only "vaguely humanoid" thing in the game is you).
To fill people in: the game is set in a world that has been fucked by some sort of reality-manipulating intelligence that manifested initially as a mind virus thing via subliminal messages in media (sort of an analogy with our governments being obsessed with trying to convince us we're all mentally ill for some reason, which I appreciate) and you're an agent (or a series of agents, since you die a lot) who prepped for this by conditioning themselves before the apocalypse. Or something.
The reality-manipulation thing shows up as affecting the probability of shit going wrong. It's a game where you need to consciously manipulate every step of handing your guns--you don't just hit R to reload for example, if it's a revolver you'd need to pop the cylinder, remove spent casings individually (or tilt it just right to shake em out), advance it as you insert them, close the cylinder and then make sure it's indexed with the barrel. This lets you find some cool tricks to manage combat reloads or whatever, but thanks to the reality-bending effect if you fuck something up it
will fuck you over. Like if you holster a single-action revolver with the hammer cocked and it's on a live chamber you
will shoot yourself in the fucking thigh, and if it's a high calibre that
will kill you.
Advancing through the game involves collecting the good guys' own subliminal conditioning tapes (or something), but the evil thing tries to stop you by mixing in a few FUCKING KILL YOURSELF tapes and you need to be prepared for these. Gameplay-wise it's just a reason to be familiar enough with your guns to be able to clear them to a safe state fluently. Like with a semi-automatic that might be as simple as dropping the magazine and racking the slide the moment you hear a tape start to turn sour; with others you might need to plan ahead a little more.
If the devs were fags I don't think shoving a muzzle in your mouth would show up this often; overall it's pretty objective and informative about weapons except for a few /k/-style jokes. It's just gun drills: the game.
Pretty neat little distraction imo, worth grabbing if you see it cheap.
