Johnmourby: ... But it does remind me a lot of another FPS, Borderlands 2
If the humour in RR comes from the fact you are and are fighting rednecks a lot of the humour in Borderlands 2 seems to come from parading rednecks
and midgets. Again I don't see anything inherently funny about either. In fact both games remind me a little of freak shows.
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GhostwriterDoF: .
It also seems to me that if a corporation was going to put people on a hostile planet mining colony I wouldn’t expect to be running around meeting college educated people dressed in suits or preppy casual wear doing all the hard work. Plus those midgets are small fast moving, deadly adversaries too. I just don’t feel the negative stereotype vibe in the games.
It's true, you wouldn't see many university graduates or yuppies on a mining planet. But It's not like the social climate on Pandora is the only one that could have resulted from those circumstances. I'd have to see a planet of Welsh coal miners but Welsh miners dying of black lung aren't seen as funny (At least not to the few Americians who know about Wales).
I'm not going to go ultra PC and claim Borderlands is exploitative garbage or anything like that. But It is a game that has a that thinks Sterotypes = comedy. It's not malicious but it does feel a little dated and strange in that respect. So for all I know the comparison to Mad and Cracked (neither of which I have read) may be valid.
And I really don't who thought Tiny Tina was a good idea.
