Thursday, 7 May 2015
quote [ But we all know the direction the game wants people to go in because it subtitles itself ?A party game for horrible people.? It openly, plainly, even joyfully acknowledges its content, with things like ?The profoundly handicapped,? ?Black people,? ?Auschwitz,? ?Homeless people,? and ?Surprise sex? which, if you?re not versed in the term, is a euphemism for rape. ]
tl;dr: it's a pretty shitty game, for plenty of reasons.
I think a comment on the review itself explains just why it's so fucking bad; I'll quote the part that is important here:
So then I'm with another group of people a couple of months later, these guys are a bit more laid back, also more into edgier humour, everyone's drinking and having a good time, someone takes out Cards Against Humanity. What the hell, I think, maybe it works better as an actual party game, rather than a sit-around-the-table-and-play-board-games game. We institute a house rule that the "winner" of each combination must take a shot, and... First 20 minutes pass fine, everyone's having a laugh, the jokes are mostly about sex, poop, dead celebrities, I don't remember what else. But then a particularly horrible card combination comes up, involving hitting children and... well something else as well. It gets a laugh from a few people, but one person breaks down and starts crying. It made us feel sick to realize that it wasn't just that the card combination was a reminder to that person of what they and their sibling went through, but that the fact we LAUGHED at the card felt to the person that we were condoning child abuse as a joke. -- Yeah. Fuck that noise.
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