Why do people keep saying they don't believe David Cage can do this right?
The all too easy answer is "because he can't do anything right" - but I'll bite.
Everything we have seen so far of Detroit has been, ironically, divorced of actual humanity. There's no real major point to anything we've seen in the game beyond the scraping the absolute bottom of the barrel of a popular trope in science fiction for decades. AI robots aren't treated like humans, even though they probably deserve to be treated as such. Great. The fact that you can "play through" a trite and poorly written story shouldn't be reason to hold it in high regard. A work's interactivity shouldn't elevate its glaring flaws. And I specifically call this out, because said interactivity is about the only thing that actually sets Detroit apart in unique value from a C budget hollywood film of the same nature. If you could spin the camera around in the movie adaptation of IRobot, it wouldn't make it any better of an adaptation.
That's not even close to speak of the fact that this game is arbitrarily set in Detroit for no real legitimate reason at all. It' called "Detroit" - in only as tone-deaf of a way as David Cage could ever do - in the middle of actual, relevant shit happening in the American midwest. From police abusing their power over minority groups, to actual Government officials allowing their constituencies to drink poisonous water and literally not doing anything about it. And none of this, not an iota of this, will likely be touched upon in this game because David Cage just randomly wanted to call his game "Detroit" because he thinks Detroit has a "cool manufacturing history". There's no actual thought whatsoever put into why Detroit would matter or be important to the overall story about this generic as fuck game about white-skinned robots, completely blind to the real world.
So yeah, I don't think he can do this right either. The trailer the article is so colossally shitty that it's almost an insult to a very real epidemic of child abuse.
But the article in question is equally shitty. Just because I dislike Cage's work doesn't mean I want to see the game removed or whatever.
and this is the reason why David Cage was right in asking that Eurogamer interview "would you ask this question to a film director or a writer" and why it was a dumb question to begin with. As long as the game industry (press included) don't take themselves serious as an art form don't expect tabloids like the Daily Mail or the general public to do it. Social issues should be able to be tackled in any art form, games included.
Quantic Dream/Sony should not give an inch to these people.
People ask film directors difficult questions about social issues within their works literally all the time. Yes they should be tackled. People like Cage who do a shitty job at doing it deserve to get called out on it.
