Deponk

The "significant backlash" that Saros is getting (we'll see if it's actually significant when we get sales numbers) is making me think. A lot of the anti-woke crowd doesn’t actually hate politics in games. They hate not being the default anymore. For years games catered almost entirely to guys, so a certain slice of players got used to every protagonist looking like them and every story orbiting their comfort zone. Now when a game shifts even a little away from that, they act like the medium has been taken over instead of just growing. What they want is sameness dressed up as purity. They want every game to feel like the ones they grew up with, so they never have to think about who else plays games. It is not about loving games as an art form. It is about wanting the industry to freeze in place, so they never lose their spot at the center. This doesn't go for EVERYONE that might align with that crowd though. There are some valid arguments to be made about shoving stupid shit into games just for representation, but I think most of these dudes are too dumb to think that deep.

new games suck because theyre made by faggots

This shit is getting ridiculous. Tokenism is straight up destroying stories again. The Lands Between was never a diverse melting pot. FromSoftware and GRRM built a grim European inspired dark fantasy with a clear ethnic and aesthetic vision. There's not a single black NPC in Elden Ring. Now theyre most likely going to be everywhere in the new film. A world as grand as this needs to stick to a coherent ruleset, and stuff like race swapping shatters all immersion. I'm so tired of DEI.