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Sweet Baby Inc. Doesn’t Do What Some Gamers Think It Does (kotaku.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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No, one company isn’t ‘forcing’ diversity into all your favorite video games

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think you need to remove the rose-coloured glasses, and look at how much utter crap there used to be 20 years ago. Or 10 years. Or 50 years.

You're pretty much cherrypicking all the shitty-writing-with-non-white/male-characters, and completely ignoring all the shitty-writing-with-white-male-characters. 90% of everything is crap, but if you cherrypick all the diverse characters that suck, then yeah, you're going to find a lot of shitty diverse characters.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I didn't pick anything, there has and will always be shitty writing. But that doesn't mean I'm okay with it, especially when race, gender, sexuality are used as a vehicle to profit whilst adding little to no substance.

The issue is obvious where we can't risk having a weak diverse character as it could harm esp rating and in turn profits, so we have a diverse characters that are strong and aren't relatable.

Look at game like Hellblade Senuas Sacrifice, it wasn't made to appease the esg system, yet its opened people up to mental health, gender, power struggles. Hands down its amazing story telling.

Not a game but the documentary about Jeffrey Dahmer that was recently aired on netflix was also eye open, then there the old but gold Rosemary's Baby again great story telling.