Except this isn't even true. I never cared at all about seeing myself "represented" in a game I was playing.
It's a case of confession through projection. They are racist sexists and just assume everyone else is.
Of course, now I actively avoid any game that prominently features a female or non-white protagonist, but it's not because I'm not "represented," it's because it's a constant reminder of all of the people who have told me that they hate me.
Yup. My favorite games as a kid features the following main characters:
A large anthropomorphic mouse. A velociraptor. A bunch of robots.
I am not rodent, dinosaur, or machine. "Representation" is BS, gamers don't care.
But I guess they're not catering to Gamers, Gamers Are Dead after all (on which note, an undead, also one of my childhood games), they're catering to horrible imagination-less mindless morons.
Except this isn't even true. I never cared at all about seeing myself "represented" in a game I was playing.
It's a case of confession through projection. They are racist sexists and just assume everyone else is.
Of course, now I actively avoid any game that prominently features a female or non-white protagonist, but it's not because I'm not "represented," it's because it's a constant reminder of all of the people who have told me that they hate me.
Yup. My favorite games as a kid features the following main characters:
A large anthropomorphic mouse. A velociraptor. A bunch of robots.
I am not rodent, dinosaur, or machine. "Representation" is BS, gamers don't care.
But I guess they're not catering to Gamers, Gamers Are Dead after all (on which note, an undead, also one of my childhood games), they're catering to horrible imagination-less mindless morons.