Judging by what I've seen of the protag and the story, the game's target audience seems to be black Americans who nerdy enough to be playing a fantasy game.
Black Americans are 13% of the US population, and sufficiently nerdy blacks are probably 13% of that population.
What was the justification to make a game targetting a niche of a niche? This all comes back to arguments that were being had nearly ten years ago about 'Where are all the black characters!? This is RACISM!'
And just as we said then, it's not racism, it's demographics and economics. There aren't enough potential black customers in the market to bet the farm on selling to them.
Nah, it doesn't even target black nerds. Same as a game that had a white Karen protag wouldn't target white people.
I you make your protagonist unlikeable then you're bound to fail. Her personality was whiny miserable cunt. There's no target audience for that. Even whiny miserable cunts don't like whiny miserable cunts.
[EDIT]I wouldn't be surprised if the protag is a self insert and the woman who wrote her actually likes her. Just like Mindy Kaling (or whatever her name is) likes the new Velma[/EDIT]
Videogame with an ugly unrelatable miserable cunt as protagonist doesn't sell.
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I mean, you can salvage a mediocre game with good storytelling and vice versa, but Forspoken failed at both, as far as i can tell
Judging by what I've seen of the protag and the story, the game's target audience seems to be black Americans who nerdy enough to be playing a fantasy game.
Black Americans are 13% of the US population, and sufficiently nerdy blacks are probably 13% of that population.
What was the justification to make a game targetting a niche of a niche? This all comes back to arguments that were being had nearly ten years ago about 'Where are all the black characters!? This is RACISM!'
And just as we said then, it's not racism, it's demographics and economics. There aren't enough potential black customers in the market to bet the farm on selling to them.
Nah, it doesn't even target black nerds. Same as a game that had a white Karen protag wouldn't target white people.
I you make your protagonist unlikeable then you're bound to fail. Her personality was whiny miserable cunt. There's no target audience for that. Even whiny miserable cunts don't like whiny miserable cunts.
[EDIT]I wouldn't be surprised if the protag is a self insert and the woman who wrote her actually likes her. Just like Mindy Kaling (or whatever her name is) likes the new Velma[/EDIT]