So in some videogame related news, Atlus just announced and posted a trailer for a remake of Persona 3. Pretty normal gaming news right? Yet the response I've seen on reddit and elsewhere has literally been batshit crazy.
They announced that it was gonna be a straight up remake and not include any of the portable content (Which added a female main character route). This has people I guess losing their fucking minds calling it misogynistic and "heteronormative" or other crap about how they're gonna boycott Atlus and not buy the game and yada yada yada.
Like who cares? It's a remake, they can make it however they want. Not to mention the female mc they're creaming over was only in the portable remake and never mentioned in any of the official works. Yet these people are foaming at the mouth over it? Have videogamers always been this crazy, like is a portable spinoff character from 14 years ago worth to sperg over? I just don't understand it and wonder if I'm alone in it.
Yeah this is the game that in battles you point a gun to your head and commit suicide to summon your demon pokémon.
Like I get it people sperg about videogames for various reasons, I've just never seen so much concentrated vitriol over the smallest thing. Like the character their losing it over was from a game from 14 years ago, so if you played the original in your teens, you'd be well in your late 20s, early 30s now. Like seeing 30 y/o's losing it over twitter and reddit just makes me not even want to play games anymore.
Just do what I do, don't involve yourself in these 'gaming communities', most of them are astroturfed anyway.
You want gaming buddies of around 3-20 guys than something that resembles a less fun clan if you want to game consistently with the same people.
To be fair to Atlus, the only reason the female protag happened at all is because they cut so much from p3 to make it portable that it became almost a visual novel so it was much less work to add another playable character than in something like p5 which would require a ton of animation and cutscene reworks as well as ton of script rewrites of the story just to make it barely function.
That definitely explains things. It's just weird to me that their foothold is a PSP release from 14 years ago. As someone who used to play a lot of import releases and japanese games for the Playstation Portable adding a female mc or other routes was bog standard for most of the releases of the time.
Which makes sense, they needed something to get people to buy re-releases or portable ports.
It was released on Steam 6 months ago alongside P5.
You know, if I want a different experience with a game, show, movie, etc than the one offered, I just go play/watch a different one.
I wish I’d realized earlier that I should have been demanding the makers of the one in front of me change everything around so it aligns with what I want.
Regarding the adult children, this is the same age group that would put their Harry Potter house on their LinkedIn profile. The characters in their media consumption is a core part of what they are. It's literal genocide to them as is every thing else that makes them less than perfectly happy.
Yeah my generation honestly worries me sometimes. It's like the girls I see my age who will post online that they're latest relationship didn't work out because they're zodiac signs or didn't match. Like you're nearing 30, I'm sure there is other reasons it didn't work out.
I have come to believe that women have always done this, but due to the internet their "woe is me, moon was in the wrong house" bullshit is on display for all to see instead of being localized, similar to other groups publicly posting their Ls and then being confused when no one wants to associate with them.