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.
I personally just think that a remake of a game should contain ALL of the content of the previous version(s) of the game. It isn't just the female MC that's missing in this case - it's missing EVERYTHING from the Portable edition, as well as EVERYTHING from the FES edition, which altogether includes tons of new scenes, new Personas to summon, and an entire postgame chapter. Also of note, the female MC isn't just a model swap for the male MC - there's a pretty significant plot difference towards the endgame depending on which gender you choose at the start. Anyway, point is, there's a very not-insignificant amount of content, tens of hours of content potentially, that they're just deciding to not include in the remake.
Besides, this is Atlus, so there's a very good chance that they'll end up releasing an updated version of the remake in a few years to add the content, for full price.
Edit: Also, the Persona community has been divided for years over whether P3F or P3P is the better version of Persona 3. Each version has it's own strengths and weaknesses, so it's really hard to say either one is truly the definitive version of the game. Atlus had the opportunity to finally create a truly definitive version by combining the content from the two versions... and they simply chose not to. So fuck 'em.
Not to mention that they just released P3P, and only P3P, on Steam as the only re-release of a quite rare game. Meaning the majority of people's first experience with the franchise just happened, and it was with that version.
So immediately announcing a remaster with a huge chunk of that cut out is almost asking for backlash.