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.
If I were to guess as an outsider on this as haven't played the Persona games, this is what happens when the crazed zombies (twitter freaks) encounter a wall (a niche Japanese game)
They've latched on to the sentiments of a few disappointed a little that this is a straight remake not an ultimate edition like Skyrim that comes with all the add ons to push their narrative as I don't see actual fans using 'hetronormative' given in one of the games you had to point what looked like a fun to your head and pull the trigger to enter a battle mode or something.
I don't know if Atlas will buckle but hopefully they just ignore it and get on with their lives.
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.
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.