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.
You don't understand.
The P3P vs P3FES debate has been ongoing for over a decade, and them releasing P3P on Steam instead of FES has basically exploded the fanbase for the better part of this year. They absolutely should not have done both of these this close together to not get this kind of treatment.
She was in Q2. Like, she was an actual incredibly good addition to the game because instead of just lazily pasting her over the Male MC they basically rewrote the entire game, including making her almost a completely different character instead of the same moody emo kid like the Male one. Not my cup of tea, but it was a good effort at the time.
If not for Atlus' retarded decision to turn FES vs P3P into a decade long battleground with her stuck as the only redeeming quality to half of that, it wouldn't have really any of these spergouts.
Like, I'll say it again. They directly stoked every problem that lead to this point, through a decade of laziness and cheapness with creating multiple "remasters" of the same game with mutually exclusive content.