Starfield: Pay $60 to get nagged at by women and homosexuals (apparently)
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It's fine until you have to rescue Sam's dads' dildo collection from a cave shaped like a butthole.
Kidding. I do feel like the game is being rated on a very steep negative handicap for what are slight infractions, a few of which have already blown up in Bethesda's face.
But I think a lot of us are scared that within 3 years the entire industry is going to be lost the same way TV and movies already are. I think the nature of gaming and gamers has slowed the push, but they have not and will not stop trying.
Woke filtering is now a part of game buying decision making and is its own red flag to people who hate it. The problem is that they outright advertise it as included, which immediately flags the game for many, which makes us feel like the pool of viable games is shrinking even if it's just token marketing (like the black girl from Remnant 2 who gets shelved after 5 minutes.)
So people can either dismiss the small things (even Ghost of Tsushima had some stray gay in it) or people can complain. Gamers like to complain. It doesn't make them wrong, but they do enjoy a good hate bandwagon.
Not really. I think more than anything it's being downplayed for as bad as they are.
It already defiles the reality of how human beings work by labeling them as "Type 1" and "Type 2". Last I checked, I have never met anyone who is physiologically "Type 1" or "Type 2"... what even is that?
The fact they can't put something as simple as "Male/Female" for the gender option is a HUGE red flag. It means it's purposely getting you to comply with denying the basic facts about human beings. Anyone glossing over that is already lost to the Woke mind virus, because that's also being pushed everywhere else in media and in real life (including bathrooms).
But it goes beyond that... the game even includes the pronoun nonsense. A lot of people are willing to overlook the Type 1/Type 2 nonsense (I, however, am not willing to overlook it) but some people (but not all) had a hard time overcoming the pronoun nonsense, and rightfully so. Because now not only are they forcibly making you comply with denying basic biological genders, but now they're forcibly making you comply with the notion that a man can be a woman and a woman can be a man.
Once again, this is everywhere. The pronoun nonsense is even on job applications, social media portals, and even places like LinkedIn. It's not just obnoxious, it's an affront to reality.
Yet here it is, in a game that's supposed to be escapism, yet is mirroring all the worst parts of real-life, Left-wing identity politics.
And what's worse is that that's just the character customisation. That's not even talking about all the fat, ugly brown people who make up the NPC population; the obnoxious over-promotion of homosexual heroes; storylines designed not to offend anyone; and of course the overt girl-boss syndrome nearly every female character exhibits.
Essentially, nothing about the game's world feels authentic. It all feels like a facade of Left-wing checkboxes with two-decade's old gameplay mechanics tacked on. It's a poor imitation of what modern gaming should be based on the tech we have available right now, and it's an even bigger abomination when it comes to wearing a skin-suit pretending to be engaging entertainment, all while pushing disruptive and subversive political agendas that coincide with the real-life destruction of Western culture and society.
I don't disagree with anything you pointed out. The reality is that nobody who isn't trans is going to pick alternative pronouns or voice options. For as many people as this "appeased" (give them everything they ask for and they'll think up something later and then complain they didn't get that too), it pissed off 20x more. Why not let the 2% or 0.5% be the ones who have to mod their stuff to make it how they want it. Let them put the work in.
But to some devs it is just type A type B to avoid the shit storm and move on because it's one line of code to change the name and avoid the backlash. Even the last few Monster Hunter games did this, if I remember right.
It just hit me that to be a developer must be a real headache being caught between the volatile gaming community at large and the skinless alphabet community losing their shit about literally anything.
Starfield did suck for the character creator being 100% shit and the fact that it was very deliberately difficult to make a character that appeared caucasian without looking deformed.
But garbage like Last of Us 2 surpasses it by miles, and that's the real depth of forced bullshit we should look out for. Starfield is compromised, but there's some usable meat on the corpse. Dread the day we can't even get that out of a AAA release.
There are so many good games out there. Why are we even entertaining playing something mediocre because "there's some usable meat on the corpse?"
It's not about ratings, it's about the direction of the industry going forward with a new cancer attached to it. The old problems like technical issues or ugly art direction were fixable or at least had some excuse.
I was just about ready to believe you. Not much surprises me anymore, buuut yeah.. Bethesda wouldn't go so far... Cyberpunk though....
Yeah, I am aware of the hate bandwagon trend. Go to any launch day steam forum for any game with even a hint of bad public relations and people go fucking rabid with it. I just kinda hate how the whole anti woke thing is blinding people to a point that they seem to be seeing it even in places it isn't happening. They are literally turning into the monsters they want to fight. Like, I almost didn't even give Baldur's Gate 3 a shot because of how crazy people were acting about it. It painted the game in such a negative light for me that I almost really missed out of a legitimately good game.
But you're right... gamers like a good shit fling. I need to stop standing in the crossfire.