Thought I'd let people know, in case they were curious.
I've only played a few minutes but...I'm very underwhelmed. For all the hate a lot of woke games get, you're often hearing only one side, and so they're often better than you might think. Not excusing wokeness, and I hate the state of modern gaming, but point is if you just hear the negative sides of a game, you might be impressed on playing it, even if there's plenty that annoys you.
This is not the case with D4. It feels like a fucking mobile game. I'm only a few minutes in, as mentioned, but it starts with a decent cinematic (not as mindblowing compared to past Blizzard games when compared to the technology of the time, but not terrible or anything), then hits with "connecting to servers" and stuff, with "accessibility" options turned on, including text-to-speech. It has an AI voice telling you it's connecting to servers, that's your next intro to the game. Already leaves you with a weird taste. Next thing is it pushes you right to the aforementioned accessibility options. Next is character creation. I suspect the characters are randomly generated, but I had four blacks, and one fatass female (Druid is always fat.)
As to the actual gameplay, as I said, it feels like a mobile game. Not far enough in to fully judge, but my initial impression was very underwhelming. And, again, was willing to give it the benefit of the doubt, as I think a lot of woke games get an exaggeratedly bad image, since we're hearing only the one side. But, yeah, just feels kind of clunky so far, and zoomed in a bit too much. Music is good, though, from what I've heard. Classic Diablo-style music. Mutes on Alt-Tab by default though.
Anyway, I'll stop rambling. I don't want to color anyone's opinions and, if you are curious, I do actually suggest you try it while it's free. But I was surprised at just how much I didn't like my first dip into it, and thought I'd share. For all the woke nonsense, I expected to like it more than my initial impressions.
I'm saying we have standards to various degrees, you said we don't like games or movies and we want to hate them.
How is that the same thing?
If I remember correctly, it was not just that the main character was a black woman, I haven't played either to be honest so I can only say from a vague memory of someone discussing it. It was something about having several women NPCs and very few male NPCs, I'm just guessing but the male NPCs need saving or are idiots and all the women NPCs are great at it?
I agree with the fact that a black female does not make it woke, it does make me not want to play it but it is not woke. Honestly if the woman is not hot I can't understand why you would want to play a game with a woman main character.
Apparently the second game is considered to be a cash grab with much lower quality then the first.
This makes me question if you think is good because it has a black female lead rather then if the game is good.
Makes you wonder, what is more racist, not playing a game because it has a black female lead or shilling for a bad game because it has a black female lead. The first option is just a question of taste.
That, and the dev spouts woke garbage. So go ahead and keep giving money to people who hate you.
And yeah, at this point I don't care: black woman protagonist in $CURRENT_YEAR = no buy, overtly woke developer or not. Cry about it all you want. I've got plenty of stuff to play that isn't cancer. Hell, I can fire up my Gamecube and go back and play the original Beyond Good and Evil if I want.