I managed to go through the whole game without fucking any animals. And the only gay scene I noticed was the Ogres played for laughs. And that's kind of, if not especially funny. In any case, I'm not opposed to buggery jokes. I'm sure there's more in the stories, if you read all the notes, but I don't.
So... I think people have been going through the "romance" content on YouTube. Why? This is like going to Bing Image Search, turning off safe search, searching for this shit and being like: Mom I saw porn.
The bear/gay vampire scene was used as a hype trailer prior to the game's release and was specifically chosen to be shown to a mass audience of women in an auditorium who clapped like seals for it.
So, regardless of how you were able to miss it, it was very important to the Devs themselves and the audience they intended to court with it.
In fact, until the game was released and "suddenly and organically" it was the best game ever made, that's literally what it was known for. Because that was the information they specifically choose to represent their game in marketing.
That's fine. I love plenty of games that are Woke or even downright bad. In fact, I dare say a lot of Woke games are downright fun, great games too. Hades 2 is currently dominating my freetime, and according to most people its the Wokiest Woke ever.
But we also can't just ignore those things or argue "well its complex and nuanced and not that big a deal and missing context" when its the games we love either.
It does bring up the man or bear question in a new light.
I managed to go through the whole game without fucking any animals. And the only gay scene I noticed was the Ogres played for laughs. And that's kind of, if not especially funny. In any case, I'm not opposed to buggery jokes. I'm sure there's more in the stories, if you read all the notes, but I don't.
So... I think people have been going through the "romance" content on YouTube. Why? This is like going to Bing Image Search, turning off safe search, searching for this shit and being like: Mom I saw porn.
The bear/gay vampire scene was used as a hype trailer prior to the game's release and was specifically chosen to be shown to a mass audience of women in an auditorium who clapped like seals for it.
So, regardless of how you were able to miss it, it was very important to the Devs themselves and the audience they intended to court with it.
In fact, until the game was released and "suddenly and organically" it was the best game ever made, that's literally what it was known for. Because that was the information they specifically choose to represent their game in marketing.
I don't know who I'm defending here. Not Larian. Maybe the right to just experience a game and not thirst over every trailer or EA.
That's fine. I love plenty of games that are Woke or even downright bad. In fact, I dare say a lot of Woke games are downright fun, great games too. Hades 2 is currently dominating my freetime, and according to most people its the Wokiest Woke ever.
But we also can't just ignore those things or argue "well its complex and nuanced and not that big a deal and missing context" when its the games we love either.