With KCD2 and AC Shadows both promoting wildly inappropriate gay romance options, I’m wondering if we’ve reached a point where the gay is essentially mandatory in modern AAA western game dev? Are we going to see any strictly heterosexual player romances in any of these games going forward?
I didn’t buy AC Shadows because I don’t have brain damage. Asscreed games have been complete slop for like a decade, so no big loss when they decided to pozz the shit out of the latest entry. But KCD2 is a game I absolutely would have supported if not for the gay pozz. I’m never buying that shit regardless of discount, and that’s fine by me. Fuck ‘em.
I guess I’m curious to find out whether or not virtually all AAA western (story-based) games will be non-starters at conception going forward. If the gay is mandatory from here on out, I’m literally never buying another AAA western story-based game ever again. That’s probably not a bad thing anyways, but it still feels strange after decades of supporting this industry.
The remake/remaster trend is a perfect example of the unholy synergy between corporatism and leftism. The money men get to double and triple dip on their company’s past successes, and the ideologues get to forcibly insert their personal political and cultural values into beloved established IPs.
And then the younger generations don't realize that the version of the game they have access to now is horribly poisoned and no longer the thing that was beloved in ages past. It's absolutely vile. The Baldur's Gate situation is a particular bugbear of mine and I correctly identified the problem all the way back at the release of the Enhanced Editions, long before BG3 was even planning their penis sliders.