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.
I regrettably purchased BG3 in early access because I greatly enjoyed DOS2. I gave BG3 a few tries before they expanded the game into the full-on degen nightmare it became. What I noticed almost immediately is that all of the prebaked companions fell into two categories: cunty female brute or sassy male fop. There were no feminine females or masculine males. If you wanted either of those classic archetypes in your party, you had to create them yourself. And given the dearth of options available, you literally could not form a full party without including at least two insufferable “modern audience” characters.
Even worse, if you decide to forsake the story companions altogether and opt for “generic hirelings”, you still have to accept comically diverse prebaked options. You can’t just assemble a realistic and tolerable party of war bros. It’s just not allowed anymore.
I mean compare this enforced progressive leftist “reality” to our own. How many real life organic friend groups feature a perfect ratio of perfectly diverse people? Almost none. The last time I played multiplayer with a decent sized group, we were literally just half a dozen straight white guys. That’s the reality for most people in the world. That’s still a reality for most non-western media. But now our media must be an alien representation of social units that literally don’t exist without fierce curation. I spend my real life with like 90% straight white people, and then I’m supposed to spend my free time consuming media aimed at gays and people from competing cultures?
Exactly.
I didn't even bother with BG3 after seeing what was going on with it -- even the character creator was extremely disappointing.
There was some community where people were suggesting games with a good character creator and they mentioned BG3, and I asked them if you could make a masculine barbarian like Conan? They said, "Yes!", and linked a video, and when I watched the video it was the most feminine looking barbarian I had ever seen. Completely androgynous.
I linked the person a video of Conan: The Hyborian Age's character creator to show them how a REAL barbarian was supposed to look and they just slithered away.
But it's a testament to how bad things are when this generation believes that enforced effeminate men and masculine females in the character creator is considered a "good" character creator.
Even further to your point about replacing the diversity-hire party members with your own characters, I remember doing that in BG1 and BG2, but mostly BG2 because at least there were some decent characters in the first game like Ajantis and outright badasses like Kivan and Xan. But BG2 was already moving toward more progressive designs.
Worse yet, it makes the game feel hollow when you have silent hand-made characters filling out the party, but it's obviously just as bad having to listen to insufferable, smarmy feminists and gay men prattle on and on (like in Avowed).
I wish more eastern European devs (who aren't sellouts like Warhorse) made party-based RPGs with proper characters.
Jagged Alliance 3 was definitely a good entry and a proper follow-up to Jagged Alliance 2 -- which makes sense given that the devs hail from Bulgaria.
I’m so sick of the subversion. When was the last time D&D media featured a male martial character? Every fighter, barbarian, and paladin is a woman now. Because all the front liners should be women. Every rogue and wizard is an effeminate “charmer”. I guess the only class option masculine straight white dudes in D&D is “BBEG”.
Dealbreaker for me.
In a game like The Last Spell, at least you can costumize your characters to make an all-White team.
I'm sure it's possible to change the game files to remove the black and brown options so you don't even have to costumize the characters manually ( like pasting the over with renamed duplicates of White skin colors ). I'm not good enough with games code to do that.
“From competing cultures” very well put.