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.
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”.