I feel so immersed in the 70s
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He said they're going for a "70s aesthetic" (not "70s reality" or accuracy to the setting of the original movie) and from that perspective I'm not sure having a black character is entirely wrong. This was the decade that brought audiences All in the Family (in which a liberal man plays a "bigot"), The Jeffersons, and an overall massive increase in black actors compared to the previous decade (which had its own issues).
The leftist long march through the institutions was long underway by that time.
The racial demographics are part of authentic aesthetics.
If you were making a Shaft video game set in 1970s Harlem and you went and got all the 1970s New York aesthetic perfect, but 90% of the characters were white in 1970s Harlem, wouldn't that feel odd aesthetically?
Wouldn't the aesthetics of the environment and time period clash with the aesthetics of the characters.
Like having a World of Warcraft game where half the characters look like modern day navy seals. It would be odd. The aesthetics would clash.
The game is set in the 70s which is why it's the aesthetic that it is, in the same Midwest suburban neighborhood as the movie.
The point is they're aiming for "authenticity" until it comes to the "message", and then authenticity doesn't seem to matter anymore.
Don't you think when they designed the houses around the neighborhood that they did countless hours of research looking at 1970s photos to recreate furniture and wallpaper as well as possible. Yet they can't take 2 minutes to ask AI what the demographics of a typical midwestern suburb in 1979 would be comprised of?
You can either have realism or not realism. They want to have both because of political correctness. So you'll have these WW2 games with meticulously detailed firearms, yet also have the ability to customize a gender neutral black woman as your front lines infantry fighter.
Revisionist history is garbage.
Remember how the Hogwarts game had White British as a minority in rural Scotland in the late 1800s?
Yeah, it's such garbage. I'm never buying that game. I heard it's boring and empty open world anyways.
I'm out of modern gaming pretty much full stop.
PS2 and PS3 generation reigns supreme and I still play that era.
N64 and earlier is good too, but those two generations I mentioned....that's the sweet spot right there.
The 2012 apocalypse really did happen, we're only just starting to feel its effects.
Have you seen any of the original Death Wishes? Somehow Kercy was able to kill a diverse cast of criminals that somehow had intergrated gangs.