Remake Culture is Destroying Gaming
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DEI and AA before it made sure that any White male talent took a backseat to minorities and women.
Now you have a bunch of grrlbosses and foreigners managing these assets with zero of the talent that produced them in the first place. Hell, some are so full of themselves they go out of their way to not read the original or study the established lore. Others, like that feminist dyke that wrote that Star Wars abomination Acolyte, clearly despise the source material and anyone who likes it.
All they can do is extract what profit they can from things created before them. And hey that can work but of course they can't resist race swapping, uglifying women, propping up badly written Mary Sues, injecting woke messaging, etc.
The Mary Sue problem is really telling. Anyone who enjoyed writing as a hobby is guilty of it when first starting. Who wouldn't want to be put into a favorite game or story, be the hero, get praised by the other characters, etc? But most writers grow out of that phase and don't need a college degree to do so.
The Mary Sue problem is mostly a byproduct of female writers.
Men self-insert an idealized version of themselves - bigger, faster, stronger, smarter, cooler. Gary Stu's are aspirational. They go on the hero's journey, pay dues, suffer, and come out larger than life.
Women self-insert literally themselves - dumpy, bitchy, entitled, feminist, stupid, lazy, etc. Then they torture the entire setting to worship and obey their self-inserts. Mary Sues don't go on a hero's journey. They are perfect from the start, and the world just changes to acknowledge it.
Therapy is a sacrament in the feminist religion because it validates that same impulse in women.
So why are there still so many female writers?
They don't make money (unless you count government grants, and who creates those?). They don't setup franchises for future success. They're way more likely to sperg out on social media and turn fans off game before even playing.
So why do they keep getting hired?
AAAA game companies are not stupid. They may be massive corporations who don't give a whit about art or culture, but they know about money. They know how much these IPs should be making. So why do they keep doing things that lose them money? For decades?
This is not a natural cultural phenomenon; if that were the case they would have reversed course by 2020. Instead they doubled down, time and again, on ideas, styles, and policies that lose them, at first, potential revenue and, now, actual revenue. The fact that Warner, with the IPs they own, is even possibly being purchaed by the likes of Netflix is insane, but also the result of totally obvious bad decisions made over 15 years.
At some point you have to stop asking "why do they keep making bad choices?" and ask instead "why do they want games to suck?" or, better yet, "why are they willing to lose billions to do so?"
On that note, has "Transported to Another World With An Absolutely Broken Power And A Harem of Big Titty Girls From Every Fantasy Race Who Fell In Love With Me At First Sight" season 15 started yet?
Agreed. I never developed my writing skills beyond age 13 or so when I moved onto coding and other hobbies. But the Gary Stu self insert shit I wrote was just for fun and not to be taken seriously. Never bothered sharing with anyone but enjoyed the experience of writing it.
How some Karens managed to work their way into AAA movie writing rooms with that same level of writing just baffles me
I'm not a writer but I certainly experienced that as a gamer. Just as an example I'd play Rollercoaster Tycoon in sandbox mode as a kid but I didn't develop a true love for the game until I played the scenarios. Part of the problem with game journalists is they never experienced that because they hate the medium.