If it's better then the worries, although valid, will ultimately be proven wrong. That would be great. It would be like the concerns I expressed post release about "F is for Family." I was grateful to be wrong about that show. But there's very obviously a new direction. Listen to the Vice President of Naughty Dog talk about it himself. Amy Hennig wouldn't be gone over creative differences without a new direction.
There's not much to this question, though. "What if things are good instead of bad?" Well then they'll be good, obviously. But enthusiast who closely follow the creators they like are gonna notice and react to red flags.
The things you mention are green flags to me.
I want to see the medium evolve. Grow out of its infancy and realize its potential as a story telling medium with massive cultural weight.
And I think TLoU2 will be the next step in that development. And obviously that will be controversial, because they will always be people unhappy with progress, especially the ones for whom it means losing their position of privilege. But that doesn't give validity to their discontent.
Moving away from straight, while, male being the default will rub some people the wrong and it should.
Equality feels like oppression to the privileged. Just like diversity feels like an agenda to the privileged.
It's just not literal. Pejoratives that work like this aren't anything new and I think everyone gets it. In certain circles "nice guy" is a pejorative. You could just as easily say that being a nice guy is positive and turning that around is dumb. I wouldn't, though, because I get it. The whole point is they're not actually nice guys and the whole point is they're not actually warriors for social justice. Even though both groups the pejorative addresses claim to be.
For my better understanding(because english isn't my first language and I have only seen "nice guys" in memes and in one LonelyIsland song:
Isn't "nice guy" usually used(when used in a negative way) for men who feel entitled to women's(sexual) attention simply because they are, by their own standards, "nice"? Or is it generally used for people who think they are nice when they actually aren't?
Anyway, the people who use "SJW" as an insult don't perceive what the "SJWs" do as a fight for social justice because they are ignorants towards the social justice issues the "SJWs" are raising.
Obviously, if you think that racism ceased to exist after MLK, you would have to think that further fighting for racial equality must be disingenuous.
Just like people who think that there is nothing wrong with how women are depicted in games and women and minorities are represented in games must think that Sarkeesians criticism has to be disingenuous.
Like, yeah, the bolded part is correct when you view it from their perspective, but the thing is that their perspective is wrong to begin with.
Just like far right anti refugee voters in Germany think that refugees will ruin Germany and bring crime and disease and they're all economic migrants anyway who aren't really in need of help and everyone should stay where they were born anyway. Yes, from that perspective, the people who stand up for these refugees seem to be in the wrong. But, like I said, the perspective is wrong.
It's regularly used by tons of people all across the political spectrum with the exception of far leftists. If you haven't noticed this then you might be in a bubble. The term has pretty much broken into the mainstream and It's more than likely here to stay. I'd really disabuse myself of the notion that it's cool to write off anyone who simply uses it if I were you. You're almost certainly writing off more decent people than you think.
If you count stuff like Fox News as mainstream you are right. But from my german perspective, Fox News is a far right propaganda channel, so I would expect them to use the term. Following their logic center right politicians like Angela Merkel are communists.
I have not seen in used in a serious ways in movies or reputable news outlets.
Key here is "empfundener weise". So its not fact, but rather the perception of the person using the term.
Just like Hitler thought(perceived it) that the people who stood up against the killing of disabled people were wussies and didn't understand his logic behind it.
Wörter und Bedeutungen ändern sich. And Hitler used many words so we can not use any words Hitler has used? Like Arbeit? like Fleiß?
Context matters. Say Arbeit and Freiheit all you want, but say "Arbeit macht Frei" and we are looking at a different beast.
Hitler used the term Gutmensch to shut down moral concerns about his policies. And currently the far right is using the term to shut down(thankfully they are a minority and can't shut down anything) morality based arguments in the refugee debate.
Anita Sarkesian is what I call a scam artist. She and her lies are the reson the atmosphere has become very toxic and does not make normal convesations possible. She also stole material from Youtube which she then used in a way to lie about games and their perception, their mechanics, their goals all to fit her Agenda. What I would call Anita is not a SJW I call her an asshole who is all in for the money (AKA 35k for a discord server) And yes she takes money very seriously dand does everything to scam more out of stupid people.
How do you explain the fact that her arguments are very well received among many game developers? EA, Ubisoft, Sony. I mean, its hard to prove causality, but I think its pretty obvious that we already see the effects of the debate she started in games today. BF5, AC Odyssey, TLoU2.
Did the scam artist also fool all these publishers and studios?
As for the refugee point. Again it fits perfectly with the decription of the Duden. They are naive they do not think they do this to make themselves feel better. There is a realistically limit and Germany has already supassed this limit by far. But sure please tell my jewish friend why he can not walk around with his kippa anymore. The naivety and nazi calling in the begining was just ridiculous.
Germany has had record breaking budget surpluses for several consecutive years now.
The german economy is booming, with unemployment at such low levels that politicians talk about full employment(everything below 3%) again(iirc Merkels party had that as a goal in their most recent party paper for the 2017 election).
Wages are rising at the highest rates since reunification.
Crime rate is at a 25 year low, if you look at the crime rate relative to population size its even at its lowest point in 30years.
But yes, Germany has surpassed its limits and is on the brink of collapse. lol... talk about delusional.