Cactuarman
Banned
ND didn't get where it is, doing what it is doing at the moment, as you rightfully noted.
Fair point. Personally I still feel like Drake having a daughter or Ellie being outwardly gay aren't going to push enough people away to hurt Naughty Dog (I would bet Last of Us Part II will sell incredibly well). It will be interesting to see if they push it even further in their next game (which they should be free to do - but I honestly don't see them doing). That's when I think it might actually start to hurt them. Not disagreeing with you, just think it's interesting to think about where they might go next.
Hell yes. The only issue I see with the concept is that since the target audience, he's trying to target, is represented by:
None of them cares about gaming, all of them hate majority of existing gamers, so, where are we heading with it, please? Is it not troubling?
- A person pushing the most sex negative narrative ever found in feminism movements, who admitted not caring at all about gaming.
- A person who is a blogger of certain sexual orientation, who just got into playing games a week or so ago, and only because of being picked up for certain sexual orientation. (12:00 in OP)
- A transgender person who does post scary shit on twitter (same time in OP).
Is he actually targeting them though? Or is he targeting people like me, who want to see good story telling with characters who are occasionally different than "straight white guy #5948" and women who pass Bechdel test (to be clear though, I still play plenty of games containing "straight white guy #XXXX" and imported DOA Xtreme 3). Maybe he appreciates what Anita is doing for example and thus tries to avoid some of the typical gendered tropes in his games, but actually targeting those three examples of yours when making a game would make for a terrible game. Naughty Dog doesn't make terrible games. And I think being concerned that they're catering to the most extreme is a bit premature.
To be perfectly honest I think he just wants to make worlds populated by strong men and women of different types. Sounds good to me. I'm bummed we never got an Elena and Jeff game.