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Amy also did Uncharted 2, the best Uncharted game by far. Also without Neil.
Without Neil? What are you guys talking about? He was a designer and writer of Uncharted 2.
Does it really matter? Niel ruined Uncharted 4 and gave us Lost Legacy. The two worst games in the franchise. Doesn't matter if 3 wasn't as good as 2 when both are objectively better than the trash fire that was 4 and LL.
Uncharted 4 is a great game, perhaps the best entry.
Well yes, if people are arguing that something is "woke", generally they will tend towards making note of the inclusion of demographics that have largely been underrepresented/marginalized in media. The factor that differentiates woke from not is not the inclusion of said demographics, it's the motivation behind including them, which is typically exemplified by the execution. You can easily see this difference by looking at Left Behind's revelation as opposed to the TLoU 2 trailers.
Few took issue with the revelation of Ellie's sexual orientation in Left Behind because it was used as a means to her and Riley's development. To demonstrate her feelings towards a friend she loved and didn't want to lose. Her orientation was utilized to show that, but it wasn't made the focal point. Contrast this to the E3 trailer that opens with Ellie kissing a girl, a stranger given no development whatsoever. This is done to do nothing but pull into focus her sexual orientation for ideological capital and representation points. Personally, I'm alright with that first trailer. I had my suspicions an agenda was at play, but the fact is, Ellie's relationship with Dina is a necessary groundwork to lay impetus for the narrative. However, the next trailer they release, not twenty seconds in, the very first words spoken were, "So.....on a scale of 1-10......how would you rate our kiss last night?". Something that immediately pulled focus onto the orientation, held no relevance towards anything subsequent in that trailer whatsoever, nor that informed the audience of anything they didn't already know.
Only done to say, "Hey, remember? Ellie and Dina kissed in the last trailer! She's a lesbian, and don't you forget it!"
Can you not see the difference between handling one's orientation in a respectful and meaningful manner to lend weight to narrative and character development (such as Left Behind did), as opposed to using one's orientation in its most superficial and meaningless of metrics simply to make point of the fact that that is their orientation to mark off a check box of inclusion, diversity, and equality? That's the difference, and that's what bothers people. And again, I'm alright with the first kiss, but then Neil comes out with the second trailer and couldn't help but bust his agenda nut all over the place like a two pump chump on prom night. It was explicit and unashamed agenda pushing.
And ultimately, it accomplishes nothing so well as to create an immediate push back against inclusion and diversity due to the hamfisted manner of its implementation by a rampant ideologue like Druckmann, who further harms his own cause by foolishly aligning himself with the likes of Sarkeesian who represents the absolute worst of "progressive" ideals and whose execution has actively harmed the ideal both her and Neil wish to further. You'd think this dope would get a fucking clue, but no, apparently it is all of us who are bigots and sexists living in our basements. His lack of self-awareness is almost admirable, I must admit.
The execution is something we can only currently guess at.
Plenty took exception to Ellie being gay in that early E3 trailer for TLOU 2, despite it being revealed in the Left Behind DLC.
I thought the trailer was clearly showing Ellie had something to lose, that that something is another woman is pre-determined by the prior DLC you mentioned.
So it followed up on the prior trailer... so? No relevance? It's showing you they went beyond just a kiss and are still in relationship talks, the relationship is part of the story.
Maybe you're too offended by people being lesbians because reminding me they kissed and showing they are still talking was fine by me.
I can see you're judging something you played vs trailers for something you haven't played. What's Neil's agenda? To remind you gays exist? Oooo, spooky.
If people want to push back against diversity and inclusion simply because they're reminded diversity and inclusion exist it says more about them than the game doesn't it?
Anita's influence, according to Neil, influenced the FIRST TLOU game, so... not really worried.
Also, the latest trailer has no lesbian stuff in it, shouldn't you be happy?