GTA IV and even RDR2 were also very divisive but you didn't see anything close to this kind of vitriol towards Dan Houser. There is something much deeper going on here.
...Did you not pay attention to the past 2 years of bullshit from Neil Duckman? I don't even know why I keep calling him Duckman, that's reserved for the amazing character played by Jason Alexander but at-least it's dehumanizing him lol. Look, I bought the game for the gameplay but let's not act like Duckman doesn't have a reason to hold onto blame.
This isn't just about the game, I feel like the story beats are just the thing that FINALLY pushed people over the edge. Off the top of my head here's what I can remember
-Intentionally writing in trans characters for no reason other than to show how progressive he is while having that bald actor he chose go and shit ALL over people on twitter, she was openly chosen for her openly antagonistic attitude towards people who aren't straight and it's fucking obvious
-While not known at first, retroactively making the female leads in Lost Legacy as lesbian. I thought they were because my older lesbian friends who saw a screenshot on Facebook out of nowhere "Are they putting lesbians in games now? We use to dress like that in the 90s and it's giving us flashbacks!" The only thing I said back then was that I'm not sure but it didn't seem like it, a year later on valentines day they did it. This is as fucking annoying as all the ridiculous ret-cons from J K Rowling, but the difference is why the fuck anyone would buy a book from someone in the internet age still using "J K" (Just kidding, and boy was she) as a pen name always made me laugh
-There's a very obvious anti-christian theme throughout the entire plot, again, can't say details because I'll be banned, but know it runs so deep that when you come across a synagogue that's completely pristine and suddenly Ellie can't shoot anymore but you can gut hundreds of Christians along the way? The fuck? I'm not even the most faithful christian, hell, by all accounts I'm a bad one and sinner like most but that shit DID NOT sit well with me
-Neil ironically wrote a stereotypical "Sassy Mad Black Woman" while trying to be progressive and then made her superwoman by kicking a dozen foreign mercenaries ass,
I could also believe this she used techniques that would disable a person by hitting them in sensitive places like the eyes/throat/genitals but she's fucking Mike Tysoning a field of mercenaries!
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