Diversity/representation is ok when they are charismatic characters with personality that are a good addition to the games because they add something great to the gameplay and / or story of the game and are introduced being respectful with the brand, its existing iconic characters and its fanbase. It's ok when that is the focus of that character, and their skin color/gender/sexual preference doesn't matter and they are treated naturally, just like another character more. Good examples are the Street Fighter series, the Alien series or Ellie the gay/lesbian stuff in TLOU1+Left Behind.
The problem is when their main goal is not to make a product that their existing fans will love and to introduce characters who add interesting gameplay and story stuff, but instead their goal is to piss-off their main existing fanbase (mostly white males), to get cheered by the woke cult and to try to attract a female audience that never has been intested in this type of products (but because it's game genre is focused on stuff like action instead of because of the skin color or gender of the characters) and a LGBT and racial minorities audience that represents a very small portion of the population of their main gaming markets and demographics. Maybe if their main audience is in a majority white heterosexual males is because they are the majority of people interested in these kind of products in these regions and have enough time and money to afford them.
It's also a problem when they do that because some of the people of the woke cult hate men, heterosexual people or white people and think that being that or having main characters that are that is problematic, toxic, sexist or racist because the dogmas of their woke cult say so. They think women, LGBT people and non-white people are inferior beings who need help and that everyone who doesn't agree them are nazis, bigots, white supremacists, misogynistic, racists, sexist and/or alt-right.
So they end killing and / or replacing their very iconic, charismatic and popular main white heterosexual male characters, who were a big part of why that IP was cool, pissing off their fans. To put instead unattractive manly females (female beauty is another problematic and toxic thing for them, feel the need to make them unactractive to hetero man and trans friendly), LGBT or non-white characters that are a bad copy or replacement for the original one because the main reason to include these character was to fill their representation quota checklist and appeal the woke cult, instead of appealing their fans and to introduce interesting gameplay or story to the game with these characters.
They also have a narrative as showing the remaining male characters as bad guys, dumb or weak to reflect that masculinity is toxic and that the females are great, and that if there are female inside the bad guys it's because the influence of the toxic masculity of male characters.
This is why some of the worst examples regarding diversity or representation are TLOU2, the new He-Man tv show or the last Ghostbusters series.
Yeah. When it’s a new series with a lead character of color or female it’s fine. Maybe, unless it appears like the good guys are all non white/straight and there’s an evil white man villain or something stupid like that. Like new saints.
Btw how tf is a white Woman lead a minority in the first damn place? Not that all this shit isn’t stupid anyway. Nevertheless, I see something like returnal and I don’t give it a second thought. New IP, that’s how you do it. Couldn’t care less it’s a woman.
Miles morales for example is woke af because it takes an established character and shits on it whilst changing the race/sex. The BLM stuff, the oh now we have a Spider-Man for our neighborhood bs npc lines etc.
If it was a new superhero series with new black character it wouldn’t be an issue. Unless they go on to preach how oppressed they are lol. It would be obvious if it’s woke or not.
So much of the PlayStation event was so woke, and no it’s not because there’s poc in it, don’t be stupid people. The people who are getting these dev jobs come from this toxic culture, so of course all this shit is going to infect games.
A good example are the old Blade movies, specially the first one.
Nobody cared about him being black and I think it wasn't even mentioned anything about his skin color or anything related to related topics. People instead likes the movie and the character because he's so badass and charismatic, features very cool action and stuff like that.
He didn't need to be the [insert any minority here] version of a super popular character and didn't need to make political and ideological propaganda. They simply got a cool superhero and did choose a charismatic actor who was a great fit and respectful with that character, while also very cool and badass kicking asses, something key for an action movie.
Now Disney will go back to Blade because they want more characters from minorities leading their MCU movies.
