Sigh…do I really need to derail this thread further?
She’s not just woman, she’s middle aged/a bit older woman and as soon as someone on twitter notices some group or class of people is missing from media, bam, you’ll get a floodgates open soon. And what can possibly be percentage of that specific group of people playing home console video games. 0.5? Optimistic. And game’s main theme are mental health issues, without going further into spoilers. Do I really need that in my space sci-fi fantasy? Now I’m waiting for you to tell me how that’s not woke and you won’t get any more replies from me on that.
When even Kotaku says you’re too woke, you just know how far you went. Listen, in today’s British Army only 9.2% of people are not white. BAME people as they say. In two thousand fucking twenty one! Now imagine in 1940s
And you put that guy on your cover. No, not woke at all. Still waiting for a day when they’ll gather courage and do authentic African countries stories, not holding my breath.
And won’t comment further on Deathloop. I know how sensitive this is in US, this is American forum and you all try to be nice, I understand. Sales numbers are doing all the talking. There are many games with non-white characters and protagonists that don’t look like pandering. You need to have sincerity and skills to do it right.
One common thing about all these games is not that they have non-white characters or women, it’s that they are coming from the same American kitchen, no matter where developers are based. Their bosses are in America. And America is obsessed with race and minorities for years and years now.
What we really need to is diversify game production and development to not just be America/Japan.