Can I ask a question to get a more rounded understanding? What's with the agenda creep with Lgbt characters in games, or with what, at times, feels like the outright demanding to be represented in entertainment media? I don't play sonic the hedgehog and complain about how I'm not a blue hedgehog, so the game isn't representing me enough. Nor do I play action games and then start twitter harassment saying the characters should be more nerdy and less muscle-bound because I'm more nerdy and not muscley etc. These games aren't my story, they are Nathan Drake's story, or Sonic's story. If anything, games are an escape from my reality, not a reinforcement or representation of it.
I guess I'm just asking why have we got to a situation where through social media pressure we seem to always end up with token Lgbt characters, like it's a checkbox feature on the back of the box or something. It seems like soulless pandering by corporate, too afraid of negative feedback. It must feel hollow and shoehorned-in to the very people campaigning for it, right?
I guess I'm just asking why have we got to a situation where through social media pressure we seem to always end up with token Lgbt characters, like it's a checkbox feature on the back of the box or something. It seems like soulless pandering by corporate, too afraid of negative feedback. It must feel hollow and shoehorned-in to the very people campaigning for it, right?