Well done for just cutting that sentence from my post to back up your spurious and pointless commentary! *the slowest of handclaps*
The rest of the post didn't explain away the disingenuous strawman you posted prior. My commentary was neither spurious or pointless. Say stupid shit, expect to be called out on it.
I agree that there's a line to tow between disliking something and being petulant, and voting with your wallet is the best bet when it comes to anything that has a price of admission.
However, by the same token, there's been a lot of really insightful, thought out posts in this topic thus far, so I feel it's a wee bit redactive to blanket *all* of it under the umbrella of "bawww QQ,"
This is a forum for enthusiast discussion, remember. It's important to be able to discuss things, whatever the topic, and I for one delight in opposing views because it tests and refines my own. Remember, a forum without differing points of view is an echo chamber, and I'd hate to take traffic from the big purple one over that way. >
There is no point discussing with OldRetro. Dude is a troll.
The people who whine are just angry and hateful. Who the fuck cares if the lead character is gay or if they include a transexual? People that get bent out of shape over it are the ones with agendas. They get triggered as soon as something they hate gets mentioned because they want to complain and moan about evil liberals ruining something that most people aren't offended by. They are the intellectual descendants of people who got angry when black people tried to eat at restaurants, they lost it when interracial marriages became a thing, and they were responsible for decades of discrimination of gay people, were hard core anti gay marriage and can't handle a fucking game with a gay chick in it without screaming about it for months.
What's worse is now games that have a villain, autocratic leaders are only doing so because of Trump who is unfairly being slandered by the media partners of this evil agenda. It's moronically ignorant, paranoid, hateful and tiresome. You people can't handle diversity in people or diversity in ideas and are threatened by it because you have no confidence in your own opinions because reality continually demonstrates that they are not based on fact. Let it go and worry about something more important, preferably about getting help for the borderline mental health problems that are driving this triggered behavior.
Seems like you are the one triggered here, mate.
Please point out the people who associate woke with any introduction/inclusion of minorities. You can't, because there are none. People are bent out of shape with the poor writing that these woke agendas tend to provide. Compare Dragon Age Inquisition's Dorian to The Last of Us' Bill or NieR's Emil. Compare The Last of Us 2's Lev or 2064's Jess to Poison from Final Fight, Erica from Catherine, or JJ from The Missing. Compare how they are written, portrayed, and shown to the player and how much more sense, more care went into the latter titles compared to the former titles.
It has nothing to do with "hating" minority characters like your disingenuous trashfire of a post suggests. It is about having characters first, not tokens first. Bill is a character first and his sexuality is second. That is how it should be. Not like Dorian who is gay first and foremost. Same can be said with characters like Emil, Sylvando, Kaine, Erica, Poison, or JJ. People fell in love with these characters, their issues and turmoils. It is also why so many people despise Dorian, Jess, Lev, etc.
However, given how you seem so clearly poorly informed on the subject, I am not holding my breath on you reading this without handwaving everything away to further push your inane disingenuous narrative.
