Nonsense.
If those choices are accompanied by good constructive gameplay or thoughtful narrative connections, then more power to you. But if you just shoehorn in a deaf PoC girl and force us to play with her in the most abysmal gameplay section I've played in the last year to complete 100% of the game, then you're just pandering and checking boxes because that section has no ludonarrative weight and just drags the product down.
And? Token diversity is worth attacking. But you are woke as fuck who cares what you have to say.
It's not just about appealing to me directly, it's about creating a coherent world and story with engaging characters that will appeal to most of your target audience.
One difference is that the game was linear and used it to its advantage, I never felt like I was at a disadvantage at any point in time in God Hand like I do with any of the exclusives that think putting you in 360 battle arenas with limited view is a good thingI wonder if the gaming audience will collectively erase Godhand from memory as the game that started this TPS behind-the-back close-up camera angle for melee games, and instead just give that credit to Sony.
This is half true. Godhand was guilty of the same issue if you did the special challenges mid stage and the coliseum/arena. As a matter of fact even during the main campaign I remember the boss fight with the twins being especially annoying due to one of them being way more mobile.
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Spider-Man 2 did temper my expectations for any future Insomniac games, before that I was all in on them taking on the whole X-Men franchise(my favorite comics). I don't really want to support a studio that is heading the direction they are and as consumers our wallets is the only way we can really protest.
You asked the perfect question. Many don't want to see the gaming scene the way you, I, and others see it.
I grew up in the deep south, I was watching Will and Grace, the Cosby show, Family Matters, and others with my family most of my childhood and nobody ever made a big deal about any of it. Never once did I ever hear anyone, the viewer or the actors publicly announcing how proud they are of these gay and black characters being allowed to grace our TV screens and represent the people watching who need someone to identify with. For some reason in the past few years people are pretending as if they are championing a new tomorrow by forcing it down our throats from a purely politically driven agenda. The country has moved so far past all this nonsense but a lot of young people with no actual talent or two brain cells to rub together who didn't read history want to feel like they are having an impact on the world. Which by the way they absolutely are, it's just not the cultural shift they think. When any entertainment product starts with ensuring it hits every box on the DEI checklist, that is why it feels forced and most of those projects turn out to be shit, cause the things that actually matter take a backseat to some college student with pronouns in their bio and people in the room are too afraid to speak up.
A norse / greek god being played / portrayed by a black actor is an unnaturally diverse character, and no amount of handwaving or whataboutism will ever prove this to be false.
I'll judge this as I do others. It definitely looks a cut above Spiderman for me.
ill tell why it bothers me , i can have a decent conversation without insults or name callingHaha, I think I've given up on trying to talk about certain things on here. Occasionally there's a spark where I want to say "but why does that bother you?" As got through there before I edited, but I don't think it'd be a good use of my time.
Cool gif though, perfect.
It bothers me when lore and characters are changed in order to pursue an agenda.Haha, I think I've given up on trying to talk about certain things on here. Occasionally there's a spark where I want to say "but why does that bother you?" As got through there before I edited, but I don't think it'd be a good use of my time.
Cool gif though, perfect.
