It's so sad that it was immediatly predictable once I saw the eye from the new Ghost protagonist was that of a woman, that the first thing that crossed my mind was stupid people calling it woke... and I was right.
Now, a concerning big number of people see a woman and immediatly say "woke" or get offended, and like I was afraid with Concord, which compeled me to ask supposedly specific issues with the game for it to be so attacked... those people now have the power to make a game fail.
Gladly Tsushima already made the IP strong, otherwise Ghost of Yotei being the first game could actually kill the franchise, which would be extremely sad and concerning.
Is there anything that can be done to protect gaming from this absurdity? Some "Influencers" are more than happy to fuel it to get the audience of those brain-dead people for themselves.
The incredibly franchise Sucker Punch made could actually be a failure if it was the first game, I can't believe it, we could be on the verge of losing great games being made because of this shit.
Excellent games may be DoA just because the human being portraited on it is not a white guy, that shit can't be ignored anymore, they were almost able to take TLoU2 down, the sequel to arguably the most acclaimed game in modern times, too, and it greatly affected its sales and would be a lot worse was it not for the record breaking preorder it had before that blew out.
I have not played an Assassin's Creed game since the excellent Black Flag, but the series was enjoying a very good moment with the last 3 games until it chose to make a black man and a woman the playable characters, the trailers looked quite good too, IMO.
I couldn't care less who is the character I play as long as it's good, I never felt the massive majority of games I played as a white man was good or bad because of that, neither games I played as a woman for example were better or worse because of that, but now I fear devs may be forced to either use white males or ridiculously hot females only so their game is "safer" to invest the insane amount of money triple A games cost nowdays, and that will definitely hurt character writing and gaming creativity as a whole, and probably help to support the issue to get stronger in the real world too.
That can't be where we are headed, this stupidity can't be left unchecked anymore.
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