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Otter on 05 November 2024
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Mummelmann said:
JRPGfan said:


I doubt game developers will either. These people are stuck in their ways, and if DEI and LBTQA+ isn't what the public want, they wont care.



You may be correct in the part about developers not learning, there isn't all that much evidence to suggest as much. But if 2024 isn't a wake-up call for the industry, that call is never coming. The amount of flops and the staggering amounts of money lost this year alone should be a massive, blinking, neon-sign of warning to all parties involved. As an aspiring (yes, even at my age) writer myself, I don't take issue with inclusion or diversity as a concept, what I take issue with is the ham-fisted way it's done. It's clearly favored over basic cohesion, actual quality of writing and narration. A lot of characters, incidents, and dialogue comes off as pure inserts, applied with crowbar and super-glue, lacking any kind of organic anchoring in the setting itself. It's the type of profound writing that high-school students attempt during their most confused and ill-disciplined years. Some of it is so on-the-nose that I half suspect their ancestors knocked the actual one off of the sphinx with their quills.

We really gotta stop equating quality with the topic of inclusion. You could remove every reference to anything LGBT and you'd still have a marvel-fied narrative, the writing wouldn't suddenly be good if you think it is currently bad, it'd still have watered down RPG & team mechanics and overly whimsical artstyle which is pretty but against fan expectations. We do not need a scape goat of "the developers were too focused on" to explain the clear & intentional shift towards a popcorn blockbuster that they were trying to achieve. The reveal trailer back ended by an anthemic David Bowie "Heroes" mimicking a Guardians style character moments is speaking to what they wanted to achieve and how wanted to market the game. 

Top comments on the trailer before social was able to latch onto the culture wars topics:

"What are we some kind of dragon suicide squad?"

"Fuck, this is gonna be a "He is right behind me isn't he" kind of script right?"

"i didn't know disney bought bioware"

"As a die-hard Dragon Age fan, my first reaction is that someone hired the Devs from Valor"

"Went from Dragon Age to Imagine Dragons."


Before being baited people were more effectively highlighting what was going on (these comments are all 4months old). It's extremely lazy and regressive to keep tying down the games issues with social politics, inclusion is not it's problem.


Last edited by Otter - on 05 November 2024