I think there is a fairly large difference between "approaching a topic" and making a topic into a joke. There are a lot of games, movies and other forms of art which deal with homosexuality, many of which are at least partially comedic. However, if the joke is simply "HE WAS GAY" than you aren't really actually approaching a topic, you are just relying on an outdated notion that homosexuality is weird, gross or something that should be inherently made fun of.

You bring up molestation, and this is often played of as a joke or as not a big deal in Japanese art (be in anime, manga or games). I was reading Princess Jellyfish not too long ago and one of the main male characters is drugged and made to think that he had sex with a woman (aka, that he was raped), and for a moment, it felt like the story was actually going to "approach the topic" and deal with it, but then it was played off as a joke and pushed aside. It isn't that the topic was brought up that was an issue, it was the means in which it was addressed and written.

I see criticism of this as no different than criticism of any other story or character element. It was handled poorly, it was criticized as such, and if a future adaptation of the source material is made, I hope that they will address this story beat better. I don't think this is PC culture running rampant and destroying muh gaems, it is just people asking for better written stories which is an entirely natural criticism and expectation...

As long as their is not an agenda being shoved down our throats, it does not matter as long as the game is good. All versions should be the same across the board however. I do not agree with certain versions being censored over other simply because over sensitive people might get "offended".

Now if it is needed to release in a certain country due to their own laws, that is a bit different. That is the only exception however.

I don't think they are destroying either.It's extremely annoying at best, and only a few rare exceptions that come to the point of actually harming it(for me one such example would be timespinner), but it's still there, and it's still annoying.

Don't get me wrong: as long as people have creative freedom to do whatever they want, there will always be one topic or another that you will be consider offensive or innapropriate.I think the same applies to this case with Persona 5 Royal.In my perception, I didn't find it offensive, and I found that funny.I just don't like the hypocrisy of demanding a subject to be removed from a game because you think it's offensive (the gay scene in Persona 5) while you are ok with other subjects being left in a game, that may be found offensive by other people, like making fun of Trump for example, since making fun of Trump usually(USUALLY) means making fun of the people who support him.That's just an example of political nature.I'm fairly sure there are many of religious nature, of race nature and so on.

And like the example you gave: We are judging a culture based on our own culture merits. More than that, the culture of a country that's more civilized, safe and probably advanced than most if not all western countries.

In the end, I feel like everyone will end up defending what they believe in.I dont find this offensive, that's why I said that removing the scene from Persona 5 is censoring and something that shouldn't have done.If the same was done to the Trump example I gave, in which the developer removed the insult to Trump from the game, I bet there would be people around the internet screaming "censorship!" or "cowards!".

In the end it's a matter of perspective.Personally, yes it is censorship and yes, shouldn't have been removed.It was only removed because of the insistance of a minority.And thus it proves the OP point, even if it only something minor.

I'm fine with developers releasing their games in whatever form they feel will be most profitable, the market responding, and the developers reacting accordingly.

I don't know man, rape being bad seems like a pretty universal thing to me...

Anyways, let me ask you this: If there was a scene in a game that was poorly written (for example, the characters aren't acting like they should without any good reason, or the scene just didn't make sense in the story) and that scene was rewritten in a remake, would you complain?

No. If a creator/developer/Studio has a point or story to make, how I receive it its gonna depend on how good it is, it doesnt matter if its "politically correct" or otherwise. Either way their intent is to sell it, so its never gonna go to an extreme just to follow an agenda. This is nitpicking. So the way I see it the "pc conversation" is meaningless, reminds me of how people were turned off by Horizon at first because the MC was female and they "couldnt relate" and then the game turned out to be fantastic. Either way, I rather games have moral/political commentary than to just be plain moronic like Duke Nukem. But thats me, moronic games like that have an audience as well. 

I reject your hypothesis.

I don't see PC culture affecting the video game industry in any substantially negative way.
There is a push for more diverse protagonists, but it seems to be the wish of the video game developers themselves. And it is a breath of fresh air, really.

I also don't get the idea that video games are supposed to be fun.
They can also be thought provoking and emotional. And touch on a range of different feelings.
If anything, I think too few video games have a political angle. There is a lot of unused potential in regards to this.
But of course, if you are exploring politics you need to back it up with good writing to make it work, but that is the case for any writing. I think this is often a problem in video games and mainstream cinema.

I find it weird that you mention GTA 5 as a game that got bad reviews, because it went against some people's political biases. GTA 5 is one of the top 5 best reviewed and best selling games of all time, I think it just proves how small and insignificant PC culture really is.
There is more talk about PC culture than there is actual PC culture.

But I totally agree with you on the censorship of games though. That is truly stupid. I don't know what Sony is trying to achieve in this regard.

Bolded: But the same couldn't be apllied to you?Aren't you also judging me based on your own criteria and the way you view life?

The opposite of everything you said could also be true in this case. Like you said, "That again goes to the problem of only looking at it from your own perspective"

Who's to say this is what the developer wants?

Then you also should have no problem with what the original did, because it's a game.

The problem I have with all of this is that usually the people who defend this kind of thing, for games to be more "inclusive"(whatever the hell that means) is that they defend the topics they are interested in, and only these topics.Let me give you a controversial example: Usually games need to have a villain.The story simply demands it.More often than not, that villain is a mega corporation that is doing some evil shit to the enviroment or to the people.

So I ask you again: According to you, and what you just said("The problem is when people only think of themselves, or from their perspective. And prioritize their entertainment over other people's well being."), wouldn't making a company evil and giving it a bad image be ... bad?Because as much as a company CAN be evil and do evil shit, people also can.And as people can do good things for humanity and the enviroment, the companies can also be good.They give jobs to people, donate their money to charities, develop amazing new technologies either for our own entertainment or to cure a disease. So wouldn't it be the same thing badmouthing them as badmouthing gay people, as you just pointed out, would be counter productive to people well being or in this case, the companies well being?Because if said company goes bankrupt or just has a bad year(in terms of financials) people are going to lose their jobs, and in more extreme cases might not have the money to buy food or medicine.

What I mean is, if you end up respecting everyone opinion or perspective on every single topic, you end up with a cartoon like Barney: Everyone is happy, but the game is as deep as a puddle, and as varied .... as nothing.(couldn't come up with a good comparison lol)

Any kind of story that you want to tell, ANY kind, will end up hurting someone feeling.The difference is how many people you might end up insulting, and that's what matters in the end, in terms of backlash and whatnot.

And as I said, people will defend what interests them. So I am defending something I don't approve, which is this.Dosen't mean I don't have respect for gay people.I want my entertainment to be entertaining, but at the same time I imagine, or at the very least I hope, people have the basic neurological functions to distinguish between reality and fiction. The same way that someone wouldn't go out shooting people because they played a game about war, I don't expect people to start hating gays just because there was one game that made one joke about gays being " annoying"(let's just leave it at that), the same way that any human being, man or woman, can be.

The japanese seem to be pretty able to separate fiction from reality.You don't see them raping people because of their animes.That's what I mean.Just because someone represents something in a game, dosen't mean that humanity dosen't have the brain power to understand the right from wrong.

About your question: Yeah, absolutely.But in Persona case, personally, I don't think it was out of place because in my experience, that happens in real life.And I respect you guys for defending your point of view.But I'm just defending mine.

This is basically what I am saying. Games should be anything they like, and shouldn't always cater to a single agenda.If someone wants to do something, just do it.

In the end, gamers will vote with their wallets.