Do you actually believe that though? While "political correctness" may be a buzzword that has lost most of its meaning, at the end of the day, "political correctness" is why nobody seriously does blackface any more and why the n-word is generally avoided. I think we can all acknowledge that racism in media was damaging throughout the 20th century. Political correctness is not a bad thing.

At its heart, political correctness is not doing or saying things that hurt people.

This is an entertainment medium. Good stories shouldn't be predicated upon hurting or attacking segments of the audience for how they were born. If you cannot extract that from the story, there are probably bigger issues with the story. What we are gaining from much of this is an audience who doesn't feel attacked by the art that was created to entertain them. While you may not be offended or you may not agree, I think we can acknowledge objectively that more people enjoying a game is something gained.

Now, that isn't to say that political correctness can't be abused. Of course it can. But to treat the entire idea, as invalid because some people are stupid is falling back on the buzzword that doesn't mean anything and just swinging fists at the evil SJW bogeyman.

I think that’s the idea, that there is no universally agreed definition of just how much PC injected is good. Some go hard and abuse it and others are more light touch. If one side doesn’t get a standard defined then the other side has no choice but to point out the worst aspects, despite not being representative of everyone’s beliefs. 

Personally, in regards to video games, history based games shouldn’t be tampered with and rewritten to give a more left wing idealized version of historical events. History should teach us where we came from so we learn from it. 

By all means make new IPs with whatever narrative developers want and let the market decide. But then I draw the line at reworking time tested gaming IPs to shoehorn in PC culture. Letting the market decide gets tricky when you messing with gamers favourite IPs. 

As far as real life goes, in case people make unjust comparisons about me, everybody should be respectful and tolerant of the diversity in our society. Say what you want but be mindful of who you are speaking to. If you get offended or offend...it’s not the end of the world. Someone should apologize and that should be the end of it. I don’t believe in policed speech, that just sounds like left-wing fascism. 

Changing something for a minority of snowflake narcissists who think they are oppressed is fucking stupid

I know that its ment to be a parody.
It proves my point though (hence why I used it).

Im not buying a fat batman comic.

There is a loud minority that has definitely played a couple of games but whether they appreciate these games for what they are, artistically, or hate it for what is isn't is the real question.

In most PC- cases they hate the game for what it isn't and want everybody else to change the game to align it more to their PC believes or else everybody else is a racist homophobe, MK 11 is a clear example of that and that's my problem with Western entertainment these days.

and to answer your last question no they're not creative, they just change what's already there to their own political believes and forces everybody else to like it.

To have less outdated notions about society. Then again, you can actually, indeed, make almost whatever you want. Just don't expect a warm welcome from everyone. Market will speak. 

Do you actually believe that though? While "political correctness" may be a buzzword that has lost most of its meaning, at the end of the day, "political correctness" is why nobody seriously does blackface any more and why the n-word is generally avoided. I think we can all acknowledge that racism in media was damaging throughout the 20th century. Political correctness is not a bad thing.

At its heart, political correctness is not doing or saying things that hurt people.

This is an entertainment medium. Good stories shouldn't be predicated upon hurting or attacking segments of the audience for how they were born. If you cannot extract that from the story, there are probably bigger issues with the story. What we are gaining from much of this is an audience who doesn't feel attacked by the art that was created to entertain them. While you may not be offended or you may not agree, I think we can acknowledge objectively that more people enjoying a game is something gained.

Now, that isn't to say that political correctness can't be abused. Of course it can. But to treat the entire idea, as invalid because some people are stupid is falling back on the buzzword that doesn't mean anything and just swinging fists at the evil SJW bogeyman.

In regards to history based video games, it really depends on the intent of the work. Just because something takes place during a certain time in the past, doesn't mean that the intent is to be documentarian. We regularly see changes in historical video games regarding the technology available in that era, however I virtually never see complaint about this, but if you throw a woman into a battle that didn't involve women, all of the sudden everybody loses their minds. I think that provides us with an opportunity to sit back and reflect on our personal biases. Fact is, in almost any adaptation, whether it is adapting a book into a movie, or adapting a historical event into a piece of art, you will see a number of changes for any number of different reasons. Distance from the source material, whether fiction or non-fiction, is not a measure of quality. That is something that must be determined independently.

You also make a comment about how we should leave the change to the new IPs, and keep the old ones how they were, but the phrase "adapt or die" comes to mind. Franchises regularly reinvent themselves, and if they hold true and stay consistent, many will struggle to continue to provide reasons for people to purchase them. We, as gamers, demand change, though we reserve the right to criticize if that change is in a direction that we do not like. Sometimes those changes will be for the worse. Express what you will about the changes, but to turn your back on the very notion of change is to simply be blind to the reality of what people want, and the reality of the industry.

Because it isn't that people don't like when their favorite games change. Look at Breath of the Wild. That was probably the biggest departure in the series since OoT, and it is considered one of the best games of the generation. It is that they are looking at a specific change that they didn't like and trying to use it as a rule even though that doesn't really fit with reality. "PC" changes are no different. Often, they simply take the form of giving a character more depth. Maybe don't just write the female lead as a personality-less titty monster. Give her a character and a motivation, and you've turned a avatar to create porn of into someone that people actually care about.

I would also like to comment quickly on your final comment: "I don't believe in policed speech, that just sounds like left-wing fascism". Again, I will ask you to sit back and examine your biases. The policing of speech is not left-wing. While the right-wing religious outrage and "policing of speech" of the 20th century has largely faded, there are numerous examples of right-wing censorship throughout history, and we still often see demands regarding what can and cannot be said coming from those on the modern right.

The history comment is interesting, I do agree that different weapons are tolerated but women amputees on the frontlines are complained about. In that case it comes down to practicality. If weapons were true to the era (especially WW1) it just wouldn’t be as fun from a gameplay perspective. Guns didn’t fire fast and that just isn’t fun. But the women thing for many would take you out of the immersion in the period.

Im all for women in gaming, Hellblade is my favourite new IP of the gen, and that’s about a female warrior in historical 8th century Ireland. But they made it work with amazing storytelling, not shoehorning her in because “reasons”.

I’d say “adapt or die” applies more to gameplay and design then the story of games. Breath of the wild is a great example of this. But I don’t think storytelling in video games needs to “adapt or die”, unless it’s with new IPs because it’s a fresh slate and all. 

We are both pushing agendas here. But at least I like to maintain a stance to leave history as intact as reasonably possible and leave time tested IPs politically neutral.

While we both agree the past has a lot of right wing censorship. But you honestly can’t tell me left wing people don’t police speech. “Micro aggression” and “trigger warning” are not right wing terms and the subsequent outrage (Twitter mobs) and shaming when instances do happen. The pendulum is merely swinging in the other direction now. 

In before people getting upset over silly things like nerfed boob physics

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...

Shiken said:

 I do not agree with certain versions being censored over other simply because over sensitive people might get "offended".

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. 

MK11 was the fifth best selling game of 2019. Fire Emblem Three Houses is the best selling game in the franchise. RE5 was the best selling game in the series when it released.  I'd say that their appeals to the free market are doing just fine.

But don't worry comrade. If you ever want to seize the means of production to distribute games to the proletariat, hit me up.

That is basically my issue with things. Go and create as many new IPs as you like, there are several heavily politicized themes and IPs I like (even some that are opposite of what I think), but there is no need to hijack what already exist and shoehorn those changes to please people that don't even buy the product.