Because it isn't really about political correctness. It's about money. PC is only pushed into the foreground to make more of it. It helps to counter balance the guts&gore, to make the game tolerable.

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If you have no better idea to do with est character than just kill them off in the direct sequel. Then don't make the game about them at all and create an entirely new cast and focus entirely on them. Chrono Cross is a good RPG but a bullshit sequel. What they did with the original cast is just dumb. At best just allude in small easter eggs they are maybe out there. Druckman should write for TWD.

A lot of the criticism I’ve seen I feel is an over-reaction. You’ve not even seen some of the characters before, let they game actually introduce them and build them up before saying you don’t care about them. That said, it does seem odd that Joel seemingly isn’t a playable character. A lot of it seems to be driven by a negative reaction to Ellie being a lesbian, and calling it pandering - whereas Ellie is actually a great example of a game not pandering this sort of thing. I’ve seen a rumour about Abby’s character though that I’m not sure if it’s true, but it seems to add more fuel to the fire.

Naughty Dog have definitely taken a big risk here, if the stuff about Joel is true I’ll give them props for taking the story in that direction, rather than having a more typical story. It is the sort of one that will invoke a reaction as the fanbase is attached to him.

It seems unlikely. Read the Wikipedia article on the game. The quotes from Troy Baker and Neil Druckmann align with stuff in the leaks.p, like Baker saying he believes gamers will be ambivalent to it.

We don't even know Abby's characteristics, it's all based on speculation.

How is that lazy story telling? Something a character did earlier in the series has a unintended and unforeseen consequence that comes back to bite them in the future. It adds more depth to the story.

I actually wouldn't have a problem with the whole situation if Joel had killed only the combatants in the building, but the doctors were unarmed and pleading for their lives. He DID NOT have to kill them, but he chose to do so anyways. That's when he crossed the line for me.

Now, actions bring consequences. The Fireflies got the consecuences for their actions and now Joel got the consequences of his.

Including both Ellie and Joel. I don't know why people want them to be immune to the rules of the world. Like I said before, actions bring consequences.

This actually reminds of the scene in Kill Bill were the bride kills the black woman in front of her daughter then looks a the little girl and tells her "If you're still mad about this in 20 years, I will be waiting."

See? The bride knew why she killed that woman and why she felt entitled to do so, but she also knew that the little kid will have a reason to want to kill her as well.