There’s this aura among certain people, usually the neurodivergent, where they believe that whatever is valued in their microcosm is what should be valued everywhere else. They think that any controversy is automatically solved in their favor. They get visibly upset whenever anything is successful that doesn’t align with their agenda. To them, it’s not about balance. It’s not about diversity or variety. It’s about attacking anyone who disagrees with them until… well, they don’t stop. It’s incessant. They will brow-beat and tantrum-throw until they get what they want.
These people need to be put back in line. They don’t actually care about the art they corrupt; most of them don’t even play the games they criticize. Instead, it’s about pushing their agenda and making sure anyone who goes against it is silenced (censored.)
It’s up to us, the regular people, to see things for what they are. They will try to drag us down rabbit holes. Their entire goal in life is to make people losers like them so they don’t feel so bad about being failures. You know, misery loves company and all that.
It’s sad this is what happened to the digital sphere. It’s shown me that the slippery slope isn’t a fallacy when applied to people with an agenda. They never wanted “equality.” They always wanted superiority. “Equality” was just a guise they hid under to gain legitimacy, and now that they have it they aren’t stopping.
Glad I didn’t waste my money on this hamstrung garbage. I’m glad old games still hold up to this day and are better than most of the trite put out by modern “developers.” Really puts into perspective who the good artists are, and who just wants to corrupt other people’s art for their own gain.
It’s fine to have gay representation. Even trans representation is acceptable. The problem is that these people want it to be “preferable” to play the game as a gay or transperson. It’s why they praise queer characters but shun any attractive females. They want sex only to sell to “their” people and no one else. It’s an agenda, but thankfully it hasn’t been too successful in changing the landscape.
While it’s unfortunate we get these bad games instead of good ones, I’m glad they’re being panned accordingly for the drivel that they are.
Dragon Age: Origins is still one of my favorite game of all time. Really wish we could’ve had a whole series of them, but oh well. At least we got shit.
Edit: The responses to this were to be expected, and of course do not change my views at all. Instead, I think it’s very telling of human psychology. Just as with marijuana users who are fine with banning tobacco and other drugs because it’s not the drugs “they” use, we see people who have historically been marginalized and belittled fine with marginalizing and belittling others. It really is bigger than the topic at hand. This is an aspect of most people’s personas that they have no shame in and make no attempts to overcome.
it’s sad. Most people really are shit and enjoy hating others for liking different things.
This isn’t an unpopular opinion. I have to constantly see dipshits, like you, shrieking about SJW’s, DEI, and ‘Woke’.
If I didn’t read the title I would have sworn they were telling on themself.
He’s crying about it in the comments. lol
Where are you seeing these people?
In government pulling the levers of power, for example
Which government?
Can you show evidence of the government’s employees blaming SJW overreach for the decline of Dragon Age and Mass Effect?
I mean you’ve seen how trump and fasc friends are pissing themselves over “woke” and “dei” if you can’t see the connection between the two, I genuinely feel sorry for you, and I do believe that if you apply reasoning to this you can see the influence from right wing heads and their broader effect on people being unjustifiably scared of things like diversity. Their hate has a trickle down effect, and it gets regurgitated and applied to every day things. I hope you take some time for retrospection.
Right. Trump was specifically talking about Dragon Age and Mass Effect when he said those things.
He was specifically referring to diluting art to appease people like you and he thinks there’s no good romance options for straight males in Dragon Age anymore.
Lol. Glad we could have this talk.
I guess if I’m against the removal of good romance options for straight males in video games, then I must be allied with trump in your mind. I genuinely believe this is how delusional you have become.
Right. Trump was specifically talking about Dragon Age and Mass Effect when he said those things.
I never said that.
He was specifically referring to diluting art to appease people like you and he thinks there’s no good romance options for straight males in Dragon Age anymore.
How is it diluting art? I’d genuinely appreciate how you think that is the case, do only straight white men make art?
How are there “no good romance options”? Are there 0 hetero options in Dragon Age?
What makes a “good romance options?” Are you unable to pretend, or not care like others have for decades?
How is it diluting art? I’d genuinely appreciate how you think that is the case, do only straight white men make art?
I’m glad you asked! They are diluting art because creators are de-facto barred from including options in their games that appeal to straight males. Options such as Morrigan. You people say you get upset over ‘constantly’ hearing complaints like mine, but what about the constant complaints over characters like Morrigan and even Quiet from MGS5?
I guess you don’t care about those complaints because you don’t actually want equality. You want superiority.
This has a knock-on effect where once their hands are tied in one aspect to avoid “offending” the “wrong” people, they become crippled in other parts such as gore and gameplay. It becomes an effort to streamline and homogenize as much as possible so we end up with the same “safe” art every time.
How are there “no good romance options”? Are there 0 hetero options in Dragon Age?
Without getting too much into the subjectiveness of this, I hope that using Morrigan as an example and comparing her to the current options should highlight what I’m talking about (unless you want to be willfully ignorant.) Leilana could be a better example, but that’s depending on how you see it ;)
Inquisition had 1 decent romance option in my mind, and it was locked behind DLC. (this is for me, personally.) People like to rave about Cassandra, but she’s kind of a word I’m not allowed to use here without getting censored. Not that that’s a bad thing, (well, the censorship is), but she does not have comparable appeal to that of Morrigan, Leilana, or even the elf option from DA2 (I forget her name.)
What makes a “good romance options?” Are you unable to pretend, or not care like others have for decades?
Well, it’s a pretty big appeal for a game like Dragon Age or Mass Effect that expects me to insert myself into the world. It’s very disingenuous for you to even be making this argument against me. I could’ve said the same thing to people wanting more queer romance options, and you’d call me a bigot before censoring me.
Steam reviews and discussions.
Really? I just did a search of the reviews for “SJW” and came up with nothing.
Can you provide any examples to support your case? It doesn’t seem like it’s as popular a viewpoint as you people are trying to make it out as.
Or maybe you people are just pretending it’s a popular view so you can get it censored?
You wouldn’t do that, would you? Lie to censor something you don’t like?
Here, for example
So, you see one post and use that as an excuse to say you’re seeing it constantly?
Lol. Can you show me where else I can find people saying this on lemmy?
Who specified lemmy?
I did. Are you able to show me where else I can find people saying this on lemmy?
Or really anywhere in the fediverse.
You did, after I asked, but it wasn’t part of your original statement. Others have given examples, in steam, YouTube, Twitter. People there complain about diversity in video games all the time. I pointed out your example of your complaint here, because it was topical
So I guess you can’t find any examples of people saying this on lemmy?
Or anywhere else in the fediverse?
Lemmy has a lower concentration of dipshits, but I see you guys established your very own instance. I’m looking forward to the defederation.
Calm down.
You can tolerate people saying things you don’t like without throwing a temper-tantrum every time.
For the record, what you just said is textbook irony.
Not really.
Very cute. Kisses
Thank you for voicing your unpopular opinion. It is well written.
While I don’t agree with the individual political issues you outlined, I think there is a significant problem in corporate media, including corporate games, where the most interesting thing about the game is the political messaging. If that’s the only thing people talk about, it’s not a very good game. A great game, or even a good game, can have lots of overt political messaging and people will love it. Because the game is good.
Political messaging will not save a bad game
It’s easier to virtue-signal for a specific group than it is to actually make a good game.
Truth and reason are lost on both sides, so they both devolve into just trying to scream the loudest while silencing any opposition.
both sides
The narratives thrown around very much paint the world into binary slots… But there are always more sides!
Crazy SJWs are mostly from the USA. Ignore US-made entertainment and that’s all you need. Europeans have that balance you’re looking for.