• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 days ago

    Can you blame them for not taking risks when these games get punished time and time again for doing so?

    TLOU Part II had a mildly unlikeable character who gasp was a woman and it killed the entire franchise and sparked mass controversy so hard Naughty Dog now is making some bland and generic soulslike (but in space) GOTG ripoff slop with product placement in it.

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      TLOU2 controversy wasn’t because the unlikable character was a woman, it was because the writing was garbage. If the unlikable character was a man the reception would have been exactly the same.

      Also, woman characters in games hasn’t been a risk since Metroid came out in 1986. It seems nowadays that the tables have turned and the vast majority of main characters in more than half of games from the past 5 years are women.

    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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      17 days ago

      Killed the franchise so much that the original game has been remastered twice, the second game once, and a TV series has been made out of it…?