I opened that video just to tell them how absolutely awful every single aspect of this game looks and sounds and feels, and how it has violated me and mine on a fundamental level, at our core.
Only to discover that
Comments have been disabled.
Amazing. Less than 24 hours until comments were disabled, and even almost a week late the thing has less than 700 likes. I didn't even know that was possible; they should've gotten more than that just by being pushed by the official Xbox channel alone.
The disconnect between "developers" and gamers is such a hilarious gulf.
Emphyrio wrote: ↑
August 30th, 2023, 15:20
>Everyone is racist and discriminating against us for no reason
>also we are all literally violent criminals
why is this trope so common
Because these people are awful,
awful people. Yesterday someone asked me why the companions of """Baldur's Gate""" """3""" are so irredeemably unlikable, and it is much the same case as here.
Because they are written by awful people. They genuinely do not understand why their characters are considered insufferable because they are insufferable themselves. They cannot comprehend why people think of their characters as sex-pests, because they themselves are sex-pests. They can't see why we'd think that the characters are tiresome and shallow power-fantasies and annoying snowflakes unsuitable for characters, because they themselves actively strive for complete escapism in their own lives and to be as unique snowflakes as they can be, and do so through wholly superficial means.
They're awful, awful people on a very fundamental level, and completely incapable of introspection or constructive self-criticism.