It's funny because the "everything is political crowd" tend to come up with some stupid stuff too like the time they thought Five Nights At Freddies franchise was pro child murder or the time they thought the film Surrogates was a Christian fundamentalist anti technology rant.
I agree with you there, but:
Also shooting brown people, you mean terrorists. You know actual terrorist who are more than happy to harm innocent civilians. Sometimes with black and brown people on your team helping you do it.
Except generally on average, one group of people is more likely to be portrayed as terrorists than another.
That being said, it's a minefield either way. I notice that Russia has never stopped being the go-to boogeyman with MMGs, even when it makes little sense for them to be the antagonists (as opposed to China, for instance).
Except this is part of the strawman BS I'm talking about.
Person A: I think this writing is pretty poor and it seems suspicious that every character is a mixed race lesbian
Person B: You just hate POC and Lesbians you're racist and homophobic.
Yes, that's sometimes the case, but there's also undeniable bigotry in a lot of these examples - Last Jedi, Ghostbusters 2016, Last of Us II, etc. No, disliking these pieces of media doesn't make you a bigot ipso facto, but there's a lot of bigotry-based critique. Therre's a reason why Kelly Marie Tran, Leslie Jones, and Laura Bailey all got death threats for their roles in these works.
This shit has been going on again and again and again just because it's fucking far easier to try and push these claims and argue against the strawman than what people actually object to. Jesus many years back I said Battlefield V played only ok and had a lot of problems I could see and go told I just hated women and needed to confess. It was fucking bullshit then it's fucking bullshit now and shows almost how little things have changed because it seems some people still aren't listening to what's actually being fucking said because some person claiming to be saving the world and ending racism told them they have to fight against these criticism and secretly all the people making these criticisms are Nazis who want to create the 4th reich or something.
I can believe all that, and it sucks, but are we denying that there was a lot of criticism based on BF5 based on such feelings? Bear in mind that I got similar flak from SQWs as you got from SJWs, and have been called everything from a cuck to a Nazi on these forums.
Yes and No. It's more that the creators so wanted you to know they had lesbians in the game. Does it matter that there's two girls kissing? No. Is where the issue comes in partly that it was deemed something to focus on? Yes. It's like the idea of dog whistles and signalling to specific groups. It screams "Look how progressive we are putting an LGBTQ relationship front and centre as a main piece of our game". Little challenge for you, name a game in the past 10 years of E3 where a core part of the trailer was a straight couple kissing, no really I'm not joking see if you can do it.
I can buy the possibility that Naughty Dog wanted brownie points for a lesbian couple, but if you get brownie points for lesbian couples, I think that's at least partly an inditement on society. Personall speaking, I don't think you should get brownie points for any such depiction, any more than you should be docked for them. I mean, every time I've written a gay character on FFN, I'm not doing so in the hopes of being praised for being woke.
But on the other hand, what's the bigger issue? Naughty Dog virtue signalling, or homophobes coming after them, to the extent of carrying out death threats?
The reality is that's not what most games have chosen to out out as part of their impression. The relationship stuff is there but that's not the focus but with TLOU2 they wanted people to know that was part of the focus and so pull n a crowd who care for that being part of the focus which what TLOU1 was dad apocalypse survival to an extent it's rather a tonal whiplash in audiences being targeted in a franchise in only the 2nd entry.
Except I don't think there's much of a discord between the two.
Disclaimer, I haven't played The Last of Us (either 1 or 2, read American Dreams though), but even then, I understood there was a time jump between games. So I could get the following:
a) Ellie's grown up
b) The world's settled down a bit, so people can have these kinds of get togethers - civilization's rebuilt itself to an extent.
Last of Us isn't the first to do this - for instance, Walking Dead has carried out time jumps to where civilization's become a bit more organized after its collapse. The trailer is making this clear to me, at least. And let's be honest, if Ellie was kissing a guy, there'd hardly be the same uproar.
