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Rant/Drama - The Battlefield 5 Trailer
7 years ago
If there's one thing the far-left has succeeded in doing is turning me into a racist. Not in a "hates black people" kind of way, but in that I actually notice the race of fictional characters now. For example, in Left 4 Dead, Louis wasn't "the black guy" to me. He was the office guy that wouldn't take off his stupid tie.
There's a term I once heard, but unfortunately it didn't stick, "black woman fatigue". After 6+ years of Extreme Ghostbusters level diversity characters, I expect the worst every time a game shows off it's checklist of "diverse" characters. If Left 4 Dead were to come out today, would I assume that it was yet another diversity game? I honestly don't know. That said, Left 4 Dead isn't really progressive enough. It doesn't have a gay guy, and Zoey isn't an overweight feminist with blue hair.
I bring all of this up because of the Battlefield 5 trailer. If you've not seen it, it's ...bad. It's your usual over the top ridiculous scripted action with constant explosions and chaos of the kind I'm almost completely desisted too, but what's worse is this "authentic" World War 2 game stars a female soldier with a prosthetic arm who comes across as a Horizon Zero Dawn / Mad Max Fury Road OC. Add in bald guys with beards, katanas, and clown make up, and you have a recipe for cringe.
...And of course, if you don't like any of this, then you're a loser incel gamergate nazi who is trying to keep women out of gaming.
One of the original Call of Duty games had you play as a female sniper, and you also played as a woman in Medal of Honour Underground, and no one really had a problem with those. So why is having a woman in a war game now suddenly an issue? Well, part of that is media spin, but I think part of it is the "black woman fatigue" I mentioned before. This is a calculated move intended to push a "representation", as the games marketing director said on Twitter. Having what amounts to a mary sue with a robot arm in World War 2 might have been forgivable if it was Wolfenstien, Red Alert, or Achtung Cthulhu style World War 2 fantasy game, or if it was Indiana Jones esc "Word War 2 as backdrop" game, but again, this is presenting itself as "accurate" and "authentic", then stuffs some Deviant Art OC in there. It would be like if they had Coldsteel the hedgehog turn up in Saving Private Ryan, and anyone who complained was called a bigot. Let me put it this way, would those defending this change be happy if it was Kawaii the waifu, dressed as a schoolgirl and "accidently" showing her panties at every opertunity? I'm going to guess no.
...Brb, making a trillion billion pounds...
There's a lot of stuff I could go on about. Does historical accuracy matter or not, is this is all some kind of deliberate attempt at viral marketing, are these dying websites deliberately trying to resurrect gamergate for clicks, etc. I don't think this is somehow a return to power for social justice though. These games take a long time to make, and big corporations are out of touch. This is likely EA having not caught up to the fact that radical feminism and social justice are dead, and that pandering to Tumblr won't give you the huge boost in sales game journalists promise. Hopefully this all wears off with time, and hopefully we can get some good games too, that would be nice.
I'll end this post with a funny comment from YouTube.
"The only thing accurate in this trailer is the medic refusing to heal that guy."
There's a term I once heard, but unfortunately it didn't stick, "black woman fatigue". After 6+ years of Extreme Ghostbusters level diversity characters, I expect the worst every time a game shows off it's checklist of "diverse" characters. If Left 4 Dead were to come out today, would I assume that it was yet another diversity game? I honestly don't know. That said, Left 4 Dead isn't really progressive enough. It doesn't have a gay guy, and Zoey isn't an overweight feminist with blue hair.
I bring all of this up because of the Battlefield 5 trailer. If you've not seen it, it's ...bad. It's your usual over the top ridiculous scripted action with constant explosions and chaos of the kind I'm almost completely desisted too, but what's worse is this "authentic" World War 2 game stars a female soldier with a prosthetic arm who comes across as a Horizon Zero Dawn / Mad Max Fury Road OC. Add in bald guys with beards, katanas, and clown make up, and you have a recipe for cringe.
...And of course, if you don't like any of this, then you're a loser incel gamergate nazi who is trying to keep women out of gaming.
One of the original Call of Duty games had you play as a female sniper, and you also played as a woman in Medal of Honour Underground, and no one really had a problem with those. So why is having a woman in a war game now suddenly an issue? Well, part of that is media spin, but I think part of it is the "black woman fatigue" I mentioned before. This is a calculated move intended to push a "representation", as the games marketing director said on Twitter. Having what amounts to a mary sue with a robot arm in World War 2 might have been forgivable if it was Wolfenstien, Red Alert, or Achtung Cthulhu style World War 2 fantasy game, or if it was Indiana Jones esc "Word War 2 as backdrop" game, but again, this is presenting itself as "accurate" and "authentic", then stuffs some Deviant Art OC in there. It would be like if they had Coldsteel the hedgehog turn up in Saving Private Ryan, and anyone who complained was called a bigot. Let me put it this way, would those defending this change be happy if it was Kawaii the waifu, dressed as a schoolgirl and "accidently" showing her panties at every opertunity? I'm going to guess no.
...Brb, making a trillion billion pounds...
There's a lot of stuff I could go on about. Does historical accuracy matter or not, is this is all some kind of deliberate attempt at viral marketing, are these dying websites deliberately trying to resurrect gamergate for clicks, etc. I don't think this is somehow a return to power for social justice though. These games take a long time to make, and big corporations are out of touch. This is likely EA having not caught up to the fact that radical feminism and social justice are dead, and that pandering to Tumblr won't give you the huge boost in sales game journalists promise. Hopefully this all wears off with time, and hopefully we can get some good games too, that would be nice.
I'll end this post with a funny comment from YouTube.
"The only thing accurate in this trailer is the medic refusing to heal that guy."
