If you could snap your fingers and have any game ever made get the RE2 treatment (Almost entirely remade but with the same general constructs as the original game) what would y'all pick?
Absolutely. It comes back to an onus of responsibility on the behalf of the people making the thing to not just make it, but also manage it properly. Especially when they've got people in the game and in the social spaces they control around the game being openly racist and anti-Semitic and promoting white nationalism. These are not inconsequential beliefs, they are ideologies that are leading people to commit actual real-life murder in our real-life world of 2019.
When the developers decide not to do anything about it, I'm left to believe it's either because 1) They agree with the white nationalists, or 2) They're too cowardly to do the right thing. And either way, man, that's a real bummer.
And it's especially a bummer because this kind of game (At least it was this case in Chivalry, I've not played Mordhau) does a WONDERFUL job at having a very gentle upwards progress in terms of ability to actually play. In that, I mean people who are dogshit bad at video games (like me!) can still have fun with it, because it's set up in a way where you're not constantly spawning and dying immediately. You can get in a hack-and-slash duel with someone and still have a reasonable chance of coming out a winner because the time it takes to hack-and-slash is so different from the immediate reaction times needed to be good at traditional FPS games -- a genre I don't dabble in very often because I'm so bad at them.
Everything about the actual game itself here seems really fun, but I'm not going to give the developers any of my money to play it. And that's a shame, because I had a ton of fun with early Chivalry, and this sure seems like a way better version of that.
I'm impartial toward the controversy over statements about a toggle switch for player skins for people of different races. For me it's the fact they pretty much refuse to take moderation seriously because they're too afraid of upsetting the conservative crowd that has latched onto this game as a cultural signifier. I'm not going to give money to people too cowardly to do the right thing.
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