The problem is that the retarded shit is too much in your face, its deliberately telling its core audience "Fuck you, deal with it". It really is the single most stupid shit ever written in a game when you think of who is suposed to be buying it. Its so bad it should be considered a bug and patched out.
I hate seeing this political shit regardless, but they didn't even try to hide the fact that they were "edumacating dem der small minded sexist" BG fans of old.
So I think I'll try to sum it up for all you who apparently think people are doing this out of "I hate muh LGBTs" feelz or whatever. Because I tend to feel the same way that Lhynn and a lot of other people feel about this kind of stuff.
EDITED to highlight main points as this is a huge wall of text.
1. LGBTQ and other minorities are just that; minorities. I live in a very liberal place with a large LGBTQ community close by. Number of Trans people I have literally ever met? Zero. I sometimes see them in public, but that's it. I do know a handful of gay/bisexual people, so that's a bit more common for me. My point? It is that
these kind of interactions are still quite rare for 90% of the population. So when you see games being filled with all kinds of trans and other minority characters, it just comes off as artificial, forced, and as tokenism. It's brings me out of the experience and feels like it's being forced in for the sole reason that the people making the decisions are trying to make a political point. And even being socially liberal (feminist of sorts, LGBTQ supporter, gay marriage supporter, ethnic diversity supporter), it bothers me that this kind of political stuff is in there. Especially because it can be extremely jarring in a fantasy setting to think "Oh this is the diversity character XYZ dev decided to jam in here". And people who are trying to shoehorn this stuff truly do not like hearing that. It's the same reason why TV shows with predominantly minority characters (Moesha, George Lopez, etc) tend to struggle. There's not currently enough of that group to prop it up saleswise, so you need to appeal to the majority. And
the majority finds it jarring when more than 50% of characters are suddenly gay/trans/furries/mexicans (im hispanic so it'd be like I was visiting home depot)/or black brazilians. Sorry, it is what it is SJWs. Trust me, you'd influence a lot more people in a positive manner if you integrated them in an actual effective and realistic way. Which brings me to...
2.
Including these types of characters is normally done in the laziest and most shallow way as possible. Their diversity automatically becomes their defining trait. As if the fact that they were not trans would make them almost meaningless as a character. And this just adds to the tokenism I describe above. When Amber what's her Name says stuff like "I like creating diverse characters", it comes off as insincere because these are are not actual characters. They are vehicles for your agenda to let everyone know "LGBTQ diversity is important!". Ok, I agree with you. Now please kindly stop making fake characters in video games. K' thanks. And yes, this still applies even though BG writing is far from Shakespeare. Which brings me to my other point...
3.
It is very difficult, IMO, to integrate a 2016 social norm into a game that supposedly shares the spirit of something from 1998-2000. And this is a fact that was completely ignored by the writer. You can't just shove stuff in and say "Look, it's 1999 guys!". It's the same reason why writing a sequel to Huck Finn in 2016 would be impossible. Because the original was a world where the N-word was common among kids like Huck. And that was not going to change anytime soon. Mind you, I'm not saying it cannot be done. Just that it is difficult and the best way would be to make the character interesting, 3 dimensional, and just as flawed as anyone else. Just as easily mocked as anyone else. And people would have to deal with the fact that it might not share the same sensibilities or the same PCness of 2016. But it probably won't because we are not in 1999. We are in 2016. It's a different world, and not a world that BG fans necessarily expected. They expected 1999. Just as I would expect a true Fallout 3 game coming out in 1999 or 2000 to include a lot of the same gritty themes (hopefully minus as many pop references).
And finally,
4. People tend to think the reaction is new. It's not. People dislike SJW tokenism in other games. But that group is more visible now because this is not Bioware's romance-sim/sjw agenda pushing Dragon Age series. A lot of younger people were kids when the BG games out. So the SJW crowd is probably not as overwhelming as in those types of large mass audience games.
Plus, there's a difference when Bioware does it with their crappy franchise, but it can get personal when you start to mess with nostalgia and childhood. The stuff can be extremely frustrating and trigger tons of emotional reactions.
So really, Beamdog should not really be surprised by the reaction to this. They, like a lot of devs, are just out of touch with the old school cRPG crowd that craves some of the games from the late 90s and early 2000s. For many of us, we'd be just happy with that feeling we had when we first booted these old games up in our younger days. Not being reminded of all the subsequent decade and a half of crappy RPGs.
Ok I'm done talking about this because it truly is boring me now. I mean most stuff with RTwP does, but this takes the cake. But I think I did a good job of summarizing where I think a lot of us are coming from. Feel free to add to it if you'd like.
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