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Well, all interest I had in this game is suddenly gone after the stupid "woke" comment. I was waiting for a sale but now I'll just remove it from the list.
What games in the same vein as KCD2 have shoved hat relationships down players throats?? What would they even be referencing as the "woke" games?
Imagine finding a way to piss off everyone simply by opening your stupid mouth....lol
Something something dragon age something something concord.
Sprinkle in some pointless complaints about The Last Jedi and you have a full chud comment.
Baldur's Gate 3? But you have to try pretty hard to have gay sex... I've heard.
Eh not really, Gale is pretty quick to offer it up
Lol, true enough.
Not very surprising. I remember one of the Warhorse head devs wearing a band shirt of a far right band while representing the studio and giving interviews. That caused quite a scandal in Germany‘s gaming community.
Anyone that uses woke as a pejorative is a fucking fascist bigot. I will never support anything by this company or Vavra ever again.
20 years ago I'm sure they would have called it PC and a moral outrage. Keeping it out of the way and I'm guessing hyper masculine is just pallettable enough for right wing freaks decades later. It's probably the type of gay story they're into too.
Idk, I Kind of get him (prolly gonna get downvoted for this).
For me personally I Must say when I learned more about homosexuality, I learned that it is Not This cliche Image that Most guys have in mind with some gay twink trying to Hit on any guys they can. Most gay people are just normal regular everyday people with just a different preference in people that Theyd Date but Most cis people totally envision either some annoying gay twink or a drag queen. I have a feeling though that nowadays regarding representation, people that are pro gay & lgbtq do not really help at educating unaware cis people with the fact that gay people are just that. Normal people with a different preference just like anyone who can like different things from others.
Can anyone who has actually played the game elaborate and give their thoughts?
In the first game everyone is assumed to be straight, and your character receives a stat boost from having sex, which sometimes happens in the story, but mostly will happen at "bathhouses", i.e. with prostitutes.
The exclusively female bathhouses, and the stat boost, persist in the second game, but there is an option relatively early in the game for your (male) character to start a gay romance with an important, recurring character.
I didn't follow through with that, but I was very pleasantly surprised to see it - both characters are sort of supposed to be womanizers, but it makes sense in the context of the story that they could discover feelings for eachother. It's up to you whether your character has a childhood sweetheart feminine love interest at home or not (from the previous game), but other than this relatively unimportant detail (beyond the roleplaying of it), the gay romance appears to be arguably the most significant romance in the game.
All that said, the game director who speaks is an asshole. Given that, I was pleasantly surprised at how "woke" KCD2 actually is. Guess he might has a different idea of "woke" than the rest of us, e.g. more "female ghost busters movie", less "gay representation".
I agree with your comment except to say that Henry (the playable character) is a pretty blank slate. It's been a little while since I've played it but I wouldn't call him a womanizer though Hans definitely is
True, fair point. I guess that mission where you get drunk with the priest and have group sex(?) got stuck in my head.
Based upon the comments here it looks like no one here has played it.
I'd love for this asswipe to just shut up forever, but maybe if he keeps piping up more people will understand how terrible he is.
Fucking shithead
He even needed ChatGPT to write his own shitty opinion for him, what a loser.