Here’s the deal, don’t force it and if you include it, add nuance to it. It doesn’t need to be a character who breaks the fourth wall and looks at the audience to tell us if you ain’t gay, trans, bi, or brown then you ain’t sh*t.
Make a character with depth and let their character define who they are, not their skin color or sexual orientation. I believe there’s ways to include characters like this in a game and still appeal to an audience who doesn’t care.
The issue for me is the censorship of stuff that a majority of people think looks visually appealing, removing everything that isn’t woke while preaching how everyone who doesn’t view the world with their perspective is the problem, and making everything so squeaky f*cking clean. It’s annoying, especially when these people cry about inclusivity. If they’re all about inclusivity then why are they trying to make all content in games and media exclusively what they want?
We were doing just fine with the original Dragon Age release. None of it felt woke even when you had a bisexual elf in the party. Now, you’ve lost all sense of nuance and basically feel like some evangelical movie where you break out in the middle of it to tell us a Bible verse and then tell the audience why they need to be saved.
Just treat it like it’s a background element. No straight character starts off preaching to everyone about their sexual preferences and sh*t. Maybe try to be more like that and less… preachy.
