Yet again I am on the side of critque, because shifting the game back and forth from dark and gloomy to whimsical and goofy is not good game direction. It’s crap. It shows a complete lack of vision and confidence in your product when the captain on the ship appears drunk and you don’t know if you’re going to end up in the Bermuda Triangle or the Isle of Pleasure.
Decide what the game is supposed to be about, how it’s supposed to look, and what kind of atmosphere it’s supposed to have, and then make that so that players actually know what they’re getting themselves into.
This kind of nonsense where each month we’re sitting here and don’t know if we’re going to get a cute playboy bunny outfit or an armor set made from the skulls of children and dripping with blood, is absurd.
I did think the storytelling wobbled a bit after Legion. I think Metzen has sort of… redirected them to a good arc now he’s had a break and sorted his back and stress out. Only time will tell.
Its not just the pet reward dude… its just that when the trading post launched? We got all kinds of cool stuff? Now its all fairy wings and sailor moon transmogs and pets for a rewward…
Like I am not a mysagonist for saying thats not exactly rewards dudes look for… come on?
The thing is you are saying it like the entirety of males do not look for this. There are women who don’t like this either, me included. You can only speak for you. By speaking this way you are merely repeating the indoctrination of stereotypes and it needs to be stamped out. Just speak for yourself as I said earlier - you don’t like it, you want something else, that’s fine and it will come.
June is pride month now, apparently. So the chance of getting a LGBTQIA+ item was basically 100%, and it is indeed the “Colorful beach chair”, was has not only the rainbow, but also the torquise/pink/gray/white stripes next to the chair.
But other than that? The Shredder strikes me as slightly feminine due to the colouring, but also slightly masculine due to the mechanical nature of it. Both are very small signals. It’s a wash. The turtle is… well, it’s a turtle. Hard to argue anything there.
The swimwear is not LGBT; especially the right one, which is feminine in the extreme and there’s no LGBT anything in sight. The gun looks like a watergun and doesn’t exude any gender-related things.
As far as I’m concerned, you’ve got a point with one item. For pride month. I think most can get over that.
I think Metzen is the creative captain on the ship that has just put out swim suits and super soakers.
If I get items in a Harry Potter game I can be confident that they’re going to be wizardry and fitting for the universe.
If play a Lord of the Rings game I get items appropriate to the world of Middle Earth.
If I play a Star Wars game I get light sabers and cloaks and jetpacks and other things fitting for the galaxy far far away.
But if I play WoW, then I seemingly get whatever random kind of junk Blizzard came up with by asking a kid on the street to pick 10 random words in the dictionary.
