Not really. I played some, it was the first game in the series to de-emphasize stealth, and it had some bad retcons. It's decent though. I'd rank the series 2 > 1 > 3 > 4 > 5.
I don't see where people are seeing woke games die out, and certainly not puritanism replacing it.
Yeah, all the trannies and nigger worship is better than covering up a bit of skin or bumping up some T rated games to M.
You're acting as if the puritans wouldn't behave in the exact same manner as nogs and troons just a different flavour of content
I'm not going to pretend there's an equivalence there. Puritanism (which hasn't ever truly been a thing since the Hayes code) wouldn't even go very far, it socially can't anymore even if it wanted to, it didn't even really effect much in the 90's aside from some Nintendo stuff. All it can do now is maybe show 12 year olds trannies and faggots instead of 5 year olds, the Overton window has shifted too far.
Cause you know I'm right. They would exert the same control over what makes it into production. If they don't kiss the ring they don't get to exist in their eco system. Showing a little too much ankle, saying that men and women are two distinct sexes that aren't interchangeable, jiggle physics for an exaggerated chest size? BANNED. It'd be the same thing. Both sides just want to groom kids into acting and behaving in a certain way.
Maybe if they could, but they can't and haven't at any point in my existence, and never will, so you're talking about a distant past or impossible alternative future. But to entertain the notion for the sake of argument, they should do that. This shouldn't be a thing:
I didn't know Nintendo of Afghanistan was a thing.
Yeah, one wants them to be normal, the other doesn't.
Right now it's mostly pundits like Matt Walsh and Gavin McInnes complaining. But so was Anita Sarkeesian in 2012, and now look where we are.
Walsh barely even talks about video games, when he does it's mostly relegated to his opinion that they're childish or whatever. So what? I disagree but it isn't like he is constantly railing against skimpy outfits in M rated games or something. He's anti-porn which would indirectly mean he's against porn games, if we want to stretch things.
Founder of the Proud Boys, co-founder of Vice Magazine, shoves things up his butt on camera as a way to show how he's still punk rock and not afraid of doing gay shit. One of the most notable lolcows that still somehow does not have a thread here.
I absolutely HATED the most recent Call of Cthulhu video game for this very reason. It was as boring as watching paint dry.
My general attitude towards the revival of dead/dormant series I've loved has been more in line with watching some bankers exhume your kid's grave just so they can collect their gold filings for money. I don't trust modern devs with jack shit.
In almost all cases, if a series hasn't seen a release in 10 years, any revival will suck on the principal that too many people who worked on the game/series to make it "great" will have moved on.
This is pretty much the only reason why I approve of remasters of old games. Remasters should serve as a way to train a dev team on how a series functions and how its built. The new dev team gets training for the series while they get to develop ideas as they plan for the new entry in the series. Of course this can backfire and you could get retarded devs that hate the old game. If Nintendo just came out and said they're dropping Metroid Prime 4, I'd be worried because it's been too long. Now that they dropped the Metroid Prime: Remaster, I have some meager hope that their dev team saw the glaring issues of Metroid Prime and saw what worked and what didn't work, so they can carry over that dev knowledge to Metroid Prime 4.
Sex appeal in a video game, especially if it's rated accordingly, is not grounds to groom kids. Your argument falls flat because you're failing to understand that progressive mandates in video games stifles creativity in favor of pushing an agenda.
I actually really disagree. I think low-level D&D games are better than higher level ones pretty much without exception. Teams of plucky adventurers fighting goblins in idyllic settings are just more fun than a party gradually becoming unstoppable demigods.
