Yeah, choosing to have Chloe die instead of the whole town was a no-brainer.
"Wheehh my dad died! Hey Max, help me do this thing that will risk you getting expelled from school and ruin your photography career. What's that, you don't want to? Well fuck you then!"
Life is Strange's choice is fucking HILARIOUS in that its basically 'one really terrible person dies' or 'an entire town of innocent people die'. Like, this terrible person you've tried to save from being terrible with your powers is completely and utterly responsible for the time travel fucking disaster it causes and she's still a selfish cunt. There's no choice in that, let that bitch die. She shot an innocent dog and murders people she owes money to Chloe is a TERRIBLE TERRIBLE person. It isn't even a choice. The game presents it as 'sad' but if it were me, I'd be like, "Bitch, you ruined my life by forcing your way into it and abusing my abilities. Enjoy hell, cunt. Thank God you die before I even know who you are."
Oh guys,
guys...
...Don't you know
saving Chloe is the only logical choice?
(That thread is a wild fucking ride. Chloe-stans are fucking wild. She wanted to steal money from a handicap fund (for a wheelchair ramp iirc) for the school to pay off her fucking drug dealer, but apparently
Warren is the "toxic" romantic option for Max.)
Dude, in Far Cry 4 I wanted to fucking rock and roll with Pagan Min. I HATED both drug pusher and commie factions and would loved to have just rolled them the fuck over with Pagan. That clearly should have been an option. He was more interesting than either of the factions. If you view the secret ending you actually see his motivations and you just want to hop in his chopper and just fuck up the rebels. It should have been there. Ubi shouldn't have even bothered with three factions, just Min and the others. I wanted to hop in his chopper with a SAW and just gun down rebels to rock and roll music with my step dad. Oh and that faggot Mohan deserved to die. Fuck the Golden Path. I honestly could not play Far Cry 4 that much because of how much more I liked Min than all the other options.
The thing is there's nothing they can make him now. The problem is they're re-writing him for use in this plot because its the only way to make this plot work. There is no scenario where this is acceptable, or will be accepted by the player base. It will be seen as a revision to justify his death, which it is. Its the only reason you'd make that choice. Which demonstrates that you have no justification for the story itself existing. Re-writing a character's backstory without any prior foreshadowing has always been demonstrated in really terrible stories, especially in sequel works or been done by other writers other than the character's creator.
How does Joel not have sympathy for women or treat them poorly, after losing a daughter, a wife and nearly losing an adopted daughter? It makes absolutely no sense.
Also, allowing the 'all men are rapists' basically joke hypothesis and pretty much a living straw-man into your story is probably the stupidest fucking idea you can ever do. For one, no one but a VERY VERY small minority even take that shit seriously. The only people I have ever seen take it seriously are so mentally broken that they don't have normal human relationships. If they're in your writing room, your story is dead. Sorry, there's no saving it. Your story is fucked.
If this is true, then there's no fucking way Cuckman works at any AAA studio ever again and Sony is even more of an embarrassment to not even break through the walls of Naughty Dog like the fucking Kool-Aid Man and strangle Druckman to death on the writer's room table for even having the idea pop into his soy-filled brain. Its the antithesis of securing a wide audience. Its like pouring poison into your product. Even the most progtarded corporations have avoided this because even THEY know this is a very fringe idea that shouldn't ever be put into anything where you're putting a even a dollar into. I have RARELY ever seen a progtard advocate this. At best, they laugh nervously and avoid it altogether when one of their 'allies' goes off on it because they know its psychotic but that group-think be strong. At worst, its mocked in those circles. Those who actually think like this are few and far between, genuinely joyless, unpleasant and loathsome individuals.
'All men are rapists' is a fucking joke. Everyone treats it like one. The people who take it seriously are locked away in some Gender Studies department, being paid nothing and generating revenue for a university or are mentally ill, broken people who can barely relate to humanity as a whole and will probably end up killing themselves at some point. No fucking joke, I do not believe you can hold this ideology and live a normal life. I believe it is fundamentally impossible as it contradicts reality on every level. That Druckman even considered doing this means he is so painfully fucking stupid, it hurts.
Pagan Min was glorious, best part of the game easily. He's just
fun.
re: Joel, that's exactly the problem: If they had set him up as being a more controversial character, the kind of person I could
believe would attack a woman unprovoked or commit a rape, this would be less surprising to me. But the whole
thing about Joel is that he's portrayed as that sort of "gruff, cynical dude with a heart of gold" character. I can believe he's done some dark shit, but I don't believe he's done it unprovoked to innocent people. That's not how they wrote him: Joel does not revel in the shit he does. He does not kill because he enjoys it; he kills to survive. If they go this route, it's not going to be believable and it
will alienate people who enjoyed his character arc in the first game.
The kind of people who buy into the "all men are rapists" theory are
A) little feminist zealots who are new to the ideology and suddenly have an outlet for all their unresolved daddy issues,
B) intellectually dishonest feminists who
claim to believe it and preach accordingly, but don't
really believe that all men are rapists deep down, or
C) paranoid feminist shut-ins of the Valerie Solanas type that genuinely, whole-heartedly believe all men are
actual rapists and are total fucking nutcases as a result.
