That is true, but TLOU 2 is a one huge SJW agenda to me - women are always brave and in the vanguard, fighting the villains (even the pregnant ones, lol) and hunting animals for food, while male characters are always somewhere on the backside.
If this is the one thing about that game that strikes you as wildly unrealistic and forced then you have a problem. Incidentally, have you played the game which your avatar comes from?
You mean that there is no "forcing diversity" agenda in corporate media (and I mean all media including games)?
No I did not. When there is consistent increase of something over considerable time then it's not a random event. When temperature in your house starts falling and you go from +20 degrees to -10 in 24 hours then you go check your heating system and not sit down waiting for a change.
There has been an increase in non white, non male, non straight characters in video games recently, but that's because marketers have finally got into their heads that their playerbase isn't just white american teenage boys. Most mainstream games from the mid to late 2000s are frankly embarrassing, as if they were written by 35 year old rapey manchildren (spoiler alert: they were, and many still are, although a lot of them have been fired recently because they're rapey manchildren).
What's happening now is similar (although a lot less insane) to the child abuse hysteria of the 1980s and 90s. Old institutions which were hotbeds of abuse were suddenly uncovered, and all the other institutions rushed to uncover abuse on their own before the government or angry mobs tore them to shreds. Some people complained at the time that it went to far (spoiler: it kind of did), but that didn't mean that the hysteria was wrong, or that the attitudes it held were invalid.
Video games between around 2000-2010 or so were seen by the general public as something only perverted, misogynistic white boys indulged in, because to some extent it was kind of true, they generally marketed themselves aggressively as "boys toys". You didn't go around telling people that you played video games as a 40 year old, or a woman, especially on the internet where people would unironically tell you to get back in the kitchen.
Now that video games are overtaking film and TV, there is a mad rush by publishers and developers to distance themselves from that image. Making a game which is just a regurgitation of the worst of 1980s hollywood is no longer acceptable.
If anything is forced, it was the excessively uninclusive landscape that was mainstream video games in the 2000s. If you saw
that as the norm, I can understand why you think games are all SJW propaganda now, but it's still a petty boomer mindset that isn't going to last.
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