Games

It’s four main things:

The gameplay being simplistic and repetitive, and forcing you onto live service.

The “unhotted” the characters. Harley is no longer a sex object in spandex and Poison Ivy has been reincarnated a little kid because she died in one of the Arkham games.

There’s an LGBTQ sign that you have to run by every time you return to base.

They killed Kevin Conroy’s Batman who you played as through the Arkham Series. So they’re using his GOAT status to say the series did Batman dirty.

One of those is a legit critique, but many games are unoptimized and shitty cash grabs but don’t inspire 7,000 haters to review bomb something, so….

To my understanding it's that the game looks like complete ass (even compared to other DC games released a decade or more ago) and is probably a prime example of everything wrong with AAA games these days. Hell if I know if there's any "culture war" shenanigans over this (probably? I haven't watched any videos about it or read anything, though I've seen it mildly mentioned) but from an outsider's view about it... it just doesn't look appealing, at all.

Personally I can't really bring myself to care, because I don't play such games (most western AAAs) anymore, nowadays. Without outrage, who would even be talking about a game like this anyways? To me it's like people fighting over their opinions of a turd on the sidewalk at this point. I get why- these people still care about the franchises, they still have hopium for all these studios and whatnot going strong for... some reason? And they probably spent 90$ for the turd on the sidewalk and now feel like dupes.

I was raised considerably into a lot of the hallmarks of nerd culture myself, but I've long let go of these franchises. If a good game or show comes out I'll try it eventually, maybe (or have it on the backlog anyways). I get the frustration (if it happened to Monster Hunter or something I'd be pretty upset) but I suppose luckily for me, these games and western franchises in particular were never "it" for me.

I don't have the game (not really into superhero stuff) but from what I understand it's a combination of being repetitive/having barely any content and being a really shameless live service game (battle pass, microtransactions, etc.)

For once I think gamers are (mostly) justified in being mad because this $70 game just isn't very good and pretty openly wants to extract as much money as possible from them

There’s a banner in a random hallway that says “everyone belongs here” or something similar with the pride flag. They’re mad because of LGBTQ+ people being mentioned.

Yes.

Where is that from? I am sure I heard it before but can't put my finger on where.