I haven't bought an full price game with micro-transactions or loot boxes since Overwatch, I am done with this whole thing, unless it's F2P or at a budget price I really can't be bothered with it otherwise.
@nativepixel: All of the people you mentioned wanted their people to be treated based on character not on skin color, race or creed, which is exactly the opposite of what identity politics is
micro-transactions is slightly more acceptable here since it is retailing at 30$, but that along side always online for the SP mode is a really hard buy for me
@forester057: They weren't linear, they had open worlds but most of it was empty, with towns being the dense areas where you can do things and interact with people (generalizing a bit here).
FF XIII was the exception, it was linear, and was pretty much universally hated for it. Linear just didn't work for FF.
The problem is that most gamers refuse to buy anything short of perfect when it comes to SP games, at full price at least, publishers should budget interesting experimental SP titles to sell at a budget price ($30-$50), lots of games would have benefited from that.
The rightists feel vilified and the leftists feel vindicated, Bethesda wanted this by using slogans that relate to recent politically charged events, therefore making the tired old gimmick of killing nazi feel somehow fresh again. Personally, it still feels tired and old to me, and all this childish bickering it sparks doesn't make the game any more approachable to me.
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