I desperately wanted to like it but I kept disliking it more and more as I thought about it. I was happy we got a sequel but what we got only muddled the story of the first game (which I now realize didn't need a sequel).
He sure proved he wasn’t as trans friendly as he liked to put across and berated Laura Kate on Twitter for “making him part of your agenda” for trying to get to the bottom of it so fuck him, fuck his trash ass games.
best advice.
No, it was addressed in a patch, as far as I recall. I don't recall any dead-naming or misgendering at least when I played it a few months ago.
Pretty sure he did fix it though.
Their was more to it than just that, and he refused to fix it to the point of attacking the community for asking for it to be fixed.
Can you clarify what was still in that he didn't address? I really don't remember noticing anything.
Given some translation/language issues, I wouldn't give too much weight to twitter arguments. I thought he did apologize later on.
I feel like there were times early on were I was riding really high on the game, but by the midway point I started to feel fairly let down.
i did like the game in the 2019 sections. the writing was good, aaliyah and simon were good characters i liked the narrative framing. then we get to 2005 and the drop in quality was just too much. the pacing was off, everything felt rushed, the sidequests were bad and unessential when they were such a huge part of why people love the original, and honestly the whole thing just felt unfinished.
I’m not sure the details, full disclosure I think his games are trash, not so bad it’s good trash, just trash trash so I didn’t really follow it too closely but I listen to Sterlings podcast and Laura Kate is on that and Swery attacked her publicly on Twitter over it and James Stephanie (who is a big reason the first game got the exposure it did) was really upset also and they have given up on him completely so my gut tells me it wasnt fixed. If I played it I could probably figure it out quick but you couldn’t pay me to play his games based on quality alone.
the transphobic content is not just the dead-naming (altho that was something that was just egregious and thankfully got fixed). the whole idea that swery's idea of trans representation was having an incestuous psychopath trans woman as the villain came off terribly, specially considering how the treatment of thomas was the low point of the original game's story (imo).
Right. I guess I saw that as a tragic character, manipulated and twisted by the 'real' villains, and not in any way some kind of indictment or nastiness towards trans people.
I think I'm in a similar boat that I'm not jumping on him as being aggressively transphobic, but he is careless. He should have consulted people when engaging with these topics, I'm almost certain he did when working on The Missing.
i don't necessarily think he's transphobic, but he really missed the mark and just fell into some dated and problematic tropes when writing a trans character in DP2.
yeah. i don't think he set out to write a transphobic character but he just came off as clueless (specially with how he reacted to the criticisms). should have consulted with people about the themes he was going for in the story.
Same here.
i agree that the sidequests really sucked and there were less interesting NPCs in general but the relationship and dynamic between Patty and York did so much for me that i could overlook some of those flaws.
I had heard how awful the port of DP1 was, then I played it with DPfix and finished it without any crashing or save corruption or basically any problems whatsoever. I guess that's PC gaming for you.
