@xantufrog said:
Nothing. nothing at all. But some people complain more about SJWs than SJWs complain about social justice. I swear
After a quick google search, the closest thing I could find was a few people complaining about the game being too violent. But those weren't even reviewers, and people complaining about violence in video games (namely Doom games) is certainly nothing new and not something I'd say is a "SJW" thing.
Hell, parents were complaining about Doom back in the 90's, and before that it was violent music and before that it was violent comic books. But it's not like that was a "social justice" thing. A hell of a lot of parents complaining about violent games and music and comics had no issue being hostile towards other cultures, religions, sexual orientations, etc. They just thought that violent entertainment was vile trash. Are we now gonna categorize EVERY instance of BS moral outrage as an example of SJW's ruining everything? And more to the point, even if some SJW's complained about the game being too violent, I haven't seen ANY indication that such complaints factored into reviews. People have been complaining about violent games since violent games were a thing. And for the most part, reviewers would always disregard such a tiny vocal minority of whiners because it would be stupid to put off your entire customer base just because a few people who never would have bought the game anyway throw a fit. People have ALWAYS been complaining about Doom being too violent, and reviewers generally reviewed the games positively. Such a backlash seems even LESS likely to influence reviews now considering that gaming has expanded beyond being just "kid's stuff" (thereby lessening the need for a moral outrage) and that I've literally only seen two people complaining about the violence (Anita Sarkeesian and some other dude). If reviewers were unfairly panning New Doom because of some SJW outrage, then I'm gonna need to see some evidence that there actually WAS an SJW outrage and that such an outrage was extensive enough for reviewers to pan the game (which would have to be some BIG backlash, because Doom games have ALWAYS been getting targeted for their violent content).
Anyway, even back in the 90's I always thought that the Doom outrage was really weird. I mean, so what if it's violent? They're ****ing monsters. I don't recall anyone batting an eye when Gremlins was released, and depicted such gory scenes as a Gremlin getting exploded in a microwave oven or a Gremlin slowly being melted into a pile of goo while still alive. Hell, before that there was Raiders of the Lost Ark, in which we see HUMANS screaming in agony as their faces melt off of their skulls. Doom always had 2 things going for it: the monsters were demons from hell, and they always died fast rather than getting slowly tortured. So I never understood what pissed people off about Doom in the first place. Is there supposed to be something wrong with killing demons from hell?That's about the LEAST controversial enemy one could choose. Even choosing Nazis as the enemy, at least they're PEOPLE with feelings and stuff. And at least Doom guy never actually TORTURED anyone/anything, which is a lot more than I can say about a lot of other games that have gotten a pass. Wolfenstein: the New Order has the hero torturing a helpless man to death with a chainsaw. I recall seeing a God of War cutscene where the hero walks up to a helpless man who is begging for his life and then slowly pulls the guy's head off. That's FAR more sick than anything that ever happened in a Doom game, so I'm a bit confused as to exactly why Doom became such an easy target in the first place. Chainsawing a demon that's actively trying to kill you is actually quite tame compared to a lot of the shit I've seen in video games.
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