@jenovaschilld: Haha, love the sally against "cringe" word usage

@treechopper88: Nope.

@mattwoahyeah: Pls don't conflate culture, nationality & ethnicity together, though there is strong overlap.

("Race" is a demeaning concept invented by xenophobes of bygone era in an attempt to lump "similar ethnicities" together, for the record).

@Thaliard: Forgive me, but shouldn't it be "...imaginary convos with themselves" ?

@HAWK9600: and as a result people will clamour for more "evolved content" and "story" ten years down the line, citing both a potentially "poorly written" game like this game or an actual masterpiece as good examples of what the medium should reach.

@chriss_m: So your sarcastic assertion is that a sordid place like nichegamer or whatever doesn't do that? Okay.

@alex33x: Relax with the political injection stuff. It's not a safe and fallacious-free assertion to make, since everything is politics (particularly surrounding power and sex) and that you yourself just injected your own political viewpoint(s) just by saying that and pointing the finger.

Not only is it not that bad, but all of us - yes, readers, Gamespot included - have been unintentionally and subconsciously aping each other in everything for years. Even our contextual vocabulary is unintentionally (or perhaps purposefully, tbf) mimicked way too much on the Internet -- see: overuse of "seemingly," "iconic," etc., poor use of the word "literally," lack of a sophisticated/encapsulated term for "content creation," a stretched "misuse" of the word "content," etc.

Notice how I didn't refer to a collective of people as the "Internet?" Oh yeah, people do metonymy-like stuff like that too; Gamespot did it right in the subtitle of this article. Some of this stuff becomes industrialized: standard practice.

I want to be fair and assume that we haven't forgotten the Cyberpunk 2077 fiascos, and that we all informally acknowledge that there's multiple problems with the communication and tacit perceptions within our industry/"community." Not just release date delay woes and over-promised / under-delivered advertised content, either.

The poorly-cut, muddled context "story" trailers for so many games, particularly "RPGs," are another example of worrying trends. Generic action trailers in other genres; buzzwords slapped all over advertising posts; even the genre labels being liberally bandied about as if they're supposed to actually mean something precise.

Let's also consider the increasing possibilities of certain character archetypes and world settings as the only ones poised for success... let's put it this way, when's the last time the grim silent type made for an appropriate marquee/lead character, or the grumpy finger-wagging older personality made the "posters" or trailers for an ad? Outside of Squenix taking risks like with Forspoken, when's the last time you saw an RPG or "RPG" ad tout a world that wasn't a medieval fantasy one or Asian-inspired?

So it's not just "Joss Whedon's style" of trailers and other marketed ads and what have you (btw I don't think we could truly and wholly attribute the trend to him). It's not just memetic behaviour regarding entertainment promos in general. If you're gonna complain, then, please see the bigger trends. Forest for the trees.

@jinzo9988: Eck, really hate that "creating content" description, but yes, I agree with your point all around.

@s1taz4a3l: Disagree, she also means Shuri. I mean, what's the point of a movie plot if the protagonist - and Shuri is undoubtedly at least a protagonist if not the protagonist - isn't going through something bad?

(Shuri is also a Black Panther title holder, in case anyone doesn't know).