Sorry, I know, I got carried away. It was my birthday yesterday, and I've been feeling feisty....

I still feel I've been entirely reasonable and accurate in my reasoning. There's a possibility I may have misspoken at one point regarding story/product/presentation - if so that's on me and my apologises, but I'll affirm that the more recent statement of it - that it is the product that is aimed at being broadly appealing, but not that individual iterations of the story necessarily should be, that was my intention to convey. I stand by the rest, though.

I'll attempt to cut it back down a bit by saying that, certainly, the way that would be an acceptable presentation of well-crafted player-sexual characters is a lofty ideal, and that few games have ever done it as well as they need to for it to come across really well... and when the alternative is characters that blandly act the exact same way to everything, no matter who or what you are, without even making any kind of comment about how it relates to them personally and their usual tastes, etc., then it comes across *badly* and it's understandable why many folks don't want to see *that* - I don't either.

Last edited by Niara; 24/08/21 10:55 AM.