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danicoro · 6 years

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honestly the only reason i gave a second glance @ a$he is because of the fact that my MOM jen fucking hale is voicing her

but everything else about her existence from the “rich white girl who had literally everything but her parents’ love handed to her on a gilded platter” to the “crim*ng while white” subplot are just tired and fucking stale

and if All Of That Shit wasn’t bad enough, to the surprise of precisely no one, she’s slender and has dainty anglosaxon features. and ppl wanna argue that “she’s albino!” except she’s got black fuckin’ eyebrows?

i mean yeah, there’s makeup and brow tinting but lbr, she’s not significantly paler than most of the other “white folks” in the game anyway so like... try me. that, and her “backstory” is so absurdly piecemeal, it really just reeks of the fact that they (admittedly) shoehorned her into the game bc they just thought she was so cool

like, okay, i guess...

hennyway, it would have been NICE to finally see a black woman in the game, or like an Actual First Nations Person, etc. but given what a$he IS, i’m actually glad she IS white, bc if that isn’t the fucking whitest backstory they could have given her (rich white woman does whatever the fuck she wants and shoots anyone who gets in her way) then i really... don’t know what is...

and i’d really rather not have the very first black or Actual FN Person hero in the game be a fucking internationally wanted crime syndicate boss :/ a number of the heroes of colour in the game are already coded as villains, we don’t need more of that, thanks!!!!!

look, i get that bli/z/zard are trying to make a game that ppl maintain interest in and keep playing years and years after release, but it would be nice if they could actually give us lore on EXISTING characters instead of just pumping out new ones (esp ones like a$he who just utterly and completely fuck the entire timeline that existed prior to her release)

additionally, if they’re trying to maintain a strong player base, they would do well to focus on one aspect, or the other, instead of trying to serve lore hounds AND maintain an active player base, bc based on what i’ve seen in the fandom and in general, the Venn diagram of where these two groups intersect is rapidly shrinking, if i’m honest

like, yeah, i want more lore, but i think realistically @ this point, they should just focus on making the game fun and playable, bc it’s one of those things, or the other, but not both

also, after this shit w her emotes et al, it’s like, it really shouldn’t surprise us at this point that they can’t maintain a decent lore for shit. so i guess it’s like, we can appreciate it for what it is--a wacky pew pew shooty shoot game with (some) interesting character design, but the lore, fam... that backstory 💀

i still love the CONCEPT of this game, but the execution continues to disappoint, especially from a storytelling perspective. if all u care abt is the “pew pew shooty shoot” aspect of the game, that’s ur prerogative and i’m not saying u can’t like the game, or even that u have to care abt my opinion (or anyone else’s for that matter lmfao), but i also rly appreciate lore along with my games in general, not just the pew pew shooty shoots, so i’m just in a constant flux of “disappointed, but not surprised!” with the writing team :)

hennyway, that’s just my unsolicited 2c on this whole fiasco

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