As always, there's so many interesting discussions to be had about why movies and games fail. The problem is the people who only want to discuss "wokeness" as the culprit and refuse to consider anything else. It's becoming completely reductive.
@VitoComedy "Wokeness" has ruined any nuanced discussions about art in general. Movies and TV shows being hit the hardest.
@VitoComedy It's not an interesting discussion. We know why they fail. Everyone really knows why they fail.
@VitoComedy Sounds like AAA needs to crumble to the ground. Sounds good to me.
The question being answered with "wokeness" isn't just "why did this movie/game fail?" But also "Why was this movie/game allowed to have things in it which caused it to fail?" I think there's value in that. You can analyze the writing itself and point out why it's bad in a vacuum. But why did the writer write it? Or why was such an obviously bad writer hired? Sometimes the answer is nepotism, connections, or maybe just that the person is very charismatic. But hiring because of racial/gender/sexual identity politics is also undeniably a thing too. Sometimes it's a decent writer that is writing "woke" stuff that people just don't want. Sometimes it's an overall bad project and the creators think it's going to be carried by its "wokeness".
@VitoComedy They haven't done a lot of interesting things in the last few decades. I pretty much picked up other hobbies because I feel like every new game is a reskin of the last game in that genre.
@VitoComedy I think one of the bigger problems is lack of creativity. Movie studios all seem to just be rehashing old shit instead of making something new. However If you rehash old shit with characters drastically different than the established canon, nerds are gonna be upset.