representation isn't the problem, awful character writting and design is,
and it has become the hallmark of the "woke" era of video games.
i'd be the first to say, beauty has many forms on top of being in the eyes of the beholder, but those characters aren't diversely cool/interesting looking, they're just plain ugly and always the same.
i'm a retro gamer, play games from the 8bits era all the way to today, and it can't even possibly be argued, this gen is the absolute worst there's ever been.
both in term of gameplay, game and character design, writting, and even basic coding, and the FAKE pandering only make it worst.
i've been friend online with a tgirl since the early world of war craft era, she mostly play RPG and was even a huge fan of Dragon Age Origin. so you'd think Dragon Age Veilguard was aimed square at her.
guess what ? she hated the game, for both the story and gameplay, the dialogs only made it worst.
i had the same experience with Cyberpunk 2077, made a big fuss about the fact you could play a trans character, was thrilled to roleplay as a bad ass trans hacker/ninja in a setting where it made perfect sense, would have made the relation with my girl Judy even more meaningfull and powerfull, ...
not a single line of dialog in the entire game was related to it ...
what i'm saying is, the same thing can both stick like a sore thumb or feel sorely lacking depending of the setting.
i assure you, make a great game, meaning great writting, gameplay, design, and not buggy, then add characters who are either cool, bad ass, relatable, cute, ... with relatable qualities and flaws, who just happen to be str8, or gay, or trans, acting in inspiring ways and i assure you nobody would care for one bit.
the issue with modern "diverse" characters, they are only defined by their sexuality and ALL have the same personality, awfully obnoxious ones at that :
they just can't possibly be more stereotypical, and have to obey to so many politicaly correct rules there's pretty much no stories to be told other than "white men bad".
Women aren't allowed to be feminine or have any type of character progression arc, POC are now weakling girl boss orbiters, LGBT characters have no flaws what so ever, ...
now as a (mostly) str8 white guy do i feel pissed to always be represented as the bad guy ? bet your a** i do, but tbh if i was anything else i would feel just as pissed by the current "representation" they're given.
where are the modern equivalent of Ripley ? Vasquez ? Sarah Connor ? you know, girls even the most chauvinistic guys wouldn't feel worthy of kissing the ground they walked on ?
Where are the new bad ass POC characters like Blade, Will Smith in Bad Boys 1/Men in Black, ... ?
when will we finaly be given is the LGBT equivalent of those characters BTW ?
and what make characters like Leonidas, Maximus, William Wallace and the like bad and evil again ?
all i'm saying is, everyone deserve to have inspiring characters, and more meaningfull ones than skin deep representation. hell, i don't even want to be represented, i want characters i can use as role models.
