That said, this was probably necessary.
Have you played a game from 2002 lately?
Not too sure what you are getting at by this?
I did fire up Doom 64 the other day. But... I don't know how diversity or inclusion would have improved, or lack of it detracts from it. There's stuff, you shoot it. Even from my previous picture - Everquest had scantily clad goddess elfs. You still have that today, just probably not quite as sexualized -- unless it's an Asian-developed game, in which case, the elfs are probably pre-teen with even less clothing. And by my Steam posting - yeah, just because today is "woke" doesn't mean there still isn't stuff out there and readily available -- in fact, I'd go so far in to say if you called it "wrong" to certain crowds, they would clap back at you about kink shaming.
There are some obvious examples of things where you see it today and go -- ok, that wouldn't fly today. Old looney Toons cartoons come instantly to mind. I don't know that I would necessarily call it wrong though - we are looking back at things with a modern perspective, things have changed. Yeah, we wouldn't do things the same way today, but things were different then - I don't necessarily judge the past using the standards of today.
Kinda like if they passed a law which criminalizes smoking - then tried to go and arrest anyone who's ever smoked a cigarette outdoors from before the law passed.
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I'm all for them remaking the game if they want to. Updating old games to new graphics engines is awesome, for the most part, in my view. But I don't like it when we go back and try to pretend our past doesn't exist by overwriting it - that doesn't make the past go away, and it doesn't change anything that happened. In fact, I would contend it makes it worse because you aren't acknowledging it in the first place and just seemingly trying to bury it.
I guess the original game isn't going away, so maybe my rant is totally misguided here. But my oiriginal comment stands - rewriting it for a "modern day audience" - well, that's what I see from a modern day audience, and I don't understand how that would make it any different or better of a game -- nothing against diversity or inclusion, but I get leery when companies use it as a marketing point, not just a fact of life.
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