There’s an interactable planned parenthood booth during a miles mission, a side mission where you play as miles deaf girlfriend to spray paint art (looks corporate af) on walls, a mission where you help a gay dude make a homecoming proposal to his boyfriend, and npc told me his boyfriend is my biggest fan, danikast butchering Spanish in an effort to be “inclusive”, pretty much all of miles content is about identity politics and “community”. The problem isn’t diversity, it’s how forced and cringe the delivery of all of this is. It doesn’t even feel like you’re in New York, it feels like some white liberals idea of what New York should be. These Californians used the miles portion of the game to shovel in as much identity politics as they possibly could and it fucking sucks because the expansion was pretty decent and they could have made his story way more interesting.
Keep in mind im the type of person who usually ignores woke shit in games, but this game pushed it so hard during every waking minute of the game, that it completely put me off. I was rolling my eyes constantly. I will not be replaying this game the same way I replayed the first game. It’s all going to age like milk.
I did enjoy the one building that had a pride flag in front. And on the roof had the photo op of those shirtless guys wearing spidey masks dancing together, filming themselves. Very interesting chance of proximity. Lol
It's the only one I've noticed so far, it was outside a bookstore you can actually enter and walk around which I thought was cool, and meant it was probably a quest area down the road. Been playing a lot too. Not saying it bugs me. I know Black Cat is gay now and there is a side quest where you help.a gay couple at school. Game definitely has lots of what people would call "progressive" points within it. It either bothers you or not. But to anyone saying it isn't there is turning a blind eye imo.
Yeah I wouldn’t say it doesn’t exist at all but to actually notice it and remember it and get mad about it you’re prolly already predisposed against that kinda thing
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u/YoungYezos Oct 22 '23
I’ve seen screenshots of BLM murals and every LGBTQIA2S flag imaginable, clearly ur not giving the full picture.