A lot of things that don't really respond to my specific question to
kzk0987
I meant mostly a response to these statements by kzk0987:
Why is it unfair to compare paths?
Why do they think the protagonist is sexual, despite him clearly rejecting it?
Why is diversity (and lack of sexual interest) in the protagonist important in this particular instance?
Those were the weird statements they were making and weren't really explaining. Though they've already expanded upon it in a later post, I see.
I'm aware that there's differences in personal tastes, I'm fine with people enjoying other things.
What IS weird is the complete change in direction in the game, whereas you're claiming something like "oh, this is primarily a story, not about sex and such" it WAS befor that. Most of the people I showed the game too when I was enthused described it as something akin to "delicious, gratuitous junk food" with no real story value aside from the sex and corruption. I disagreed with it, but it's not high art.
Bringing up another author that's like this also doesn't really change the fact that both ISIS and Valdana had a particular approach to things, whereas this is completely different. You always risk alienating the audience you've already built up if ou suddenly do the complete opposite. I'm happy you like this, but this isn't what the game was before and it's a shame because I liked it before.
Also I also thought Tabico stories were incredibly boring generally, from what I recall. i used to read Mcstories voraciously and not a single one of theirs stuck with me. I'm happy you like them though. I'm very aware that tastes differ.
You consistently repeating "some people like that" however, doesn't mean that other people also can't dislike that. Tjord can do what they want, but I'd argue that the new arc is so vastly different and focused on the opposite that it's fine if people don't like it either.
Same way you keep repeating 'yeah but I (let's be honest, you're saying some people but you mean 'I') like it' doesn't mean people can't say 'I don't like it for these and these reasons and I feel frustrated that a game I enjoyed added something completely opposite of what I enjoyed'.
EDT:
From what I'm reading here the proponents of the new path mostly:
- Do not like sex or erotica, or find things erotic that do not involve sexuality.
- Would generally prefer to read a sci-fi novel about space battles and statistics. (so why not do that? I doubt you've read all of Heinlein or Zelasny at this point)
- Do not really care about characterisation and have the characters be as flat as possible
- Really want the character to be evil and murder people instead of it being a backdrop used to make the corruption sweeter. (also frankly, murder isn't mature, I'll assume most of you are American where it's more likely to see somebody eviscerated on screen than to see actual mature content.)
I'm happy you're all happy but these opinions are so incredibly weird to me I'm just going to dip out.
Also
MakeMeTea, I'm also ESL (or third in my case) and the fact that you're aware of the term transhumanism and not what a drone is is a strange gap. (but that's ok! people don't know everything.)
Maybe it would be better framed as robotization, but that doesn't roll of the tongue as well. You've probably watched Star Trek, I assume? The Borg turn people into drones. Tech servitors from 40k are droneified. Ants are drones to their queen, for a more natural example.
It's mostly stripping away humanity from someone to make them behave in a drone or robot-like fashion and making the subservient to either a common cause or a specific leader by means of tech. It's characterized by a personality erasure, robotic movements, bodyparts replaced by machines, lack of will and autonomous functionality.
Does that help somewhat?