The Starfield Controversy

For Bethesda Game Studios, 2023’s Starfield comes as no shock that people would be pissed about something or other. It’s easy to piss off so many people without having to try. Sometimes people get upset easily enough. Maybe they don’t have enough coffee to drink? Maybe they are bent by ideological stand points that can’t allow them to play, watch, or read something that can trigger their frail minds.

Starfield’s character creation class allows players to use pronouns in their bio’s. While many make complaints about Call of Duty Cold War doing the same thing, the story of a brain washed soldier following the lead of a CIA hitman, outweighed the controversy. A full fledged boycott of COD wasn’t the end result.

But it’s hard for me to pretend that Bethesda studios aren’t the only ones to blame for this trend. Using pronouns is what most people have to fill out on a medical document. The aspect of being angry over this is sociopathic. Online screamers think that this is helping their point achieve a greater power. Again, people have the right to complain about having to fill out a pronoun bio, especially if you bought the collector’s edition with the cool looking watch. But the question is, does Bethesda, the creators of Doom 2016 and the revamped Machinegames Wolfenstein saga, is always the worst offender. No one will ever talk about how expertly crafted a souls game is when 90 percent of the story is lore based. Platforming is also laughable, too. And by the way, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is the only game that manages to tell a cohesive story.