What killed edgelord protagonists?
>>729513515Jews
numetal dying and stomp clap hey music taking over the radiowaves/internet
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>>729513515millennial writers
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>>729513515What was the last truly edgy protagonist? The guy from Hatred?
>>729513515Cringe culture and irony poisoning, people (especially creatives) are terrified of being sincere or earnest due to possibly being perceived as cringe so they cover everything in irony and insincerity.
>>729513515School shooters
>>729513960Nope. Columbine was the only shooting explicitly blamed on edgy media but that never stopped 90s/2000s culture from embracing edginess.
Still alive and wellSee: fig.1
>>729514219fig.2 (same game but still)
>>729513515the Internet age/social media era is all about irony. Sincerity is dead. If they made a character like him today there would be a million video essays and twitter posts about how he's cringe and an edgelord
>>729513515>imgRegardless both of those died due to their publishers not their edginess. Prototype never sold CoD numbers so Radical was sent to the CoD support mines while 2K is too busy making sportsball or whatever to care about The Darkness, if they even still have the license from Top Cow.
>>729514269fig.3all from Japan.Westerners lack sincerity
Rise of irony, death of sincerity.
>>729513663Randy is gen Y
>>729514219>>729514269>ninja gaydenyou can't be serious>>729514378>final faggotryoh nvm you are trolling
>>729514490that dog isn't edgekino
>>729513515Social Justice.The same thing that killed all other fun over the last decade and a half.
>>729513515Naturalism. Ah, no, that killed romanticism. Well, sooner or later the videogame equivalent to the decadent movement will save us all.
>>729513515Big edgy games were a casualty of everyone complaining about too many brown and bloody serious games for serious games through the entire 7th Gen. Indie edgy games don't really take off, as the people that care enough to think "I want to make an edgy game" are eitherA) just looking to run counter to the current norm, so they lack genuine interest behind itB) so focused on being edgy that their tastes aren't even palatable to people who enjoyed old edgy stuff
>>729513515They need to be genuine and to a western writer there is nothing more scary than that.
>>729513515Trannies
>>729515273Indeed. I mean, the fact that even your comment is dripping with irony poisoning just shows how pervasive the issue is.
>>729513515Players became edgier than the games
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I loved Ninja Gaiden 4.I hope we get another dmc soon.
>>729513515You mean like Final Fight Streetwise, DmC and other games that were completely unplayable because of it?
What happened to that Darkness remaster?
>>729515982it was never real
>>729513515Marvel slop. The edge era started with The Crow movie in the early 90's and ended around the time Ironman came out in 2008. Kinda funny that comic adoptions both started these era's
>>729515629Yes, yours even more so, further highlighting the issue.
