Current Events > C/D: Before Gamergate, Navi was the most hated thing in video games

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Pre-gamergate, Navi was the most hated being in video games. You couldn't find an online video game site without some tryhard fuckfaces making Navi out as the worst thing that ever happened to them. You mention Navi once, and you have like 20 neckbeards tripping over each other to say "oh man, that fucking annoying bitch, can you fucking believe how much she ruins our perfect game"

Post-gamergate, "SJWs" and leftists became the biggest object of gamer ire, and the adoption of far-right vitriol has pretty much poisoned games as a hobby to pursue political ends. Granted, far-right sentiment was growing in the hobby on places like 4chan, but Gamergate is when it went mainstream and gaming really hasn't been the same since. Artsy indie experiences that touch on heavy themes have been able to flourish despite the heavy backlash to them during Gamergate, but there's still a political divide present here that's flared up as recently as 2020 with The Last of Us 2.

When was the last time you saw a gamer genuinely, earnestly bash Navi as a failure of game design or as the worst character ever in the best game ever? When was the last time you saw a Top 10 listicle maintaining that Navi is the worst video game helper character ever, and milking Navi hate to appease humorless gamer chuds whose childhood nostalgia trumps all gaming experience after their adolescence?

I used to hate how engrained it was to bash a stupid helper character from a game that everyone unanimously agreed was the best video game of all time up to that point. But I miss that innocence now with how divided the gaming space has become in the past decade.

I feel the need to say that this topic is slightly tongue in cheek, the loss of innocence angle is genuine but the topic I've presented is inherently kind of ridiculous and I want to maintain that I'm aware of that. I hope you can see the humor in this topic as well, as well as a little bit of resonance - but not enough to turn this into A Big Deal, y'know.

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Is Navi the blue chick from Avatar?

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No, duck hunt dog

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Post GG it's women.

Then again, Navi is a female of her species.

Hmmm. *thinkyemoji*

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Navi has nothing on Fi.

Jack Thompson?

ButteryMales posted...

Navi has nothing on Fi.

ALSO presents as female hmm thinkyemoji

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Tingle?

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CyricZ posted...

ALSO presents as female hmm thinkyemoji

Yeah sure, but everyone loves Midna the most out of all of the companions.

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The most hated thing in video games is video games

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Navi is better than GamerGate.

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Turbam posted...

Yeah sure, but everyone loves Midna the most out of all of the companions.

Hey now I SAID THINKYEMOJI.

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This topic took a pleasant turn. Navi is great and it's easy to exaggerate some common complaints to have something to talk about.

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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Tingle?

In Majora's Mask, maybe. I think Tingle's vindication came with Wind Walker's vindication - as beloved as it is, it did live in the shadow of edgelords who were buttmad it wasn't an even more mature OoT follow-up. So when the popular opinion became "Wind Waker is one of the best 3D Zelda games", I think the whole thing about Tingle's brothers and his own island came to light, and the fanbase began to take more of a shine to him - even if it was an appreciation steeped in irony.

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Look! Listen!

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Tyranthraxus posted...

The most hated thing in video games is video games

The most hated thing in video games are western video games

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D.

Regardless of what was posted in that wall of text I didn't read, the answer is microtransactions

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