Dogs have been companions in video games for decades, but a recent trend of turning into vicious in-game enemies is making players uncomfortable.
Video games are cyclical, and as time goes on, we see various trends. Metal Gear Solid blew up on the PS1, so we saw a lot of stealth games. Collectathon platformers blew up in the ’90s, so we saw the rise of Crash Bandicoot and Spyro.
Video games will go through trends in design as well, but a recent one is pretty upsetting. More and more developers are using dogs as enemy mobs in video…
