The whole point of a video game is to step away from the bs of reality and actually enjoy something for a change. Different strokes for different folks I guess. I can go on and on about all the horrors I've faced in my life (but that would take forever and I'd end up writing a novel), so when I hop on to continue my adventure I like to forget about how much life sucks for a little while. The point of a game is to get away from reality for a while and have fun. You are absolutely right that Christmas is full of superficial BS, but The Dawning is nowhere related to Christmas. The Dawning is related to Yuletide and the Winter Solstice. They made it more of an Earth holiday so to speak, celebrating the return of the Sun after the longest night of the year. Bungie went back to the origins of human celebration, back to the Pagan farmers that celebrated the Sun coming back. (Another topic I could write a book about, but you can research it if you're interested). Christmas is just a bastardization of an original celestial Earth holiday. Not only that, but whos to say that chicks don't dig gory, gritty, and dark stuff? I know I do. I'm almost through with reading the Grimnoir Vol.1 book Destiny just released and there is NOTHING I'd consider pretty in that book. I'm a huge Resident Evil, Diablo, Silent Hill (and etc etc) fan and other games alike. And who's to say that men don't enjoy beautiful things? I know plenty of men that do. My husdand has been a horror/gore movie buff his whole life and can also appreciate the beauty of a sunset or landscape or crystals and etc. The point is to appeal to all crowds and all tastes. I dont consider them masculine or feminine tastes, I consider them "horror tastes" or "beautiful tastes" and etc. Bungie can't please everybody and there will always be complaints no matter what, but for a sci-fi fantasy I think Bungie has done a good job appealing to both tastes. I saw in your original post that you'd love to have gory emotes and things like that. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the rating on Destiny's franchise is suitable for that. Thats why even cursing is sensored in clever ways. I don't think that Destiny has an M for mature rating like Doom and other games like that. Doom Eternal is on its way to being released, maybe you'd enjoy something like that better. Or games like Quake or Unreal Tornament or Diablo. (I know, some of those are throwbacks lol).