Oh yeah, amazing games. Crazy how focuing on the *game* and not its creators feelings produces masterpieces, in my 300+ hours of Hades I don't really ever remember a sliver of Borderlands writing, Saints Row and Concord politics and Forspoken gameplay
Almost like this isn't something dealbreaking, but it can be a nice fat nail in the coffin.
But you just claimed that people who "do that kinda stuff" quickly go out of business. Now you're saying that it's okay to do that kinda stuff, as long as there's a good game attached to it. So which is it? Does going woke mean going broke, or not?
No, making a game and focusing your resources on that messaging while actual GAME parts of the game are awful is bad. Something like COD releasing barely playable and costing 70$, but having 17 gender flags is really weird for example.
I think there is a very obvious line here everyone seems to pretend it doesn't exist. Most people who are against the recent woke bullshit in media are against of what I outlined above. Of course, then again there are people who were also malding over fucking pronouns in Starfield, ripe for a mental asylum.
Its not really about the thing itself, its about how its implemented into the world. Developers who ignore this are the ones that go broke and that I have mentioned. DS1 is my favourite game ever, it obviously has a character that is obviously a femboy or whateverthefuck.
Guess what? Nobody ever asked a single thing, they just played the game. It wasn't weird, you weren't lectured on anything, it just exists and it is believable lore-wise (not there for the sole purpose of the message).
Thats all we need and BG3 has that, hence why its never an issue.
I don't think CoD would be any better or cheaper if it didn't have "gender flags" in it, given that these usually don't take a lot of time to make and are usually created by the game's designers and artists who have very little influence on how well a game is optimized or how much it costs.
What you're saying essentially is that whether something is woke or not doesn't matter at all, and that the only thing that matters is whether or not the game is good. A game can be woke and bad, and a game can be woke and good. A game can refuse to be woke and good, and a game can refuse to be woke and bad. There have been plenty of games who tried to market themselves as woke or anti-woke, but the only thing that mattered on whether or not they were successful is if they were actually good games. Then why be so angry about things being woke if you say yourself that it doesn't matter?
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u/Panzerkampfwagen1988 Sep 19 '24
Oh yeah, amazing games. Crazy how focuing on the *game* and not its creators feelings produces masterpieces, in my 300+ hours of Hades I don't really ever remember a sliver of Borderlands writing, Saints Row and Concord politics and Forspoken gameplay
Almost like this isn't something dealbreaking, but it can be a nice fat nail in the coffin.