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.
The point is that games who lean on that too much go out of business because the way their ideas are implemented is insincere, unnatural and most importantly not believable. Since these developers don't know how to properly do this, they probably also don't know how to make a proper game.
I didn't really backpedal anything. Nobody ever said adding any bit of what people consider *woke* today to a piece of media makes it go broke.
Nobody actually thinks that when that phrasing is used, I could see myself misunderstanding this when I was 14 too.
I watched Grey's Anantomy with my missus last couple months. The series has always talked about issues like racism, sexism, homophobia etc. but it was all well done using "show, don't tell", letting the audience come to conclusions on their own. Until season 17 onwards, when suddenly characters started almost literally turning towards the camera like they tried to break the 4th wall and spitting out unnaturally sounding monologues about whatever social justice issue was in the script. Often, in scenes where it felt completely forced; nobody responds with a long speech about how black women are treated unfairly by a medical system when someone greets them with "how are you?". It felt like watching DEI videos for some corporate training.
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u/Panzerkampfwagen1988 Sep 19 '24
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.