DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
"it's just a pronoun" -->"it's a top scar option"-->"It's just offering a being trans option"-->"Just don't offend marginalized groups"-->"All fucking white males are evil"-->"come to fight me, physically"
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Avowed art director calls Elon Musk a "sad little shit" over Avowed gender pronoun complaints, indicates more of the same in final product
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MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Honestly if devs act like this and by extension big companies who operate on spend everything they earned to make it all back and then some by next year gamers can just refuse to buy their products and just watch them sink. I think it might be worth sacrificing a few IPs and companies to send a message about what kind of games(quality and artistic vision) gamers actually want instead of these companies making games for themselves which is what it ends up being.
The time of Indie devs is here and the time of Company brand loyalty is over.
It's going to be like movies where you don't go to see a movie because Pixar made it but because it starred Robin Williams as an example.
A gaming example of this would be you didn't buy Xenoblade because it was Xenoblade but because it's a Tetsuya Takahashi game.
The time of Indie devs is here and the time of Company brand loyalty is over.
It's going to be like movies where you don't go to see a movie because Pixar made it but because it starred Robin Williams as an example.
A gaming example of this would be you didn't buy Xenoblade because it was Xenoblade but because it's a Tetsuya Takahashi game.
GymWolf
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Revolutionary
Member
Don't be so sure. The last movie was already straddling that line, and MachineGames isn't exactly known for subtlety. There was a scene in Wolfenstein 2 where a pregnant topless girlboss gunned down Nazis in slow motion lol
near
Gold Member
Just had to search and find that clip of her. I can't stop laughing when she says "come fight me, physically, bitch.""it's just a pronoun" -->"it's a top scar option"-->"It's just offering a being trans option"-->"Just don't offend marginalized groups"-->"All fucking white males are evil"-->"come to fight me, physically"
LectureMaster
Gold Member
Yeah I was jaw dropping how much of the tone changed in The New Colossus compared to The New Order, it is almost farcical.
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
Are you sure about that?
Lmao, we had a thread about Avowed pronouns, a Grummz hate tweet and an Elon follow up over a single screenshot of a toggle taken from a preview video.
All that with zero ‘hyper focus’ from Obsidian.
Let’s keep these conversations honest
Salty Pickle
Member
That is different and we don’t know yet. Now we’re just talking about pronouns in a fantasy setting with other weird stuff.
You could play as a chick with a dick in Cyberpunk and that was perfectly fine, it is an RPG set in a dystopian future after all. I don’t remember people freaking out at the same level as today when people go ballistic because someone mention ”pronoun”.
Wow, maybe I missed playing this one, I seem to recall a couple of them but wooooooooow that scene is nuts!
NSFW!
That goofy ass scooby gang at the end, WTF?
WhamBamThankYouMaam
Member
Hey! Surely, Elon Musk has the thick skin of an elephant!Calling gamers 'sickos' while aiming to enrage the billionaire king of cringe?
FF:Enhanced_Reality
Member
Love Musk. The snowflakes don't like hearing this shit do they?
ChorizoPicozo
Member
Being associated with super hit Concord is sure a good place to be.
Jinxed
Member
Ah, the good old LGBTQ+ tag
Being associated with super hit Concord is sure a good place to be.
Topher
Identifies as young
You don't think the Obsidian art director's rage tweets on it gave this any "hyper focus"?
ChorizoPicozo
Member
game pass boy and xbox shill:
Xbox fam:
Xbox fam:
Dazraell
Member
Ogbert
Member
Thankfully, it looks like we’re getting towards a healthy place.
Toxic gender drivel is commercial suicide and any product associated with it will fail. Companies have deep pockets, but even they will tire of relentless failure.
These cunts will slowly get purged from developers and they can go back to being a tattoo artist, working at a microbrewery or committing self harm. Either way, no one has to know.
Toxic gender drivel is commercial suicide and any product associated with it will fail. Companies have deep pockets, but even they will tire of relentless failure.
These cunts will slowly get purged from developers and they can go back to being a tattoo artist, working at a microbrewery or committing self harm. Either way, no one has to know.
Hey now, these types are ruining microbrews with their quadruple IPAs, fruited sours, and hard seltzers.
I'd almost rather they stay in game design
Putonahappyface
Gold Member
Madflavor
Member
I am keeping it honest. It's been a day or so since Avowed's Art Director made those tweets. We'll see how long the drama continues or if it escalates. But in regards to why something like Baldur's Gate 3 wasn't surrounded by culture wars regarding it's progressive elements, it's because they didn't focus much on it during it's marketing and they weren't antagonistic and insulting to their fans on social media.
The Art Director with this game is very intentionally trying to stir shit up.
GHG
Member
game pass boy and xbox shill:
Xbox fam:
These guys are such obedient bumlickers that they aren't equipped to deal with this.
They have gladly lapped up any old shit Xbox have produced for well over a decade now. Rejecting a product coming out of Xbox isn't in their nature, they just don't know how to do it, no matter how shit or abhorrent it might be.
RetroGamingUK
Member
Lambogenie
Member
Even legends like Kamiya probably got some flack internally for being outspoken. But he's proved himself leading major titles. This nobody in comparison probably needs to know their place.
Of course the art director’s tweets gave this hyper focus. I’ve said as much multiple times in this thread. It was a needless response that has likely worsened the outcome for themselves. People need to choose their enemies wisely.
All I’ve said is that There was already active negative PR here and on social media before then, Even when Obsidian had done nothing at the time to draw attention to the toggle to choose pronouns. So clearly ‘publisher not drawing attention’ wasn’t the reason why BG3 got a pass.
Jack Videogames
Member
Anyone remembers the age where inputing a cheat code in a Naughty Dog game showed you tits in the title screen
Good times
Good times
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
Yeah, sure. lol. All of this is happening due to the Art Director of Avowed, the person you chose to ignore completely in your comment.
If you want to blame anyone, blame him and the Avowed dev team for going down this woke route.
Codeblew
Member
It's where the pronoun loving people, pedophiles, ultraleft and other trash hang out.
TerribleAtThisGame
Member
Topher
Identifies as young
That's fair. I didn't see your other posts.
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GHG
Member
BG3 was in early access for years before the final release. The nature of the content was public knowledge for a very long time.
We've already been through it in this thread but it wasn't that the game got "a pass", it's more that the quality of the writing shone through (so none of the inclusion and representation felt forced) and the fact that neither the game or the developers came across a preachy agenda driven cunts.
elbourreau
Member
ZoukGalaxy
Member
You are both little shit actually.
Unknown Soldier
Member
It's literally making a generation of humans mentally ill and destabilizing societies so um yes lol
Zuck should be imprisoned or better yet exiled to China
xenosys
Member
The entire saga is hilarious.
The right-wing grifters online like Miles Cheong and Grummz have got one of the most powerful men on the planet signal boosting them to all 200m of his followers, whilst he's calling out the CEO of Xbox and tagging them into a post which includes an Art Director for one of their biggest games proudly admitting to discrimination in the workplace. What a world we're living in.
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
elon has become a conservative cheerleader in the past 3 years so... if he ever goes back to supporting dems expect people here to shit on him because politics now are like supporting sports team sigh
Pop
Member
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Good lordLet's have a look!
About as stupid as what I saw from Rumble yesterday. I’m surprised both sites stayed unknown to me for so long. Probably because I think both sides are stupid.
Kacho
Gold Member
Sweet, sweet justice for Chris after all these years. You love to see it.
elbourreau
Member
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Shit keeps getting more real.
What is this guy even up to these days? Some Chinese studio should give him 200m bucks to make them a proper WRPG, it's clear there's a lot of unfulfilled demand for that
Jack Videogames
Member
Rings of Power
Know your history kid
Thanks for being as old as me
He was spotted over at Raphael Colantonio's studio in one of their public group photos iirc, so I think he's back in action.