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[Griffon]

You reap what you sow.

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

smh, I'm not going to lie, that shit sounds depressing lol

Thank god I just play games for fun lol

So many complexes exist beyond this its not even funny, from musical artist on games, to clothing brands, to car companies etc If the idea of anything involved with the game is "propaganda" and is stopping you from enjoying the game, you might as well play nothing or something.

I'm not avoiding a game based on anyone's opinion in the work, people are allowed to have opinions and I don't even think I'd be able to game myself if I only played games based on if some developer agreed with all of my views or something lol

Thats just too much Theads. I just want to play games for fun, regardless of the developer's beliefs.

You're indirectly strawmanning my argument.

I enjoy many games. In fact, there are a crap tonne of games I have had so much fun with even this year alone. I don't consider any game including minority representation or any of the politically charged subjects that woke activists value as propaganda.

When I talk about propaganda, I'm talking about literal political propaganda. It's not just about "what the developer believes", it's the intentional warping of the media and structuring it entirely around conveying some political messaging.

Spider-Man 2 is a fantastic example; versus Miles Morales which was far far less propagandistic. In Miles Morales, MM was the lead and the game followed his story as a Spiderverse character and companion to Peter Parker. The writing had a clear goal which was to tell a solid MM story and it delivered whole sale. Whereas with SM2, something awry clearly happened at Insomniac, because the entire game felt like a vehicle for pushing far left values and destroying everything else that went before it. From the absurd side quests, to the complete deconstruction of Peter Parker as a character, to the devs going all in on Mary Jane BS when the audience feedback was clear about them fucking hating those sections in SM1. It was a game clearly made to push what the devs wanted to say to the audience over anything the audience themselves value or care about. And so the game's quality took a massive nose dive because of it.

There are few games like SM2 that release and on review are clear they exist solely as vehicles to push the developer's political agenda. But thankfully there are still massively more games which don't do this. And so as long as we gamers continue to vote with our wallet, we will eventually see the end or at least minimization of woke BS propaganda in the franchises we know and love. We didn't ask for it and we don't fucking want it.

 

[TheKratos]

They nailed mirage and then completely u-turn with Shadows. How a company goes from a homerun to dogshit the very next game baffles me.

 

[TGO]

When we self-censor in the face of threats, we hand over our power, piece by piece, until freedom and creativity both wither away. We cannot let that happen.

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

The levels of freedom fighter jargon that person conjured to counter people saying "I'm not buying this game" is truly impressive.

Out of context, this shit sounds like half his village was just shipped off somewhere.

 

[Venom Snake]

Sometimes it's better to stay silent and look like an incompetent buffoon than to speak up and dispel any remaining doubts about it.

 

[DeepEnigma]

The levels of freedom fighter jargon that person conjured to counter people saying "I'm not buying this game" is truly impressive.

Out of context, this shit sounds like half his village was just shipped off somewhere.

Sounds like he needs to blink twice if he's held hostage to cultural investors.

 

[NickFire]

More heroic than a soy latte.

 

[Plague Doctor]

I'd like to point out he invokes diversity by using the lilliest, whitest scholar from Britain with no Japanese heritage to basically sell complete fan fiction about Japan (and was forcibly ejected by the Japanese University he used to work at cause of said inaccurate fan fiction) to not have a Japanese male in a Japanese game advertised to be based in historical accuracy with its fictional elements. And what's up with the Schrodingers "Are we mostly historic and accurate or are we just bullshit" responses? The answer changes depending on the issue, the outlet, and the barometric pressure that day.

So... got to love that selective diversity and we respect cultures. It's almost like it's just PR answers and meaningless....

 

[Brigandier]

Assassin's Creed boss discusses "devastating" impact of Shadows' diversity and inclusivity backlash

Assassin's Creed franchise boss Marc-Alexis Coté has addressed the online backlash which has swirled around the main ch…

www.eurogamer.net

I'm not sure what to say, seems like another Firewalk Studios tonedef problem to me.

Every time I see this thread this song pops in my head!!!