the-pi-guy said:
Black Myth Wukong doesn't have almost any of these things either, and yet someone earlier in the thread gave it as an example of a game that "rejected woke". |
Its not about the "lack of a white guy".
Its the going out of your way to almost yell "look we're doing DEI". Its off putting to many.
People play games as escapism. They dont want to get force fed, agenda driven politically messageing, even if its just in the form of DEI characters.
Cuz usually when its one thing, its goes over the top. They consult with these DEI firms, that then alter gameplay or story and such, and it effects the devs creative vision and sometimes just stands out too much (again its supposed to be escapism).
Devs from BLack Myth Wukong actually said they got coerced by DEI firms to pay them like $7million or they would review bomb it (and generate negative press, and have their circle of friends also do the same). There was actually alot of negative storys by these DEI type game reviewers..... However, a good game is a good game, and it didn't affect things much.
They didn't bother paying for a DEI firm.... and to be honest... why should a chinese based games based around "a journey west" have anything to do with DEI? This is mostly a american driven topic, that honestly isn't nearly as big a thing rest of the world. I Honsetly think most of the rest of the world, think its weird how big a issue this is in the US, and the same with all the pronounes and stuff.
This is also sometimes why theres big differnce between journalists that review games and score them, and players.
The avg person just does not care about these things, while DEI journalists that make up a large amount of game reviewers, do.
(either that, or journalists are scared to get cancelled, and thus all score things higher if DEI is there)
The Hollywood movie scene is haveing the same problem.
Disney has gone over the top, with its boss babe girl power story telling.
Meanwhile like 95% of the target audience for stuff like marvel comics and star wars are just normal dudes.
Trying to grow the female viewers is great and all, but if its then dropping the target that usually supported them...
You start to queston how many times will Disney need to see their current movies flop before they change their ways?
They need to go back to just telling good storys, drop the DEI and girl boss thing, theres too much of it, and its gone stale.
