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BraLoD said:

It's so sad that it was immediatly predictable once I saw the eye from the new Ghost protagonist was that of a woman, that the first thing that crossed my mind was stupid people calling it woke... and I was right.

Now, a concerning big number of people see a woman and immediatly say "woke" or get offended, and like I was afraid with Concord, which compeled me to ask supposedly specific issues with the game for it to be so attacked... those people now have the power to make a game fail.

Gladly Tsushima already made the IP strong, otherwise Ghost of Yotei being the first game could actually kill the franchise, which would be extremely sad and concerning.

Is there anything that can be done to protect gaming from this absurdity? Some "Influencers" are more than happy to fuel it to get the audience of those brain-dead people for themselves.

The incredibly franchise Sucker Punch made could actually be a failure if it was the first game, I can't believe it, we could be on the verge of losing great games being made because of this shit.

Excellent games may be DoA just because the human being portraited on it is not a white guy, that shit can't be ignored anymore, they were almost able to take TLoU2 down, the sequel to arguably the most acclaimed game in modern times, too, and it greatly affected its sales and would be a lot worse was it not for the record breaking preorder it had before that blew out.

I have not played an Assassin's Creed game since the excellent Black Flag, but the series was enjoying a very good moment with the last 3 games until it chose to make a black man and a woman the playable characters, the trailers looked quite good too, IMO.

I couldn't care less who is the character I play as long as it's good, I never felt the massive majority of games I played as a white man was good or bad because of that, neither games I played as a woman for example were better or worse because of that, but now I fear devs may be forced to either use white males or ridiculously hot females only so their game is "safer" to invest the insane amount of money triple A games cost nowdays, and that will definitely hurt character writing and gaming creativity as a whole, and probably help to support the issue to get stronger in the real world too.

That can't be where we are headed, this stupidity can't be left unchecked anymore.

I knew it was coming, I'll be honest, I find actually talking about videogames fucking insufferable on the internet nowadays, I'd rather go back to the days of console wars, now you can't take one foot inside gaming communities without some idiot screaming "THIS IS WOKE! THIS IS DEI!" at seemingly every single videogame and I'm tired, I'm at the point I may just stop talking videogames entirely online and go back to just ignoring this shit and enjoying my videogames while bitter people scream into the void on the internet (do they even play games?).

I will counter and say that these people do not have the power to make a game fail, Concord failed for a whole bunch of reasons, the vast majority of people don't give a fuck about the pronouns or would even notice them, Overwatch is more "woke" than Concord and a bunch of very successful videogames have pronouns, heavy LGBTQ+ themes, etc. But Concord was an easy punching bag as it failed in a whole variety of ways so the angry bigots could latch onto it and use it as their "win" against the "woke industry"

Ghost of Yotei will sell millions, vast majority of people won't give a fuck about it being a female character nor notice this discussion because the vast majority of gamers aren't plugged into YouTube communities and gaming forums. It's a bit like how Call of Duty is absolutely blasted every year on video-game forums but it still sells the most every year, Lol.

I think we need more positive role models but sadly positivity doesn't get you clicks, YouTube is full of rage-bait content nowadays and it's why I've personally often avoided getting too deeply into YouTube or Twitch, less people click on a video called "This game is awesome" than they do "This game is the worst thing since Hitler!" or some dude ranting for 60 minutes in his uncleaned bedroom about something he hates.

Dragon Age is the most recent attack of the angry "WOKE" brigade, I'm pretty sure a lot of these people are bots or straight up grifters who have never touched a game in their life because often games they attack have always been "woke" by their own logic, I haven't even played Dragon Age but I know it was a pretty progressive franchise with LGBTQ+ themes throughout most the series, David Gaider was head writer for all 3 Dragon Age games, no longer with Bioware, even he is calling out these people as idiots who have never played Dragon Age (I'm paraphrasing his words here). Bioware were one of the first AAA studios to allow same-sex relationships in videogames.

Saw Warhammer being called woke recently cause it had a lady commander, Lmfao.

It's just becoming "anytime there's a female or non-white it's woke"