JRPGfan said:
smroadkill15 said:
A woke game is whatever the anti woke crowd call woke. Doesn't matter if it makes sense or not. Anti woke say they want games and character that make sense, but call a game like South of Midnight woke because it stars a black women even though the setting makes perfect sense for this character. If any of you watched the video I posted, the guy makes a great point how the movie Aliens gets a pass from being woke because it a damn good movie from the 80s, but if it would have released this year, it would be considered woke. Same with Terminator 2 and plenty of other great older movies. It's the same way with older games get a pass because they are great, but would easily be called woke if released today.
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They hired sweet baby inc... and the first thing they did was to race swap the main character.
She was originally a white lady. Why? because SBI want more representation of black women in games.
Now it looks like they did this early in development, so it'll likely feel natural, and not forced.
But the team that made the game, had a vision that had a main character that was different than she ended up being, because of sweet baby inc.
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According to Grummz...How have you not learnt by now that Grummz is a grifting bullshitter making shit up for attention? He doesn't know shit, Grummz is the same moron who tried to spread that "EA NDA" which was clearly nonsense and had basic spelling mistakes, Grummz is in the industry, he knows what an NDA looks like, but he spread that bullshit because he wanted to attack Dragon Age and carry on his grift.
Yes, SBI is involved in South of Midnight because they are a consultancy agency focused on how to include minority characters with care, stop acting like they write the entire stories, Lol. Of course they are involved in a game which features a black lead in the deep south, choke full of African-American folklore and Gullah culture. The developer team at Compulsion Games is almost entirely white and based in Canada, it should be a GOOD thing that they're hiring a consultancy agency to help them write better about other cultures and make it a more authentic experience.
If it wasn't SBI involved it would be a different consultancy agency because guess what? There's dozens of them, SBI is just the current target of peoples grift. It's the exact same as when developers hire consultancy agencies if they're telling a story about another country. Everything about SoM screams "American-Southern Black Culture" it's not just a character change, it has always made sense for Hazel to be black since conception.
The same people are complaining about Assassin's Creed apparently getting things wrong about Japan like that insensitive thing about the collector's edition, well maybe if Ubisoft hired a consultancy agency like South of Midnight they wouldn't have made these mistakes. You know, like Sucker Punch did when they made Ghost of Tsushima, now suddenly hiring consultancy agencies is a bad thing? Oh sorry, only if the consultancy agency is focused on black characters.
This is the only proof I can find that they "race-swapped" Hazel is this.
Some 3D model which is very clearly, very early in development, likely pre-production, I don't believe it's even confirmed it's Compulsion Games model considering Grummz isn't above spreading lies, but you can also see clearly by her clothes that she likely isn't even in the same setting or era, the clothes look more medieval or colonial so whatever this was, if it was South of Midnight, was likely before the game even entered production, was likely a completely different idea of a game and was made during the prototype stages where they were deciding on what type of game they wanted to make, you know, completely normal development stuff, Lol.
We've known South of Midnight has had a black protagonist since as early 2021 thanks to Jez Corden leaking a concept art.
So whatever that Hazel model is predates 2021 at minimum, if she is Compulsion's model, so it was likely created during the concept/ideas phase when they were deciding on what sort of game they wanted to make, they likely had multiple ideas of what games they wanted to make, this is completely normal development stuff, until they eventually settled on wanting to tell a story about Southern America-Black culture and then would have been the point they brought SBI onboard to help them tell the story in an authentic and respectful way.
There's absolutely zero proof that SBI came in and was like "RIGHT. YOU AREN'T TELLING THIS STORY. MAKE THIS CHARACTER BLACK. CHANGE YOUR ENTIRE GAME" Lmao. This is not just a character change, the entire game is Black culture focused so it must have been that focus since near the start. Again, we've known SoM was focused on Southern-Black America since as early as 2021 leaks. You also remember that Compulsion Games is owned by Microsoft right? Stop acting like some 15 employee studio can push around billion dollar corps
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 17 December 2024