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I would like to thank these "modern" developers for showing me and helping myself recognize such patterns in their works and "the message" they want to tell to the world. I finally had the courage to say and came out as a NON-BUY-NARY individual and will keep my wallets closed until certain games meet my expectations of fun & entertainment.

I am bi woman, but I don't appreciate women with D+ cup and no support in skimpy outfits in my games only because it takes me out of immersion, I know the pain of having large chesticles with no sport bra intimately, a frequent 1d4 bludgeoning damage to my own jaw on PE classes provided me with plentiful reality checks for life. And you know what? I just don't play Asian eyecandy, I always gravitated towards Western designs. That being said, I also don't like looking at unappealing, uncanny supposed know-it-alls with TikTok/Twitter/Tumblr Americanese talk over and over and over again that we have had in the games for the past decade. I have to suffer one mid know-it-all daily in my mirror, and I also smell shallow thinking bs and writing lightyears away. BG3 was almost perfect balance for me, because characters all had conventionally or less conventionally attractive looks with sensible attires, and the writing sold me DnD with your dorky friends playing sobfest characters and edgy aeholes vibe completely. It didn't take itself too seriously despite being written smarter than every single AAA slop from across the pond. To be smart and to appear smart is not the same. The later is fate of not-so-smart pretentious posers, and we clown on posers.

Someone plug a photo of that shaved hair "chick" into an AI and ask if it's a male or female.

The problem that caused Gamer Gate 2 was that fact that SJW Activist decided to invade the Gaming Industry unprovoked and attack every gamer out there. Because of all the issues they caused Gamers got up and said enough which lead to the AAA scene getting it's teeth kicked in along with their teeth being shoved down their own throat due to pandering towards these activist. Sadly at this point the only way the Gaming Industry can heal is if the AAA scene goes under EDIT: Also to answer the reason why Call of Duty always sells is because there is no other game like it. The only to kill CoD at this point is to make your own version of CoD and do everything it does but, better

"Discerning" is the perfect description, because of that I subbed.

The individuals are the problem, the main group of people buying games are not. Hetero-normative culture is important for the survival of our species. So I do not see that as an individualistic issue.

Horny squid head almost slipped and called the people she’s talking about perverts😂.

BG3 was a solid 8.5/10 A good game in the midst of an era of western flops and shovelware. I hope that in the future we can move back to the era of making truly great games again on a big level. In the meantime we have indie developers who put great ideas out there.

Authoritarianism is the problem.

Basically, AAA companies need to return to what they did as indies and AAs to become AAA in the first place. You literally can't gate keep who plays games, anyway -- Steam and GoG are happy to take my money without asking who does or doesn't like me. (And, of course its silly to fight over whether game characters should dress like Stellar Blade or like KCD, or anywhere in between.)

The thing with Baldur's Gate 3 is, if a mod was created to remove the damn pronouns, or alter the body types language back to male or female, it would instantly get banned. I am very much against this seedy, ideological push to change some language, and I will not support games that cater to it. Besides, by all accounts, it heavily falls off after the first act, and every companion is way too sexual and eager to jump your bones because you said a nice word to them. I have no problems skipping out on crap, it's just disappointing it's fooling so many people.

I have just never understood why people think that making women look and act like men purposefully is feminism.

All I hope for is that developers make games they would want to play 10 years from now. Being able to come back to a game years later and enjoy it seems less and less of a goal, which I find disappointing.

"Am i making games for myself or for others?", that is the question

On one side we have folk saying "Whaddaya mean the design is ugly? You just want to goon." and on the other we have them saying "This outfit is too skimpy. You just want to goon." I just want people to stop telling me what games I SHOULD enjoy.

They're afraid because more people are voting against them with their wallets

I have no faith in the mainstream industry. I think smaller devs have less trouble course correcting and picking up the slack. It's easy for 15 devs in a studio to change vs. studios with hundreds of employees.

I’m glad these studios are taking themselves out of the gene pool, so to speak. Makes it easier to find the good games and means I save money.

Randomly found this from the algorithm, it's refreshing having more nuanced. I sincerely hope us as consumers will have a better year in 2025. As a side note, love the avatar ^_^

What he is saying is make games for the people who will be the loudest about something that they don’t like, lol. Creativity is dead. If you want to have a character creator, then you need to be able to make the most beautiful and big chested female character know to man, regardless of if that character actually fits the game. Female leads must look like Eve from Stella Blade and have her depth of character to boot (which is none). No "ugly women" or minority main characters. Only straight characters who are primarily white. Or just don't even worry about how a character looks so long as the game doesn't do anything to "DEI"! Pronouns? Bad! LGBTQ? BAD! A female character that doesn’t look like the most beautiful woman you have ever seen? BAD! All these rules must be followed be followed because the people who actually care about this stuff are the people who will make angry videos on TH-cam about how a character looks, or the sex of a character or DEI; while everyone else would just want to play a game that is fun. A game must fit your life views for it to be good. Men must be men. Strong and tough. Woman must be beautiful and graceful. Game creators can no longer take chances with anything. We are going to end up seeing the same games being made. With the same kind of characters because that's safe and will placate to the loud games who hate everything.

Let's say I'm just wrong for believing DEI is affecting the gaming industry. FINE What is beyond me is why do they have to go to public forums and get into arguments with potential customers? I am no marketing expert, but that doesn't sound good from a marketing point of view

If they actually have agency and are making what they want to make, then why do they always dig up old IPs and retcon the hell out of them, changing them immensely to fit what they ACTUALLY want to make? What a load. I don't believe games like Veilguard are authentic artistic expressions in the slightest. They are done out of spite and envy, and that's why they are always bad. They are jealous of the success of the old IPs, and angry that they got successful while being "problematic".

While it's admirable seeing someone trying to pull it back to some kind of common sense, based on our experiences we are all waiting on them to continue on their set course, leading to the inevitable collapse of these companies. They passed a point of no return a long time ago, and if they could have turned away, they would. Their ideology has driven them over a cliff, they just haven't hit the ground yet.

Hmm, listening to your audience is such a novel idea. It might just work! Sarcasm aside, it is ridiculous that such a basic concept has to be spelled out to the AAA industry. That is why I avoid stuff I don't like and have started working on making my own stuff.

Aww, your very welcome! <(^.^)/

I don't think that in 2025 we will see the big shift in gaming, maybe in movies and shows but after costly reshoots and another round of high profile flops. Assassin's Creed Shadows being one of the latter and GTA6 already doing a bit of damage control (plus some worrying departures).

Very interesting video on a topic I m unfamiliar with. Why do I have the feeling the sound of your voice is different? Great to listen to nonetheless.😊

3:57 I think this is the real meat of the issue that many of these woke devs just aren't getting. They think that they can completely change their whole audience like one could a floppy disk, yet it's not at all equivalent exchange. Once you lose your actual customers, they're not coming back unless you really show you care. Delusional people with a long, *long* track record of saying/acting like "If we say it enough times, then it will SURELY come true!" who are too arrogant to take the advice of the people they disagree with. But on the flipside, while that Very AFK guy is making good points... A. We've heard this shit before, which means he's preaching to the choir, and B. The only ones who'll truly listen to him are people like us who've been saying this since day one. Also, I'm just going to go ahead and say it: I highly doubt that things will change. So many of these companies have embraced DEI over common sense to the point that they have done irreversible damage to their real customers. The only way they're getting out of this is if they publicly admit they were wrong and dump all the rats they hired. I guarantee you that they'd sooner bite their legs off than admit that they were wrong.

The patterns are becoming more and more apparent now. I'll just vote with my wallet and ignore the slop.

So propaganda is art. Isn't that social justice killed objectivity by claiming that only victory matters somehow it's social medias fault. It isn't that one side normalized endless abuse it's evolution.

So what's the good ratio between listening to your fans and doing what you intend to do?

Concord proved no one wants to play an older heavyset cane using balding bearded man like me. I don't, as I know that dude is not going to be able to take down the Reapers/Coripheous/Dark Lord/Sith Lord/Mafia Boss/Flood. Why, because that dude is me. Give me a game with great heroic characters that are not Mary Sue/Gary Stu versions of me or a feminine version of me.

As a gamer, I miss the creativity and when things felt organic...so I'm happy not all of the vets have given up on their passion and are making games as Indies. As a woman, I'm for both sexy and conservative designs, I just want women to be women again. No more "girl boss" crap, it isn't appealing to me...if anything it helps me save money.

Gamers wallets > ESG/DEI investments.

Karlach of BG3 is an outstanding example of the "attractive" personality npc. She's a demon hybrid muscle bound literal war machine, but her attitude is adorable, likeable in spite of drawing a crap hand in life. We know the difference. Write better chars, avoid terminally pissed off angry tribals with an agenda perhaps, unless there is a reason you need to make a char a hated pariah. Attractive is not tied to a character model. Cassandra is another example, of many from older, better written games.

This is painful. I romanced Morgan as a Dwarf - our child would be the heir to bring the dwarves back from their dark age and end the war. I never played the games following, but. Now I probably should. Failguard is a skip

Indiana Jones is one of the most under utilised IPs out there. Aside from the 3 movies (say otherwise and you're wrong), there are books, TV series (starring River Phoenix), and games. Coupled with relic lore from across human culture and you have a goldmine of material to draw from. And it's good material. So why can't we get something better than "it's ok" for Indy or Lara Croft on screen.

Why the hell do these people think that it's any different to portray women as incredibly beautiful and exceptionally attractive featured to that of portraying men as either incredibly attractive, muscular or defined and with an ruggedness that would be considered desirable? Even the "ugly" soldiers from Gears of War would likely net nearly any woman they desired. Or on the flipside, what about Nathan Drake? Solid Snake? Albert Wesker? Chris Redfield? Leon Kennedy? Dante? Geralt? You name it.. if it has a male protagonist they are generally attractive. Videogames are not about representing the normal.. but to play as the exceptional. You always play an impossible story. Or at least most of the time you do. The characters also need to thus be exceptional. Their attractiveness can be part of that. It's not about setting a standard, it's about being fascinating and intriguing.

Buubs for the buub god!

- he's smart, and I like his ideas and the way he handles things. - then why didn't you vote him? - he's not as handsome as me, I don't feel represented. I identify as handsome. identity politics and representation in a nutshell.

We have had to deal with these activist way to much that just looking at the Dev Team and the game in questions we can tell what kind of people are making the game which is just sad. All they have to do is make a good game without the messaging with insults from the Devs and move on. EDIT: You aren't the only one who gets selective of what games to buy, when it comes to steam i do that on a daily bases as there are plenty of Indie and AA games i want to get

10:27 I’m a fan of Borderlands1 and BL2. Was tricked by BL3 and bought it. Will not be buying BL4. I expect I am not the only BL fan to think this.

7:46 you make an interesting comment about Christians. I really don’t engage with twitter but are their Christian gamers engaging in “battle” as well? On YT it really seems to be more conservative/libertarians vs SJW puritans.

Video Games as a whole shouldn't be used as hollow vessels for political propaganda, ideology pushing, or to be drenched in indentity politics. I just want good games that don't hold punches just because they don't want to offend the "modern audience" that isn't even buying the games they are having made for "them". Idc if it's right wing or left wing. I just want good games, good chracters, fun game play and passion out into it. Good video and takes as always. Keep it up. 🙏🔥🖤

So-called "representation/diversity/inclusion" initiatives produce bad art, because the initiatives are bad for art; these will always be at the expense of good-storytelling and characterization. Characterization should not serve the reader, it should serve the narrative; characters are not people, they are more-so archetypes or personas, and should be made compelling, rather than “relatable”. As a base example, one should not want Superman to be like them, but instead, one should want to be like Superman. And there are surely instances where one should NOT want to be like certain characters; regardless, imposing one’s self into fiction is self-defeating .. it's an erosion of aspiration and a catalyst for narcissism. Effectively, representation is misrepresentation, diversity is monotony, inclusion is exclusion, etc. Consider the outcome as the intent, rather than whatever the proposed intent is. The outcome has been subversion of long-standing norms, demotivation, deconstruction of morality, degradation of standards, etc.; constant erosion at the foundations of civilization, by bastardizing its mythology..

Even from the business point it doesn't make sense: You have shallow people (like me) who only play games with good looking characters You have "profound" people who "don't care about the look". If you want to grab both of the audience, shouldn't you make the characters good looking to cater to both?

As much as people like to pretend that it's not the case, a character like Taash from Veilguard is good representation. They are obnoxious, self centered, narcissistic, and a blight to be around. That definitely doesn't represent everyone who identifies in that way, but it does represent the majority of the loudest voices who create a horrible image for the rest.

Was worried about Monster Hunter turning. Then I saw the blacksmith and all the neat lookin weapon tweaks.

Imagine being filled with so much hate and envy of normalcy, objectively quantifiable beauty, and healthiness in general that you want to force ugliness, brokenness and sickness into art. This artistic brainrot is traceable back to one of the several 20th century Communist strategies aimed at destabilizing and fracturing the western democracies through a full-court press on cultural, social and artistic norms. That strategy included artists deliberately creating art that was formless, meaningless and ugly (the origin of 'modern art'). It's no surprise that ideologically captured true believers would insert objectively and profoundly ugly and unhealthy looking characters into media. One doesn't necessarily need a psychological explanation, though the reality that it has become socially acceptable in creative circles to embrace mental illness and physical shortcomings certainly contributes. Fortunately this will be a short-term problem, as companies that succumbed to the mind virus will fail, and become examples for every company that follows. Lots of money will be lost and lots of good people will lose jobs, but that pain is going to be directly proportional to the length of time it will be before ideologues are allowed creative control again.