The director of Yakuza was once interviewed, and in that interview, he was shown or told the demographics of the players of the newest game at that time. I can't quite remember the percentage, but a very noticeable percentile of the player base were female. He was very surprised that it was so high. He expected it would be less than 3%. He was then asked if he would make changes to the series in order to attract more women to the series. He answered no. Saying that would ultimately alienate everyone, including the women who are fans already. They (the players) all enjoy the game for what it is.
@@UltimateThanos”death threats”, as in the kind of shit you’d hear in ye olde CS Source games where some shitter screeches like a psycho in voice chat for getting AWPed 10 times in a row. Taking these “threats” seriously just paints you as a clown.
Nintendo eventually got fed up of Kotaku altogether and blacklisted them after Metroid Dread fiasco. Kotaku went into complete meltdown mode and it was hilarious 🤣
@@SamM_ScotI think they also tried telling people to not buy it but emulate it too I believe. I know there was an in between post before they tried to call Nintendo something. When I saw the article my brain just blurred it from my memory
@@2212blackstar uhh. I think Kotaku made an article about emulating Metroid Dread. > Nintendo told them to take the article down. > Kotaku doubled down. > Nintendo blacklisted Kotaku. > Kotaku triple-downed and tried to hand-wave the issue away. > Kotaku tried to get a review copy of Tears of the Kingdom. > Nintendo denies this, obviously. > Kotaku starts winging on about muh'Journalisms and tried to paint Nintendo as setting "dangerous precedents" against "negative reviews", and they are anti-freedom of speech, anti-"journalism" etc. etc.
@@UnfortunateWatcher you hate the enabler AND the thing doin the crime. I dunno saying i hate the enabler more doesn't feel quite right when i want them to get the same 'prefered treatment' if they were sent to jail (even if we all know reality makes that an If nowadays...)
It just needs to be what it was. And it's incredibly weird the video never tackles that. We used to have studios/offices that played games, reviewed them and were comprised of passionate gamers. And even back in the day, one look behind the curtain let you know that these guys aren't just playing games and sitting on their asses. They have way too much shit to play, stuff to highlight, outlets to manage etc. Which leads into a proper issue of gaming nowadays, where you not only need to stand out more, you also have way more games and mods and controversies and drama to discuss, with not enough time for half of it. But no, that argument gets shoved to the side, not even acknowledged and instead "it's all bad, it was never a good idea, this is stupid", which is just an incredibly childish and simplistic take.
Games journalists these days are just failed political commentators, they are often not gamers. Even Adam Sesler from G4TV admitted that he hated video games after the company went under due to an angry feminist rant by a goblin looking feminist on the first episode of the show’s relaunch.
@@UniqueBreakfastTaco Kinda hard to be smug when you're so radioactive no one will hire you. The shutdown was inevitable but it came so much quicker because of that rant & then doubling down constantly. The only two I felt bad for were Xavier & Gina. The rest had their own rake stepping moments that made you either dislike them outright or just not have sympathy for them. Jerard was part of that until recently with the whole charity debacle.
Did they fail? Or did they infiltrate just enough into the gaming sphere to successfully spread their poisonous agenda, and morph another fun place to be yet another forum where social politics may determine a product?
You ever realize that games, cartoons, and other shows from the 90s and early 2000s were already pretty diverse and inclusive? Apparently nobody ever told the people begging for inclusivity
Doesn't matter. Even if there's no problem, these people will invent one. They just need an in to start infesting corporations with activists, after which they have to keep the grift going to extract more money and influence.
Speedy Gonzalez was funny as fuk, but due to the negative stereotypes he was taken off TV channels. All the while Pepe le Pew is out here not taking No for an answer...
5:26 listening to this guys dialogue had me thinking "ok this is a cool character interaction and show of athletisism " ... ... how the frick does this guy look at a guy in a suit doing a flip in a game and says to himself "this character is expressing his racial characteristics" LIKE HUH???
Like, did this guy even watch some of the old Spiderman cartoons and the comics themselves? Peter made a POINT of doing some ridiculous dives just to keep his skills sharp. No racial flex there at all. Stupid position to take, and I'm a black guy on the fringes of comic geek culture. Not a bit of race there at all.
Yup, this obsession with always differentiating the race is actually a prime example of... Racism, fully on display. Like Alana I also thought that forced mentioning of the teen being "black" was super weird. Like... He's a dude, in a suit, swinging around in a cool way. That's what anyone would do if they suddenly had spiderman super powers. Why would it matter what skin color the guy was? Isn't the whole point of a full-body suit covering from head to toe to... hide your identity? Why bring that up? That serves no other purpose than to draw a line separating people from people categorically, so that you can look at them different, and treat them even more different, as if people aren't simply people. Granted this one passing mention was brief and you could be forgiven for not thinking too much of it, but it's just one example of many symptoms of a much bigger problem: Racial discrimination. Treating people differently based on nothing else but purely the information about their race. Not to celebrate the differences and unique characteristics between cultures, mind you, but just to put more focus on the mere labels themselves. It's really ironic.
I can see where that guy comes from, but he injects race into it where he doesn't need it. The idea is that Miles is a "cooler" Spiderman. He's less timid, he's less reserved, he's more expressive. It's not "the same Spiderman", that's the whole idea. Peter and Miles are different people and you can see that in the games, too. You could even potentially use the word "swagger" for it, even though nobody used that term in ages. But throwing race in there just wasn't necessary.
The only gamer whose a games journalist is probably Gene Park. Platinumed all the souls on PlayStation and ghosts of Tsushima. These events taught me that games journalism wasn’t a job for elite gamers it was a job for journalists who couldn’t make it anywhere else.
Sonya Blade was in the very first Mortal Kombat game. From the mid-90s. Jax was in the second game. These chungii's constant screeching would have you believe neither character ever existed until THEY came around and 'diversified' everything for you. Either that, or the two have to be 'remade' to fit the virulent anti-gamer message. Like Jax in one of the more recent games hfs.
they are so racist to like that quote about the "natural swagger of a black teen" line is racist af. like if they said that to me i would have been like "oh and what does that mean exactly" and watched them sweat bullets
i still remeber when in like mortal combat 9 or 10 they had jax ending scene be him traveling back in time to make america never exist while building a wakanda in its place and asking myself "wait what did they do to the natives and colonists then huh?"
I'm pretty sure there's some weirdness with that "46% of gamers are women" thing. Like, if memory serves, they get that number by counting literally all people playing games, including demographics you wouldn't normally count as gamers, such as middle aged women playing mobile games like Candy Crush while they're on their break at work. Admittedly, I could easily be wrong about that, but I feel really strongly like I've seen someone break down how they got that number, and it felt like it was a case of them wording their findings in a way that supports their narrative. Edit: I paused the video to post this comment, and someone explained this literally the SECOND after I unpaused it.
They don't do categories. Basically anyone that lists "yes" to the "do you play video games" question get's labeled as a gamer in these studies. Also more in a more controversial fact, this would include any pastel flaggers labeling themselves as "female" in these questionnaires which artificially increase the number even more.
Correct. Merging the mobile market with the rest of gaming was a terrible, terrible mistake. For genuine reasons. It has skewed the demographic numbers to such a degree that the suits genuinely think the market has shifted that far. They think ‘marginalised black queer women’ is an enormous market, because they play candy crush or mobile dating sims.
@@KeytarArgonian I don't think it's that the suits think the market has skewed. I think they know full well that a significant portion the women demographic is primarily playing mobile games. But the problem is that they see this as an untapped market for them. They see that women are the most common demographic on the mobile market, and they see that the mobile market makes a SHIT TON of money through micro transactions. So they're trying to change console games to be more like mobile games because they want to grab that momey from mobile games. But they're failing to realize that the audience (or should I say the money) they're trying to lure in comes from whales that throw away thousands of dollars on BS games without realizing it, not the women playing Candy Crush about 10 minutes a day. So when making the games more like movie games didn't work, companies like SBI popped up to tell them that they aren't leaning far enough to the left to draw in the audience they think is spending all that money. So instead of eating the lunch of the mobile game market, all the AAA publishers are doing is throwing their money into implementing predatory business practices and paying trash companies like SBI to teach them how to alienate they're existing audiences because they convinced that that's how they're tap that mobile game market. Meanwhile, using companies like SBI means that they'll get better deals when appealing to companies like Black Rock while they try to break into a market they fundamentally don't understand.
I just had google advertise to me an article that said "the gongaga region sucks in ff7 rebirth" I clicked to read it and the very first sentence was "you know me, my name is _______ and i am not a final fantasy person ay all". Why in the fuck would you have a non final fantasy fan make an article
The facts of it are simple. They have done this for YEARS, have no remorse, and refuse all criticism and correct. They are not stupid, they are MALICIOUS. They hate us all, they are our enemy, and they will not stop until FORCED too. Them, the psychopathic game devs alongside them, and the investment companies that are pushing racist social credit scores to fund the lot of them (Blackrock/Vanguard and ESG scores). No more letting them getting away with it. How you do your part is up to you, but there are no bystanders in this. You either embrace their agenda or you will be treated as an enemy by them. These are the people who say "silence is violence."
Miserable people don't like seeing people have fun and are too stupid/egoistical to realize/admit that they could just join in on the fun so they try to ruin it for everyone instead. I used to get mad when I first realized this, then I became sad when I realized that I couldn't do anything about it and finally disappointed when I knew they wouldn't do anything about it themselves. But now I just find the whole thing hilarious when I see that I can just watch from a safe distance and watch them blow themselves up, while minding my own business. Can confirm it's more fun here on this side, watching cute anime fox girl commentary and mingling with chat or venting in the comments section. Remember to keep your safe distance guys, don't waste your time on those people. Let those who want to fight them do it for you, give them support when you can, if that's what you really want. But most people forget that "gaming journalism" would die out overnight if nobody gave them any amount of attention. A fight is what they want, because it gives them more attention and an excuse to act like the good guys in their own stories, and it's a stage that needs YOUR participation. Don't give them what they want.
God of War is a terrible example. Kratos is much older in the new games and his character has developed significantly. Him choosing to spare Thor wasn't "woke", it was character progression.
I have a fear of spiders, but when I got to that one room with the hanging spider in Bloodborne, I took it like man and ran into that room… Albeit a day later to regain my courage but still. this is not a joke, I did stop playing when I got to that room (>v
I remember when arcsys made bridget trans just to please a few people when in his lore his parents dressed him as a little girl because in his village twins were deemed as a bad omen and he wanted sol to teach him what it means to be a man.
I don't think having a boy be gaslight his entire life into being a girl suddenly become trans is a good look the progressives should champion for diversity but they did it anyway.
@@Castitalus Yeah. And if you think about it, he was Assigned Female at Birth. Him remaining a boy, with the only thing saying other wise is looks and superstition is a way better trans positive story. But no, he's a male that looks feminine so progs agree with Praguer U on it "men can't wear women's clothes" so he had to be a girl.
Really? Big arcsys L. Did they ever backtrack on this? His original lore sounded much better. Why would anyone damage the integrity of their own character creation just to appeal to some sort of imaginary audience? Understandable if it's the decision of the businessmen in charge instead of artists and writers but still, what an L.
@@ethanfreeman1106 Somewhat is backtracked. Daisuke has used otokonoko for him after October 2022, implying he's a crossdressing male. and one of the figures makes a point to say "by the way this character is a boy" there is also the official brand ambassador for Bridget in Japan is a crossdresser. Daisuke has admitted to making changes to strive for "global audiences" and the money focus was hinted by Mori as one of the reasons he left. I'd also like to point out Mori was one of the people who wrote Bridget's character, and Daisuke has had no part in the Arcade mode story for GG XX. The other was Emiko who was harassed out of Arcsys in 2011. However that has not been admitted in the west, and there has been no effort to correct things that the west lies about. So we may be seeing a poison scenario where the Japanese side is Otokonoko and they just go with trans to appease and not be "offensive" (because LGBT progs hate crossdressers).
@@yozen1995thanks for confirming my suspicion and shedding more light on the subject. It's always the people who had nothing to contribute to an original creation that came along to ruin it... in the name of profits. I don't know if I should be sad or disappointed at this point, but definitely not surprised.
There was always what they are calling diversity in games and it was done right. Why do they have to force it now instead of making memorable characters in good games? For example, people like CJ because he's an entertaining character from an entertaining game, or they like Jax from Mortal Kombat because he looks badass with those mechanical arms.
Jax is a fighting game character filling the role of the grappler of course he's manly and strong. CJ is a really good character people don't give enough credit, the man was down on his luck and the whole game is a tale of redemption, betrayal, struggle, and survival, etc. MK plot sucks tbh but to me San Andreas is where storytelling peaked in GTA.
@@Aughtel Yes they can't have criminals be black cause that'd be racist. Likewise they can't have men be manly cause that's toxic. All men must be passive and sensitive to make way for strong whamen and all evildoers must be white.
Look, I am by NO MEANS defending SBI, but that like in Ragnarok narratively makes sense. The Kratos of GoW3 and Ragnarok ARE the same man, but he's not the same person he once was. He's grown to hate the things he did in Greece, only forgiving himself because it made him who he is now and Atreus has given his real purpose and redemption for his original family. He truly DOES want to be better.
I consider that with the Kartos and Thor thing is not some SBI thing, following the previous game, Kratos, since he arrived to the north lands and managed to make a new family, decided to take a live that coulnd't have in Greece due the pact that made with Ares and how later was backstabbed by Athena after false promises of freedom. We can see that Thor was like him, a strong god that was manipulated to do what Odin orders, making him kill everyone on his path, and Kartos knows well how it feels like being used like a weapon, and because Thor still have his family, Kartos have seen that can leave that of being a bloody dog following Odin's orders and can be with his family and being the father that his daugther needs. Already in the first nordic game, Kartos says to Atreus that they need to be better, that killing ever god on theur way is not a solution, because Kartos have seen the consecuencies of kill a whole phanteon or nearly whole. And im just showing my point of view here, im not trying to defend SBI. Because the only thing odd in GOW Ragnarök, is Angrboda, because seeing all the jotuns bodies that are founded during the two games and the other nordic character that we find, is kinda strange her desing, that looks more african, like it don't fits there.
We live in a timeline where the video game industry has to run to the federal government for protection from the big bad scary gamers who just wanted to play fun games.
I can tell by that article that person has never played a Zelda game. Link and the bloodline of the hero is a recurring theme in these games which means canonically Link is a straight male who has kids with females.
I haven't watched that part of the vid yet, but: 1. Bi people can have kids with women 2. Links at different points in the timeline are not his descendants. They're reincarnations. Otherwise, there would be no games in the "Fallen Hero" timeline 3. Link is basically the first "self-insert" character in video games. You don't even have to call him "Link" until BotW. He's designed to be whatever the player feels he is. If you want him to have a nuclear family, great. If others don't, fine. Live & let live
@Orson_Welp 1. Link never shows interest in men, so this is just raw fanfiction. Just not relevant at all. 2. The fallen world timeline still extends references to direct decendents. If a Link isn't descended from the hero, 9/10 times a hero is descended from him, and where he's a reincarnation it's only because the hero's bloodline was extinguished earlier. All three timelines are like this, it's a blatantly hereditary story at all points. 3. Some character details are vague but some of them just aren't. Acceptance isn't demanding that the facts of things change to suit your whim.
@@ultraman5168 1. Link doesn't explicitly show romantic or sexual interest toward women either. He's made actively uncomfortable by the Great Fairies for example. He doesn't really show any emotions beyond, like, staunch determination as a hero. Because, again, he's a self insert. He feels what you feel. The idea that he's into Sidon or whatever is no more fanfiction than the idea that he's into Ruto or Saria. (I prefer Mipha personally) 2. I'll be honest, I don't know what you're trying to say. Link dies with no kids in this timeline. Definitionally, his bloodline is done 3. If asking you to interpret the game in the way you want and to let others do the same isn't acceptance, I honestly don't know what is. Like, what's the goal here? You can literally just have your thing and ignore other people. Is that not enough?
It is funny to me that gaming has gotten bad enough that people would rather play decade old games or even older rather than the shitstorms that get pumped out in more recent years.
I still chuckle every time a new Skyrim or Morrowind video comes out these days. People simply refuse to play the monumental pile of garbage that is Starfield and are making a point by playing Bethesda's older games, and the point they make is a very good one as all those playthroughs are actually really entertaining 😂 Have you seen Spiff's most recent Skyrim challenge? That one is particularly innovative and a much needed refresh. It actually inspired me to go back and revisit the land of the dragon born.
Pleanty of perfectly good new games that lots of people play and enjoy. Trick is, the vast majority of them have nothing to do with the AAA companies and the successful ones stay Well away from taking a position in the idiocy that is the 'culture wars'. (note: Being made the target in a hate campaign by Either side of said 'war' for reasons Other than actually picking a side or actively baiting the idiots will generally see an increase in sales due to backlash against such nonsense).
Some of my faves are on carts, or pre-drm discs, and I have the hardware to run them. Try to stop me, studios. I DARE you. Can't ban me from playing super Mario bros 3 on NES. Let alone the others.
In the very beginning of Sydney's video she mentions that the industry has been infiltrated in a slow fashion, BUT! I have to say the "slowly" has been going on for longer than the things she exposes, unfortunately. I remember seeing signs of decline in local magazines and in journalism sites even before the "pdf file fantasy" (and the following non-fantasy edition) scandal.
It was going on for decades but sped up in gamergate and then his the NOS in 2016. Basically all the smart spies retired and their r*tarded underlings took over and exposed the whole operation.
On the drag thing. There has been a notable, idk what to call it, cognitive dissonance. Where drag is both "trans liberation" and "transphobic" depending on what the LGBT needs it to be at the time. A similar thing has gone on now with femboys, however because we don't do that flamboyent look and would rather look passing we're treated as "transphobic" or "eggs" for the most part. That's the deal with the "Link is trans/nonbinary" article as well. It's delibrate attempts to erase femboy autonomy from the transcommunity that treats us poorly.
it seems, according to them, men can't be feminine without identifying as something other than men. i think they see drag queens and femboys as traitors to their cause of trans acceptance, because they're examples of people who accept who they are, rather than trying to gaslight everyone into thinking they're something else. like, they're looking at drag queens like "you dress like a woman, act like a woman... just BE a woman!" meanwhile they don't see their own hypocrisy in using their gender stereotypes to misgender characters: like calling Link non-binary because he's not hyper masculine.
@@PyrokineticFire1 Exactly, rampant hypocrisy. We see it with tomboys as well, though I can't speak much experience there. But yeah misgendering femboys and tomboys and characters even remotely similar to those groups is extremely common among the LGBT. Those that don't do it also will downplay the behavior as acceptable but the roles reversed they'll call it phobic. I always like to point their agreement with Praguer U on the topic "men can't wear women's clothing" since these people rely on virtue points.
Everyone is Schrödingers ‘X’. Simultaneously empowered and victimised until acted on by an outside stimuli, forced to resolve into whichever gives the best strategic advantage.
These wokes are just using blacks, LGBTs, minorities, and women is a means to justify their woke agenda. The blacks are often used in such a manner by more than just the wokes. Just ask a brother or sister about it and they'll tell you.
For me, one of the greatest injustices is that backs can say the N word and the C word while whites can't say either of them. If us whites can say those words then the blacks shouldn't be allowed to either. Or alternatively, just give non-blacks (whites included) the right to say the N and C words in a non-racist context on the same level as the blacks can say them.
This is just irl version of that Community episode where dean & Pierce are trying to find the perfectly gender & ethnically neutral mascot for school. Jeff says "I think fighting racism IS the new racism" & he's absolutely correct. This obsession with diversity in industries that are already extremely diverse to the point they're trying to actually BULLY companies into unnecessarily shoe-horning diversity to the detriment of story or gameplay is as fascistic as all the classic bigotry from the 60s-80s. They're becoming the very thing they claim to be against.
you know what is funny, a Content Creator recently made a video about the games "Cygames" creates and their "Gran blue fantasy Universe". their "Gacha", "Fighting game" and "JRPG game" that came out a bit over a month ago does diversity right, they even got their own "Animes", one which is the "main story line" and some others with some side characters were they flesh out the characters out more.. There are dozens of different races in the Anime and games, people with all kinds of skin tone, sizes, transsexual people, gay relationships are in there, you got the classic tomboys, the big sister, the goofy jokester.. and the list goes on!! But nothing feels forced, the Characters are not one dimensional, their sexuality or appearance is not the only thing that makes them unique. (one of my favorite Characters is Cagliostro, She was a guy before who decided to make a new body with the power of Alchemy, when the old Body was frail, but went with a female one and transferred the soul into it. Alongside becoming an even more powerful Alchemist, She now tries to be in her image the perfect Cute Woman, but her true personality seeps through from time to time, giving her so much more depth and its just a delight seeing her banter and the more psycho and sadistic side of her, She oozes personality, and this is just one of many chars who are like that with multiple layers of characteristics etc..) Truth be told i never really payed attention to this wide variety of "Diversity" in the Gran Blue fantasy Games until it got pointed out and i can tell you exactly why: It feels natural! Nothing feels forced and all the characters are wonderful, with their own quirks and story to tell! Cygames, A Company in japan who is doing this stuff correct for over a decade, yet the West fails so hard with it!
Duversity has always been a thing in games. New Vegas is considered a cult game in LGBT circles, yet it isn't woke at all, my favourite companion is Veronica, the nerdy lesbian who was kicked out of her home for her unwillingness to bear children. And if you follow her questline you will fall in love with her faction, you know... those that kicked her out. New Vegas uses philosophy instead of politics, which means that even characters that are pro-genocide get to explain their philosophy
@@Lampoluke i know who you are talking about, but i only played New Vegas once in my life. But just like the example i mentioned above, it felt natural, i wasn't thinking about "who is who" etc., the characters were fun and interesting and so was the world. "THIS" is how you do it!
personally not a hug fan and i forget he exists. i like a lot of the stuff he has been in and his performance he just doesnt stick in my head for some reason. which really speaks to his acting skill however is probably why you dont hear about him anymore. he is too good disappears into his roles.@@ftorididk4198
I remember back before time, around 2001, an article in a gaming magazine (Gamestar) about the life of a gaming journalist. One specific paragraph I still remember, it was about how the readers have no idea about how bad it is when you have to play a game hours and hours and hours and write a 2 page article about it while the game itself is soo insane bad that you want to format your hard drive after 10 minutes just to make sure you get rid every byte of it.
God of War's newer games are actually pretty good, despite having Sweet Baby fingerprints on it, It does justice to the most underrated and unnecessarily hated role in modern media, a stoic father, and the struggle of trying to connect with his son. He still has that rage in him but showed regret for his relentless slaughter in the pursuit of revenge by the end of GoW3 and is the reason he tries to hide his past from his son. A series I would recommend trying.
People really forgot that the first three games, along with the side games, had reasons and story for why Kratos became who he is and why he was ruthless. The newer games are him finally having left that life behind, trying to be better after so long of hating and anger. Did people really expect him to keep being a killer even after getting his revenge? For what reason did he need to? Hell, the only reason he even went after ares was because he got tricked into killing his family. Technically, his revenge should have ended with him.
Sir, with all due respect to you, i would rather be hung by my balls and have them slowly chopped via a rusty hedge clipper rather than spending another minute in ironwood or consider the "ragnarok" moment in azgard as something not rushed or haphazardly put togather. Or all the narative inconsistencies or low effort marvel-esk dialogs in the later half of the game (especially the speach part before blowing the horn)
A lot of the time, indie games are where you can find gems. AAA games can often be cash grabs. Indie games are passion projects from people who want to show off their skills and actually give people something fun and often challenging, like Hollow Knight and Cuphead, or a narrative-driven adventure, like BaTIM or Omori.
Reaident Evil 5 not only shaped a huge part of my childhood(albiet in high school by that time). But it also led to me getting a love letter from the person I played with over Playstation's messaging. I still have that message saved on my ps3 despite how long it has been since I even booted it up.
With the Kratos thing, that was kind of the point. His brutality and vengeance at the end of the day lead him to nothing. The point of this new set of games is Kratos realizing his past mistakes and trying to do better. Fighting his nature in both the memory of his wife, and to ensure that his son does not follow the same path that he did.
Yeah, I tried pointing that out, too. The whole section dripped with "I didn't play it, but it's bad and wrong". It's a huge shift and it seems weird at first, but it's not like we go from "murdering psycho" to "happy dad". We're still very much playing a very angry, kinda bad person and slowly realizing where both that and the desire to change it come from. Insinuating Kratos is an example of "how games go woke" is fucking nonsense. He's just an actual person now, rather than the 2000s edge lord power fantasy. He was fun in the past and he's still fun now, he just makes more sense as a human being.
@dowfreak7 My favorite little moment is when he's mad at BOY for missing the deer, he starts to yell, catches himself, and calmly tells him only to fire when ready. He's constantly fighting against his violent nature to try and become a better person.
25:23 Is it out of character though? Even in God of War (2018), Kratos is against unnecessary killing and admonishes his son for killing someone they didn't have to kill. "I teach you to kill in defense of yourself. Never as an indulgence."
That co-founder of SBI was talking like slavery still exists and she "The Saviour" is saving people and giving them food, water and shelter or something 😂. The saviour mentality goes hard on this one.
"Kratos is an older, pained father" Because he wasn't pained when his loved brother was abducted, his family was incinerated and he was cursed to wear their ashes as a second skin. Do people even listen to themselves?
The big issue with the journalist being terrible at the game was that you need to be able to play games in order to rate them. I saw a comment compare this to a guy trying to review a steak house without knowing how to use a steak knife.
@@PeachDragon_ no matter how objectively terrible it is even if one ignores the 'culture wars' idiocy. And no, the 'right' isn't any less idiotic on such matters, they just pin their idiocy to issues where their position hasn't been socially acceptable to reasonable people since before many current adults were even born, while the 'left' have hijacked actually legitimate issues that are relevant in current decades to paint on the top of their particular flavour of malicious biggotry. (note: this isn't 'the right' and 'the left' in their entirity, just the collection of malicious actors and radicalised idiots who make up the parts of both who engage in 'culture wars' as a smoke screen for their actively anti-anyone-not-them-and-their-close-buddies actions.)
My Canadian friend has pointed out that this whole this is absolutely stupid because these people obviously make things that sell well, so the general market clearly doesn’t care, and we already did this ten years ago, it became stupid and annoying immediately, and it’s stupid and annoying again already, and everyone is ignoring all of the generally well-liked games that SBI was involved in just to create a boogeyman. My counterpoint to him was that he was completely right about the original GG quickly devolving into complete cringe, and the possibility is absolutely there for the same thing to happen, but this time, the general market has clearly been voicing displeasure at basically the entire gaming industry for years now. Companies like SBI are being paid hundreds of thousands to do whatever they can to ruin games, all while actual game designers are being laid off en masse. This time, it’s not just an undercurrent of people who don’t want games to become woke, this time it seems to be the majority of non-casual gamers who are fed up with the BS of the industry, and the recent disappointment of Sony’s Spider-Man 2 is probably what allowed this to be the case. The story being so bland that no one was talking about it a week after launch, and not being able to play as Venom outside of a single mission, combined with the industry heavily pushing the $70 pricetag, all while they hire people who seem to have a track record of making games worse, has absolutely caused many gamers to finally realize that they’re actually fed up with the gaming industry, and SBI is just the current outlet for that frustration, because it’s something that nearly everyone can agree is bad.
Alana, real talk. I'm genuinely glad that there is actually someone as cool as you spreading the news of how fucked up this stuff is. Seeing you here gives me slightly more hope in humanity, and even myself. Thank you so much for what you do, and I will always be a loyal fan of yours!
A review a game you can’t play well is like reviewing a novel in a language you can barely read. You can do it but it’s more of a reflection of you then the product
One gaming struggle I doubt I'll ever forget is in Monkey Magic where after the first boss I had to just figure out how to use a new move or I would never leave the first room of the next level. PS1 mind you this was long ago
The only time I was even a little scared of the ocean was when I was working on a shrimping vessel and there was a shadow swim under the boat bigger than the boat I was on. That scared me but beyond that experience I have no problem with oceans in general.
The thing with the cuphead guy sure props for posting it but it just shows how extremely out of touch he was where he didnt even realise how horrible he was at game control in general. Anyone with even a modicum of knowledge would know that posting that would make their entire career look like a joke.
That was just the beginning of the symptoms that started showing from early on, but I believe the problem runs much deeper than that. Imagine if the direct consumer-facing reviewer of a consumer product is so out of touch, how far up the corporate chain is it full of corrupt businessmen who simply have zero interests in ever learning about whatever it is they are doing? It's only now the truth starts coming out, but it'll take a while before everything is revealed to the public (mostly via self-reporting, funnily enough). I won't be surprised when we keep inevitably finding out more and more how deep this rabbit hole goes, so I won't waste my time staying baffled or upset. I'm just here for the ride, and I hope it'll be a good one, if just for nothing else than to partially make up for what they have been taking away from us. Gamers will always have the last laugh, because unlike those people who keep trying to bully us, we always know how to have fun. I think that's the most redeeming and important quality we have to be reminded of in these chaotic times.
@@Pimegoki I saw that too. I understand to a degree where he’s coming from but I think it’s absolutely stupid to think a character should never evolve and move on or change in any way. Like cmon man
Agree but disagree. It's okay he wants to change but man, the messaging and the way they went about it, the words they used, it's absolute ass, lefty lecturing audience on how to not be a bad person. Did you all forget why his first family died? Because he was too nice and forgiving? So he took his revenge by killing all the gods because they were just playing with human's lives? I can agree that he is willing to change because he grew older and wiser and now has a new son and hopes for things to be different, but the "we have to be better for our children" to a god that doesn't care at all about it, did he roll a nat 20 on his persuasion? Nah man, there are way better ways of accomplishing his character growth and trying to convince gods to stop fucking with mortals to stop this endless cycle of war between gods and their creation. They did a really sucky job at it. Gameplay was quite fun tho, way better than the two combo spam in original GoW trilogy.
She had a bad take with god of war. The whole point of kratos rage and journey through the first series was because of this dead wife and daughter and the gods lying to him. He moved to a whole new area and had a child to hopefully be better. And he's grown into a father. He couldn't be with his daughter. So i thought the growth of his character was well thought out and pretty good.
@@Castitalus But you listen to the first person telling you that's what it is? Because it's not. Jesus Christ, play the game, form your own opinion and come back here to laugh at how stupidly shit and wrong your take is. You acting like the "toxic male" stereotype, with a dash of complete ignorance of the actual source matter, isn't a great look.
@Castitalus he's not saying men should be better he's telling his son to be a better God and man than he was. He's not preaching to all men it's a father telling his son not to make the mistakes he made.
@@Castitalus ..thats something a woman would say.. "were 10/10 perfect in every way, i dont care about even considering self improvement! ..that would ding my ego!"
All I can see now is the eastern game companies selling the most games because one example is stellar blade being in second place as the most pre ordered game on the ps5 and vindictous is also a game to look at also because they’re making sure sbs isn’t getting there hands on them
Those statistics about female gamer percentages also includes mobile games like candy crush… that specific statistic that was referenced about 37 min in is actually from a SURVEY not a study. With only a couple thousand respondents. 3000 respondents for PC gaming 6000 respondents for Mobile gaming and 4000 respondents for Consoles.
25:17 to be fair, God of War Ragnarok takes place about a thousand years after God of War 3, so, Kratos had that long to reflect. The change in his character is not out of nowhere.
@@Kurogane893 Comics are comics. By cory barlog's word, they are considered as secondary cannon like the novel. Meaning if its not mentioned in the game as well, its not to be taken as full cannon. So again, all we have is 150 years
Okay, I'll try to be objective. I'm not great at every game, Stellaris is a wall for me. But, BUT! I would just not review Stellaris. If I found any game I couldn't get through the tutorial when the explanation is literally (press x then press x again in mid air to double jump) written on screen, and I couldn't wrap my head around that? I'd just not review it. It's not for me. Doesn't mean it's a bad game or anything, just that I literally am not capable of reviewing the quality of this game.
"There's no undead in dead by daylight" Oni, Rin Yamaoka, freddy, chucky, the wraith: are we a joke to you? Nemesis, somewhere in a corner killing his own FELLOW ZAMBIES for xp: STARS?
On dead by daylight being a zombie game with an undead apocalypse and such, I knew instantly what she meant, because I make EXACTLY the same mistake constantly... She's confusing _Dead by Daylight_, and _Dying Light_, which, I suppose you probably know, but just in case, IS a zombie game made by the devs that left and started a new studio after they finished dead island.
I have thalassophobia, personally. It's fairly mild, but I will NEVER play Subnautica, that is an actual nightmare for me. We have legs for a reason, and that reason was to leave the evil primordial soup.
In regards to the Dead By Daylight comment thing, yeah that is really more of a general horror game with no zombies apart from Nemesis from Resident Evil which is the closest thing to a zombie in that game.
With the cup head video. I'll admit way back, around the time I first got my 360. I bought super meat boy, and I cannot tell you why but I struggled for so long and so hard to grasp the wall jumping of the game. I don't know what happened to me that day but I'm sure it took me like an hour if not more. - It's my biggest shame when it comes to gaming. Which is even more funny given I had bought the 360 to pvp in darksouls after seeing pvp videos of the game. I never even played through it normally. I got a save editor made a moonlight sword build and jumped into pvp right away by teleporting myself to the dark forest. That was how I learned how to play darksouls games. So the fact I struggled in SMB after that is just wild.
the god of war reboots are good and ya I bought his character shift, he's an old man reflecting on all the destruction and death he caused throughout his life and dealing with the loss of his loved ones. Reflection comes with age so it makes sense. I haven't played Ragnarök yet (PC gamer here) but I really liked God of War (reboot). It is kind of a last of us-like though... Also I have a problem with people constantly saying that diversity hiring or forcing people into positions based on their race is "Protecting them." They aren't being attacked or intentionally excluded at this point, so making the assumption that they're protecting them just hits me as a narcissistic hero complex on the person who thinks they are saving them by pushing for them to be hired over someone of a different race that might be more qualified or interested. Lol RE5 XD I also played RE5 when I was a kid in coop with my bro and neither of us took the racist thought process. Honestly I really hope that they remake the game and keep it the same for the story. Also I think people forget that the real villains that are pulling the strings are Wesker, who is whiter than snow, another short white man who I think was Spanish? and then a Spanish/Italian lady.....Like what? I think this might've been a classic case of reviewers not actually playing through the game before trying to label it with a controversy.
There was an old Nintendo 64 game with a variety of low power aircraft. super lights like paraglider with an engine I don't remember that having any instructions to it All I remember is flying around and chasing a space rocket launch to stall height
Its one thing to be bad at a game, we all get to a point when we have been staring at the screen for too long, are dead tired and on the verge of passing out. Even if a puzzle is easy, when your brain is at the end of its marathon of focus even simple tasks become difficult... that being said this is the tutorial, the point when your brain should be at full focus... and to make matters worse... you have to remind yourself that he got paid for this. Thats the part that I think frustrates people the most is when you get paid to do the thing most of us do for fun, it irks them when this is the level at which they do so. Its maddening cause then you say to yourself "well fuck I could do that" and also "this guy gets paid more than me"
I agreed with everything until GOW statement I personally believe the game gotten better with the stubborn learning father kratos rather than kill everything that's not on ur side Kratos
I think being a “gamer” includes how much of your time, thoughts, and socialization is tied to gaming. I played quite a few games over the years on multiple consoles since I was a kid and I still never considered myself a gamer because it was never my primary interest. My friends and I barely ever talked about the games we played, it wasn’t the main thing we did when hanging out. I care about the condition of the industry but I won’t ever play most of the games I follow for the interesting news.
Dont try and reign in the yapping. Its why i gravitaed towards your reaction content. Love the fact you put your thoughts and opinions forward when watching something and actually engage with it. Makes for some high effort react andy content
On my journey through gaming I stop, look around and think: No, no I don’t think I want anything in this direction. So I’m going to take my beloved older games, and I’m going home now.
On the topic of phobias, I'd say it's rarely I see syringes being jabbed into ourselves (the character) with some exceptions. It got me rather unwell, as I do have two phobias that are close interlinked: Hemophobia (I in particular cannot see my own blood... I pass out. Luckily for me, this doesn't translate into seeing a video game character bleed profusely.This phobia was a particularly nasty thing... when I served in the military some years ago - as I did in fact suffer several injuries). ... AND Trypanophobia which is the fear of Needles, in itself rather common yet... I go into fight or flight during vaccines, drawing blood, etc. Gaming journalism, has given me two sides mentality - We got people like Second wind (Ben "yahtzee" Croshaw, among others) among many out there... who I value's ones opinion - reviwing games is another side of the journalist experience. The other side of that same coin, where I feel the need to scream... is when a journalist deems a game horrendous, but doesn't 1) read the instructions that is hinted on, in numerous ways - from background text, improptu buttons flashing up, etc. "Talk to Marleen, in the ship hanger" said the journal entry, and our character seem to get that mentioned to them by an npc that holds the breadcrumb trail for us. 2) Doesn't accept some personal critic, when we the gamers view the content... and find it very difficult to agree with their statements. - my imput is done, sorry for the inconsistant mess of a blobb of text. Thank you and have a nice day!
10:20 I still think that he was drunk while recording that gameplay because I saw he playing other games and he did fine, while on that one he was unable to understand what he was reading and couldn't pull off a simple move. He probably doubled down on the "bad at games" joke to save face
I'm gonna be honest, people like these journalists are one of the reasons I don't take it seriously when they say they got "threats". Because they either never give proof, or the examples they're willing to post are no worse than insults we've all seen a billion times online and they're not really actual threats.
I will say gaming does get harder the older you get. I don’t have nearly the focus for shooters as I did when I was 20. But it could be that I don’t get to practice nearly as much.
I feel that for every journalist entry we need 2 people reviewing the game. 1 that has at least played a video game or two before, just so they can show what the game can be like to someone who has never played a video game before, and then one that is more seasoned in the game genre that it is in so you can sort of see both sides.
The God of War "out of character" thing is a bit stupid; there was a time-skip and almost two games worth of character development between GoW3 and Ragnarok, where Kratos learns to let go of mindless violence for the sake of his son.
The ending of GoW 3 really do be different for everyone, huh? Having played only 1-3 than the newer ones. At the end of 3, going into 4, Kratos no longer wants to kill all the gods, He no longer wants to be Athena's monster. You know change his ways... Yes, he does end up killing a lot of gods again in 4 and Ragnarok, but he's not here killing normal civilians just because wrong place wrong time, or I need a body to go this way. Or in a complete rage about it. Him not killing Thor, in my head cannon, is, this his way of paying him back for not just leaving Kratos dead at the start of Ragnarok. If you want the same thing, then just replay the old games. In fact, while you're replaying the old GoW, you should also look into "Sparten Total Warrior" another classic hack, and slash from the 2000s. OH, also in Ragnarok Kratos does say something along the lines of its ok to kill something or someone if their attacking you, so not all love amd cuddles from Kratos. He also doesnt care about the problems the people around him have. His kid does and after a bit of pestering and promise of loot does he help. While you can like/hate whatever game you wish, it seems to me a little unfair to say it came out of nowhere, that Kratos would change somewhat over however long he's been around.
Game journalists are just regular journalists who failed to become one and game journalism the only place that literally accepts anyone because it requires zero journaling skills.
On the Thalassophobia thing. I am an arachnophobe, specifically spiders. Weirdly, never had a problem with scorpions. I don't like the big round spider eyes and the thick hairy legs. I want to clarify, I don't mean "Ew spiders are icky" I mean, I have a full on panic attack if I am in the room with one and become aware of it. I once did a full backwards standing jump over a couch in fear. One time I was working in the garden and I saw a big spider (about the size of my hand) crawling up my arm and I literally couldn't breath, I ran into the house, gasping, unable to breath until I vomited and that forced the diaphragm to work again. So when I say "Arachnophobic" - I really really mean it. With that in mind, and my basic understanding of self preservation, I have not played many games that feature large spiders. I have not played Grounded and there is a recording out there somewhere of my having a panic attack while playing Resident Evil HD because I forgot all about Black Tiger. It seems to me utterly ridiculous to attempt to put myself in a position where I may become physically harmed by my own personal phobias, to the extent that it sometimes doesn't even occur to me that a game with large spiders is even something I can play. Like it doesn't even come up on my radar. I wanted to play Grounded because I loved Honey, I Shrunk The Kids when I was young, but after seeing the giant spiders, I completely forgot about the game for over a year, until a friend of mine asked my if I'd played it yet. So, as someone with a phobia, I genuinely don't understand why anyone with Thalassophobia would even think about wanting to play a game like Subnautica, which is almost entirely in an ocean. With understanding my personal experience with arachnophobia, if I were afraid of the ocean, Subnautica would be like walking through walls, it wouldn't even cross my mind to play it. It wouldn't register as it would be a logical impossibility for me. Side note, but interestingly, the spiders in Skyrim don't scare me at all. I get shivers from some angles, but their faces are too.... *lip quiver*.... human....
I'm so exhausted from hearing about non-problems in politics. One day there's gonna be an article that's titled "WWII Is Racist And Schools Should Stop Teaching It" and the general consensus will be split down the middle, and when that happens I'm officially checking out of reality.
25:27 it's called character development something that clearly nobody knows what it is I'm not justifying what sweet baby does but I'm telling you right now when it comes to God of war I don't play a war on with that s*** You're right it is out of character but it's called character development He's trying to change that was the whole point it's not like you going out in his van My son is gay or some s*** but I'm pretty sure nobody wants to keep seeing cradles just mindlessly killing gods that s*** gets old quick if that wasn't the point of the story then I wouldn't care I wouldn't care if he killed Thor I would not but the whole point was trying to end the cycle that some that most God of war fans would know
By the way I'm not defending sweet baby ink by anyway I'm just calling out when someone doesn't know what the f*** you're talking about a certain game I'm not defending sweet baby on all the other games they have helped make cuz honestly suicide squad was awful I never like for spoken and I never really played Spider-Man 2 so I can't make an opinion on that game until I get it but I have played God of war Ragnarok and I've been a hardcore God of war fan it's called character development it's called progression He's a father when you say stuff like mindless killing machine that lets me know you do not play this game because what it sound like you you just want him to just kill everyone so you just want him to be one dimensional
I think the narrative of Kratos annihilating his pantheon, stabbing himself to release Hope to the world, and still surviving, wandering the world until he hits Midgard and getting a second chance at a family, and trying not to fall back into the monster he used to be, is actually interesting. You are allowed to separate a concept from a writing team, otherwise you will only be able to enjoy like....what 3 things?
kratos character progression will have been better if had seen more of him changing over time... here we start with the death of his wife.... and all this stuff.... and in ragnarok, don't start me... the trouble is more about... .Kratos is a nobody in the last part.... you see people doing more insane stuff while kratos and his son are running in trench. and still being the one that stop all... that a double writing that feel bad in many way. without forget the whole ragnarok trouble is some discutable decision about character like Odin that look like a car vendor of today... or a man of modern age in a medieval setup... or Loki wife a giant that did become black... i'm against any form of race swaping in already existing story. it's not representation, it's not inclusion.... it's insulting for the original story. if you want to create more representation or inclusion... create new story for create new model, not overwrite what exist for centurys.... god of war was mids in terms of DEI but still was present. and can be ignored... but in some other story you see how DEI group work... and it's killing game...
The director of Yakuza was once interviewed, and in that interview, he was shown or told the demographics of the players of the newest game at that time.
I can't quite remember the percentage, but a very noticeable percentile of the player base were female. He was very surprised that it was so high. He expected it would be less than 3%.
He was then asked if he would make changes to the series in order to attract more women to the series.
He answered no. Saying that would ultimately alienate everyone, including the women who are fans already. They (the players) all enjoy the game for what it is.
Based.
And then he received death threats.
@@UltimateThanos”death threats”, as in the kind of shit you’d hear in ye olde CS Source games where some shitter screeches like a psycho in voice chat for getting AWPed 10 times in a row.
Taking these “threats” seriously just paints you as a clown.
I'm not surprised.... The dudes were alpha af
@@UltimateThanosYou just joshing or you for real?
Nintendo eventually got fed up of Kotaku altogether and blacklisted them after Metroid Dread fiasco. Kotaku went into complete meltdown mode and it was hilarious 🤣
Not meltdown enough. They somehow still exist, and that's unacceptable.
Didn't they request a review copy of Tears of the Kingdom, only to be told to bugger off?
@@brendanboomhour7606 Yup and rightfully so :-)
@@SamM_ScotI think they also tried telling people to not buy it but emulate it too I believe. I know there was an in between post before they tried to call Nintendo something. When I saw the article my brain just blurred it from my memory
@@2212blackstar uhh.
I think Kotaku made an article about emulating Metroid Dread. > Nintendo told them to take the article down. > Kotaku doubled down. > Nintendo blacklisted Kotaku. > Kotaku triple-downed and tried to hand-wave the issue away. > Kotaku tried to get a review copy of Tears of the Kingdom. > Nintendo denies this, obviously. > Kotaku starts winging on about muh'Journalisms and tried to paint Nintendo as setting "dangerous precedents" against "negative reviews", and they are anti-freedom of speech, anti-"journalism" etc. etc.
"You don't hate journalists enough You think you do but you don't."
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I thought I couldn't hate anything more than rapists.
@@johnj.spurgin7037now hold on, I'm gonna have to ask you to at LEAST hate them equally. I'm just some rando tho.
@@CausticPyro Nah, journos will tell you that it’s racist to not be raped.
@@UnfortunateWatcher you hate the enabler AND the thing doin the crime. I dunno saying i hate the enabler more doesn't feel quite right when i want them to get the same 'prefered treatment' if they were sent to jail (even if we all know reality makes that an If nowadays...)
sbi detected curator list has 304k+ followers. LET'S FUCKING GOOOO!!!
That's a victory right there ♥ 🐀
To bad i don't have steam
Still need to join that. Will do it today.
I cant find it to join :/
Don’t have Steam, but still I raise my hand in support.
"games journalism should be extinct"
I support this statement.
Dont just type it. Make it real
It just needs to be what it was. And it's incredibly weird the video never tackles that.
We used to have studios/offices that played games, reviewed them and were comprised of passionate gamers. And even back in the day, one look behind the curtain let you know that these guys aren't just playing games and sitting on their asses. They have way too much shit to play, stuff to highlight, outlets to manage etc.
Which leads into a proper issue of gaming nowadays, where you not only need to stand out more, you also have way more games and mods and controversies and drama to discuss, with not enough time for half of it.
But no, that argument gets shoved to the side, not even acknowledged and instead "it's all bad, it was never a good idea, this is stupid", which is just an incredibly childish and simplistic take.
@@kayaphus4303 watch for the perfect opportunity for a lawsuit. Bankrupt them all.
@@dowfreak7agreed. If anything, it's mostly articles that have fallen out of favor. TH-camrs that cover gaming news are relatively fine.
No no.. *TH-cam* is part of the problem (with gaming Journalism fluff)
Not The solution.
Triple AAA is suffering, and indie games are thriving and I wonder why
The A stands for "ass"
Because the lot of them are mulish psychopaths.
Guess we'll never know
Triple AAA, damn that's nonuple A
Indie devs want to make games. AAA devs want to make money. Only one of these understands the first law of Equivalent Exchange.
Because gamers didn’t gatekeep when they should have.
Waterboarding couldn't have gotten me to post that cuphead gameplay...
You could be holding a gun to my dick and I wouldn’t want to post it lmao
If you want to get a laugh out of it, look up "cuphead vs pigeon intelligence test". Put it on x2 speed.
For it to be gameplay, wouldn't he have to be playing the game?
That's where bong-waterboarding comes into play.
I think dean took the term "turn off your brain and play videogame" too literally
Games journalists these days are just failed political commentators, they are often not gamers. Even Adam Sesler from G4TV admitted that he hated video games after the company went under due to an angry feminist rant by a goblin looking feminist on the first episode of the show’s relaunch.
Frosk has been pretty quiet lately
@@UniqueBreakfastTaco Kinda hard to be smug when you're so radioactive no one will hire you. The shutdown was inevitable but it came so much quicker because of that rant & then doubling down constantly. The only two I felt bad for were Xavier & Gina. The rest had their own rake stepping moments that made you either dislike them outright or just not have sympathy for them. Jerard was part of that until recently with the whole charity debacle.
Did they fail? Or did they infiltrate just enough into the gaming sphere to successfully spread their poisonous agenda, and morph another fun place to be yet another forum where social politics may determine a product?
Both Adam Sessler and Frosk can go eat dirt until they cry. Nobody working in entertainment should be giving political lectures.
Omfg... I substituted Adam with Trey, because of a Crowley video about youtubers 😅, began sweating for a sec.
You ever realize that games, cartoons, and other shows from the 90s and early 2000s were already pretty diverse and inclusive?
Apparently nobody ever told the people begging for inclusivity
Doesn't matter. Even if there's no problem, these people will invent one. They just need an in to start infesting corporations with activists, after which they have to keep the grift going to extract more money and influence.
Remember backyard soccer and baseball? Its diverse af
@@pointlessmanatee Same with Codename Kids Next Door.
@@VyserialYeah, that show was awesome! A asian girl, a black girl, a boy with cancer, and everything in between.
Speedy Gonzalez was funny as fuk, but due to the negative stereotypes he was taken off TV channels. All the while Pepe le Pew is out here not taking No for an answer...
5:26 listening to this guys dialogue had me thinking "ok this is a cool character interaction and show of athletisism " ...
... how the frick does this guy look at a guy in a suit doing a flip in a game and says to himself "this character is expressing his racial characteristics" LIKE HUH???
Like, did this guy even watch some of the old Spiderman cartoons and the comics themselves? Peter made a POINT of doing some ridiculous dives just to keep his skills sharp. No racial flex there at all. Stupid position to take, and I'm a black guy on the fringes of comic geek culture. Not a bit of race there at all.
Yup, this obsession with always differentiating the race is actually a prime example of... Racism, fully on display.
Like Alana I also thought that forced mentioning of the teen being "black" was super weird. Like... He's a dude, in a suit, swinging around in a cool way. That's what anyone would do if they suddenly had spiderman super powers. Why would it matter what skin color the guy was? Isn't the whole point of a full-body suit covering from head to toe to... hide your identity? Why bring that up? That serves no other purpose than to draw a line separating people from people categorically, so that you can look at them different, and treat them even more different, as if people aren't simply people.
Granted this one passing mention was brief and you could be forgiven for not thinking too much of it, but it's just one example of many symptoms of a much bigger problem: Racial discrimination. Treating people differently based on nothing else but purely the information about their race. Not to celebrate the differences and unique characteristics between cultures, mind you, but just to put more focus on the mere labels themselves. It's really ironic.
I can see where that guy comes from, but he injects race into it where he doesn't need it.
The idea is that Miles is a "cooler" Spiderman. He's less timid, he's less reserved, he's more expressive. It's not "the same Spiderman", that's the whole idea. Peter and Miles are different people and you can see that in the games, too.
You could even potentially use the word "swagger" for it, even though nobody used that term in ages. But throwing race in there just wasn't necessary.
The only gamer whose a games journalist is probably Gene Park. Platinumed all the souls on PlayStation and ghosts of Tsushima. These events taught me that games journalism wasn’t a job for elite gamers it was a job for journalists who couldn’t make it anywhere else.
Sonya Blade was in the very first Mortal Kombat game. From the mid-90s.
Jax was in the second game.
These chungii's constant screeching would have you believe neither character ever existed until THEY came around and 'diversified' everything for you.
Either that, or the two have to be 'remade' to fit the virulent anti-gamer message. Like Jax in one of the more recent games hfs.
they are so racist to like that quote about the "natural swagger of a black teen" line is racist af. like if they said that to me i would have been like "oh and what does that mean exactly" and watched them sweat bullets
Axel in Twisted Metal 2.
@@remrem-gx3ml”Well, um, you know, they like hip hopping and such. Like Chris Brown. Youths still like Chris Breezy right!?”
i still remeber when in like mortal combat 9 or 10 they had jax ending scene be him traveling back in time to make america never exist while building a wakanda in its place and asking myself "wait what did they do to the natives and colonists then huh?"
They tried that same thing with Black Panther.
"The first Marvel movie with a black superhero as the main character!"
Bruh, Blade came out in 1998.
I'm pretty sure there's some weirdness with that "46% of gamers are women" thing. Like, if memory serves, they get that number by counting literally all people playing games, including demographics you wouldn't normally count as gamers, such as middle aged women playing mobile games like Candy Crush while they're on their break at work. Admittedly, I could easily be wrong about that, but I feel really strongly like I've seen someone break down how they got that number, and it felt like it was a case of them wording their findings in a way that supports their narrative.
Edit: I paused the video to post this comment, and someone explained this literally the SECOND after I unpaused it.
This reminds me of that video where a woman was saying that if you've played sudoku on your phone then you're a gamer.
They don't do categories. Basically anyone that lists "yes" to the "do you play video games" question get's labeled as a gamer in these studies. Also more in a more controversial fact, this would include any pastel flaggers labeling themselves as "female" in these questionnaires which artificially increase the number even more.
Correct. Merging the mobile market with the rest of gaming was a terrible, terrible mistake. For genuine reasons. It has skewed the demographic numbers to such a degree that the suits genuinely think the market has shifted that far. They think ‘marginalised black queer women’ is an enormous market, because they play candy crush or mobile dating sims.
@@KeytarArgonian I don't think it's that the suits think the market has skewed. I think they know full well that a significant portion the women demographic is primarily playing mobile games. But the problem is that they see this as an untapped market for them. They see that women are the most common demographic on the mobile market, and they see that the mobile market makes a SHIT TON of money through micro transactions. So they're trying to change console games to be more like mobile games because they want to grab that momey from mobile games. But they're failing to realize that the audience (or should I say the money) they're trying to lure in comes from whales that throw away thousands of dollars on BS games without realizing it, not the women playing Candy Crush about 10 minutes a day. So when making the games more like movie games didn't work, companies like SBI popped up to tell them that they aren't leaning far enough to the left to draw in the audience they think is spending all that money. So instead of eating the lunch of the mobile game market, all the AAA publishers are doing is throwing their money into implementing predatory business practices and paying trash companies like SBI to teach them how to alienate they're existing audiences because they convinced that that's how they're tap that mobile game market. Meanwhile, using companies like SBI means that they'll get better deals when appealing to companies like Black Rock while they try to break into a market they fundamentally don't understand.
nice gaming company you have there would be a shame if something happens to it
Bankruptcy? Bankruptcy.
I just had google advertise to me an article that said "the gongaga region sucks in ff7 rebirth"
I clicked to read it and the very first sentence was "you know me, my name is _______ and i am not a final fantasy person ay all".
Why in the fuck would you have a non final fantasy fan make an article
Because these people are incompetent. Do you really expect someone who chose the path of stupidity to make smart decisions?
I can’t with game journalists…
Like bro, stfu I’m tryna vibe with the boys
The facts of it are simple.
They have done this for YEARS, have no remorse, and refuse all criticism and correct. They are not stupid, they are MALICIOUS. They hate us all, they are our enemy, and they will not stop until FORCED too. Them, the psychopathic game devs alongside them, and the investment companies that are pushing racist social credit scores to fund the lot of them (Blackrock/Vanguard and ESG scores). No more letting them getting away with it.
How you do your part is up to you, but there are no bystanders in this. You either embrace their agenda or you will be treated as an enemy by them. These are the people who say "silence is violence."
Just the boys? You need to diversify your gamer group!
Miserable people don't like seeing people have fun and are too stupid/egoistical to realize/admit that they could just join in on the fun so they try to ruin it for everyone instead.
I used to get mad when I first realized this, then I became sad when I realized that I couldn't do anything about it and finally disappointed when I knew they wouldn't do anything about it themselves.
But now I just find the whole thing hilarious when I see that I can just watch from a safe distance and watch them blow themselves up, while minding my own business. Can confirm it's more fun here on this side, watching cute anime fox girl commentary and mingling with chat or venting in the comments section.
Remember to keep your safe distance guys, don't waste your time on those people. Let those who want to fight them do it for you, give them support when you can, if that's what you really want. But most people forget that "gaming journalism" would die out overnight if nobody gave them any amount of attention. A fight is what they want, because it gives them more attention and an excuse to act like the good guys in their own stories, and it's a stage that needs YOUR participation. Don't give them what they want.
@@lemonlefleur6236But then I’d have to actually talk to women😭
i'm confused by the sever lack of people pointing out that the unhinged sweet baby co founder has a WALL OF ANIMAL SKULLS
God of War is a terrible example. Kratos is much older in the new games and his character has developed significantly. Him choosing to spare Thor wasn't "woke", it was character progression.
ragnarok wasnt a good sequel though.. ..you can tell it wasnt written in house.. awful decision..
I have a fear of spiders, but when I got to that one room with the hanging spider in Bloodborne, I took it like man and ran into that room…
Albeit a day later to regain my courage but still.
this is not a joke, I did stop playing when I got to that room (>v
I remember when arcsys made bridget trans just to please a few people when in his lore his parents dressed him as a little girl because in his village twins were deemed as a bad omen and he wanted sol to teach him what it means to be a man.
I don't think having a boy be gaslight his entire life into being a girl suddenly become trans is a good look the progressives should champion for diversity but they did it anyway.
@@Castitalus
Yeah.
And if you think about it, he was Assigned Female at Birth.
Him remaining a boy, with the only thing saying other wise is looks and superstition is a way better trans positive story.
But no, he's a male that looks feminine so progs agree with Praguer U on it "men can't wear women's clothes" so he had to be a girl.
Really? Big arcsys L. Did they ever backtrack on this? His original lore sounded much better. Why would anyone damage the integrity of their own character creation just to appeal to some sort of imaginary audience? Understandable if it's the decision of the businessmen in charge instead of artists and writers but still, what an L.
@@ethanfreeman1106
Somewhat is backtracked.
Daisuke has used otokonoko for him after October 2022, implying he's a crossdressing male. and one of the figures makes a point to say "by the way this character is a boy" there is also the official brand ambassador for Bridget in Japan is a crossdresser.
Daisuke has admitted to making changes to strive for "global audiences" and the money focus was hinted by Mori as one of the reasons he left. I'd also like to point out Mori was one of the people who wrote Bridget's character, and Daisuke has had no part in the Arcade mode story for GG XX. The other was Emiko who was harassed out of Arcsys in 2011.
However that has not been admitted in the west, and there has been no effort to correct things that the west lies about. So we may be seeing a poison scenario where the Japanese side is Otokonoko and they just go with trans to appease and not be "offensive" (because LGBT progs hate crossdressers).
@@yozen1995thanks for confirming my suspicion and shedding more light on the subject. It's always the people who had nothing to contribute to an original creation that came along to ruin it... in the name of profits. I don't know if I should be sad or disappointed at this point, but definitely not surprised.
There was always what they are calling diversity in games and it was done right. Why do they have to force it now instead of making memorable characters in good games?
For example, people like CJ because he's an entertaining character from an entertaining game, or they like Jax from Mortal Kombat because he looks badass with those mechanical arms.
Because CJ was a criminal and Jax is too manly and aggressive.
I mean, if I was an uptight cu....
@@Aughtelokay... how about the army captain from Dragon's Dogma? She's a black woman.
Jax is a fighting game character filling the role of the grappler of course he's manly and strong.
CJ is a really good character people don't give enough credit, the man was down on his luck and the whole game is a tale of redemption, betrayal, struggle, and survival, etc.
MK plot sucks tbh but to me San Andreas is where storytelling peaked in GTA.
Member when Jax had real arms? Pepperidge Farms remembers…
@@Aughtel Yes they can't have criminals be black cause that'd be racist. Likewise they can't have men be manly cause that's toxic. All men must be passive and sensitive to make way for strong whamen and all evildoers must be white.
Look, I am by NO MEANS defending SBI, but that like in Ragnarok narratively makes sense. The Kratos of GoW3 and Ragnarok ARE the same man, but he's not the same person he once was. He's grown to hate the things he did in Greece, only forgiving himself because it made him who he is now and Atreus has given his real purpose and redemption for his original family. He truly DOES want to be better.
I consider that with the Kartos and Thor thing is not some SBI thing, following the previous game, Kratos, since he arrived to the north lands and managed to make a new family, decided to take a live that coulnd't have in Greece due the pact that made with Ares and how later was backstabbed by Athena after false promises of freedom. We can see that Thor was like him, a strong god that was manipulated to do what Odin orders, making him kill everyone on his path, and Kartos knows well how it feels like being used like a weapon, and because Thor still have his family, Kartos have seen that can leave that of being a bloody dog following Odin's orders and can be with his family and being the father that his daugther needs. Already in the first nordic game, Kartos says to Atreus that they need to be better, that killing ever god on theur way is not a solution, because Kartos have seen the consecuencies of kill a whole phanteon or nearly whole. And im just showing my point of view here, im not trying to defend SBI. Because the only thing odd in GOW Ragnarök, is Angrboda, because seeing all the jotuns bodies that are founded during the two games and the other nordic character that we find, is kinda strange her desing, that looks more african, like it don't fits there.
They're such enthralling creatures, those black teens, full of their exaggerated swagger.
I didn’t know sweetbaby inc. is a Canadian, of course they are Canadian and located in Quebec of all place, brilliant 😅😅😅
(Looking up towards the north) Canada you did it again. Why do we let you be a country. -- Barney Stinson
We live in a timeline where the video game industry has to run to the federal government for protection from the big bad scary gamers who just wanted to play fun games.
Amen
I can tell by that article that person has never played a Zelda game. Link and the bloodline of the hero is a recurring theme in these games which means canonically Link is a straight male who has kids with females.
The meltdowns people had when Nintendo didn't buy into people's fanfics of Link and Sidon being gay was fantastic.
I haven't watched that part of the vid yet, but:
1. Bi people can have kids with women
2. Links at different points in the timeline are not his descendants. They're reincarnations. Otherwise, there would be no games in the "Fallen Hero" timeline
3. Link is basically the first "self-insert" character in video games. You don't even have to call him "Link" until BotW. He's designed to be whatever the player feels he is. If you want him to have a nuclear family, great. If others don't, fine. Live & let live
@Orson_Welp 1. Link never shows interest in men, so this is just raw fanfiction. Just not relevant at all.
2. The fallen world timeline still extends references to direct decendents. If a Link isn't descended from the hero, 9/10 times a hero is descended from him, and where he's a reincarnation it's only because the hero's bloodline was extinguished earlier. All three timelines are like this, it's a blatantly hereditary story at all points.
3. Some character details are vague but some of them just aren't. Acceptance isn't demanding that the facts of things change to suit your whim.
@@ultraman5168 1. Link doesn't explicitly show romantic or sexual interest toward women either. He's made actively uncomfortable by the Great Fairies for example. He doesn't really show any emotions beyond, like, staunch determination as a hero. Because, again, he's a self insert. He feels what you feel. The idea that he's into Sidon or whatever is no more fanfiction than the idea that he's into Ruto or Saria. (I prefer Mipha personally)
2. I'll be honest, I don't know what you're trying to say. Link dies with no kids in this timeline. Definitionally, his bloodline is done
3. If asking you to interpret the game in the way you want and to let others do the same isn't acceptance, I honestly don't know what is. Like, what's the goal here? You can literally just have your thing and ignore other people. Is that not enough?
@@Orson_Welp the problem isn't them making fanfic, it's them attempting to canonize their fanfic.
Game journalists can't even defeat pigeons
It is funny to me that gaming has gotten bad enough that people would rather play decade old games or even older rather than the shitstorms that get pumped out in more recent years.
I still chuckle every time a new Skyrim or Morrowind video comes out these days. People simply refuse to play the monumental pile of garbage that is Starfield and are making a point by playing Bethesda's older games, and the point they make is a very good one as all those playthroughs are actually really entertaining 😂
Have you seen Spiff's most recent Skyrim challenge? That one is particularly innovative and a much needed refresh. It actually inspired me to go back and revisit the land of the dragon born.
Pleanty of perfectly good new games that lots of people play and enjoy.
Trick is, the vast majority of them have nothing to do with the AAA companies and the successful ones stay Well away from taking a position in the idiocy that is the 'culture wars'. (note: Being made the target in a hate campaign by Either side of said 'war' for reasons Other than actually picking a side or actively baiting the idiots will generally see an increase in sales due to backlash against such nonsense).
Some of my faves are on carts, or pre-drm discs, and I have the hardware to run them. Try to stop me, studios. I DARE you. Can't ban me from playing super Mario bros 3 on NES. Let alone the others.
In the very beginning of Sydney's video she mentions that the industry has been infiltrated in a slow fashion, BUT! I have to say the "slowly" has been going on for longer than the things she exposes, unfortunately.
I remember seeing signs of decline in local magazines and in journalism sites even before the "pdf file fantasy" (and the following non-fantasy edition) scandal.
It was going on for decades but sped up in gamergate and then his the NOS in 2016. Basically all the smart spies retired and their r*tarded underlings took over and exposed the whole operation.
On the drag thing.
There has been a notable, idk what to call it, cognitive dissonance. Where drag is both "trans liberation" and "transphobic" depending on what the LGBT needs it to be at the time.
A similar thing has gone on now with femboys, however because we don't do that flamboyent look and would rather look passing we're treated as "transphobic" or "eggs" for the most part. That's the deal with the "Link is trans/nonbinary" article as well. It's delibrate attempts to erase femboy autonomy from the transcommunity that treats us poorly.
it seems, according to them, men can't be feminine without identifying as something other than men.
i think they see drag queens and femboys as traitors to their cause of trans acceptance, because they're examples of people who accept who they are, rather than trying to gaslight everyone into thinking they're something else.
like, they're looking at drag queens like "you dress like a woman, act like a woman... just BE a woman!"
meanwhile they don't see their own hypocrisy in using their gender stereotypes to misgender characters: like calling Link non-binary because he's not hyper masculine.
@@PyrokineticFire1
Exactly, rampant hypocrisy. We see it with tomboys as well, though I can't speak much experience there.
But yeah misgendering femboys and tomboys and characters even remotely similar to those groups is extremely common among the LGBT. Those that don't do it also will downplay the behavior as acceptable but the roles reversed they'll call it phobic.
I always like to point their agreement with Praguer U on the topic "men can't wear women's clothing" since these people rely on virtue points.
Everyone is Schrödingers ‘X’. Simultaneously empowered and victimised until acted on by an outside stimuli, forced to resolve into whichever gives the best strategic advantage.
These wokes are just using blacks, LGBTs, minorities, and women is a means to justify their woke agenda. The blacks are often used in such a manner by more than just the wokes. Just ask a brother or sister about it and they'll tell you.
For me, one of the greatest injustices is that backs can say the N word and the C word while whites can't say either of them. If us whites can say those words then the blacks shouldn't be allowed to either. Or alternatively, just give non-blacks (whites included) the right to say the N and C words in a non-racist context on the same level as the blacks can say them.
This is just irl version of that Community episode where dean & Pierce are trying to find the perfectly gender & ethnically neutral mascot for school. Jeff says "I think fighting racism IS the new racism" & he's absolutely correct.
This obsession with diversity in industries that are already extremely diverse to the point they're trying to actually BULLY companies into unnecessarily shoe-horning diversity to the detriment of story or gameplay is as fascistic as all the classic bigotry from the 60s-80s. They're becoming the very thing they claim to be against.
you know what is funny, a Content Creator recently made a video about the games "Cygames" creates and their "Gran blue fantasy Universe". their "Gacha", "Fighting game" and "JRPG game" that came out a bit over a month ago does diversity right, they even got their own "Animes", one which is the "main story line" and some others with some side characters were they flesh out the characters out more.. There are dozens of different races in the Anime and games, people with all kinds of skin tone, sizes, transsexual people, gay relationships are in there, you got the classic tomboys, the big sister, the goofy jokester.. and the list goes on!! But nothing feels forced, the Characters are not one dimensional, their sexuality or appearance is not the only thing that makes them unique. (one of my favorite Characters is Cagliostro, She was a guy before who decided to make a new body with the power of Alchemy, when the old Body was frail, but went with a female one and transferred the soul into it. Alongside becoming an even more powerful Alchemist, She now tries to be in her image the perfect Cute Woman, but her true personality seeps through from time to time, giving her so much more depth and its just a delight seeing her banter and the more psycho and sadistic side of her, She oozes personality, and this is just one of many chars who are like that with multiple layers of characteristics etc..)
Truth be told i never really payed attention to this wide variety of "Diversity" in the Gran Blue fantasy Games until it got pointed out and i can tell you exactly why:
It feels natural! Nothing feels forced and all the characters are wonderful, with their own quirks and story to tell!
Cygames, A Company in japan who is doing this stuff correct for over a decade, yet the West fails so hard with it!
Duversity has always been a thing in games.
New Vegas is considered a cult game in LGBT circles, yet it isn't woke at all, my favourite companion is Veronica, the nerdy lesbian who was kicked out of her home for her unwillingness to bear children. And if you follow her questline you will fall in love with her faction, you know... those that kicked her out.
New Vegas uses philosophy instead of politics, which means that even characters that are pro-genocide get to explain their philosophy
@@Lampoluke i know who you are talking about, but i only played New Vegas once in my life. But just like the example i mentioned above, it felt natural, i wasn't thinking about "who is who" etc., the characters were fun and interesting and so was the world. "THIS" is how you do it!
To be fair, Canada DID give us Tom MacDonald and Jordan Peterson
and ryan reynolds, keaunu reeves, rush, the tragically hip. we apologize for drake and bieber but hey they cant all be winners
@@remrem-gx3ml Ey now, no reason to shit on my boy JB. He can make some decent music from time to time
@@remrem-gx3ml
How could have forgotten literally me, Ryan Gosling?
personally not a hug fan and i forget he exists. i like a lot of the stuff he has been in and his performance he just doesnt stick in my head for some reason.
which really speaks to his acting skill however is probably why you dont hear about him anymore. he is too good disappears into his roles.@@ftorididk4198
@@remrem-gx3mlyou haven’t lived down Brian Adams
I remember back before time, around 2001, an article in a gaming magazine (Gamestar) about the life of a gaming journalist. One specific paragraph I still remember, it was about how the readers have no idea about how bad it is when you have to play a game hours and hours and hours and write a 2 page article about it while the game itself is soo insane bad that you want to format your hard drive after 10 minutes just to make sure you get rid every byte of it.
God of War's newer games are actually pretty good, despite having Sweet Baby fingerprints on it, It does justice to the most underrated and unnecessarily hated role in modern media, a stoic father, and the struggle of trying to connect with his son.
He still has that rage in him but showed regret for his relentless slaughter in the pursuit of revenge by the end of GoW3 and is the reason he tries to hide his past from his son.
A series I would recommend trying.
People really forgot that the first three games, along with the side games, had reasons and story for why Kratos became who he is and why he was ruthless. The newer games are him finally having left that life behind, trying to be better after so long of hating and anger. Did people really expect him to keep being a killer even after getting his revenge? For what reason did he need to? Hell, the only reason he even went after ares was because he got tricked into killing his family. Technically, his revenge should have ended with him.
Sir, with all due respect to you, i would rather be hung by my balls and have them slowly chopped via a rusty hedge clipper rather than spending another minute in ironwood or consider the "ragnarok" moment in azgard as something not rushed or haphazardly put togather.
Or all the narative inconsistencies or low effort marvel-esk dialogs in the later half of the game (especially the speach part before blowing the horn)
A lot of the time, indie games are where you can find gems. AAA games can often be cash grabs. Indie games are passion projects from people who want to show off their skills and actually give people something fun and often challenging, like Hollow Knight and Cuphead, or a narrative-driven adventure, like BaTIM or Omori.
Reaident Evil 5 not only shaped a huge part of my childhood(albiet in high school by that time).
But it also led to me getting a love letter from the person I played with over Playstation's messaging. I still have that message saved on my ps3 despite how long it has been since I even booted it up.
With the Kratos thing, that was kind of the point. His brutality and vengeance at the end of the day lead him to nothing. The point of this new set of games is Kratos realizing his past mistakes and trying to do better. Fighting his nature in both the memory of his wife, and to ensure that his son does not follow the same path that he did.
Yeah, I tried pointing that out, too. The whole section dripped with "I didn't play it, but it's bad and wrong".
It's a huge shift and it seems weird at first, but it's not like we go from "murdering psycho" to "happy dad". We're still very much playing a very angry, kinda bad person and slowly realizing where both that and the desire to change it come from.
Insinuating Kratos is an example of "how games go woke" is fucking nonsense. He's just an actual person now, rather than the 2000s edge lord power fantasy. He was fun in the past and he's still fun now, he just makes more sense as a human being.
@dowfreak7 My favorite little moment is when he's mad at BOY for missing the deer, he starts to yell, catches himself, and calmly tells him only to fire when ready. He's constantly fighting against his violent nature to try and become a better person.
25:23 Is it out of character though? Even in God of War (2018), Kratos is against unnecessary killing and admonishes his son for killing someone they didn't have to kill.
"I teach you to kill in defense of yourself. Never as an indulgence."
That co-founder of SBI was talking like slavery still exists and she "The Saviour" is saving people and giving them food, water and shelter or something 😂. The saviour mentality goes hard on this one.
More slaves today than 200 years ago
Feels like peta all over again
Slavery does still exist, just not like how co-founder thinks how it is.
@@UniqueBreakfastTaco nah, how could you say that? we are family here
God the little song at the beginning gives me a serotonin boost
It's gotten so bad Kotaku heads told its "journalist" to just make game guides instead. 😂
"Kratos is an older, pained father"
Because he wasn't pained when his loved brother was abducted, his family was incinerated and he was cursed to wear their ashes as a second skin. Do people even listen to themselves?
The big issue with the journalist being terrible at the game was that you need to be able to play games in order to rate them.
I saw a comment compare this to a guy trying to review a steak house without knowing how to use a steak knife.
Last 10 years? Wait, how old am I, it can’t be, my favourite games are that old?! Frick
Don't forget the your an ist if you don't like x product
Or phobic
Consume product without asking questions lest you be branded a bad boy
@@PeachDragon_ no matter how objectively terrible it is even if one ignores the 'culture wars' idiocy.
And no, the 'right' isn't any less idiotic on such matters, they just pin their idiocy to issues where their position hasn't been socially acceptable to reasonable people since before many current adults were even born, while the 'left' have hijacked actually legitimate issues that are relevant in current decades to paint on the top of their particular flavour of malicious biggotry.
(note: this isn't 'the right' and 'the left' in their entirity, just the collection of malicious actors and radicalised idiots who make up the parts of both who engage in 'culture wars' as a smoke screen for their actively anti-anyone-not-them-and-their-close-buddies actions.)
Finally... someone pronouncedd FUM properly, thanks Lana
My Canadian friend has pointed out that this whole this is absolutely stupid because these people obviously make things that sell well, so the general market clearly doesn’t care, and we already did this ten years ago, it became stupid and annoying immediately, and it’s stupid and annoying again already, and everyone is ignoring all of the generally well-liked games that SBI was involved in just to create a boogeyman.
My counterpoint to him was that he was completely right about the original GG quickly devolving into complete cringe, and the possibility is absolutely there for the same thing to happen, but this time, the general market has clearly been voicing displeasure at basically the entire gaming industry for years now. Companies like SBI are being paid hundreds of thousands to do whatever they can to ruin games, all while actual game designers are being laid off en masse. This time, it’s not just an undercurrent of people who don’t want games to become woke, this time it seems to be the majority of non-casual gamers who are fed up with the BS of the industry, and the recent disappointment of Sony’s Spider-Man 2 is probably what allowed this to be the case. The story being so bland that no one was talking about it a week after launch, and not being able to play as Venom outside of a single mission, combined with the industry heavily pushing the $70 pricetag, all while they hire people who seem to have a track record of making games worse, has absolutely caused many gamers to finally realize that they’re actually fed up with the gaming industry, and SBI is just the current outlet for that frustration, because it’s something that nearly everyone can agree is bad.
Of course its a major issue
Alana, real talk. I'm genuinely glad that there is actually someone as cool as you spreading the news of how fucked up this stuff is. Seeing you here gives me slightly more hope in humanity, and even myself. Thank you so much for what you do, and I will always be a loyal fan of yours!
A review a game you can’t play well is like reviewing a novel in a language you can barely read. You can do it but it’s more of a reflection of you then the product
One gaming struggle I doubt I'll ever forget is in Monkey Magic where after the first boss I had to just figure out how to use a new move or I would never leave the first room of the next level. PS1 mind you this was long ago
Salty Toddler Coalition
The only time I was even a little scared of the ocean was when I was working on a shrimping vessel and there was a shadow swim under the boat bigger than the boat I was on.
That scared me but beyond that experience I have no problem with oceans in general.
You know watching this video kind of makes me feel like maybe I should become a game journalist who sincerely pokes at my own incompetence.
Wouldn't be surprised that she got Dead by Delight mixed up with Dying Light.
The thing with the cuphead guy sure props for posting it but it just shows how extremely out of touch he was where he didnt even realise how horrible he was at game control in general. Anyone with even a modicum of knowledge would know that posting that would make their entire career look like a joke.
You should see the doom eternal video, it's even worse than cuphead
That was just the beginning of the symptoms that started showing from early on, but I believe the problem runs much deeper than that. Imagine if the direct consumer-facing reviewer of a consumer product is so out of touch, how far up the corporate chain is it full of corrupt businessmen who simply have zero interests in ever learning about whatever it is they are doing?
It's only now the truth starts coming out, but it'll take a while before everything is revealed to the public (mostly via self-reporting, funnily enough). I won't be surprised when we keep inevitably finding out more and more how deep this rabbit hole goes, so I won't waste my time staying baffled or upset. I'm just here for the ride, and I hope it'll be a good one, if just for nothing else than to partially make up for what they have been taking away from us.
Gamers will always have the last laugh, because unlike those people who keep trying to bully us, we always know how to have fun. I think that's the most redeeming and important quality we have to be reminded of in these chaotic times.
I disagree with the GOW claim. I appreciate that he’s trying a different path.
I like and agree with her on a lot but that GoW take was horrendous. That was the entire point of the sequel games
@josiahjones7910 I find really interesting that the creator of GoW hates New Kratos too..
@@Pimegoki I saw that too. I understand to a degree where he’s coming from but I think it’s absolutely stupid to think a character should never evolve and move on or change in any way. Like cmon man
@@GBelmont87 I fully agree with you
Agree but disagree. It's okay he wants to change but man, the messaging and the way they went about it, the words they used, it's absolute ass, lefty lecturing audience on how to not be a bad person.
Did you all forget why his first family died? Because he was too nice and forgiving? So he took his revenge by killing all the gods because they were just playing with human's lives?
I can agree that he is willing to change because he grew older and wiser and now has a new son and hopes for things to be different, but the "we have to be better for our children" to a god that doesn't care at all about it, did he roll a nat 20 on his persuasion? Nah man, there are way better ways of accomplishing his character growth and trying to convince gods to stop fucking with mortals to stop this endless cycle of war between gods and their creation. They did a really sucky job at it. Gameplay was quite fun tho, way better than the two combo spam in original GoW trilogy.
Big fat disagree on the GOW thing. Kratos journey throughout the newer games makes perfect sense for his character.
She had a bad take with god of war. The whole point of kratos rage and journey through the first series was because of this dead wife and daughter and the gods lying to him. He moved to a whole new area and had a child to hopefully be better. And he's grown into a father. He couldn't be with his daughter. So i thought the growth of his character was well thought out and pretty good.
Same and I thought my fellow right wingers or anti SJWs actually wanted there to be good depictions of fathers in entertainment.
I don't play God of War to have a walking simulator preach at me about how men should be better.
@@Castitalus But you listen to the first person telling you that's what it is?
Because it's not. Jesus Christ, play the game, form your own opinion and come back here to laugh at how stupidly shit and wrong your take is.
You acting like the "toxic male" stereotype, with a dash of complete ignorance of the actual source matter, isn't a great look.
@Castitalus he's not saying men should be better he's telling his son to be a better God and man than he was. He's not preaching to all men it's a father telling his son not to make the mistakes he made.
@@Castitalus ..thats something a woman would say.. "were 10/10 perfect in every way, i dont care about even considering self improvement! ..that would ding my ego!"
I'm shocked Alana has never heard that "exaggerated swagger of a black teen" line. It's been around for years and it's infamous.
All I can see now is the eastern game companies selling the most games because one example is stellar blade being in second place as the most pre ordered game on the ps5 and vindictous is also a game to look at also because they’re making sure sbs isn’t getting there hands on them
Those statistics about female gamer percentages also includes mobile games like candy crush… that specific statistic that was referenced about 37 min in is actually from a SURVEY not a study.
With only a couple thousand respondents.
3000 respondents for PC gaming
6000 respondents for Mobile gaming and 4000 respondents for Consoles.
25:17 to be fair, God of War Ragnarok takes place about a thousand years after God of War 3, so, Kratos had that long to reflect. The change in his character is not out of nowhere.
Unless that game itself says so, we can never say thousands.
150 years is the only information we have
@@TiredDoktor6391 comics and creators themselves have confirmed this.
@@Kurogane893
Comics are comics. By cory barlog's word, they are considered as secondary cannon like the novel.
Meaning if its not mentioned in the game as well, its not to be taken as full cannon.
So again, all we have is 150 years
@@TiredDoktor6391 Then take the actual devs word. They themselves have confirmed the time leap.
The biggest fears of human beings are of the unknown. Including the ocean since we’ve only really been in like the tippy tip top fraction of it.
Okay, I'll try to be objective.
I'm not great at every game, Stellaris is a wall for me. But, BUT! I would just not review Stellaris. If I found any game I couldn't get through the tutorial when the explanation is literally (press x then press x again in mid air to double jump) written on screen, and I couldn't wrap my head around that? I'd just not review it. It's not for me. Doesn't mean it's a bad game or anything, just that I literally am not capable of reviewing the quality of this game.
There are undead in Dead by Daylight. If you play as Nemesis, he gets zombies to help him.
Game journalists go to war with gamers almost as hard as Alana's chat goes to war with her.
"There's no undead in dead by daylight"
Oni, Rin Yamaoka, freddy, chucky, the wraith: are we a joke to you?
Nemesis, somewhere in a corner killing his own FELLOW ZAMBIES for xp: STARS?
On dead by daylight being a zombie game with an undead apocalypse and such, I knew instantly what she meant, because I make EXACTLY the same mistake constantly... She's confusing _Dead by Daylight_, and _Dying Light_, which, I suppose you probably know, but just in case, IS a zombie game made by the devs that left and started a new studio after they finished dead island.
I have thalassophobia, personally. It's fairly mild, but I will NEVER play Subnautica, that is an actual nightmare for me. We have legs for a reason, and that reason was to leave the evil primordial soup.
In regards to the Dead By Daylight comment thing, yeah that is really more of a general horror game with no zombies apart from Nemesis from Resident Evil which is the closest thing to a zombie in that game.
With the cup head video. I'll admit way back, around the time I first got my 360. I bought super meat boy, and I cannot tell you why but I struggled for so long and so hard to grasp the wall jumping of the game. I don't know what happened to me that day but I'm sure it took me like an hour if not more. - It's my biggest shame when it comes to gaming.
Which is even more funny given I had bought the 360 to pvp in darksouls after seeing pvp videos of the game. I never even played through it normally. I got a save editor made a moonlight sword build and jumped into pvp right away by teleporting myself to the dark forest. That was how I learned how to play darksouls games. So the fact I struggled in SMB after that is just wild.
15:30 my diplomatic efforts with the demons aren't working!
the god of war reboots are good and ya I bought his character shift, he's an old man reflecting on all the destruction and death he caused throughout his life and dealing with the loss of his loved ones. Reflection comes with age so it makes sense. I haven't played Ragnarök yet (PC gamer here) but I really liked God of War (reboot). It is kind of a last of us-like though...
Also I have a problem with people constantly saying that diversity hiring or forcing people into positions based on their race is "Protecting them." They aren't being attacked or intentionally excluded at this point, so making the assumption that they're protecting them just hits me as a narcissistic hero complex on the person who thinks they are saving them by pushing for them to be hired over someone of a different race that might be more qualified or interested.
Lol RE5 XD I also played RE5 when I was a kid in coop with my bro and neither of us took the racist thought process. Honestly I really hope that they remake the game and keep it the same for the story. Also I think people forget that the real villains that are pulling the strings are Wesker, who is whiter than snow, another short white man who I think was Spanish? and then a Spanish/Italian lady.....Like what? I think this might've been a classic case of reviewers not actually playing through the game before trying to label it with a controversy.
There was an old Nintendo 64 game with a variety of low power aircraft. super lights like paraglider with an engine
I don't remember that having any instructions to it All I remember is flying around and chasing a space rocket launch to stall height
Its one thing to be bad at a game, we all get to a point when we have been staring at the screen for too long, are dead tired and on the verge of passing out. Even if a puzzle is easy, when your brain is at the end of its marathon of focus even simple tasks become difficult... that being said this is the tutorial, the point when your brain should be at full focus... and to make matters worse... you have to remind yourself that he got paid for this. Thats the part that I think frustrates people the most is when you get paid to do the thing most of us do for fun, it irks them when this is the level at which they do so. Its maddening cause then you say to yourself "well fuck I could do that" and also "this guy gets paid more than me"
I agreed with everything until GOW statement I personally believe the game gotten better with the stubborn learning father kratos rather than kill everything that's not on ur side Kratos
Remember Jack Thompson? Nothing has changed since OG grand theft auto
I think being a “gamer” includes how much of your time, thoughts, and socialization is tied to gaming. I played quite a few games over the years on multiple consoles since I was a kid and I still never considered myself a gamer because it was never my primary interest. My friends and I barely ever talked about the games we played, it wasn’t the main thing we did when hanging out. I care about the condition of the industry but I won’t ever play most of the games I follow for the interesting news.
Dont try and reign in the yapping. Its why i gravitaed towards your reaction content. Love the fact you put your thoughts and opinions forward when watching something and actually engage with it. Makes for some high effort react andy content
On my journey through gaming I stop, look around and think:
No, no I don’t think I want anything in this direction. So I’m going to take my beloved older games, and I’m going home now.
On the topic of phobias, I'd say it's rarely I see syringes being jabbed into ourselves (the character) with some exceptions. It got me rather unwell, as I do have two phobias that are close interlinked: Hemophobia (I in particular cannot see my own blood... I pass out. Luckily for me, this doesn't translate into seeing a video game character bleed profusely.This phobia was a particularly nasty thing... when I served in the military some years ago - as I did in fact suffer several injuries). ... AND Trypanophobia which is the fear of Needles, in itself rather common yet... I go into fight or flight during vaccines, drawing blood, etc. Gaming journalism, has given me two sides mentality - We got people like Second wind (Ben "yahtzee" Croshaw, among others) among many out there... who I value's ones opinion - reviwing games is another side of the journalist experience. The other side of that same coin, where I feel the need to scream... is when a journalist deems a game horrendous, but doesn't 1) read the instructions that is hinted on, in numerous ways - from background text, improptu buttons flashing up, etc. "Talk to Marleen, in the ship hanger" said the journal entry, and our character seem to get that mentioned to them by an npc that holds the breadcrumb trail for us. 2) Doesn't accept some personal critic, when we the gamers view the content... and find it very difficult to agree with their statements. - my imput is done, sorry for the inconsistant mess of a blobb of text. Thank you and have a nice day!
10:20 I still think that he was drunk while recording that gameplay because I saw he playing other games and he did fine, while on that one he was unable to understand what he was reading and couldn't pull off a simple move. He probably doubled down on the "bad at games" joke to save face
That spongebob reviewer had me dying lmao.. given how easy it really was
Dude, Kingdom Come Deliverance was so fun, and the “backlash” made me want to play it even more lol
20:30 the prople with sub is that's the point. It's meant to be scary because that's a dangerous area
I'm gonna be honest, people like these journalists are one of the reasons I don't take it seriously when they say they got "threats". Because they either never give proof, or the examples they're willing to post are no worse than insults we've all seen a billion times online and they're not really actual threats.
I will say gaming does get harder the older you get. I don’t have nearly the focus for shooters as I did when I was 20. But it could be that I don’t get to practice nearly as much.
I feel that for every journalist entry we need 2 people reviewing the game. 1 that has at least played a video game or two before, just so they can show what the game can be like to someone who has never played a video game before, and then one that is more seasoned in the game genre that it is in so you can sort of see both sides.
I remember when games journalism would be about gameplay. It was a long time ago.
The God of War "out of character" thing is a bit stupid; there was a time-skip and almost two games worth of character development between GoW3 and Ragnarok, where Kratos learns to let go of mindless violence for the sake of his son.
From what I remember from the Kingdom Come Deliverance BS is that they were complaining that there weren't enough black people in it.
The ending of GoW 3 really do be different for everyone, huh? Having played only 1-3 than the newer ones. At the end of 3, going into 4, Kratos no longer wants to kill all the gods, He no longer wants to be Athena's monster. You know change his ways... Yes, he does end up killing a lot of gods again in 4 and Ragnarok, but he's not here killing normal civilians just because wrong place wrong time, or I need a body to go this way. Or in a complete rage about it. Him not killing Thor, in my head cannon, is, this his way of paying him back for not just leaving Kratos dead at the start of Ragnarok. If you want the same thing, then just replay the old games. In fact, while you're replaying the old GoW, you should also look into "Sparten Total Warrior" another classic hack, and slash from the 2000s. OH, also in Ragnarok Kratos does say something along the lines of its ok to kill something or someone if their attacking you, so not all love amd cuddles from Kratos. He also doesnt care about the problems the people around him have. His kid does and after a bit of pestering and promise of loot does he help. While you can like/hate whatever game you wish, it seems to me a little unfair to say it came out of nowhere, that Kratos would change somewhat over however long he's been around.
Game journalists are just regular journalists who failed to become one and game journalism the only place that literally accepts anyone because it requires zero journaling skills.
everyone has a phobia these days.. especially thlassophobia because they tried subnautica once and bounced off it.. or, was that cuz "muh adhd" ..
On the Thalassophobia thing. I am an arachnophobe, specifically spiders. Weirdly, never had a problem with scorpions. I don't like the big round spider eyes and the thick hairy legs. I want to clarify, I don't mean "Ew spiders are icky" I mean, I have a full on panic attack if I am in the room with one and become aware of it. I once did a full backwards standing jump over a couch in fear. One time I was working in the garden and I saw a big spider (about the size of my hand) crawling up my arm and I literally couldn't breath, I ran into the house, gasping, unable to breath until I vomited and that forced the diaphragm to work again. So when I say "Arachnophobic" - I really really mean it.
With that in mind, and my basic understanding of self preservation, I have not played many games that feature large spiders. I have not played Grounded and there is a recording out there somewhere of my having a panic attack while playing Resident Evil HD because I forgot all about Black Tiger. It seems to me utterly ridiculous to attempt to put myself in a position where I may become physically harmed by my own personal phobias, to the extent that it sometimes doesn't even occur to me that a game with large spiders is even something I can play. Like it doesn't even come up on my radar. I wanted to play Grounded because I loved Honey, I Shrunk The Kids when I was young, but after seeing the giant spiders, I completely forgot about the game for over a year, until a friend of mine asked my if I'd played it yet.
So, as someone with a phobia, I genuinely don't understand why anyone with Thalassophobia would even think about wanting to play a game like Subnautica, which is almost entirely in an ocean. With understanding my personal experience with arachnophobia, if I were afraid of the ocean, Subnautica would be like walking through walls, it wouldn't even cross my mind to play it. It wouldn't register as it would be a logical impossibility for me.
Side note, but interestingly, the spiders in Skyrim don't scare me at all. I get shivers from some angles, but their faces are too.... *lip quiver*.... human....
I'm so exhausted from hearing about non-problems in politics.
One day there's gonna be an article that's titled "WWII Is Racist And Schools Should Stop Teaching It" and the general consensus will be split down the middle, and when that happens I'm officially checking out of reality.
25:27 it's called character development something that clearly nobody knows what it is I'm not justifying what sweet baby does but I'm telling you right now when it comes to God of war I don't play a war on with that s*** You're right it is out of character but it's called character development He's trying to change that was the whole point it's not like you going out in his van My son is gay or some s*** but I'm pretty sure nobody wants to keep seeing cradles just mindlessly killing gods that s*** gets old quick if that wasn't the point of the story then I wouldn't care I wouldn't care if he killed Thor I would not but the whole point was trying to end the cycle that some that most God of war fans would know
By the way I'm not defending sweet baby ink by anyway I'm just calling out when someone doesn't know what the f*** you're talking about a certain game I'm not defending sweet baby on all the other games they have helped make cuz honestly suicide squad was awful I never like for spoken and I never really played Spider-Man 2 so I can't make an opinion on that game until I get it but I have played God of war Ragnarok and I've been a hardcore God of war fan it's called character development it's called progression He's a father when you say stuff like mindless killing machine that lets me know you do not play this game because what it sound like you you just want him to just kill everyone so you just want him to be one dimensional
I think the narrative of Kratos annihilating his pantheon, stabbing himself to release Hope to the world, and still surviving, wandering the world until he hits Midgard and getting a second chance at a family, and trying not to fall back into the monster he used to be, is actually interesting. You are allowed to separate a concept from a writing team, otherwise you will only be able to enjoy like....what 3 things?
kratos character progression will have been better if had seen more of him changing over time... here we start with the death of his wife.... and all this stuff.... and in ragnarok, don't start me... the trouble is more about... .Kratos is a nobody in the last part.... you see people doing more insane stuff while kratos and his son are running in trench. and still being the one that stop all... that a double writing that feel bad in many way.
without forget the whole ragnarok trouble is some discutable decision about character like Odin that look like a car vendor of today... or a man of modern age in a medieval setup... or Loki wife a giant that did become black... i'm against any form of race swaping in already existing story. it's not representation, it's not inclusion.... it's insulting for the original story. if you want to create more representation or inclusion... create new story for create new model, not overwrite what exist for centurys....
god of war was mids in terms of DEI but still was present. and can be ignored... but in some other story you see how DEI group work... and it's killing game...
Game journalists are somehow to inept to work at rags like the Times or the Post.