Yeah a lot of people keep thinking that this is the same obsidian that made fallout New Vegas, so they assume that the narrative writers that wrote for that game still exist in modern day obsidian. When the truth is every gaming company out there doesn't have talent from two decades ago, this is also why so many games have lost their way essentially, this is why a lot of modern games really suck, it's because they have the same hiring practices, only hire women and people from the rainbow community, that's why these games always suffer that's why they're always slop.
This lunatic art director has gotten so comfortable being a confrontational bigot that he can't even tune it down when the entire company's work is on the line. He'd rather take an entire studio down with him than hide this phone in a drawer for a couple weeks while this dies down. That's the level of ego we're talking about here.
@@christopherdsuza7531 well to make matters worse Matt Hansen has been working for the studio as an artist for nearly a decade. Their are people in that very office that know the guy on a personal level now and here he is betraying all of his colleagues hard work for social media clout. 5 years making Avowed down the drain because of him.
@@msumungo Oh, he can probably comprehend it; he just can't acknowledge it. Their whole MO is to blame other people for their problems. That's why every one of them that speaks out like this and throws tantrums - act like entitled children.
@@msumungo He isn't willing to comprehend it either. Most likely will enforce the victim mentality he has and is gonna use this as a prime example and delve even further into his backwards mentality.
@@msumungo Correct. Purveyors of The Narrative cannot admit fault with the narrative because that would destroy the emotionally-laden persona they've built up around it.
Such an amazing game that i feel like a lot people don't even know exists I'm actually thinking of getting the re-reckoning(remastered) edition even though I have the original just to support the game.@@SkaerKrow
We need to stop getting hyped about games from names we know, stop seeing them as brands to be loyal to, and start viewing them on a case by case basis. Most of these companies are turbulent and aren't the same talented individuals who made our favorite games growing up. Bungie to 343, Bioware, Bethesda, Ubisoft, Obsidian, and a bunch of others are entirely different staffs from years ago. Researching before you buy, reviews from unbiased and not paid for people/outlets, and demos are more important now than they ever have been.
Also Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, Guerilla Games....And soon CD Projekt RED (They've already announced the Witcher 4 is going to be DEI galore) Our only hope are indie and Asian devs
I kinda feel bad for the programmers, engineers, sound designers and gameplay devs that actually had nothing to do with and worked hard on it. Yeh they got paid, but money isn't everything.
The Obsidian team that made the likes of New Vegas are mostly gone. Replaced by activist, DEI hires, A common theme in the present day western gaming industry.
And there's nothing you can do about it. Try to make a good studio hiring based on merit you get and forced to open DEI consultants like what happened at blizzard.
That's the case of most of these beloved studios. The ppl that made the timeless gems are long gone, and you can only hope that leadership and company culture or dev phylosobphy hasn't changed as they hire talented startups.
I’m gay and I can’t understand why they are doing this anymore. There has always been gay characters in games and they have always been introduced without drama and just are there as it’s just another heterosexual couple. That’s how it should be, just embrace the normality do not freaking twist and wrap everything with nonsense and make it the sole focus of the game. It’s a fantasy game where everything is normal, literally you’re throwing fireballs out your hand…. Why bring that political vomit in 😢
Yeah but inclusion is not the goal. The woke and dei agenda is used to force these topics in such an openly aggressive way to antagonize as many people as possible against gay, trans and most importantly reawakening exclusion and racism. All in the spirit to prevent another occupy wall street. You have no time fighting the rich when the mob is preoccupied with these topics.
I agree with you as a bi. The alphabet police has to make everything about them novadays. Since they added t and q it all went to shit. This will be another failed game.
It was the T that did it. They don’t even belong there if you think about it (not a sexuality). Everything beyond that (with the exclusion of asexuals) is pure identity politics and delusion. Feels bad seeing the gay flag with that parasitic triangle on it nowadays.
That racist art director is such a keyboard warrior he must be smashing his keyboard in soy infused rage while blabbering out his insane tweets, because they are full of spelling errors XD
It's painfully obvious now that developers like these are making games for themselves and not the general gamer population. Agenda and narrative before profit. Avoid them like the plague. Don't give them one more dime.
You know Alex Jones, as wild as he can be said this is all a planned attack against our culture and masculinity in particular. I believe him. DEI is funded by blackrock so there you go.
Those tags are user defined. They do NOT come from the devs. It's steam users that have applied that tag based on this controversy. That's not a defense, just pointing it out because accuracy matters.
fuuuuuuck that. lol. I'm a grown ass man with a family. I have been a gamer since I could pick up a controller. there is zero chance that I give up an actually, realistically fantastic deal like game pass. it's so damned childish that that's your response.
I thought not showing the character creator was a little weird, at first. Didn’t really give it much credence….Then the flood gates opened with the art director losing his mind. Yeah, this game is now a hard pass for me.
Avowed is already dead regardless of how good the game is, it's gonna be review bombed and the dev is gonna make a massive loss on it, potentially causing the death of Obsidian
Obsidian is like 90% dead already anyways. All the actual talent and creativity that built it in the first place is long gone, so all that's left is a bunch of talentless millennial activists who's only financial understanding is how to ask mommy for more trust fund money
Yup, and everyone review bombing will name this guy and his racism. It won’t completely bomb, it’ll be like DragOnStage: The Failhard were it sells a few but barely breaks even.
The woke age is a terribly sad time. I care alot for people, i do not care what your gender is or what ever, just do not expect everyone to be onboard with it. We are all different, and it is very rare that we actually agree on everything, and forcing people too choose your pronouns (Looking at you DA:Veilguard) it is going in the wrong direction. Make a game around these issues, do not make a rpg fantasy game and force every single real life political issue in your game.. It is beyond stupid.
It's not that difficult to just pick "he/him "for your male character... Things like pronouns should not even be a political debate; It's such a minor topic compared to other actually important political issues. This does not harm you or anyone else, you're only having an issue with this because you have an issue with those few people who will be happy about being able to choose a different pronoun. Why be against a minor character creation (one-time selection) feature that will not affect your gameplay and might make someone else happy?
@@koumei223 dunno why you're liking your own comments. the person you're responding to was talking about veilguard. did you miss the part where he quite clearly typed "look at you DA: Veilguard". or was your rage too boiled from him dismissing pronoun obsession?
Well, all us "white dudes", hardcore gamers who would have picked up a game like this or Veilguard 10+ years ago in an instant are hard passing but apparently there is a pronoun audience of gamers so large that they think it will be ok and they will still have massive success? ..oh wait. Good luck Obsidian, you're going to need it.
It sounded like that first tweet/comment was supposed to say "I've noticed alot of great artist of color who should be working in the industry get passed on for poor porfolios, send them to me for a free consult so you can smash your next interview" (offering mentorship) But he didn't say that and instead doubled down on being very problematic 🙄
@@dohungnguyen6978it’s a shame it’s getting a bad rap because of this game (or more because of a specific art director) but it’s basically impossible for western studios to make fantasy settings that aren’t like that anymore.
@dohungnguyen6978 well, Eora is now officially Califantasy. The art direct said so himself. Who you gonna trust, your lying eyes or your saddened heart?
They better panic, because even if they fire him, I'm not touching a game he art directed. I loved POE1 and 2, but I had no clue the people making it actively hated me for my race and gender. I'll steer clear of Obsidian.
@@Rangar1959 B 3 was amazing, but they put tons of DEI in it still. I'm kind of torn apart about Larian Studios. Depends if they go "full retard" I suppose
I've already taken a hardline stance. If I find out that there's a woke person spewing their politics into the game, I blacklist that studio. We've given them inches over the years, and they've taken miles. Sure, if they don't contaminate the game they work on, I don't mind buying it. But they DO contaminate their games, so I don't. Even if the game is really good, I will still refuse to buy it if it's xontaminated. It's a matter of principle at this point.
I don't know how anyone got hyped by this game. The day they released the first trailer, changing the grim dark theme we saw on reveal years ago it was dead for me. That colorfull Fortnite stuff is ultra saturated, veilguard vibes. Not to mention the way they rushed 3rd person gameplay after the massive backlash for being a 1st person only game. This reeks of halfbacked animations, buggy messy combat and worse. Woke racists devs were just the cherry on top
I know a 22 year old flamboyantly gay gamer who bought and played DA:VG specifically to support the game and studio. Even he said the characters are insufferable. They couldn't even capture their target demographic.
I'm pretty sure Obsidian isn't gonna walk back any of the statements made by this guy and Microsoft doesn't care either because they are the ones pushing the DEI crap on the studios they own..I'm gonna enjoy watching the game bomb when it comes out and later the studio being closed down because of abysmal sales😂.
Suprising people are calling Obsidian DEI and woke when they have been making progressive leaning stuff since New Vegas, this culture war rage bait is fascinating
@dohungnguyen6978 when you're shilling for obsidian on each comment with the same talking point you should get them straight first. The people who were involved in new Vegas are long gone and you come off as incredibly disingenuous if you seriously consider being woke and being a liberal 15 yrs ago the same thing. Obsidian was on decline for a while, they wasted so much time on that pathetic ant game. This is just the logical conclusion. Their hiring practices got exposed and it will hopefully end this waste of a studio. I'm done with them. I came to term with the fact that the people who once did games I enjoyed moved on and aren't with the studio anymore. So why shouldnt I do the same. Hopefully this will be a hard lesson for the people working there. If the art director feels so comfortable to spew his vile hatred online, then I can't imagine the culture within that studio.
I think that America has spoken. Look at the recent vote. No more trying to force your agenda on people, please. I think you are correct and I respect your opinion.
Companies don't make good games, people do. The people that made Obsidian great are GONE, stop being loyal to studio names. I do not understand why any of you were excited for this obvious trash pile.
The Obsidian team adding pronouns and LGBTQIA+ tags to their games are signing the games death warrant. I think it is fine because with all thew woke garbage front and center I know NOT TO BUY THE GAME designed for THEY \ THEM not ME! Why be upset about a woke game admitting it was made for that mythical Modern Audience that never buys games or watches content?
If developers want to make an lgbtqp+ game, fine. Scrape together a few million dollars for the budget and make a nice raunchy pointless dating sim or something. If you're dedicated to making a game for an incredibly tiny audience, at least utilize a budget that makes sense. But spending hundreds of millions to make a game and then telling like 90% of the fanbase that they're not wanted is definitely _not_ a recipe for financial success
This is not just gaming. This is tech. This is media. This is finance. This is corporate. We have an obtuse example here but it’s indicative of a quiet trend happening for years. This is just the mask off moment.
This is similar as Concord devs and look what happen they were shutdown and fired everyone. They clearly hate players as well I think. They ignore player feedbacks.
I decided to go on PC and play only games made before 2018. Tons of gems, easier on Steam and GOG PLUS STARVING TRIPLE A UNTILL THEY MAKE GOOD GAMES AGAIN. I love GRumms recommendation, don't buy new games for 2 years to clean up the indistry.
How is he wrong? Elon musk is one of the most divorced man on earth with a huge number of kids that don't want to do anything with him, while he pays woman to keep quiet over his sexual assault towards them.
It's simple .. If that's their Direction, my direction is to, A. NOT open my wallet B. Carefully consider if I would EVER open it again for ANYTHING coming out of that studio AND any of it's affiliates C. Support with time & wallet those Organisations that do not engage in and or condemn these practices.
So it looks like there are lots of toxic workers in the gaming industry that just don't care how much money the company they work for loses. We see it over and over and over again. There is all the evidence in the world that if you want to be successful, simply don't put woken mental illness stuff in your game.
This is sad for Avowed. Obsidian did not learn from the failure of Concord and Dustborn. On the plus side, I can save money for the next Japanese/Korean/Chinese videogame with handsome, muscular men and beautiful, sexy women characters.
For me personally, huge red flags with the game: 1) first trailer - dark, kinda epic and mysterious and now it looks colorful and generic (I wonder what's the reason for this change lol) 2) Pronouns - basically not a problem for me, but it makes me immediately question why they are even in the game, what the developers' priority is and what else one should expect. 3) Statements from the developer 4) "Gaming for Everyone's Product Inclusion Framework" from Microsoft which is basically a checklist with questions for the developers that they have to ask themselves such as: - "When the story allows, do you show male characters who display a full range of emotions, including joy, sadness and vulnerability?" - or "Do they have exaggerated body proportions?" etc. I really believe that this game will be the next Veilguard.. I hope not of course, but that's too many red flags for me.
Let me be the person to say it: Godlikes (the only race you can play in Avowed) have been genderless in previous games (the Pillars of Eternity series). Godlikes only identify as she/him (and, thanks to recent additions, apparently also they/them). So pronouns have their purpose in this universe, or rather: in this game - simply because you can only play as Godlike. It's no wonder that current reviewers aren't allowed to show the character editor because people get on Obsidians roofs when they see that you can't choose male or female. That said, it doesn't change the fact that you are now forced to play the race that is genderless, (some people may find this woke?) or that you will be blocked if you ask the pronoun question on their social media. That Matt Hansen seems to be a racist and sexist piece of shit, that the game looks like it's been given the high fantasy treatment (despite the once dark fantasy setting), that the animations and graphics look like they did 10+ years ago, etc. A definite reason why I won't be buying the game.
@@athmaid Thank you very much. I understand the issue (especially after Veilguard) but most people who are getting hung up on the pronouns obviously haven't played the old games and that's okay because unfortunately the Pillars series never got the attention it deserved in my opinion. I think it's important to point out that this time it's not the pronouns that imply the wokeness factor.
Played PoE1 for 150 hours, couldn't get past act 1 in PoE2. Everything looks so off compared to the first game, like the mood feels wrong, if that makes sense. Avowed goes even more into this high fantasy, colorful pirate mood, which is not bad on it's own, it's just that it is such a big departure from the first game that I don't like it.
Sorry lil bro, only the opinion of the customers matter when you are trying to sell something. If they could change the lore of the Qunari in Dragqueen Age: Wokeguard to fit their own agenda, they can change the lore to fit what you customers want too. Unless ofc they are allergic to money, then they can stick with whatever bullcrap they want.
I just realized that; All the games coming out within the last couple years which had something to do with "these" people have all the same cartoony-graphics quality and color scheme and/or almost identical protagonist faces... Wonder why that is?
I wasn't even aware this was in development, but now it goes straight into the DO NOT BUY list. Now I suddenly get why Chris Avellone was telling people on Twitter that they may have a basis for a discrimination class-action.
So, I subbed within 35 seconds of seeing your content. Great delivery voice and cadence, great message, awesome Delorian thumbnail and that name, The Comeback Kids. Nailed it! I was looking forward to this too but the words of Matt Hansen and actions of blocking accounts for wanting a discussion about this myopic agenda driven narrative to reprogramme us all into believing this nonsense has ensured I will never play this game no matter how good it is. I will not be lectured to in the one place I go to escape the madness of this world, gaming.
Bro if sonic came out now for criticism we would’ve been called “chuds” then we would’ve gotten blamed and slandered when it failed. I miss the days when people who created the visual and interactive media we consumed had pride for their products and respect for their consumers. We’ve replaced artists with activists and real nerds who care about nerd culture with this tourists and vultures.
Vote with you wallets. So many other good games to play. This needs to stop, I know many of us wanted to play this but we are talking about saving the industry as a whole for the future. Vote with your wallets!
If a game has so much of something that I can blatantly know what political leaning the creators/developers of the game are part of... Then it's not a video game, It's political propaganda and I'm not paying for that.
Same song and dance... I swear, the degree to which these people fail to learn even basic lessons should definitely be considered a form of mental disability.
It's such a shame. When the gameplay was released and I saw the "Dark Messiah" style gameplay, I genuinely got somewhat excited. Then this happened, and well, as a game developer myself, I'll just go develop one on my own...
Listen you got to understand that the current people working in obsidian are not the same people that worked on fallout New Vegas, once you understand this, you will then understand that this is the reason why the quality of their game has gone down, hell even going back to play outer worlds was just like this, yeah I played that game recently, it reminded me of elder scrolls Oblivion but worse in some ways.
@@dohungnguyen6978 so i have never played those games, besides i was not talking about them i was talking about FONV, ya know the only good written fallout game to ever exist in the entire franchise?
I am also hopeful that someone steps in and corrects things for this game, I remember when I first saw the teaser for it, I was so hyped, and I didn't even know who was making it at the time. This guy needs to be held accountable for his words and his actions, and the woke nonsense needs to be taken out of the game completely. I agree with you that IF pronouns are really the only thing woke in the game, I can honestly live with that, but chances are, if there's one woke thing, there's another. As hyped as Ive been, if changes aren't made, I'm not buying. this director has ruined the perception of this obsidian and will cost them literal MILLIONS.
Wasn’t this game supposed to be the dark fantasy “successor” to Skyrim… wtf happened man you just can’t trust woke clowns they ruin everything. Thank god for Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon the true Skyrim dark fantasy successor and non woke fantasy rpg.
You ever played Pillar of eternity 1 or 2? The setting of Eora has been like this since its inception, I am convinced no one here actually play any Obsidian games lmao, they were progressive since the start. Most of there star talents are still with the company and in important roles too.
@@valerwolf255 well not my fault if none of you people paid attention, they made it very clear from the outset it’s no Skyrim. But sure, I’m the one crying lol 😂
Sad, I played Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2, Outer Worlds and my favorite game of all time was probably Fallout New Vegas. I was a huge Obsidian fan, but it seems they don't want me to be a fan anymore, I'll be taking a pass on this game.
The art director for avowed was originally an applicant for the Scooby Doo gang but Fred said "yeah uh sorry man but we already got a guy with a neckerchief we really don't need a neck scarf guy too" Then they hired Scooby instead.
By the way it wasn't review copies that they sent out, it was more in line with a early version of the game that only gave them access to the first 6-8 hours of the first starting area. It's important to nail down these facts and be as informed as possible.
To my knowledge the industry have been a mess for quite a while. The absolute majority of dev juniors don't get jobs. Of course, opportunities where scarce before but now it's deliberately skewed. From all the people I know in the industry, the only juniors over the past 4-5 years who's "made it" are from a dei background... Looking back it's insane. Some are talented, for sure. What keeps me up at night sometimes is that a lot of my friends who are more talented devs than I, have just quit the industry & gone back to school for engineering. I can't blame them. If there ever was a industry that doesn't reward hard work. This is the one. At least in my experience it's been like that.
@ike3320 don't care, I am definitely not going to walk the alternative, which is give them them money for garbage, I have no interest in ever playing, which is support them with my hard earned money that they will only donate to organizations that further this agenda, buy doing this I don't hand them a victory, I hand them a defeat, if everyone does this no one buys their games if no one buys their games their companies collapse, or haven't you heard? Bioware just opened a new indie studio, 4 years ago, because of "financial shortfalls" they are closing before they could even release their first game, I am sure that had nothing to do with the massive blow to their finances they took from DAV bombing harder than fat man or little boy.
? The fuck are you even saying lmao. The solution to this is very simple: Just don't buy their agenda driven shlop. I've been supporting Indie devs for the past 10 years and I have bought maybe a dozen or a few more than a dozen AAA games in the past 10 years. I have over 2k hours in Terraria. You're being a wee bit melodramatic here. Simply just don't buy their games, pray they fail to be successful and laugh when they inevitably do. I didn't buy DA:V, I'm not buying this game either. There's more than plenty games I own on steam that I still haven't finished playing through that I want to and plenty more indie games coming out in 2025 that I'm looking forward to. Just support the devs who prove with their gameplay that they are capable of making a good product and ignore the shlop which is pretty much 90% of what AAA puts out nowadays.
@@KnightspaceORG Exactly, guy is overreacting way too hard. I got list of 10 or so games on a list on Steam called "new games" which I put all the games I buy and haven't played through completely or at least a good amount if they aren't playthrough games. I got a "Favorites" list that has 50+ games which I have over 40 hours in each of them. A game like Terraria I have 2,000 hours in. Enshrouded I have 270 hours in and that came out the beginning of this year (early access). Tons of amazing games to play that are genuine games to be enjoyed for their fun and creative experiences and not to be spewed a social or political agenda.
"Most hyped" rpg used to mean something, now it just means a company has successfully taken so much attention away from all the other games by buying out all the ads.
I absolutely empathize with the artists being upset by the fact of their work, one they put hours, days, months, even years into, being trashed by the people who don’t know what the creative work is. Certain professional behaviour may be required, but it hurts the artist the same, since, well, they couldn’t do anything else than to stop. However, the art DIRECTOR is not an artist. It is a directorial position, this is upper management, his entire time is spent bullying artists, not creating the work. HE IS NOT AN ARTIST AND NEVER WAS. In modern companies, the “director” equals unelected privatized politicians.
It looks so good but I can't put money behind a company who pushes agenda like they do. They don't take criticism they just block. I'm sticking with smaller companies who care about making a great story.
Adding fuel to the fire with my comment. The ONLY protest that matters is non-engagement. This thread, video, comments all serve as engagement. The only way to fight the system is to ignore it.
Clicked on the video for the "devs panic" portion, hoping for new information not covered a hundred times in my feed. Can I confirm where the "Panic" piece is coming from? Was there any follow up that I missed or did I have wrong expectations. This being said, I am grateful that the LGBTQ portion of the game is highlighted before release. I can avoid having having wrong expectations on the game, and another disappointing experience. *going back to my FO4 mods, stellar blade and Tainted Grail: fall of avalon* Edit: grammar
Microsoft may be bad at alot of things, but accounting is not one of them. I wonder what the un-wished from steam ratio was for the last week? This guy thinks MS dont close studios down cause he's hidden in the gamepass blanket of cash? As always, gamers stay vigilant- he just said the quiet part out loud.
The creators, devs, and directors that made good game at Obsidian ARE 90% GONE. THIS IS NOT THE SAME COMPANY.
Yeah a lot of people keep thinking that this is the same obsidian that made fallout New Vegas, so they assume that the narrative writers that wrote for that game still exist in modern day obsidian.
When the truth is every gaming company out there doesn't have talent from two decades ago, this is also why so many games have lost their way essentially, this is why a lot of modern games really suck, it's because they have the same hiring practices, only hire women and people from the rainbow community, that's why these games always suffer that's why they're always slop.
@@5226-p1e And Blackrock who loan them the money to create game forces DEI ESG in the loan contract. Blackroks is trully evil
Same with bioware, as we've seen
Just like most company nowadays, this, BioWare, blizzard, all shell of what they used to be sadly.
Luckily there's a few solid devs out here 😊
We repeat these are not original obsidian devs
This lunatic art director has gotten so comfortable being a confrontational bigot that he can't even tune it down when the entire company's work is on the line. He'd rather take an entire studio down with him than hide this phone in a drawer for a couple weeks while this dies down. That's the level of ego we're talking about here.
That guy's an idiot. Wouldn't make it in the real world.
Ya thats crazy...think I'll avoid it after all he told us not to buy it so....
This isn't dieing down
Not only that
He's openly shittalking the owner of Twitter.....ON TWITTER
@@christopherdsuza7531 well to make matters worse Matt Hansen has been working for the studio as an artist for nearly a decade. Their are people in that very office that know the guy on a personal level now and here he is betraying all of his colleagues hard work for social media clout. 5 years making Avowed down the drain because of him.
Any guy that uses the word "daddy" to describe their job is a nutjob
Yep. People like that are usually later outed as diddys.
Using Daddy outside of a parental context is fucking weird in general
Betas think it makes them sound masculine, but to everyone else, it's second-hand cringe.
Also his different x names which he seemed to change “Matt Hansen of Matt Hansen Fame” 😂😂😂😂
I realise they use bluesky not x because of Elon, I guess you learn something new everyday.
Wokeness Detected.
Purchase Rejected.
Games for THEY \ THEM aren't Games 4 ME!
@@AUTISTICLYCAN it's not a game, its ideological injection programs.
@@AUTISTICLYCAN Me/My*
I"m only joking :)
Soon art daddy's job pronounce will be job/less
Im non-buynary
Its a wrap. He just single handedly cost a lot of people their jobs.
Unfortunately yes. I bet he doesn't even comprehend it.
@@msumungo Oh, he can probably comprehend it; he just can't acknowledge it. Their whole MO is to blame other people for their problems. That's why every one of them that speaks out like this and throws tantrums - act like entitled children.
I'm willing to bet he's a subversive sent in to destroy and undermine. This is deep, and it's industry wide.
@@msumungo He isn't willing to comprehend it either. Most likely will enforce the victim mentality he has and is gonna use this as a prime example and delve even further into his backwards mentality.
@@msumungo Correct. Purveyors of The Narrative cannot admit fault with the narrative because that would destroy the emotionally-laden persona they've built up around it.
Welp. I was gonna buy avowed. But as a straight white man... I guess I'll just go play Skyrim again
Oh no, you poor straight white man.
Yeah back to Remnant 2 coming up to 400 hours now, still lots to do
Could try Kingdoms of Amalur, if you haven’t already.
@@stalliondave9338so damn good lol
Such an amazing game that i feel like a lot people don't even know exists I'm actually thinking of getting the re-reckoning(remastered) edition even though I have the original just to support the game.@@SkaerKrow
We need to stop getting hyped about games from names we know, stop seeing them as brands to be loyal to, and start viewing them on a case by case basis. Most of these companies are turbulent and aren't the same talented individuals who made our favorite games growing up. Bungie to 343, Bioware, Bethesda, Ubisoft, Obsidian, and a bunch of others are entirely different staffs from years ago. Researching before you buy, reviews from unbiased and not paid for people/outlets, and demos are more important now than they ever have been.
Well said. :-)
True. Fromsoftware is the last studio I'd blindly buy games from, but even them are under threat now...
I made that mistake when buying black ops 6… the treyarch team i loved are gone
Also Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, Guerilla Games....And soon CD Projekt RED (They've already announced the Witcher 4 is going to be DEI galore)
Our only hope are indie and Asian devs
Exactly, but people are loyal in general. Hard to fight a natural human characteristic AND THEY KNOW IT and use it against us.
Avowed ❌
Avoided ✅
More like disavowed.
I kinda feel bad for the programmers, engineers, sound designers and gameplay devs that actually had nothing to do with and worked hard on it. Yeh they got paid, but money isn't everything.
NOn BUYnary.
I'm so happened they added the LGBTQ+ tag in steam so I can block all those games in 1 go.
@@CombatMedic1O
Agreed. I felt the same for people that worked on concord who didn't make the decisions for that games downfall.
The Obsidian team that made the likes of New Vegas are mostly gone. Replaced by activist, DEI hires, A common theme in the present day western gaming industry.
And there's nothing you can do about it. Try to make a good studio hiring based on merit you get and forced to open DEI consultants like what happened at blizzard.
But where are they now?
@ I’ll look into it. Many likely retired .
@@benjaminthibieroz4155 most of them probably retired now
That's the case of most of these beloved studios. The ppl that made the timeless gems are long gone, and you can only hope that leadership and company culture or dev phylosobphy hasn't changed as they hire talented startups.
I’m gay and I can’t understand why they are doing this anymore. There has always been gay characters in games and they have always been introduced without drama and just are there as it’s just another heterosexual couple. That’s how it should be, just embrace the normality do not freaking twist and wrap everything with nonsense and make it the sole focus of the game. It’s a fantasy game where everything is normal, literally you’re throwing fireballs out your hand…. Why bring that political vomit in 😢
1000000% THANK YOU!!!!!!!
Yeah but inclusion is not the goal. The woke and dei agenda is used to force these topics in such an openly aggressive way to antagonize as many people as possible against gay, trans and most importantly reawakening exclusion and racism. All in the spirit to prevent another occupy wall street. You have no time fighting the rich when the mob is preoccupied with these topics.
I agree with you as a bi. The alphabet police has to make everything about them novadays. Since they added t and q it all went to shit. This will be another failed game.
Balders Gate 3 showed everyone how to do it. Make a good game.
It was the T that did it. They don’t even belong there if you think about it (not a sexuality). Everything beyond that (with the exclusion of asexuals) is pure identity politics and delusion. Feels bad seeing the gay flag with that parasitic triangle on it nowadays.
That racist art director is such a keyboard warrior he must be smashing his keyboard in soy infused rage while blabbering out his insane tweets, because they are full of spelling errors XD
Just a other proof that education system was too busy teaching that gender spectrum bs instead of basic English
Just imagine having to work with him.
Thats what we call being an extremist. These types tend to be pedophiles as well
He probably doesn’t have the energy for that
He will be getting smashed in prison soon
It's painfully obvious now that developers like these are making games for themselves and not the general gamer population. Agenda and narrative before profit. Avoid them like the plague. Don't give them one more dime.
A developer marking their game on steam as an lgbtq+ game, has assured they won't sell any games to me... period.
Especially for me when the director was being racist to people of my skin color, aka white people.
@MeJustMe101 thankfully there's a rebellion against the woke agenda.
You know Alex Jones, as wild as he can be said this is all a planned attack against our culture and masculinity in particular. I believe him. DEI is funded by blackrock so there you go.
Those tags are user defined. They do NOT come from the devs. It's steam users that have applied that tag based on this controversy.
That's not a defense, just pointing it out because accuracy matters.
Getting triggered over a LGBTQ+ tag is pathetic dude
Cancel game pass. At this point, that's all Microsoft cares about. Done with this shit.
fuuuuuuck that. lol. I'm a grown ass man with a family. I have been a gamer since I could pick up a controller. there is zero chance that I give up an actually, realistically fantastic deal like game pass. it's so damned childish that that's your response.
Literally the best deal in gaming
I thought not showing the character creator was a little weird, at first. Didn’t really give it much credence….Then the flood gates opened with the art director losing his mind. Yeah, this game is now a hard pass for me.
Avowed is already dead regardless of how good the game is, it's gonna be review bombed and the dev is gonna make a massive loss on it, potentially causing the death of Obsidian
Obsidian is like 90% dead already anyways. All the actual talent and creativity that built it in the first place is long gone, so all that's left is a bunch of talentless millennial activists who's only financial understanding is how to ask mommy for more trust fund money
Yup, and everyone review bombing will name this guy and his racism. It won’t completely bomb, it’ll be like DragOnStage: The Failhard were it sells a few but barely breaks even.
@@euskryhtbnfvse4i7ehs4hnvf
DragOnStage: The Failhard. Brilliant.
Because it worked on Baldurs Gate 3 aswell, right? /s
@@euskryhtbnfvse4i7ehs4hnvf veilguard is an objective failure. It hasn't even sold a quarter of the sales neccessary to break even
The woke age is a terribly sad time. I care alot for people, i do not care what your gender is or what ever, just do not expect everyone to be onboard with it. We are all different, and it is very rare that we actually agree on everything, and forcing people too choose your pronouns (Looking at you DA:Veilguard) it is going in the wrong direction. Make a game around these issues, do not make a rpg fantasy game and force every single real life political issue in your game.. It is beyond stupid.
oh veilguard's issues are much much worse than that.
It's not that difficult to just pick "he/him "for your male character... Things like pronouns should not even be a political debate; It's such a minor topic compared to other actually important political issues. This does not harm you or anyone else, you're only having an issue with this because you have an issue with those few people who will be happy about being able to choose a different pronoun. Why be against a minor character creation (one-time selection) feature that will not affect your gameplay and might make someone else happy?
@@koumei223 there's worse things that drag veilguard down, calm down drama queen
@@STEVEYTHEEXEEVEE I wasn't referring to Dragon Age: Veilguard. Veilguard's biggest flaw was that it was plain boring (at least for me).
@@koumei223 dunno why you're liking your own comments. the person you're responding to was talking about veilguard. did you miss the part where he quite clearly typed "look at you DA: Veilguard". or was your rage too boiled from him dismissing pronoun obsession?
Well, all us "white dudes", hardcore gamers who would have picked up a game like this or Veilguard 10+ years ago in an instant are hard passing but apparently there is a pronoun audience of gamers so large that they think it will be ok and they will still have massive success? ..oh wait. Good luck Obsidian, you're going to need it.
It sounded like that first tweet/comment was supposed to say
"I've noticed alot of great artist of color who should be working in the industry get passed on for poor porfolios, send them to me for a free consult so you can smash your next interview" (offering mentorship)
But he didn't say that and instead doubled down on being very problematic 🙄
Watch theyll act all surprised when it fails. They will play the victim. They will however be layed off.
IF* it fails
@jamonyqueso6328 If??? When!
@jamonyqueso6328 come back and holler at me in Feb see who's right
Not interested in Califantasy (California fantasy, like Veilguard). It’s really a shame this is so prevalent with modern fantasy entertainment.
Seeing culture war people calling Eora califantasy is so sad lmao.
@@dohungnguyen6978 Dragon Age was not Califantasy either, it became one. Who is to say it won't happen here?
Lmao that’s such a good term for it.
@@dohungnguyen6978it’s a shame it’s getting a bad rap because of this game (or more because of a specific art director) but it’s basically impossible for western studios to make fantasy settings that aren’t like that anymore.
@dohungnguyen6978 well, Eora is now officially Califantasy. The art direct said so himself. Who you gonna trust, your lying eyes or your saddened heart?
They better panic, because even if they fire him, I'm not touching a game he art directed.
I loved POE1 and 2, but I had no clue the people making it actively hated me for my race and gender.
I'll steer clear of Obsidian.
It’s such a shame. No matter how interesting the game looks, I can’t support wokeness.
It isn't "wokeness", it's racism. Calling it what it is is the first step.
Steam adding the LGBTQ+ tag has gotta be the best move I've seen in years 😂 it's like a huge STAY AWAY warning to gamers I love it
Just another woke slop dead on arrival. Pity because Garrus voice actor has a central role. The AAA game industry needs a reset
I love GRumms recommendation, don't buy new games for 2 years to clean up the indistry.
@@ThereIsAlwaysaWay2But make an exception for Larian Studios, who brought us Baldur's Gate 3. They are different from the rest of the industry.
@@Rangar1959 B 3 was amazing, but they put tons of DEI in it still. I'm kind of torn apart about Larian Studios. Depends if they go "full retard" I suppose
Buy indie.
@@ThereIsAlwaysaWay2only the good stuff
I've already taken a hardline stance. If I find out that there's a woke person spewing their politics into the game, I blacklist that studio. We've given them inches over the years, and they've taken miles. Sure, if they don't contaminate the game they work on, I don't mind buying it. But they DO contaminate their games, so I don't. Even if the game is really good, I will still refuse to buy it if it's xontaminated. It's a matter of principle at this point.
I don't know how anyone got hyped by this game. The day they released the first trailer, changing the grim dark theme we saw on reveal years ago it was dead for me. That colorfull Fortnite stuff is ultra saturated, veilguard vibes. Not to mention the way they rushed 3rd person gameplay after the massive backlash for being a 1st person only game. This reeks of halfbacked animations, buggy messy combat and worse. Woke racists devs were just the cherry on top
Gay Skyrim
@@sillkthashocker Gayrim
To be honest its even worst than dragon age somehow just with how vocal the main director is.
Is it the main director? I thought he was the Art director 🤔
I know a 22 year old flamboyantly gay gamer who bought and played DA:VG specifically to support the game and studio. Even he said the characters are insufferable. They couldn't even capture their target demographic.
I'm pretty sure Obsidian isn't gonna walk back any of the statements made by this guy and Microsoft doesn't care either because they are the ones pushing the DEI crap on the studios they own..I'm gonna enjoy watching the game bomb when it comes out and later the studio being closed down because of abysmal sales😂.
Suprising people are calling Obsidian DEI and woke when they have been making progressive leaning stuff since New Vegas, this culture war rage bait is fascinating
@dohungnguyen6978 the people that made New Vegas isn't at Obsidian anymore, they are long gone. 😂
@dohungnguyen6978 when you're shilling for obsidian on each comment with the same talking point you should get them straight first.
The people who were involved in new Vegas are long gone and you come off as incredibly disingenuous if you seriously consider being woke and being a liberal 15 yrs ago the same thing.
Obsidian was on decline for a while, they wasted so much time on that pathetic ant game. This is just the logical conclusion. Their hiring practices got exposed and it will hopefully end this waste of a studio. I'm done with them. I came to term with the fact that the people who once did games I enjoyed moved on and aren't with the studio anymore.
So why shouldnt I do the same.
Hopefully this will be a hard lesson for the people working there. If the art director feels so comfortable to spew his vile hatred online, then I can't imagine the culture within that studio.
I think that America has spoken. Look at the recent vote. No more trying to force your agenda on people, please. I think you are correct and I respect your opinion.
WOW! 😮 A lvl 36 art daddy? He can cast a powerful Woke Bankruptcy already! Truly impressive! 👏
Yep kingdom come delivered 2 is going steam roll every game coming out in February.
Monster Hunter: Wilds coming on February too; Avowed is cooked I'm removing it from my wishlist.
@@thelegendaryqwerty Monster hunter wilds coming out the last day of February really not much impact for February.
@@Jin-_-._.104 games are expensive.. majority of people are not going to spend 140 dollars on games within 30 days lol
@@eyalreiss294 Well I am, and it's not even that much money.
Companies don't make good games, people do. The people that made Obsidian great are GONE, stop being loyal to studio names.
I do not understand why any of you were excited for this obvious trash pile.
In a few months, there will be headlines of Obsidian Entertainment layoffs
-Guys we worked hard. Let's avoid any kind of drama and remember: no racist or political comments.
That one guy: "And I took that personally"
What ever happened to hirig based on skill and experience?
DAT'S WACISTTT!!
@DelightfullyMADD horribly
@@DelightfullyMADDfunny thing is that hiring just because of skin colour is the real racist move
Microsoft executives 100% agree with Matt. Nothing will happen but doubling down.
Yes, it will take several hundred-million-dollar losses for the high-level execs to fall, only then we'll see some change.
Fair enough......we, the gamers, will "double down". In the end, we win.
This one guy is going to take this entire game down, possibly the whole studio.
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The Obsidian team adding pronouns and LGBTQIA+ tags to their games are signing the games death warrant. I think it is fine because with all thew woke garbage front and center I know NOT TO BUY THE GAME designed for THEY \ THEM not ME! Why be upset about a woke game admitting it was made for that mythical Modern Audience that never buys games or watches content?
If developers want to make an lgbtqp+ game, fine. Scrape together a few million dollars for the budget and make a nice raunchy pointless dating sim or something. If you're dedicated to making a game for an incredibly tiny audience, at least utilize a budget that makes sense. But spending hundreds of millions to make a game and then telling like 90% of the fanbase that they're not wanted is definitely _not_ a recipe for financial success
Those tag are users added…
@@dohungnguyen6978 dont forget to add Woke to it. Many of us added that LGBTQP+_}{@:?L> Tag to it
@@DelightfullyMADDIf developers want to make an lgbtqp+ game, they should not be allowed to.
This is not just gaming. This is tech. This is media. This is finance. This is corporate. We have an obtuse example here but it’s indicative of a quiet trend happening for years. This is just the mask off moment.
This is similar as Concord devs and look what happen they were shutdown and fired everyone. They clearly hate players as well I think. They ignore player feedbacks.
Especially white people
Volition aswel
vote with our wallets!
Ah crap! Another game i won't buy. At this point mabe i should sell my PS5
I decided to go on PC and play only games made before 2018. Tons of gems, easier on Steam and GOG PLUS STARVING TRIPLE A UNTILL THEY MAKE GOOD GAMES AGAIN. I love GRumms recommendation, don't buy new games for 2 years to clean up the indistry.
You wont
Play older games on PC, a decent rig should only set you a couple of hundred euro/dollars back
🎶 One game! I don't know why I bought a PS5 with no games to buy! 🎶
Sell ps5, build mid-range pc, "one piece" actually good games.
Nah, most of us aren't hyped for Avowed.
Especially after how pathetic The Outer Worlds is.
Yeah I started playing Outer Worlds on Game Pass, and I thought it was awful. Terrible art direction and clunky gameplay. Uninstalled after 20 mins.
calling elon musk a sad little shit is wild...
Leftists don't have a basic understanding of reality. They live life like it's a video game.
Yeah, richest man in the world and 6'3 in height. This art guy clearly has serious issues with reality.
@@Lonewanderer30the one thing I have learnt is they all love to project
One guy being Gei AF, the other, sending rockets to mars haha
How is he wrong? Elon musk is one of the most divorced man on earth with a huge number of kids that don't want to do anything with him, while he pays woman to keep quiet over his sexual assault towards them.
It's simple .. If that's their Direction, my direction is to, A. NOT open my wallet B. Carefully consider if I would EVER open it again for ANYTHING coming out of that studio AND any of it's affiliates C. Support with time & wallet those Organisations that do not engage in and or condemn these practices.
So it looks like there are lots of toxic workers in the gaming industry that just don't care how much money the company they work for loses. We see it over and over and over again. There is all the evidence in the world that if you want to be successful, simply don't put woken mental illness stuff in your game.
Disney hired dudes in dresses to work at their theme park...it seems Microsoft is now in a similar sad situation.😥
This is sad for Avowed. Obsidian did not learn from the failure of Concord and Dustborn.
On the plus side, I can save money for the next Japanese/Korean/Chinese videogame with handsome, muscular men and beautiful, sexy women characters.
For me personally, huge red flags with the game:
1) first trailer - dark, kinda epic and mysterious and now it looks colorful and generic (I wonder what's the reason for this change lol)
2) Pronouns - basically not a problem for me, but it makes me immediately question why they are even in the game, what the developers' priority is and what else one should expect.
3) Statements from the developer
4) "Gaming for Everyone's Product Inclusion Framework" from Microsoft which is basically a checklist with questions for the developers that they have to ask themselves such as:
- "When the story allows, do you show male characters who display a full range of emotions, including joy, sadness and vulnerability?"
- or "Do they have exaggerated body proportions?" etc.
I really believe that this game will be the next Veilguard.. I hope not of course, but that's too many red flags for me.
Let me be the person to say it: Godlikes (the only race you can play in Avowed) have been genderless in previous games (the Pillars of Eternity series). Godlikes only identify as she/him (and, thanks to recent additions, apparently also they/them). So pronouns have their purpose in this universe, or rather: in this game - simply because you can only play as Godlike.
It's no wonder that current reviewers aren't allowed to show the character editor because people get on Obsidians roofs when they see that you can't choose male or female.
That said, it doesn't change the fact that you are now forced to play the race that is genderless, (some people may find this woke?) or that you will be blocked if you ask the pronoun question on their social media. That Matt Hansen seems to be a racist and sexist piece of shit, that the game looks like it's been given the high fantasy treatment (despite the once dark fantasy setting), that the animations and graphics look like they did 10+ years ago, etc.
A definite reason why I won't be buying the game.
One of the few nuanced takes in here, props
@@athmaid Thank you very much.
I understand the issue (especially after Veilguard) but most people who are getting hung up on the pronouns obviously haven't played the old games and that's okay because unfortunately the Pillars series never got the attention it deserved in my opinion.
I think it's important to point out that this time it's not the pronouns that imply the wokeness factor.
Played PoE1 for 150 hours, couldn't get past act 1 in PoE2. Everything looks so off compared to the first game, like the mood feels wrong, if that makes sense. Avowed goes even more into this high fantasy, colorful pirate mood, which is not bad on it's own, it's just that it is such a big departure from the first game that I don't like it.
Godlikes do have gender, what they don't have is functional genitalia. Due to this, Pallegina isn't considered a woman by Vailian standards.
Sorry lil bro, only the opinion of the customers matter when you are trying to sell something.
If they could change the lore of the Qunari in Dragqueen Age: Wokeguard to fit their own agenda, they can change the lore to fit what you customers want too. Unless ofc they are allergic to money, then they can stick with whatever bullcrap they want.
Press self destruct button?
Matt Hansen: YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!
Seriously WTF dude?
Musk needs to buy obsidian, This guy is borderline outrageous. Sack the guy.
It's so weird to me that someone can be so angry at their own race.... I mean, they're literally a custodian for what they're talking about....
It's very easy to explain, but it requires to use a lot of forbidden words.
I just realized that; All the games coming out within the last couple years which had something to do with "these" people have all the same cartoony-graphics quality and color scheme and/or almost identical protagonist faces... Wonder why that is?
I bet that guy's wife's boyfriend can get a job now he is getting fired.
I mean, he IS in favor of replacing himself with a black guy.
I wasn't even aware this was in development, but now it goes straight into the DO NOT BUY list.
Now I suddenly get why Chris Avellone was telling people on Twitter that they may have a basis for a discrimination class-action.
So, I subbed within 35 seconds of seeing your content. Great delivery voice and cadence, great message, awesome Delorian thumbnail and that name, The Comeback Kids. Nailed it!
I was looking forward to this too but the words of Matt Hansen and actions of blocking accounts for wanting a discussion about this myopic agenda driven narrative to reprogramme us all into believing this nonsense has ensured I will never play this game no matter how good it is. I will not be lectured to in the one place I go to escape the madness of this world, gaming.
Bro if sonic came out now for criticism we would’ve been called “chuds” then we would’ve gotten blamed and slandered when it failed.
I miss the days when people who created the visual and interactive media we consumed had pride for their products and respect for their consumers.
We’ve replaced artists with activists and real nerds who care about nerd culture with this tourists and vultures.
This guy is basically reverse Uncle Ruckus...
haha nailed it
Vote with you wallets. So many other good games to play. This needs to stop, I know many of us wanted to play this but we are talking about saving the industry as a whole for the future. Vote with your wallets!
Hansen 100% gives off CP collector vibes
That's why he wants to groom young black boys
I still really hope the game turns out great. Grounded is one of my favorite games and I'd hate for a game to be ruined by a political agenda
Obsidian failed Chris Avellone - not sure why everyone is so surprised since then.
If a game has so much of something that I can blatantly know what political leaning the creators/developers of the game are part of...
Then it's not a video game, It's political propaganda and I'm not paying for that.
so the old "if u dont like it dont buy it" and next we will have "why nobody is buying the game?"
Same song and dance... I swear, the degree to which these people fail to learn even basic lessons should definitely be considered a form of mental disability.
It's such a shame. When the gameplay was released and I saw the "Dark Messiah" style gameplay, I genuinely got somewhat excited. Then this happened, and well, as a game developer myself, I'll just go develop one on my own...
Hope it won't sell good so mf will rethink his use of such things
I am at the point, where if something even remotely resembles something WOKE, I am skipping it.
Listen you got to understand that the current people working in obsidian are not the same people that worked on fallout New Vegas, once you understand this, you will then understand that this is the reason why the quality of their game has gone down, hell even going back to play outer worlds was just like this, yeah I played that game recently, it reminded me of elder scrolls Oblivion but worse in some ways.
Literally the same lead for Pillar of eternity 1 and 2 wtf are you talking about?
@@dohungnguyen6978
so i have never played those games, besides i was not talking about them i was talking about FONV, ya know the only good written fallout game to ever exist in the entire franchise?
Honestly this might make me sell my xbox until this shit goes away....
Your content and passion is awesome. Crusty old white dude here.
I am also hopeful that someone steps in and corrects things for this game, I remember when I first saw the teaser for it, I was so hyped, and I didn't even know who was making it at the time. This guy needs to be held accountable for his words and his actions, and the woke nonsense needs to be taken out of the game completely. I agree with you that IF pronouns are really the only thing woke in the game, I can honestly live with that, but chances are, if there's one woke thing, there's another. As hyped as Ive been, if changes aren't made, I'm not buying. this director has ruined the perception of this obsidian and will cost them literal MILLIONS.
Wasn’t this game supposed to be the dark fantasy “successor” to Skyrim… wtf happened man you just can’t trust woke clowns they ruin everything. Thank god for Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon the true Skyrim dark fantasy successor and non woke fantasy rpg.
lol no it was never meant to be any of that.
You ever played Pillar of eternity 1 or 2? The setting of Eora has been like this since its inception, I am convinced no one here actually play any Obsidian games lmao, they were progressive since the start. Most of there star talents are still with the company and in important roles too.
@@tni333 well cry about it because it was for me and many other people
@@dohungnguyen6978 I guess it’s a good thing I don’t have to play any other pillar games to play this one. But I’m not anyways I dislike woke trash.
@@valerwolf255 well not my fault if none of you people paid attention, they made it very clear from the outset it’s no Skyrim.
But sure, I’m the one crying lol 😂
This channel deserves to make it. Rooting for you guys.
Veilguard's little brother.
Seems most of the gamergate tubers are avoiding talking about the anti white hate from this game, thanks for speaking on it.
This guy must hate himself.
And just added to ignore. Never mind they want AUD$120 for this. I will not accept them trying to cram the USD$70/AUD$120 price onto us.
Sad, I played Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2, Outer Worlds and my favorite game of all time was probably Fallout New Vegas.
I was a huge Obsidian fan, but it seems they don't want me to be a fan anymore, I'll be taking a pass on this game.
Yeah I rather spend my cash on MH wilds than on this game
Microsoft are cooked too these guys are not gonna change, blame Blackrock for all this.
Another pronoun "fantasy" rpg to remove from my wish list
The art director for avowed was originally an applicant for the Scooby Doo gang but Fred said "yeah uh sorry man but we already got a guy with a neckerchief we really don't need a neck scarf guy too"
Then they hired Scooby instead.
This guy is cooked.He picked a fight with Tony Stark?😮He's days are numbered.But seriously if this was anybody else he would have been cancelled.
By the way it wasn't review copies that they sent out, it was more in line with a early version of the game that only gave them access to the first 6-8 hours of the first starting area. It's important to nail down these facts and be as informed as possible.
Yeah, I will skip this game. I don't want to give people like that Matt Hansen my money, he seems like an unhinged troll.
This isn't the same Obisdian!! It's not the same studio!! AVOID
Musk is a godsend for us normal people
To my knowledge the industry have been a mess for quite a while. The absolute majority of dev juniors don't get jobs. Of course, opportunities where scarce before but now it's deliberately skewed. From all the people I know in the industry, the only juniors over the past 4-5 years who's "made it" are from a dei background... Looking back it's insane. Some are talented, for sure.
What keeps me up at night sometimes is that a lot of my friends who are more talented devs than I, have just quit the industry & gone back to school for engineering. I can't blame them. If there ever was a industry that doesn't reward hard work. This is the one. At least in my experience it's been like that.
I think I am just going to sell my pc and stop buying video games, fuck it, may even sell my steam account, 200+ games, hit me up.
And then all the snowflakes clapped
@ike3320 don't care, I am definitely not going to walk the alternative, which is give them them money for garbage, I have no interest in ever playing, which is support them with my hard earned money that they will only donate to organizations that further this agenda, buy doing this I don't hand them a victory, I hand them a defeat, if everyone does this no one buys their games if no one buys their games their companies collapse, or haven't you heard? Bioware just opened a new indie studio, 4 years ago, because of "financial shortfalls" they are closing before they could even release their first game, I am sure that had nothing to do with the massive blow to their finances they took from DAV bombing harder than fat man or little boy.
@@johnhodgdon2434Just do what I did. Play a massive backlog of titles and some good old games.
? The fuck are you even saying lmao. The solution to this is very simple: Just don't buy their agenda driven shlop. I've been supporting Indie devs for the past 10 years and I have bought maybe a dozen or a few more than a dozen AAA games in the past 10 years. I have over 2k hours in Terraria. You're being a wee bit melodramatic here. Simply just don't buy their games, pray they fail to be successful and laugh when they inevitably do. I didn't buy DA:V, I'm not buying this game either. There's more than plenty games I own on steam that I still haven't finished playing through that I want to and plenty more indie games coming out in 2025 that I'm looking forward to. Just support the devs who prove with their gameplay that they are capable of making a good product and ignore the shlop which is pretty much 90% of what AAA puts out nowadays.
@@KnightspaceORG Exactly, guy is overreacting way too hard. I got list of 10 or so games on a list on Steam called "new games" which I put all the games I buy and haven't played through completely or at least a good amount if they aren't playthrough games. I got a "Favorites" list that has 50+ games which I have over 40 hours in each of them. A game like Terraria I have 2,000 hours in. Enshrouded I have 270 hours in and that came out the beginning of this year (early access). Tons of amazing games to play that are genuine games to be enjoyed for their fun and creative experiences and not to be spewed a social or political agenda.
"Most hyped" rpg used to mean something, now it just means a company has successfully taken so much attention away from all the other games by buying out all the ads.
I absolutely empathize with the artists being upset by the fact of their work, one they put hours, days, months, even years into, being trashed by the people who don’t know what the creative work is. Certain professional behaviour may be required, but it hurts the artist the same, since, well, they couldn’t do anything else than to stop. However, the art DIRECTOR is not an artist. It is a directorial position, this is upper management, his entire time is spent bullying artists, not creating the work. HE IS NOT AN ARTIST AND NEVER WAS. In modern companies, the “director” equals unelected privatized politicians.
Wait and see when investors stop funding and the company goes under because we didn’t buy their games
It looks so good but I can't put money behind a company who pushes agenda like they do. They don't take criticism they just block. I'm sticking with smaller companies who care about making a great story.
4:51 I'd imagine a cursory search of his home HD would reveal the reason he doth protest to much.
Adding fuel to the fire with my comment. The ONLY protest that matters is non-engagement. This thread, video, comments all serve as engagement. The only way to fight the system is to ignore it.
They’re arrogant like Disney but lack all the theme park revenue to offset their flops. It’s funny to watch them all swirl down the toilet.
Clicked on the video for the "devs panic" portion, hoping for new information not covered a hundred times in my feed. Can I confirm where the "Panic" piece is coming from? Was there any follow up that I missed or did I have wrong expectations.
This being said, I am grateful that the LGBTQ portion of the game is highlighted before release. I can avoid having having wrong expectations on the game, and another disappointing experience.
*going back to my FO4 mods, stellar blade and Tainted Grail: fall of avalon*
Edit: grammar
First vid of yours I have seen. Really impressive. Subscribed
Microsoft may be bad at alot of things, but accounting is not one of them. I wonder what the un-wished from steam ratio was for the last week? This guy thinks MS dont close studios down cause he's hidden in the gamepass blanket of cash? As always, gamers stay vigilant- he just said the quiet part out loud.