Yes, Woke Video Games are BAD Games
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 พ.ย. 2024
- Woke LGBTQ DEI and ESG problems continue to plague modern video games in 2024. Almost all New Video Games in 2024 are suffering a woke problem. Concord is only one recent example.
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I feel like we’re going through a healthy version of the video game crash, because stuff that sucks is failing.
Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring
@@ni9274 ?
@@ni9274 BG3 and Elden Ring are excellent games, not sure why did you mention them here
@@Yomushbecause these cultists wanna act like people bought bg3 for the weird animal/lgbt stuff like they did or that elden rings weird as hell never outwardly explained story having a character who is both a man and woman is why people bought that. These things have zero concept people buy games based off fun
@@DeShawnMcDonald cultists? lol
You just cannot act like that your main target demographic is wrong in the world, while at the same time demanding they give you money while insulting them.
Nobody say "white male" are wrong, I know you will be surprised that most white male are not bigot and do not feel insulted when someone call out white men who are bigot.
Who is "demanding" you people to give money ? Provide evidence of anyone asking you people for money ?
They insult you cause you insult them, just look at the wave of insults directed toward the Ghost of Yotei actress while she has never said anything about white male gamers.
They often underestimate how powerful the gaming community is and often overlook our purchasing power. None of which the woke minorities who dont even play videogames possess.
Yep can't have your cake and wat it too in business. Globalist ESG money can only go so far. Crap is crap period
These people believe we are wrong by just existing. The few real ones of these people told me I had white privilege when I was literally homeless. While everyone homeless in my heavily mass migrated and over populated town was white and English.
straight white men is a minority dumbass, 50% of gamers nowadays are women
Finally a TH-cam channel that states the obvious.
CHARACTER DESIGNS are super important!! It is beyond me how all these media outlets fail to address the elephant in the room. And there is a difference between diversity in a game and activism/wokeness.
You got yourself a new subscriber 👍
In terms of dialogue the best example I can think of are the Ratchet and Clank games. Classic ones had so many adult jokes in em with characters being rude to each other but the new lame ass Ratchet and Clank games are some of the most sanitized shit I've ever come across.
its thankfully still good even if it has fallen far from its prime. writing isnt trash, character design isnt trash and gameplay isnt trash
@@FireStriker_ I mean for me it completely ruined ratchet and clank, last one I played was the one in the ps3 and that one was the start of the end, og ratchet and clank will never be topped
@@Frezzyy So, you played Ratchet and Clank for the toilet humor?
@@Thiccolo the way ratchet and clank speaks now is completely different, they made them speak like children and not only that villains and side characters are affected too, they are like "family friendly" now so to speak
@@Thiccolo the story is mediocre at best too, not as engaging as before, and don't tell me it's nostalgia because I replayed the whole saga (up to ps3 r&c) and still think they are the best games. the rest of the games I watched them on TH-cam and they look bland and repetitive compared to what it used to be
There's a spitefulness behind 'woke' products, the individuals working on them despise the target audience.
@@colinwatt9387 The target audience.. is gay people. They despise gay people.. because they pander to gay people. I fail to see the logic here.
This puts me off even more than the shit games they release. They people behind these games are so toxic.
Nope, you just victimize yourself and get offended by non-white people existing in video games
@@SmithSmith-b8l There'll be a reckoning for these people.
It's funny, because you can say their target audience can be gamers *or* the "modern audience" and either one results in failure for these individuals. One means they're hateful towards the majority of people, the other means they're hateful towards themselves. Both track.
Looking forward to seeing the NexusMods admins work overtime to ban mods that crank up the setting for Veilguard’s butt slider.
lol
Not to mention, allowing for bigger tibbies than A cups
DEGmods and Based Mods are unwoke alternatives
@@sean7221 Was aware of Based Mods but not DEG until now.
I knew nexus would go down this route. Once I knew they took down the spider man mod that replaced mental illness flags with American flags. I knew the slippery slope would start.
That part about “choices in quest design” is spot on. You’d never get another “new vegas” today where you could side with a faction like the Legion. People today are STILL seething over the legion. Even though they are likely among the more “real” groups for the setting.
And the best part about the legion is that while they are obviously not good and we are told this by every source multiple times, the legion itself puts up a competent enough reasoning for why they act this way so you could say "yeah i can see someone thinking this way specially in an apocalypse". They have a dangerous ideology but a realistic one that follows some form of logic , instead of every woke game where the "political villain" is evil just to act as a strawman for whoever's within the game dev's opposing political side
@@goddamnarshia exactly. Games don’t need to always mirror real life. But because of the fact “someone we may get offended”,we will likely not see an edgy or downright “evil” side to choose as a faction in a major video game for a long time. Let alone choices that are morally bad.
@@goddamnarshiaI think the issue is that the game itself doesn't really have anyone make a particularly solid argument in favor of the Legion. I mean, the Big Cheese himself gives his reasons, but it's all too easy to dismiss it as megalomania (not helped that Caesar even has a below average INT stat). And most of the Legion's reasoning amounts to a lot of psychotic "weak fear strong" Darwinism.
Mikeburnfire had made a mod adding various NPCs, including Legion quest givers who give much more practical reasoning for their way of life, such how NCR's reliance on mass-produced commodities like medical syringes that're no longer in production, and their application of modern economics only works when resources are in over-abundance, which also leads to their own citizenry who can't afford such seemingly basic rights to fall through the cracks and rot the society from within.
You can literally side with evil faction in BG3.
Also I'm sorry but the Legion is very clearly presented as bad guys by the games and way worst than the NCR
FNV in general has anti-capitalist and antifascist theme and would be called woke if it released today
@@ni9274 >this debunked BS again. Go bACKKKKK.
"Naturally diverse", thats the perfect term to describe how games should be
How they already were..
@@bannedmann4469 They weren't, 90% of MCs during the ps3 era where bald white dudes, we all joked about it.
As a balding, white dude - make the games represent me again! The games used to be better when people who look like me were in them.
@@brunorichardson97 and that's when games were the best. that's not a coincidence
@@brunorichardson97 wow its almost like 96% of the faming audience is straight WHITE men. Strange
It’s not a coincidence how woke games also happen to have bad business practices.
Isn't that just most AAA games since like... 2018?
People inculcated into Postmodern Neo-Marxism don't understand basic economics? Color me surprised.
@@childlikesaiyan Yes. Now video games are the exception to this general rule. They were poo long before Cry Baby Inc. showed up. I've seen it with other products like Magic The Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons, Minecraft, Star Wars movies, etc. where they went woke first and THEN started screwing their customers. It's mostly hubris I believe. You see, the Right is ironically the most loyal group of consoomers, so long as you don't piss them off, after which there is no return. The "normies" are the bulk of your customers but have a memory of about 2 months before they forgive you and start buying again. Piss off both groups in sequence, and you're headed for financial ruin
Destiny 2 was good until it went woke with almost all of its NPCs
@@hendrahendraDestiny had Oryx since 2015, Bungie has had "woke" NPCs since like... Halo. Sergeant Johnson. Ikora since D1, etc. Not a great example.
Dragon Age: Origins had a mixed-blood white guy, a brown Spanish elf, a stereotypical drunken dwarf, a grandma, a religious alien of a giant, a Jeanne D'Archetype, a dog, a golem, and an abuse victim as party members.
No one bat an eyelash because it felt natural and was handled with all the care and respect it deserved.
Right because it was relative to the setting and story
And they all knew what a woman was
Brown spanish?
Spaniards are white lil bro
@@GürgünGörken4677 that doesn't mean you can't be brown and Spanish
@@GürgünGörken4677 hispanic he means
I'm glad I was born in the 90s, the 360 era was an absolute golden era of gaming.
The best
Yes it was. 2006 till about 2012 was the best it will ever be.
Peak gaming generation
The PS360 era, sure Xbox had basically won that gen, but lord, there was GoW 3, TLoU (the only one) the beginnig (and End, there's no 4) of the Uncharted series.
Great stuff.
Oh, wasn't it also the gen the Wii had come out?
Also born in the 90s mate, you really need to take the rose tinted classes off. Its effecting your ability to properly analyze your current events and games.
Concord failure is an interesting case because not only of the whole woke spectrum but also for the fact that the devs were so toxically positive that they prioritised making a whole franchise like Star Wars before making a good game
Concord failed because it was a $40 game that was modeled like a free-to-play game and had predatory pay to win microtransactions as well as the fact that the industry is getting burnt out on live service games. Any well-educated person knows that correlation is not equivalent to causation
The fact that so many people are willing to drop $100 for a bunny skin on an attractive woman in First Descendant kinda proves how much people care about their characters looking good.
people care about a character looking interesting or cool, physical attractiveness isn't really necessary for people to like a female character.
Also people will drop 100€ for the dumbest shit ever so that's not a good argument, or do you want every game to become like Fifa ?
@@ni9274 jew
@@ni9274 dead domain send ya? Or a discord raid?
Yes. People pay for beauty. I've never heard in history where anything unpopular sells.
@@ni9274 jew.
Nobody wants to play a game where the main characters looks like a bunch of annoying, progressive college kids lol
@NF12222 you mean, like the Persona games? Yeah, no-one plays those...
@@echsIncognito The Persona characters aren't progressive college kids LOL
@@nichoudha edgy high school kids then. Same difference.
AKA coworker design
You're lucky cause most woke games do not feature college kids
They all wear tiny hats, that's what they have in common.
...Gnomes?
Not the tiny hat society! It can't be! NOT AGAIN NOOOO
This is satire
@@kaydenvortex1984 Yodelers in The Alps?
Stop being mean.
Leftist bot accounts go brrrr
As much as we poop on the gaming companies for what they do, it's all ultimately our fault.
Much as you've pointed out, we keep buying into it. We accepted Microstransactions as a normal thing, and companies got greedier because of it.
We genuinely do it to ourselves, shills are not good for quality.
It's the whales. Most people do not buy microtransactions, the youtubers spend hundreds if not thousands and then you get the tards who will drop hundreds of thousands in gatcha games or NBA for card packs. If all us normies stopped buying things, the whales would still shell out, just look at star citizen and its 25k pack lmfao
Speak for yourself. I don't support games with microtransactions.
@@zachrohler1047 Agreed, that's also another large contribution to our problem.
And the latest bs tactic that's normalized is "Early Access", thanks Blizzard... 😑
@@shefalichow7917 I didn't speak for anyone though? Do you not know how to read?
@@Introversion399 I do; do you? Read your post again, and look at how many times you wrote "we."
As a Marketer, it’s shocking that these companies think going against “Sex sells” is a good idea. It’s been a mantra forever.
Yeah you don't even need to have a major on marketing to know if some guy sells me a pic of ass and tits for $5 I'll buy it on the spot
It's your number one goal to abuse basic human psychology to convince the masses that your product is worth buying
Correction, sexism sells, not sex. ACTUAL sex RESPECTS BOTH the man AND the woman that is in the relationship. You all would know this if you would not burn a copy of the Holy Scriptures in your lives.
It's not about what's effective, it's about what is "moral".
As much as I like assassin's creed, the whole Yasuke thing is embarrassing. They went completely out of their way to insert "diversity" in a game that didn't even need it!
Assassin's Creed was on a downward trend quality-wise for while now anyways. The newest games are generic open-world slop that are watered down from what the first few games in the series were. AC Shadows is not the first bad/mediocre AC game, it's just the straw that broke the camel's back.
@@the15thprofessor i can’t believe my sci fi historical fiction game with time travel has black people in it 😡
They took yasuke and not only made him a samurai but they also made him part of the lgbt
Yasuke is literally a rral historical character
How including a well known historical figure from that period of japan in a game is "inserting diversity" ? They didn't go out of their way, Yasuke is the retainer and samurai of Nobunaga which is one of the most important figure of that era
Paul Tassi has taken the mask off of late. He's in full self destruct mode. I think most people were able to sniff out what he was really about. Its glorious to watch him fall apart like this.
Urinenalist
I think he suffers from low T.
please explain, i cant stand that dude lmfao
He oozes Moistcritikal vibe, “MUST..STAY..ON..MAJORITY..SIDE”
“Unpopular opinion? Oh you mean actually be myself rather than carefully picking specific side to stay safe even if it is morally bankrupt? Nahh can’t risk being exposed as hypocrite”
I knew something was off about him when he jumped on the Dr Dis train before having any evidence or even waiting for Doc's response
8:46 This is huge. If you want to appeal to people who actually have gender dysphoria, the real fantasy would be magically just having the body you want.
Respect for making a video standing up for what's real and what's right.
What's real ? This video is built on lie from start to finish
And yet people like the act man still won’t acknowledge any of this. We need someone who can actually debate to confront him. Not an incompetent fool like andypants gaming.
I can promise you, this guy would not be able to debate for shit - if that's what you're trying to say. Most of his arguments are stupid.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
― C. S. Lewis
Robber barons and omnipotent pseudo-moral busybodies...what is the difference? YAHASHUA HA'MASHIACH Himself saw them as one in the same anyway.
Bro, I'm so tired of all this woke bullshit in the industry
facts.
I don't give a fuck about politics in a game, I just want to play a damn good game. Not pander to gender dysphoria where they think pronouns like ze/xim are real.
Same. Like, bro, just let games be naturally diverse. Stop with the stupid, weird, colorful shit. No LGBT+ person dresses like that day-to-day. Just stop it.
Same bro. I've just seen another video about this and made a similar comment.
Here here
Same. I want to destroy woke industry. That's why I didn't buy any woke works
Hold the line men!!!
We will get the games we deserve in time
Dude, just get a fucking porn game if you're so upset that you don't find every single character in a game sexually attractive...
The developers of Dustborn chose the perfect name: It was doomed from the get-go to stay on shelves and collect dust
Also, The game Concord crashed hard like the airplane Concorde and sank as fast as Costa Concordia (that ship cost 450 million Euro)
It’s a shame because that could actually be a pretty cool name for a game but now it’s ruined.
Character designs matter a lot.. if you are going to spend several hours looking at a character in a game of course it has to be a pretty or good looking character it’s just that simple. So far so good we are winning the fight, let all the woke companies keep going out of business. The industry is healing and removing the cancers in it. Yes I know people are losing their jobs but if your job is to ruin things people love you deserve your faith.
Where does a monkey man fit into your very subjective 'pretty or good looking' criteria? What about Kirby? A lot of this to me isn't sounding like "Character design is objectively bad" but "I'm upset this character doesn't meet my standards. What are my standards? I can't wank to this character."
@@Ebakthecat Woo Kong looks extremely cool and badass (and kinda handsome. His face appears very human) and kirby is very cute. If the characters looks appealing in at least some way especially in the way they were designed to be appealing in (like kirby being cute) that's good character design. Sometimes characters are designed to be ugly on purpose because it serves a place in the story. Like a main character being born ugly or disfigured and being discriminated against their entire life as a result of it. Like a villian or final boss looking hideous or terrifying, like monsters looking disgusting. Like aliens looking uncanny. Like a character being fat because they're a sumo wrestler and their weight being part of their fighting style. But making characters look ugly or fat for no other purpose other than inclusion or diversity is just bad character design and an obvious example of forced diversity. People don't like it because it comes off as fake, forced and unnatural. It has no place in the story. The characters look ugly for the sake of being ugly.
What I find interesting is the people that get mad at you for using the word "woke" can't prove how DEI and ESG isn't destroying the games industry.
People that get mad at you for using the word "woke" don't know what DEI and ESG are.
@@Eirik_Bloodaxe They don't even know what the fuck the word "woke" means.
Outstanding video!! You very tactfully and clearly spelled out the problem when everyone else is scared to and dances around the issue. I have argues this many times online and seen the vitriol come back and all the morons who claim to not even know what woke is. This is THE biggest problem in the game world today and I for one will not go ANYWHERE near any game that is woke - and I am an older hardcore gamer with the $$$ to buy any and every game. Bravo bravo, it's videos like this that will propel your channel to the next level.
It’s unfortunate, that games that had the potential of being good or even perfect are now tainted by propaganda. I hope this stuff falls off soon
That stuff that’s been in games for years but people were too stupid to realize it? Damn couldn’t be me.
Fallout had gay characters in in 1998. The propaganda was always there, you were just too young or too dumb to see it. Cry about it to sleep, there are children being bombed in the middle east while you mope about video games. People like you are why drafts exist during war.
"tainted by propaganda" Translation: "I'm upset that I don't find every single female character sexually attractive and have to acknowledge the fact that black people and LGBT people exist"
@@CyberiadPhoenix I really don’t care if a character is attractive or not. Maybe you should stay off of adult sites since that’s your first conclusion you jumped to
@@CyberiadPhoenix These games make me WISH that black people and LGBT people didn't exist... which is funny, Because I never really felt that way before, I was live and let live.
Woke media and games have MADE me racist and bigoted.
If I had known the gays and queers would have become such an obnoxious force ruining my entertainment with their disgusting fetishes, I would never have voted for people supporting gay marriage.
If I had known that every time i turned on the tv, or tried to play some video games i would be confronted with some ugly fat black chick screeching in my face about "white privilege" or whatever, I would be tempted to embrace my white southern heritage.
It would be hilarious if people cosplayed as Concord characters😅
"You're cosplaying who? What? When? They? Them? Blot/Blopt?"
I feel like these "forced diversity" stuff is made to cover up how poorly designed, bland and over-monetized these games have becomes by giving gamers a scapegoat that doesn't address the real issues like overworked developers and executives taking more money than they deserve and fire a bunch of their devs for short-term profits that leads to degredation of their games and results in long-term losses.
@@stefanradebach2889 on the dart, dude
That's exactly the issue, and November Hotel is too brain rotted by culture war rhetoric to realize
@@Agoonga It's not just him, dude. It's the greater masses who are upset with the state of gaming and instead of trying to be critical of its quality or its practices, it's finding an aspect to scapegoat, which just so happens to be whatever they define as "woke"... Which quickly devolves into hate speech.
Just look at the other comments
Yup yup yup I thought about this too like why would game companies constantly make this sort of games with this sort of ideologies when it clearly doesn't work! They aren't dumb to not see it they know
But they still do it for whatever reason your conclusion makes some sense in that regard but NH does say gamers have became tolerant with crappy releases and shady monetization which is sad remember when cyberpunk was so clowned on for being buggy?
No, these people genuinely believe in the things they promote, all too often.
Even before the woke BS i wished every game had a character creator. Just put that in everything and then everyone can play as whoever they want.
Woke games will never be good!, companies need to wake up and stop trying to sell games no gamer wants.
The culture war in general has contributed to the downfall triple A gaming just as much as greed. if you want true diversity, then go play indie and double A games. I don’t know if Tales of Berseria is an indie game, but the female protagonist Velvet Crowe is such a well written character. She puts modern triple A video game protagonists to shame.
Nah, AAA gaming was already free falling because of high pricing, buggy at-launch games, with lots of DLCs, season passes and Microtransactions. Wokeness was just another nail in their coffin.
Tales games are definitely not indie. They are made by a huge company but they are still very good and have done multiple female main characters in a great way. Tales of Arise has a female co-main character and she's incredibly awesome.
Female? Not enough intersectionality, Chuddy!
why does everyone have vitiligo all of a sudden???
Because its ugly, and they want you to look at ugly crap and be demoralized.
They're attempting to normalize abnormalities
Only reason I use the vitiligo slider is to make up a backstory for it. My character sheds skin, his ancestor had sex with an evil deity and the mixed genes are combatting each other, and stuff like that.
@@xavierhouston4650 at the very least your character have a "backstory" That make sense in the setting, whether it's games or a novel or etc etc the tub of lard with the vitiligo on dustborn have it just so they can push their propaganda
@@marcusinfinity9386 so i find out they get a "diversity score" and vitiligo adds points to it for ESG
I'm still laughing about those Concord characters 😂
Jawcord.
"400 million dollar blackrock budget" hit it right on the nail dude.
Yes he completely made this up and you bought it like the sheep you are
Could you provide me with any evidence of Blackrock funding "woke" video games ? Blackrock literally invest in companies that support Trump, they do not care about woke they just want to make money
Good way to make them loose money 👀
@@BlazzingZealot They don't care about money they have it all.
@@BlazzingZealot
They get that money from the government. They don't care as long as the message gets spread.
@@soloistdeve Just gotta keep it up cause the studios don't have it all. They'll eventually have to restructure and actually do business practices again like surveys and focus groups to figure out what their consumers (gamers) want. This means the diversity, equity, inclusion programs gotta go too. If they don't well then they get bought up or close down. 2025 will be filled with more of this stuff. Expect 2026 to have some too, but that's the year you will probably see some good content hitting us since companies are beginning to change right now. By 2027 is when I think a lot of the content in our media will be self corrected a lot. We just have to keep it up for 2 more years as this slop thats been in the pipe lines for a few years gets ready to come out.
Gamers want fun, not activisist nonsense. Helldivers did this well, denying political capes, just having fun. Look how they did. Gaming is declining, and I hate it. WE DON'T WANT THIS
People refusing to admit that wokeness is hurting games do so because it aligns with their own political beliefs, so even if they feel that there's something wrong, they'll still play for the home team.
now is the time to stop taking airplanes: Boeing has a DEI department.
People really hate admitting that DEI = incompetence is entirely inherent to its very concept, specifically talking about hiring practices but also applicable to other contexts. Appreciate that you pretty quickly pointed this out.
it called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and its politics worst, most stale nightmare.
Having that scar after removing the breasts is such an insult to breast cancer patients!
Imagine having your traumas being used as a fuckin sales pitch. Horrible! Fire whoever thought of this and those who greenlight this disrespectful showing.
I love the word "woke" because everyone has a different definition of it
I think a better term for this video would be "forced inclusivity"
Agreed. The term “woke” has become so watered down that I’ve seen it used to refer to anything from leftist extremism to something someone just doesn’t like. It’s really hard to take seriously.
That’s only one aspect of it though. You’re forgetting their fight against conventional beauty, heterosexuality, masculinity. Etc..
@@Creen_Crayon or is it because your paid to say that or a bot? is that the real reason you have that opinion. if you don't reply you are a bot for sure.
@@mpo48 I'm someone who understands what the word means, and I also believe that some idiots overuse the word and use it for whatever they dont like. I know it cuz I've seen it and I've been on the recieving end of it.
It's not a WoKeNeSs problem. It's a "greedy studio and standardless audience" problem. SBI is hired specifically because they help them bring in more money with little risk, it's more profitable pandering to Tumblrites than adding actual effort into a character. I mean Andor has some insane attention to detail in its story from what I heard.
I hate woke games SO much.
7:00 Oh my god the design doesn't just look worse but the graphics and lighting also looks worse
Notice how on the 2015 version Harley's suit has texture and you can see the creases on her suit and her suit pops out from the rest of the environment and how you can see the light reflecting off the suit. In the 2024 version, the lighting looks so muddy and dark, there's no saturation, the shadows look bad, Harley's suit lacks any kind of detail.
It just looks worse
I suggest not buying any game without thoroughly reviewing it, I ain’t ever going to support woke crap.
@@kevinbratcher2221 What does ‘woke crap’ constitute? It’s always so vague when people like you say this. Is a game “woke” if it has so much as a single minority or LGBT person in it? Does it have to feature only white people for it to be “not woke”? If you say it can’t feature politics, then that eliminates a huge swath of fantastic games (like classic RPG’s) because many feature political topics like class systems, discrimination, and so forth.
So again I ask, what makes a game “woke” for you?
@@Mugiwara2kLeftist propaganda. D.E.I initiatives are the definition.
@@ulthanesmorkums That’s so laughably vague. Let’s be real; “woke or DEI punitive” just generally means “There’s a minority in the game!” for people fixated on woke. Those claims get made even when there’s nothing like a DEI initiative.
It’s just pathetic to be so obsessed over hating a game because it has something like gay or black characters. I don’t see those same people getting worked up over the COUNTLESS white character in video games.
@@Mugiwara2k It isn't vague at all. What Sweet Baby consults dev teams about is the wokeness. Play dumb if you want.
@@ulthanesmorkums Not playing dumb at all, especially since I knew you’d bring up that Sweet Baby Games nonsense. After all, that’s the one thing you people always wave around as if it’s some big “gotcha!” (it’s not).
That is the best description I have heard, it is hard to explain, but we know how to identify it, like a smell. Thank you for sharing.
BlackRock & The Vanguard group aren't just ruining video games. They destroy pretty much everything they touch: games, movies, shows, animation, sports, countries (various) policies... the list goes on and on. There's the outlier that these two will not dare to even hint a ESG/DEI enforcement as their investment condition: People's Republic of China. They invested huge number of billions into Chinese companies, yet dare not to mention DEI/ESG. Mainland China is their Kryptonite. Let's see them trying to made an Assassin's Creed game set in China (any period) where the main protagonist (who's fighting the for a good cause) is a black character. It will never happen. Just look at the movie posters for the Chinese market. Film studios and developers even go as far as disguising or outright omitting anything DEI or LGBTQ+ characters.
As for Concord (and Assassin's Creed Shadows, most likely), it will go down in history next to RCA's CED player. If folks aren't aware what was the CED player, try doing some search here, on YT to see just how massive flop it was.
Plain Bagel has a great video about this: ‘Addressing the BlackRock/Vanguard Situation’.
Because China, for the most part, controls their nation and the overall allowed narratives.
Me stumbling upon your channel is the best thing that happened to me this year
Every time I hear about a new sequel to a franchise I love, it’s always being advertised as being made for “modern audiences” and it immediately kills any excitement I had for it
Don't forget when they say " we're going back to our roots" is pretty much a red flag now
I honestly don't think we'll ever get back to the golden age of games again. The kids these day's are being programmed to accept all this BS as the "norm". We'll never see the likes of the original Baldurs Gate, Fallout, Mass Effect, The witcher trilogy, etc. Those days are gone. Most things we loved when we were kids have been ruined now for a "modern audience". CD Projekt is going to be the next big fan favourite company to get crippled by DEI woke bollocks with their recent updates and announcements. "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made".
From large AAA companies sure. Indie and self funded titles have the most promise in that regard as they don't have to worry about any of this DEI nonsense.
@@ThiccoloYep, the majority of my game purchases have been indie games for a while now and I'm not hurting for excellent games to play. People really focus too much on graphics and ignore indie games that are fantastic just because they don't have 4K textures and raytracing.
this is the golden age of AA and indie games
My hopes are on non western games.
Talking about Baldur's Gate while the 3rd game recently got released and is a massive masterpiece (even though it has diversity) is certainly something.
People need to understand, a game with diversity is not necessarily a "woke game". There are games that have those aspects and are Masterpieces: D.A: Origins, Mass Effect and BG3 are some of those games. A "woke game" is a game where those aspects are included in detriment of game quality, as a shield against criticism or when the devs want to use them to pander to their Twitter/X bubble
dude said baldurs gate 3 is a masterpiece 😂🐑 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@@HPLovesCraftsCat It won GOTY didnt it
People like you need to understand that you're yelling at nothing and don't realize you're not mad about "woke" games, but greedy cash grabs that have nothing to do with "woke". Hell Concord doesn't even have a real plot or characters, how is it even "woke"? Because a third party consultant team did some minor work towards the end of development?
@@neonrelmsproductions4224 When the dev's ideology is the reason behind the shitty character design, you can say it's woke. Because they're deliberately making a choice that depreciate the product because of their beliefs. Was that concord's only problem? No. But sure as hell was one of the biggest holes that sunk their ship
@@neonrelmsproductions4224there’s not a single white male in the game on purpose, it is pushing modern identity politics, did you watch the video?
Luckily I'm about 500 games behind on my steam library so I'm gonna be busy enough for a long enough time to not have to deal with these.
Yeah hopefully we can just wait it out over the next 5-10 years until this nonsense passes
That's the plan
Huge backlog and a desire to replay my old favourites. Im good for a WHILE
@@nicovandermerwe2747 Always have a backlog
If I were a game dev, I'd make MY version of what a great RPG should be, I'd also keep a money dupe/xp glitch in the game to fit all styles of RPG players in the game yes, including the glitchers. The only glitches I'd patch are one's harmful to the game's performance.
hell, I'd encourage exploiters like Letsgameitout and the spiffingbrit to play my game
This video needs to be seen by every developer. It's just wild how these games are continuously pumped out, yet yield the same terrible results every time. I don't want to be preached at while playing a video game or movie.
10 years ago, inclusivity and diversity were done better when they didn't even focus or think about it...
That was the poison pill and we willingly accepted it.
@aladdin_2003 yeah, 10 years ago "woke" wasn't such a widely used buzzword slur to describe basically everything. This is one time I'm all for bringing back the old days. Bring back the old days when conservative snowflakes didn't bitch and moan so much...
@@echsIncognito Nice try.
@@echsIncognito Yes, bring back the old days when pussified degenerates much like yourself weren't bitching and moaning about racist homophobic transphobic boogeymen, and then call everyone around you the "snowflake" because they cared enough to tell you to shut up.
@@Ragitsu Well last you all the people crying woke ignored Baldur's gate. So yeah, we'll mock you for being the soft crying lil b's you are.
Great video. I liked that you mentioned these two points:
1- How "The Bad Monetization" is ignored by players and content creators. I was disappointed seeing how many people ignored the bad monetization in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and just gave it only praise, the game got FOMO tactic with its early access period and 4 different editions one of which got content cut and resold which should have been included in the base version of the game.
2- The people acting dumb or the famous fence sitters who will always try to make fun of you after you critique woke games asking questions like "wHaT dOeS wOkE eVEn mEAn?" as if all the woke elements in games haven't been obvious to the average person these days.
Nobody wants woke in games😅
Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Cyberpunk and Hogwarts Legacy are all good games. Yet the Woke Content Detector steam group flags them as woke. If you start nit-picking every little detail that can be classed as woke you are left with very few games. Also Fable has always been "woke" so saying the new Fable game will be "woke" is complete bullshit
BG3 is not good.
We just don't want those people making and ruining and including politics in our games
Politics is in almost every game..... You gonna parrot assmon and say MGS is not political?
@@flashdark05 who TF is assmon and mgs
@@-Dragon-Master- Asmongold (the TH-camr in this video who whined about top scars) seems to think that Metal Gear Solid (MGS) is not political. Which shows that he paid no attention to plot whatsoever.
@@AuraHero I think he's referring to adding real world politics into games like right wing or left wing ideology and only focusing on those
They could make their own games- oh wait, they do. AND NONE OF THEM GET ANY SALES. I wonder why??
first they say: "this game is not for you, don't buy it"
we do exact;y as they said
then they blame us for low sales, and call us many different buzzwords
my logical mind can't process it
For those that want a definition:
Wokeism
The ethics and processes of socialism, expanded beyond the class struggle, to include race struggle, gender struggle, sexual struggle and any other near infinite number of marginalized group defined by intersectionality.
There are many other definitions used by a lot of people, most of which contradict what you've just said. 🤷
or to simplify, any form of entertainment medium that contain leftist/liberal identity politics and is force upon the customers.
That's not true the definition of "woke" was created in the 1980s by African American activists. Woke is defined as " being aware of racial injustices by the department of justices particularly against African Americans. But White Media has took the definition and spun it so many times to where it isn't even used correctly.
@@Eder-bk5mmLike?
I saw someone comment this and it was such a great definition I had to copy it:
Wokeness refers to a contemporary ideology rooted in Critical Theory, Race and identity politics, often infused with elements of Marxism, which emphasizes a hierarchical view of victim-hood and collective identity. This ideology tends to prioritize group identities over individual agency, leading to an overemphasis on identity categories such as race, gender and sexual orientation. Critics argue that "wokeness" fosters a culture of victimhood, promotes intolerance towards differing viewpoints
(commonly known as cancel culture) and undermines the principles of individualism and meritocracy. Furthermore, it is often associated with policies and practices that prioritize diversity over qualifications potentially leading to reverse discrimination and devaluation of excellence and achievement.
I'm planning on making none woke games
Thank you.
Fcking PERFECTLY stated. Happily subscribed. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, will do!
I'll never stop not giving my money to companies that are even slightly woke.
I mean this as a serious question. When Bungie let go of a whole bunch of people in the last layoff… I noticed all of the people announcing their layoff on Twitter were all SJW’s and a whole bunch of they/them’s. Do you think they were actually seeing how a game being developed by woke people was killing the franchise and cleaning house?
Yeah, I've thought about that a lot and it makes sense. There are likely a lot of useless/detrimental employees who are mostly a net negative to have hired on and they typically seem to be overwhelmingly part of the SJW/LGBTQ crowd. They're more focused on pushing their ideologies than making a good game.
@@NovemberHotel 100% dude. When I used to go to those capture events back in the day, my God everyone is extremely woke.
@@mesaseany I believe it. And they’ve only gotten more woke over time. It’s sad to see honestly. 2016 and 2020 did irreparable damage to their brains
@@NovemberHotel I used to make the joke with my friends that every season it felt like they should’ve just named it. “season of the chicks” every season either has some chick leader telling you what to do or the enemy is some sort of evil chick. In fact, now that I think about it, I don’t think there’s one straight white male NPC in the game lol
@@mesaseany honestly bro 🤣 it’s comical
just don't buy or support it. That simple. Used to love Mortal Kombat, then it went woke. Not buying anymore entries.
When did Mortal Kombat become Woke?.I haven't seen that, and have played them all.
@@Anonymous-wb3nz Isn't it obvious? When they stopped having the women in skimpy outfits with their tits half hanging out. Compare MK9 Sonya to MKX Sonya. That's what he means by 'going woke'.
as an older gamer with a disposable income, I will take microtransactions over chest scars. I dont have time for politics. The new dragon age couldve had a a scar editor that let you place scars anywhere. But no, it is a toggle for a very specific identity and belief. It is akin to have a specific toggle for a cross necklace or maga hat. It is deliberate. If this is how they treat the character creator, then imagine the writing in the game.
Do you know the chest scars were an option and you don't have to select the options, if you do not care about politics you can just ignore the option.
What's the problem with a toggle for a very specific identity and belief ? Games also have toggle for men/women which is also a very specific identity and belief.
Don't say "I don't have time for politics", you just hate politics of other people but you're completely fine when your politics are included in games (like the politics of believing sex and gender is the same thing and that there are only two genders)
Being a trans person doesn't reflect your political ideology, some trans people support TRump for some reason
Weird you have a problem with this character creator but not with the BG3 one
@@ni9274 The option should never exist.
@@RagitsuCoward
@@hcn6708 for stating an opinion the sheep masses don't go along with? Clearly you don't understand what that word means, probably are quite a few words you don't understand but that's a whole other can of worms
@@DeShawnMcDonald Is "whiner" better?
More and more TH-camrs speaking up about this, less and less people buying woke games👏🏼
Woke is where art goes to die.
Paul Tassi made an article basically saying:
"it's a coincidence, these games failed because they were bad, wokeness wouldn't have had any repercussion anyway"
What bad faith people pretend to fail to understand is that you can't have bad devs, with bad intentions making good games, even by accident. There is a causal link. Wokeness is what gave THOSE particular people THAT particular job.
Nope it's not a coincidence, 99% of games are woke so it make sense that 99% of bad games will be woke. The problem is that you ignore the fact that 99% of good games are woke, your argument just completely crumble the moment I start listing successful games of the past few years and you realize everyone of these games fit the definition of "woke"
Could you provide even a minuscule shred of any evidence that you can get a job as a game devs just by being woke ? (spoiler, you cannot provide evidence since this belief is completely made up)
If there is a causal link you need to prove it, just saying that there is a causal link is completely irrelevant, even more when taking into account all the lies you already said.
Just a short list of successful games in recent years that were made by devs that you would consider woke:
Elden Ring (Doesn't have gender option, has character with complex gender identity, has "girl bosses", has anti-colonialism and anti-imperialist theme, has anti-religion theme, has feminized men, has character with multiple gender of ambiguous gender, has diverse cast...)
Baldur's Gate 3 (Every companions are bisexual, character creator doesn't limit appearance based on gender, has a trans character, has lesbian character, has extremely diverse cast and world, has progressive political theme and anti-capitalist theme and Larian has been explicity about their support for the LGBTQ+ community...)
Cyberpunk 2077 + Phantom Liberty (Diverse cast, many LGBTQ+ character, anti-capitalist theme...)
God of war Ragnarok (This one was called woke by all of you people so I don't have to justify it)
Spider-man 2 (Very openly in support of the LGBTQ+ community)
Final Fantasy 16 (Diverse cast, LGBTQ+ character)
Helldiver 2 (The game has anti-facist theme, the devs are clearly progressive and have banned the bigot from their discord server)
Hades 2 (Diverse cast and LGBTQ+ character)
TOTK (Diverse cast and was called woke by a large number of people cause of the sexualization of some character)
Armored Core 6 (Very obvious anti-capitalist theme)
Horizon Forbidden West (Called woke by you people)
Space Marine 2 (diverse cast of character and "girl boss" character)
@@ni9274 Thus, you prove why everyone says that wokesters argue in bad faith. Just because something CAN be interpreted to mean something, DOESN'T MEAN THAT WAS ACTUALLY WRITTEN WITH THAT INTENTION. Sometimes the curtains are blue BECAUSE THEY JUST BLOODY ARE. But to you, EVERYTHING has to be an eisegesis that supports your ideology because people like you are incapable of any sort of self-reflection and shove politics into everything you do.
Games like Concord were made SPECIFICALLY for people like you, tools who think they're smarter than Einstein just because they read the New York Times, when they can be convinced to do anything if they think it will make them look good.
@@ni9274What We mean by woke, is either Extreme progressive ideals, (so progressive in fact that they could Be concidered racist, For an example, dustborn) uninteresting games and characters created solely in order to virtue signal or gain esg score. Diverse games are fine, as long as The diversity feels natural, carefully crafted and not forced. The diversity i. Those games you listed feels natural, and not forced in order to virtue signal
Woke games can't be good since the moment they're woke.
Latest example: Dragon Age - Veilguard.
The problem its not that is “woke”, the problem is that they emphasize the diversity aspect while the other aspects of the game like, lore, gameplay etc are shit. They are making a game with poor gameplay, lore , that why nobody wants to play them. If your game lacks in those aspects nobody will buy them, and making them “woke” wont change that
Yeah. The industry is greedy and creatively bankrupt. Why else would they hrie SweetBabyInc than to pander to people who have zero standards like Tumblrites and whales?
The Akimichi clan from Naruto for example are fat because they can turn their calories into Chakra, which is useful for intensive jutsus.
No. I still wouldn't want to play as a 300 lb Geralt or romance a mediocre woman.
@@shefalichow7917 thats okay, if we talk about an open world game, generally it gives plenty of options to customize your character and choices to who to be with, if its more like a linear game or a heroes shooter in wich you dont see any character you like to play as, then that game might just be made for other ppl and not you
@@agusmarchettini5934 You're absolutely correct. Woke games are not made for me.
@@shefalichow7917 Fair point. Personally I'd be woke, but that won't stop me from refusing to play newer games because of all the live service and macrotransaction-filled slop out there (and yes, MICROtransactions are the opposite of micro).
If people promoted older games instead of bitching about diversity checkboxes and wOkEnEsS we'd do a lot more to help the zoomer gamers see what's wrong. I have the MCC, Warcraft III classic (both ROC and TFT) along with some older CoD games, the difference is night and day.
Do not pre-order. Nothing, ever!
What if the game is gppd
It's odd how the gaming industry is shifting towards people who don't even have an interest in gaming at all because they're too busy thinking if they're gonna get triggered that day
Or touching children
14:40 its interesting that they have the same nose
Wasn’t expecting for him to notice at the end. Definitely a welcome sign 🙏
Almost as if they make video games woke because video guide creators keep providing them with endless free publicity when they do so.
Side note anyone else hear the "Secunda" sampling from Skyrim at 1:05?
yeah it’s some sort of lofi remix or smth
I remember just chilling and watching the river flowing in Skyrim with that in the background after a long shift.
One of the most relaxing things
Ngl, I thought Dustborn was one of those parody 4chan games before I learnt about it being funded directly by the EU and US gouverments. The fuck?
400 millions from blackrock? Sounds like money laundering… 😂
Yep. DEI stifles creativity, as your product can only be so creative so far as it conforms to DEI.
As a married gay gentleman, I couldn't agree more. Inclusivity does not mean shove my values or world view down other people's throats (whoa guys not like that 😅). You become equal to those who tried forcing their opinions onto you. It's sick, it's disgusting, and counter to the premise of "inclusivity" in the first place.
no one cares aids boy
U realize these people hate u right
@@woah56 lmao he's just one of the "good ones"
@@hayalet5443 Personally, I’d put this one right on the bottom edge of the “good ones”.
Hey Mom can I have Ranger from Quake?
We already have Ranger at home
Ranger at home: 2:39
"Evil is constrained in its creative capacity. It cannot originate novel concepts, inventions, or entities from scratch.
Instead, evil primarily corrupts and ruins what good forces have already created or made." - J.R.R. Tolkien
Just a list of all "failed" (great) games that are somewhat lgbt friendly
Literally... just Baldur's Gate 3 alone should be enough to show this is bullshit. Or Dragon Age Inquisition. Both GOTY almost ten years apart. Both extremely diverse.
My favorite youtuber is also BASED?
The madlad actually asked the "what do they have in common?" question. Wow. Instant sub from me.
Thankfully, people are starting to wake up to this problem, let these companies get even cringier, it will help people realize this is a bad practice.
I think you hit the nail on the head with the Blackrock tie in. If you own 30% of all corporations (food, medical, etc..) then throwing $100 million at a game to influence young people to then buy medical adaptions ($$$) that you will use the rest of your life compared to maybe 1 to 5 years in a game cash system is nothing. People need to stop, get out of the maze, and look at the bigger picture before it is too late. 🛑🧠✌
Baldur's Gate 3 is "woke" as fuck so maybe being "woke" isn't the problem maybe it's making a game good or perhaps not making another damn live service game
The wokeness is a choice in Baldurs gate 3, you can easily as straight male Chudly mcgigachad bang only women, and beat monsters to death with a hammer if thats what you want... it's a CHOICE! THEY DON'T FORCE YOU TO FUCK THE BEAR! THEY DON'T FORCE YOU TO BE UGLY, THEY DON'T FORCE YOU TO BE GAY, AND THEY DON'T BASE THEIR ENTIRE GAME ON THAT SHIT EITHER.
Baldurs gate 3 is only "woke" if you choose to play it that way, the game doesn't FORCE you to be gay trans vitiligo cripple who solves all their problems by talking it out, you CAN be that... but you can also play as a (much more desirable) hot, chick or badass ripped straight white person who beats everything that opposes them to death with a hammer.
Out of interest: Does Steam DB Numbers Change between EU and elswhere? Because Dustbin had 83 instead of 76 Players All Time Peak and Concord had 697 instead of 660 All time Peak last time I checked. I hope this Chart is right, because even less people played it then, but its strange that there are 2 Numbers for All time Peak Players depending on which YTber reports about it. 😅🤔
Steam DB and SteamCharts report slightly different numbers. That’s why
@@NovemberHotel Thank you for that Info. 😃
Fallout 3: today's subject slavery
Out of all the channels I’ve watched talking about this, none of which did a bad job, but you are probably my favorite already and this is the very first time I’ve ever seen your channel. You really clearly know what you’re doing and saying and take additional steps to prove your point and not only pointing out that being woke is negative for the industry but also how the very people hired are what leads to incompetence in the development of games. This is the fastest I’ve subscribed to someone
The graveyard of DEI shitty games is running out of space.
But we’ll make room.
And we’ll fucking smash the sales of games made for gamers.
YEAH LIKE BALDUR'S GATE 3 SELLING 15 MILLION COPIES.... OH WAAAIT LGBTQ OH NOOOOO YOUR AGENDA
@@johnbendheim8163 losing is hard, isn’t it.
Honestly, the only thing I ask for is sincerity. That the creators truly love their own games, and delivering the best version of their vision to us, as lovers of great stories and video games.
If their ideas are one of inclusivity and diversity, and they truly do love the gaming medium and are trying to contribute to it, I’m okay with that. I think I will feel it, and I’ll possibly play their games.
The end product doesn’t even need to be perfect or shiny. It’s cliched, but the thought really does matter.
The recent slew of unimaginative, corporate, creatively bankrupt cynical games that look down on their players, has really made me realize this.
I still felt that sincerity from many AAA games up to about 15 years ago.
My favorite games at the moment are Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and Ready or Not. The next game I want to play is a $12 Unity asset flip which is undoubtedly rough, but it just looks full of love and hard work.
Now it’s indie games, and “AA” games that scratch this itch, Aand I’m perfectly happy. The bigger companies will get my money again when they actually start making games again.
You’re video makes good points. I think “woke” is completely ruined at this point by people who call black people in a gta trailer woke.
We need a new word for this type of inauthentic art.
These games have no moral ambiguity and are so straight forward that it’s so boring. Art can have a political message but in these games it is so manufactured it is almost uncanny.
Sterile? Safe?
I have one I personally use, it’s offensive to those who can’t think for themselves
It’s shit, nothing less than shit
"Liberast - Liberal and pederast"
-Disco Elysium
no we don't
@@mpo48 Woke isn't exactly the same as bad though, something that's "woke" doesn't automatically make it bad
Hey, question. Why do you think it takes more time to design "woke" characters? Are you suggesting that every game should just use the same models over and over again?
The curse of sweet baby inc