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A banger video my dude. 🙏🔥 We can't just ignore all this hate, silencing of opinions and our games being ruined by unneeded political BS. Keep up the good fight, homie. 💪🔥
I totally agree that romance(relationship) is a good sub plot for video games because it is inherently interesting on its own. It also can literally write itself and ad importance to plots. If in Dying Light 1 Jade was your wife, Rahim and Jade's death would have been a lot more impactful and have more meaning and made the character reactions made more sense for the player. Or if in a zombie survival game you have a family to feed, the hunt for gear and food will be more impactful and feel less repetitive and it will also help on the role playing side of the game.
@ no “their” audience is the modern audience. Thats what these people are aiming for but I think “modern audience” is code name for no audience. I think these people are trying to destroy gaming and are making games for this imaginary audience because they just need a blanket statement to push their agenda. Im wondering how they are getting these video game companies to fall for it though
As much as find the term "woke mind virus" to be a little silly, i cant help but think it might genuinely be the case. I feel we see more and more unhinged devs and in the entire entertainment eco system embracing this stuff and pushing it despite being very unpopular. When does this stuff end, its been 10 years or more with the same issues..
The problem is it's like a new religion. These people see it as the vehicle to be a moral/virtuous person so as long as corporations reward it thinking it will make money it will persist. It's only been this year they faced massive repercussions
It's actually the people who can't think without an experts opinion who allow this stuff to continue. We've always had agreeable, weak minded people but we didn't always allow them in public discourse.
@@CheeseOfMastersDude that’s such a good point lol With apps like TikTok being accessible so BILLIONS of people, all the weak minded sheep are able to congregate and pass on their tiny twisted world view to each other and then an echo chamber forms and they’re all willingly stuck in it.
@@adamaccountname The problem is they are neither moral nor virtuous, but they do believe they are. I wish people stopped using the argument "but we can't be morally grey or play as a vilain" to criticize woke games, it's not a good argument in my opinion.
Dear AAA Devs, When someone tells you that they don't want 'politics' in their game, they mean it in the same way they don't want "religion" in their game... and you only refer to "religion" as something you do not agree with, do not share a worldview with, and do NOT want pushed on you. In other words, we are diplomatically telling you to knock off the nonsense, and if you do not listen, we will continue to close off our wallets. Thx for coming to my TED Talk.
politics alone isn't the issue, new Vegas is nothing but politics, which faction will you pick? why? pros and cons? the difference is that its a discussion, not preaching and not propeganda. there is no perfect system in the game, you have to pick based off of what YOU value the most
@@Bigotsandwich1995 When people say they don't want politics in their game they don't mean they don't want "political elements" in their lore and worldbuilding. They mean they don't want the REAL WORLD current day shit in there banging them over the head with morality lessons and forced-thought.
Yeah remember when games and movies didn't preach their gospel to you every chance they get? Honestly I am 100% against trans stuff being in a game children will play but at the same time if it wasnt shoved down our throats and preached at about it and the whole pushups as punishment for "misgendering" (aka speaking the truth) then I would have a lot less to complain about. I still wouldnt be ok with it, especially in what is supposed to be a dark fantasy game.
@@dksoulstice6040he rated Dragon Age the Veilguard a 9 out of 10, said it was the best Dragon Age he has ever played, and said it was his GOTY. He's totally entitled to his own opinion, and I'm glad he enjoyed it, but damn, did he play the same game as everyone else? If you played Dragon Age Origins, as well as the others, and you come to this opinions he had about Veilguard, it really discredits any of your future game reviews, opinions, or thoughts on future games.
"From a Trans Perspective" - If you can make a human being doubt and confuse who they are, down to their very core, while instilling a never-ending feeling of incompleteness-a blind conviction that ensures they never feel whole in their entire life-and even convince them that the most basic truths are not real but instead fluid, non-binary, and dependent on personal feelings and opinions... You can convince a person of anything. Anything. Once this mentality takes hold, neither I, nor you, nor their parents, nor God, Fate, or chance can sway them otherwise. They no longer define themselves, or others, by who they are but by what they are. "I know what I am." Not who, but what. This, at its core, is the true essence of identity politics. And I knew a woman in her thirties, someone I was very close to-with whom I had numerous things in common-who held this belief above all else. "I don’t care what anybody thinks. I know what I am." And it breaks my heart.
The who I am/what I am dichotomy is a very simple and effective way to highlight the difference of thought. Did you come by this honestly or did you read about it? I only ask because I'd like to see more material on it.
the problem with DEI is that they shove the stuff so far down our throat, we gag and vomit the best way to describe this is with a pizza analogy the dough is the gameplay without dough there is no pizza DEI is just spice. essentially what they are doing is trading the cheese and sauce for oregano it's just oregano pizza, it's disgusting. why would you eat a parsley pizza wihout cheese and sauce why would you make it?
I believe that almost all of them AAA studios are Ships of Theseus. I just can't believe that they are the same people who made The Outer Worlds, and some Fallout games.
Outer Worlds was pure anticapitalism to a point where its criticisms blew past satire and into irrelevant absurdity. I am not surprised to hear they go too far on other progressive views.
They forced Chris Avellone out who pretty much was key writer for every project. He got metoo'd which was later shown to be entirely fabricated and political
Most studios seem to have a problem retaining talent. It might have something to do with the fact that studio heads tend to fire senior devs to hire junior devs in their stead...
yall need to stop thinking its talented people are the issue and not the structuring and bureaucracy of public traded companies. cause thats litterally the reason. youre a creative lead? oh nice, every idea you and your team have has to go through 11 managers, who most likely have no interest in games and want to know cost and monitary result of it. Try taking risk and do something special when it has to go through 7-11 people who can veto it, and none of em wants to stirr the pot.
Can’t deny that DEI practices, virtue signaling and constant positive feedback from an echo chamber environment are ruining everything. You can’t say anything negative unless it’s about the crusty whiteys.
Yeah... It's not even about "Inclusion". They use the people they pander to as swords and shields. And if one of them dares to speak out - like if a gay/lesbian/bi or trans or non-binary person actually disagrees with them, they don't listen to them. They shove them in the sh*t list.
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Yes, it is a mask they wear. Like their were taught by Azazel to wield as a weapon.
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes" These clowns act like if you're not 100% aligned with them then you are an enemy and if you are aligned with them that means no escapism allowed. All escapism must lead back to the real world and real world politics.
Except they are actually made-up politics to begin with. Invented to supposedly impart some sort of egocentric, entitled self-affirmation. The "Bubble" needs bursting with the " pin of reason".
If gamers complain about a stupid mispronunciation, then it is a gamer problem, not a developer problem. Developers are right; customers are stupid incels who can't see the world beyond their binary goggles, and it's about damn time a developer speaks out and shows them their place."
The reason people like Hansen are the way they are is because every major company im the West has adopted corporate policies that enable and protect attitudes like his. The policies set up keep the companies legal have been weaponized by people like him and they thrive in those environments. Couple that with the likelihood that he's probably an echo chamber, well... You get the modern Western AAA studio.
@@KyleCox404 There's nothing that Matt said that was right. When David Gaider went unhinged, there was nothing he said that was right either. And you can also go ahead and chalk up David Jaffe as well to complete the holy trifecta of bald bearded Industry moron has-beens. And you can sprinkle in the Dustborn, Concord & AC Shadows devs who also had absolute gems of idiocy this year. When a gamer is wrong and developer is right, people flock around it and laugh at the gamer. We've seen it happen over the years. This isn't some metaphysical thing. It's just entitled people with garbage takes and with terrible intentions flooding the industry and disregarding their audiences. It isn't even unique to gaming, you can see it ALL OVER the movie & tv show industry. Just look at The Acolyte and the total meltdown from the main actress & Director... Calling the entire fanbase racists and homophobes for not liking one of the worst written and directed shows ever seen lmao. You're way off, dude.
They went from a studio that I was happy to give money on kickstarter to a studio of which I wouldn't play the games if they were free because my time is more valuable than that. Kinda sad.
"Bigoted white male gamers once again boycott an inclusive and diverse game due to their sexism and racism." "Obsidian lays of 50% of their staff due to Awoved poor sales figures thanks to bigoted gamers not buying the game." How does Chuddha do it?!?!
We just have to continue to talk about these things. The more we talk about it, the more ears hear it and the more people understand what is happening.
Haha, I doubt it, in the footage we've seen so far, it has already managed to look better than Veilguard by giving people some roleplaying options and hopefully, more variety. Though to be fair Veilguard's bar is so low that that's not saying much. 😂
(Being purposefully vague so I don't spoil it for others) One of my favorite romances in recent memory was in an MMORPGs main story. You spend so much time watching 2 NPC support characters develop a relationship culminating at the endgame. It was so well written and wholesome and sweet. Also they were a same sex couple. It was never announced, they didn't demand anything from the player, it was just part of the story and hit me directly in the feels. In my humble opinion, that is how you do it. You're never going to make me care about unlikable characters demanding it.
Was it GW2? Because honestly, one of the few games I thought handled diversity well. They did it before it became a virtue signal, and it's just, there. They don't use it for cheap marketing lol.
GW2 had a couple of really nice lesbian couples from really early on, so that didn't feel like jumping on a bandwagon, and Gorrik is a nice sidekick too, but in EoD they went a bit too far with that annoying jade technician. Good thing they backpeddaled it and never pressed their audience across the line. But I find their writing the last two years a bit too safe modern, too. Really miss Rytlock and Canach and Logan trading jabs in Path of Fire and Season 4. For me it was peak GW2
@@VerminaeSupremacy Can't agree more on the wtiting, I dropped off almost immediately after the main story of EoD. I also tried Secrets of Obscure but only lasted about a week or two.
@ I mostly only do wvwvw and casual stuff these days as adulting drains me completely, I still hang around, but I haven’t completed main story quests since EoD, too.
Too bad 99% of the time a same sex couple will be a lesbian couple. Why? It's the most accepted LGBTQ coupling. Why? Because fetishism. Just go to any Subreddit about any game with major lesbian ship and... Yeah it's rule34 galore.
One of the main reasons this insanity has been allowed to continually spread and be left unopposed, is because those at the top are either stupid and only care for money, or those that share the same exact mindset to begin with. The only way we are ever going to see Marxism and radicalism in media/gaming be torn down, is to keep standing up against it (not buying their products, outright buying from their competitors, putting their competition on higher pedestals to show the difference, etc). If we so much as give them any more of an inch, it'll only make things worse over time. I wouldn't even bother with the AAA industry anymore though, that sector is beyond salvation. It's far too embroiled in mobile gaming-like practices and business models, as well as now being nearly fully infected with the DEI/Marxist parasites. There is no saving what has been deeply infected, so the best route is to focus on areas not infected and helping foster new growth instead. Hopefully one day the AAA industry completely collapses, with MS, Sony and Nintendo all being eventually broken up, and for new growth to come about, because in this current era, the old guard is too stubborn, follows trends and no longer creates for the customer, nor do they care to serve them anymore (it's all about CEO pay packets and investor dividends now)
Great video once more. As someone who as spent a lot of money on release for Obsidian, Bioware and Bethesda Titles, I feel utterly betrayed by these companies for how they treat me for just having a different opinion to them. Am an old fan and enjoyed their earlier games thoroughly, only to be called a tourist online by people who never even played the Dragon Age: Origins, Pillars of Eternity, Mass Effect, Fallout 3 and etc... I kid you not I spent thousands of euros on those 3 companies only to wear a clown mask and be vilified by the current developers. They are dead to me, I won't be purchasing any more games from them and I hope most gamers do the same.
Sorry to hear that. It's terrible. This medium could be used to bring people of differing opinions TOGETHER. Instead they just want to vilify people who aren't 100% in line with their sh-t, and make games to FOCUS on the things that separate us, just to tear us even further apart. It's disgusting.
To be fair, I don't think Bethesda Studios, like the one in Maryland, has betrayed their customers that much compared to the others. Starfield wasn't really woke. People can criticize the different mechanics of jumping to different planets instead of a massive province/area to explore like in Skyrim or Fallout, but I chalk this up to the vision of the game more than them trying to make fans unhappy. Fallout 76 gets conflated a lot because it wasn't made by the Maryland studio, but it was made by the studio in Austin. Todd promoted it - because that's his job - but he actually had nothing to do with the game really. He's not in the credits or anything. So I feel like Fallout 76's failures are Austins, not the greater company. Just compare the credits list - these are not the people who made your favourite games. It may as well be a different studio. I think Starfield's biggest issue was that the size and complexity might have stretched the studio pretty thin. But I will give them credit, the game wasn't that buggy - I played it for 150 hours and I don't really recall that many bugs. I also rather enjoyed it. Contrary to what you'd read online, there was definitely more hand-crafted content in Starfield compared to Skyrim for example - they were telling the truth there. There was also a lot of memorable quests and wonderful environments. As someone who likes Star Trek, I got the vibe the game was going for. I rather enjoyed it. It's not perfect and I can see why someone might not like it as much, but I wouldn't classify them as betraying their customers and I don't think there is reason to be too concerned for ES6 yet. I'd stay neutral on that personally and wait for evidence. But Bioware? Yes, they are toast. And it looks like Obsidian is likely somewhere in the middle of these two company's, but it leans closer to Bioware by the day.
@Katie-hb8iq Right now I'm just putting my hard line on pronoun selection because it promotes an ideology that I simply cannot support, just like I would not support someone who says "in all aspects but one, I am a wolf awoooo"... It's mental illness of the same ilk that we are "normalizing".
Wow, what a fantastic video. Very great video. I clicked on this video and I thought to myself "Wow, this video is really fantastic" believe me. This may be one of the best video breakdown of what happened with Obsidian, I say. And some are saying that too.
I spoke to Mithrevan on the phone he said it was a great video, the best video. He said to me "DONALD, I've never seen a better video than yours, it's tremendous"... And he's seen millions and millions of videos, more videos than anyone else.
«Sometimes it just means that the curtains are blue». And why would an author spend time and printing space on establishing the fact that the curtains are blue if they don't matter?
To paint the canvas of your imagination, fleshing out the room so that you have a better setting to place the characters of the story in. How you derive the effects of blue curtains in the emotional atmosphere of the scene, as you read, is solely on your emotional experience of what blue curtains can mean to you.
The facial animations in Avowed are on par with Veilguard's... This tells me that the game will probably be similar in other aspects as well. As in, people were not hired for merit but based on "affinity bias".
I know it may sound nihilistic, but it really sucks to see how large the influence of unnuanced and vapid online echo chambers has become. At this point, earnest art and genuine objectivity are deliberately being set aside for what amounts to fleeting "validation" and power grabs. Look at these games. No doubt you've said this before, but these people are so captured by ideology that they don't even understand that they're in the enviable position to gain genuine popularity and financial profit just by BEING CREATIVE. Instead, they can't even see past their emotional nonsense or the fact that their childish behavior harms the professional reputations of themselves and their teams (not too mention obviously not making them feel any less empty/unstable inside). Yet, that's the mentality that's constantly proliferating and being boosted in online spaces, and being taken seriously by others to the point that these dev studios/groups are essentially self-destructing. How do these people define success?
It's all iconoclasm. There's a reason why after conquering peoples, their statues and places of worship were destroyed only to be replaced by the conquers'. It's a sign of domination. If I can do these high investment physical, yet symbolistic acts, it means I'm winning and we both know it.
1st time watching a vid of yours. Excellent talk on the derailment of Avowed - a game that could have given gamers what they want and, presumably, been a GOTY shoe-in. Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 looked like a potential banger from the get-go, and now is looking more inviting than ever! Subscribed. :)
The only reason why they don't try to distance themself from Veilguard, is probably because it's the truth. But damn, even Veilguard was trying to pretend that the game is nothing like the 1st trailer shown, even if it turned out, that the 1st trailer was very accurate description of the tone of the game.
6:21 Thing is in this game you can choose to side with corporation or ppl so they aren't injecting you, its just the game's story..unlike vailguard
i got banned yesterday from the reddit . i explained to a guy why matt tweet was racist, seems mods didn't like it . i did 6 discussion on that reddit about the lore of eora and still these far far left people censor every comment that is not ( red pill) and (chuds) . absurd. i truly want for dev to step up and apologize cause these people are completely ruin their game.
Subreddits are horrible echo chambers and if you fall outside of the current status quo of the sub, you will be downvoted to oblivion or just banned. For example, I get my comment removed every single time from r/Fantasy if I mention how creepy it is that smutty Romantacy is slowly investing YA fantasy. I dunno what the conclusion I should make is, but to me it looks like they are trying to silence people who point out erotica shouldn't be provided to teens.
Andromeda had great companions/party members. You could actually disagree with them and piss them off. And if you wanted to engage with them, they were interesting and enjoyable. And their quests from what I remember didn't completely suck (unlike The Veilguard.) I haven't even played more than the first hour or 2 of Outer Worlds, as it just didn't click with me early on like the Fallout / Skyrim games. Something about it's choice of colors, design, etc, just felt off. 🤷♂️ Side note: your Donald Trump impression is hilariously accurate. 😅 That stupid Microsoft/Xbox list of things to "adhere" needs to be done away with. It's so restricting, ideology pushing, and is EXACTLY the type of things that has been making games so damn soft with no edge. 🙏 Obsidian banning people is what drives it all past just Matt Hansen being a bad apple in the bunch... now I'm definitely not so sure there's as much hope for the game as I would've liked to have. Sweeping what he did under the rug is unacceptable. Obsidian needs to be gutted and built anew. If left as they are, they are going to fall and ontop of that, they will leave a crumbled legacy, going off on the most sour note possible. It's sad tbh. Fingers crossed someone actually sues Matt Hansen or he faces consequences. The only way I see something being done from their higher ups is when this game comes out and is a total sink of funds when no one buys it. Or if someone sues and ends up costing them tons of money in lawsuits. Silencing people in the comments on reddit, steam, or twitter is not going to make this go away. People, reviews, and content creators will show this game and Obsidian for what they are when it comes out. Final words are... screw Matt Hansen. He's a disgusting and hateful individual.
Yeah, dude I remember some of them. Liam had that "comedy-written one" where the bad guy kept opening the communication to threaten us, but we were arguing and slapping the comms button off every time 😂 ship even goes sideways and shit, shifting the interior.. Jaal had that serious one where we can TRUST HIM and freeze up in a very tense moment where he almost dies, paying off to do it (vs us reacting and saving him but it not paying off since we didn't trust him), Cora I think had the Asari ark, right? Which was alright as well, nice insight to her training and insecurities. Drack, I think, had us going after some assssssssssshole (Spencer??) who felt so good to hate. A total douchebag saboteour that annoyed us at several points thru the game, making revenge feel so so sweet... Overall, I don't hate Andromeda. Maybe some day I'll talk about it on the channel. Thanks btw lol I can't get the voice right at all though. I tried over and over until my throat hurt. Maybe our vocal cords just aren't compatible. 🤣
We have more than enough studios that are in the business of creating incredible experiences.. the western AAA industry will have no choice but to coarse correct one way or another. They either fall in line and create what gamers want without judgement or the go bankrupt as they continue to attack their customers.. Balls in their court
7:35 the original creator did say that, it was all over the fallout subreddits. Jannies banned everyone eho point that out because it invalidated some user's opinions or something and it implied the creator's stated intentions are more credible than a user's reading of it.
Well obsidian is owned by Microsoft and as I stated in a comment on a different video. Blackrock owns Microsoft. The CEO Larry fink loves this DEI and progressive crap in games regardless of money. He just wants to influence people to think and act the way he wants.
Yep. Admits it himself "Forced Behaviors". I put the clip up in my video of the Unfair Villainization/Demonization of Gamers, but I still get comments saying it's a conspiracy theory lol
This is just crazy, I was about to buy an xbox series s for this game but they can count that sale as lost, I honestly don't understand what is going on, its like there is an all powerful entity/dragon/god that's holding most of the game industry hostage.
Obsidian has lost most of the original members a long time ago. So it was obvious that the remaining members don't have the talent the original group had
I did not find Outer Worlds more ideologically preachy than any other "avoid unfettered capitalism" title, - but what I did notice was that it refused to take itself seriously. Way too many moments being played for laughs. And things that you think are jokes are apparently supposed to be taken seriously. Some clownshoe got into the writing team and it's been downhill since then.
That thumbnail, I think he and his whole team are so dumb that I could bring this mess up to snuff by myself and make it sell. This whole team isn't worth one actual designer with passion, talent and a brain. TBH, I'd need a sound designer because I'm tone deaf but that's about it. WTF happened? Obsidian was among the few that I never imagined going down this road, it's an absolute tragedy.
It's insane that the first teaser trailer looked like a grimdark hard-fantasy; everything was black and grey, there was soot and ash and smoke everywhere, the player wore realistic, gritty armor and held a typical medieval-European style sword, and you were against this legion of reanimated skeletons. Fast forward to now; it's this bubbly, cartoony, colorful setting with your typical generic fantasy armors and weapons, millennial writing ("Erm... so that just happened!" type crap), and the most hideous character lineup imaginable. It looked like grimdark, then somewhere between then and now it turned into a "Veilguard-like". What the actual fuck happened?
100% agree with you with the outer worlds and andromeda take. I actually occasionally download andromeda every now and then and play it to completion because i enjoy the game play so much. I think it's a niche game which caters to a specific kind of player (people who like shooters or hero shooters). If i were to review it i'd give it a 7/10. Objectively it's not bad but it's not great either. It's similar to veilguard in that it's connection to the established IP does more harm to it than good but unlike veilguard it's actually fun to play if you are not expecting to play mass effect 4. Edit: 10:52 I'm dying here dude 🤣
The people who do this are hurt, by someone or something or just society. So they are lashing out and hurting other people in the process, which they day is good because those people are "evil"
If the devs and producer's want the modern audience so badly, they're willing to scorch the majority of customers for their ideologies... let the devs and producer's have all 1% of them to keep their business afloat.
Never mind preorders, I've stopped buying anything in early access anymore. I'm now working towards not buying anything at full price anymore, at least by the time things are on sale you can be pretty sure they've been patched enough to be stable. Regarding relationships, I personally can't stand that nonsense so not including that would be a plus for me. It's just another time-wasting system added in to make a game feel like it's bigger than it actually is.
A quick comment I'd like to make on something you said about the Outer Worlds, about the satire in it. "I dont mind it, it is the same kind of anti-corporate satire you find in games like GTA5". And you know what, that's the problem. Outer Worlds has the same kind of very silly, very over-the-top, very exaggerated and at times quite dumb satire focused on corporations and capitalism that you find in GTA games. But it's not GTA. It works in GTA because it is simply a background piece of the larger worldbuilding of the series. It works because it contrasts how awfully blunt and exaggerated, unrealistic, the satire is with how true to life and realistic the overall world of the games is. But in Outer Worlds this satire essentially is the WHOLE world of the game. It does not have the same effect as in GTA because there's nothing to contrast to(besides itself). So the player is simply left thinking how stupid and silly the world of the game is because it's all just satire and nothing else.
I totally agree. It's part of why I am not a fan of the game's inability to be a bit more serious. To make me care about something. I just meant that it's akin to GTA's satire in that it's not trying to throw ideological propaganda at the player as some people like to hijack games like these, or Bioshock or Fallout and say that they've always been "woke" for simply presenting dystopias or apocalypses. Given Obsidian's recent comments and direction with Avowed I think it's pointless for me to be hopeful that the Outer Worlds 2 would expand itself beyond the constant satire and comedy.
Makes you wonder, what did Microsoft buy? They seem to have the name obsidian but not any of the human capital that is necessary to produce quality games
I would have the same response if every character in their games started wanting to talk about Jesus. I don't want to be reminded of someone's modern ideas and ideologies in my game set in another world
Bang on. This is why I dumped wokebox. At least with PS5 I can customize the menu to filter out crap I have no interest in. Microsoft Xbox with their progressive messages and woke game recommendation spam are so bloody f'king annoying. As.for the industry,. Inevitably these studios will all go broke. People have had enough of this crap. You summed it up perfectly.
DEI know that people will recognize the pattern but they can’t control customers behavior in game industry bcs at the gamers are the main costumers , game industry is heavily dependent on customers
I just hope one day Western devs actually have straight male romance options that are actually attractive. I finished Dragon Age: Inquisition and Andromeda, having turned all of the females down. Why can't it be like Japanese JRPGs and dating sims where ALL of the girls are attractive and have different personalities that make them stand out from each other?
I think you nailed it on the head. The money doesnt matter, what matters is the deconstruction amd repurposing of a cultural norm. Its the root of their philosophy. Doesnt matter which one from gender ideology, queer ideology, critical race theory...its all rooted in the deconstructive philosophy of post modernism. Ungil these folks can put on their big boy pants and stop hating the world they live in youll just have to play other games.
i have been playing games for a long time and seeing game devs fall to such an extent is disheartening , bioware was one of the best devs out there with hits like kotor , mass effect and dragon age but after andromeda i already accepted that bioware was not the same company . One company im really afraid of following this path is cd project red , they made my favorite series of all time the witcher and i also loved cyberpunk . Im afraid that the witcher 4 will forget what made the original series so great and make a generic bland game like veilguard was , it makes me so sad that the game devs i looked up to when i was young have fallen to such an extent.
Avowed will be on game pass this gives them free reign to do whatever they want since sales figures arent the deciding factor for succes its the amount of subscribers to game pass and since black ops 6 is also on it i doubt there will be any repercussions
I agree with what you said and I think there is something more we don't know. It's really strange that companies continue creating these games with "The Message" that they want to convey and continue losing money, I don't think any company wants that and we have examples like the SAINTS RAW company that closed down because of this. However, there is something more that companies are deriving from this, even the Jaguar brand itself is already being woken up and losing a lot of money with "The Message". Something that has a lot to do with BlackRock and other companies like that, which FORCES companies to change their logos to LGBT colors where the WOKE agenda is all... I don't know when this will stop. I hope that with Trump's election something will change, because we are (already) heading towards ridicule.
I made sure to turn the bell on after your last video, so now I get to be early to all your uploads when possible. Looking forward to hearing your take on these shifts we've seen within the gaming industry/our favorite game studios. I'll comment again after watching with my thoughts. 🙏🔥 Loving the consistency, keep up the good work yo.
I went into the outer worlds with no expectations, and never finished it. I've tried 3 times, what a snore fest. Honestly, obsidian gets more praise then they deserve.
All of you young kids haven’t been alive long enough to realize this but every decade since 2000 has been worse than the one that proceeded it. If you think the 2020’s have been bad then boy do I have news about the 2030’s.
The west needs to make great media again. I haven't been excited for a piece of entertainment from there for a long time. Only thing I can recall is John Wick final chapter.
I did cancel my preorder of Avowed on Steam. I am a massive fan of Obsidian. I played New Vegas, KOTOR 2, Pillars 1 and 2, Tyranny, and I even liked The Outer Worlds. I think I even own Alpha Protocol too. I also played all of Josh's Icewind Dale games and stuff. God, I love these guys so much. Anyway, I hope this is isolated to Matt and not the studio, but I am having my doubts increased by the day. I am leaning towards not buying again at all. I was originally going to wait for an apology and reviews before deciding to buy, but I don't expect to find good news now. My hope is that the game isn't very woke at all, and that Matt was just trying to "own the chuds" rather than speak for the actual content of the game itself.
@@PseronWyrd I agree, and I think it's more than that. The person blocking posts on the reddit and X accounts also agrees with matt. The execs at Obsidian and Microsoft who could have apologized already also agree with Matt too - he's not fired yet. There are others there too. So yes, I likely won't be picking this game up. I want to be hopeful but I am okay with not buying it again too.
@@PseronWyrd It's also worth pointing out that Josh is a smart guy. Despite his political leanings, he has never actually spearheaded a game with this kind of political stuff in it. Even his last game, Pentiment, completely stuck to the source material of the game and did not inject anything. So whatever we can say about Josh, let's keep in mind that he at least separates his political views from his work, because all the evidence say that is true.
TIMELY STAMPS
0:00 - Intro & Recap (skip to 3:34)
3:51 - Avowed's Signifficance
10:18 - Obsidian's Rampage
15:42 - Obsidian Has Fallen
25:15 - Conclusion & Outro
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A banger video my dude. 🙏🔥
We can't just ignore all this hate, silencing of opinions and our games being ruined by unneeded political BS.
Keep up the good fight, homie. 💪🔥
@@1ViivviiX1 Thanks man, glad you enjoyed the vid! 🙏
I totally agree that romance(relationship) is a good sub plot for video games because it is inherently interesting on its own. It also can literally write itself and ad importance to plots. If in Dying Light 1 Jade was your wife, Rahim and Jade's death would have been a lot more impactful and have more meaning and made the character reactions made more sense for the player. Or if in a zombie survival game you have a family to feed, the hunt for gear and food will be more impactful and feel less repetitive and it will also help on the role playing side of the game.
By today's circumstances i'd wear the "AvowedTheGame Has Blocked You" award with pride like the Medal Of Honor.
That list of questions from Microsoft is nauseating. The only question that should be asking is. "Are you making a game your audience will love?"
In a sense they are. They are asking if you are making games your audience will love, the modern audience
@@AP90x LMAO TRUE
@@AP90x except their audience isn't "The modern audience" it's just "your audience" or if one prefers your "traditional audience"
@ no “their” audience is the modern audience. Thats what these people are aiming for but I think “modern audience” is code name for no audience. I think these people are trying to destroy gaming and are making games for this imaginary audience because they just need a blanket statement to push their agenda. Im wondering how they are getting these video game companies to fall for it though
Or "Are you making a fun game?" Everything else will just click together.
When GTAVI arrives you guys better remember that Dan Houser & Michael Unsworth already left the company, for a good reason.
It's cooked, roasted and toasted.
i mean theres "news" about GTA VI aka RockStar's Training on Endymion's channel.
Oh god
And when TES6 released that Kurt Kuhlmann and Bruce Nesmith left, and that Emil Pagliarulo still in the company.
As much as find the term "woke mind virus" to be a little silly, i cant help but think it might genuinely be the case. I feel we see more and more unhinged devs and in the entire entertainment eco system embracing this stuff and pushing it despite being very unpopular. When does this stuff end, its been 10 years or more with the same issues..
The problem is it's like a new religion. These people see it as the vehicle to be a moral/virtuous person so as long as corporations reward it thinking it will make money it will persist. It's only been this year they faced massive repercussions
I've seen theories suggesting that it's weaponized mental health 🤔
It's actually the people who can't think without an experts opinion who allow this stuff to continue. We've always had agreeable, weak minded people but we didn't always allow them in public discourse.
@@CheeseOfMastersDude that’s such a good point lol
With apps like TikTok being accessible so BILLIONS of people, all the weak minded sheep are able to congregate and pass on their tiny twisted world view to each other and then an echo chamber forms and they’re all willingly stuck in it.
@@adamaccountname The problem is they are neither moral nor virtuous, but they do believe they are. I wish people stopped using the argument "but we can't be morally grey or play as a vilain" to criticize woke games, it's not a good argument in my opinion.
Dear AAA Devs,
When someone tells you that they don't want 'politics' in their game, they mean it in the same way they don't want "religion" in their game... and you only refer to "religion" as something you do not agree with, do not share a worldview with, and do NOT want pushed on you.
In other words, we are diplomatically telling you to knock off the nonsense, and if you do not listen, we will continue to close off our wallets.
Thx for coming to my TED Talk.
politics alone isn't the issue, new Vegas is nothing but politics, which faction will you pick? why? pros and cons? the difference is that its a discussion, not preaching and not propeganda. there is no perfect system in the game, you have to pick based off of what YOU value the most
To the point.
@@Bigotsandwich1995 When people say they don't want politics in their game they don't mean they don't want "political elements" in their lore and worldbuilding. They mean they don't want the REAL WORLD current day shit in there banging them over the head with morality lessons and forced-thought.
@@TheDezembro I mean, that's what I said
Yeah remember when games and movies didn't preach their gospel to you every chance they get?
Honestly I am 100% against trans stuff being in a game children will play but at the same time if it wasnt shoved down our throats and preached at about it and the whole pushups as punishment for "misgendering" (aka speaking the truth) then I would have a lot less to complain about. I still wouldnt be ok with it, especially in what is supposed to be a dark fantasy game.
Mortismal got wined, dined and bent over a desk in Obsidian studios so I fully expect another "goty-material" review from him/them.
I really liked that guy… he seemed to have a a great wealth of knowledge of CRPGs but he threw it all away
i check the comments in his video, but all comments seems very supportive tho 🤔
Wait, what happened to Mortismal lol. I've been out of the loop.
@@dksoulstice6040 Seriously what did I miss I actually like that dude as a reviewer
@@dksoulstice6040he rated Dragon Age the Veilguard a 9 out of 10, said it was the best Dragon Age he has ever played, and said it was his GOTY. He's totally entitled to his own opinion, and I'm glad he enjoyed it, but damn, did he play the same game as everyone else? If you played Dragon Age Origins, as well as the others, and you come to this opinions he had about Veilguard, it really discredits any of your future game reviews, opinions, or thoughts on future games.
"From a Trans Perspective" - If you can make a human being doubt and confuse who they are, down to their very core, while instilling a never-ending feeling of incompleteness-a blind conviction that ensures they never feel whole in their entire life-and even convince them that the most basic truths are not real but instead fluid, non-binary, and dependent on personal feelings and opinions...
You can convince a person of anything. Anything.
Once this mentality takes hold, neither I, nor you, nor their parents, nor God, Fate, or chance can sway them otherwise.
They no longer define themselves, or others, by who they are but by what they are.
"I know what I am." Not who, but what.
This, at its core, is the true essence of identity politics.
And I knew a woman in her thirties, someone I was very close to-with whom I had numerous things in common-who held this belief above all else.
"I don’t care what anybody thinks. I know what I am."
And it breaks my heart.
The who I am/what I am dichotomy is a very simple and effective way to highlight the difference of thought. Did you come by this honestly or did you read about it? I only ask because I'd like to see more material on it.
This is an insane and unhinged rant omfg 😂 pronouns aren’t that deep Jesus Christ
the problem with DEI is that they shove the stuff so far down our throat, we gag and vomit
the best way to describe this is with a pizza analogy
the dough is the gameplay
without dough there is no pizza
DEI is just spice.
essentially what they are doing is trading the cheese and sauce for oregano
it's just oregano pizza, it's disgusting.
why would you eat a parsley pizza wihout cheese and sauce
why would you make it?
NO NO you don't want romance in a game with a woke art director that specifically want black trans artists and to be called "daddy" on the workplace.
You know what, you make an excellent point 😂😂😂 this may actually be a blessing in disguise.
Reminds me of that one story about that one Concord dev who wanted to be called "The doctor" or she went to cry to HR.
I believe that almost all of them AAA studios are Ships of Theseus. I just can't believe that they are the same people who made The Outer Worlds, and some Fallout games.
Outer Worlds was pure anticapitalism to a point where its criticisms blew past satire and into irrelevant absurdity. I am not surprised to hear they go too far on other progressive views.
They forced Chris Avellone out who pretty much was key writer for every project. He got metoo'd which was later shown to be entirely fabricated and political
Most studios seem to have a problem retaining talent.
It might have something to do with the fact that studio heads tend to fire senior devs to hire junior devs in their stead...
yall need to stop thinking its talented people are the issue and not the structuring and bureaucracy of public traded companies. cause thats litterally the reason. youre a creative lead? oh nice, every idea you and your team have has to go through 11 managers, who most likely have no interest in games and want to know cost and monitary result of it.
Try taking risk and do something special when it has to go through 7-11 people who can veto it, and none of em wants to stirr the pot.
Can’t deny that DEI practices, virtue signaling and constant positive feedback from an echo chamber environment are ruining everything. You can’t say anything negative unless it’s about the crusty whiteys.
Their problem is it comes from a place of hate. They don't do it to help their community, they do it to hurt their "enemies".
Yeah... It's not even about "Inclusion". They use the people they pander to as swords and shields. And if one of them dares to speak out - like if a gay/lesbian/bi or trans or non-binary person actually disagrees with them, they don't listen to them. They shove them in the sh*t list.
Yes, it is a mask they wear.
Like their were taught by Azazel to wield as a weapon.
13:07 Nope no multi-verse, no time travel. We gotta roll up our sleeves clean out the rot ourselves.
I was not expecting Portuguese Trump
I welcome it.❤
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes"
These clowns act like if you're not 100% aligned with them then you are an enemy and if you are aligned with them that means no escapism allowed. All escapism must lead back to the real world and real world politics.
Except they are actually made-up politics to begin with. Invented to supposedly impart some sort of egocentric, entitled self-affirmation.
The "Bubble" needs bursting with the " pin of reason".
That obi quote is an absolute statement.
Not disagreeing, but I always found that funny.
@bushturkey798 It's part of what makes it such a great quote lol it's the closest obiwan gets to who he'll be in the original trilogy
"what do you mean gamers want to play videogames?"
- Modern Game Studios, probably
PS: Yes, I too am a Ford Focus. Beep beep
There is one other reply to this comment that is too based for TH-cam... sad.
If gamers complain about a stupid mispronunciation, then it is a gamer problem, not a developer problem. Developers are right; customers are stupid incels who can't see the world beyond their binary goggles, and it's about damn time a developer speaks out and shows them their place."
The reason people like Hansen are the way they are is because every major company im the West has adopted corporate policies that enable and protect attitudes like his. The policies set up keep the companies legal have been weaponized by people like him and they thrive in those environments.
Couple that with the likelihood that he's probably an echo chamber, well... You get the modern Western AAA studio.
@@KyleCox404 yeah cool, but you're supposed to be trying to sell your product
@@KyleCox404 There's nothing that Matt said that was right.
When David Gaider went unhinged, there was nothing he said that was right either.
And you can also go ahead and chalk up David Jaffe as well to complete the holy trifecta of bald bearded Industry moron has-beens. And you can sprinkle in the Dustborn, Concord & AC Shadows devs who also had absolute gems of idiocy this year.
When a gamer is wrong and developer is right, people flock around it and laugh at the gamer. We've seen it happen over the years. This isn't some metaphysical thing. It's just entitled people with garbage takes and with terrible intentions flooding the industry and disregarding their audiences. It isn't even unique to gaming, you can see it ALL OVER the movie & tv show industry. Just look at The Acolyte and the total meltdown from the main actress & Director... Calling the entire fanbase racists and homophobes for not liking one of the worst written and directed shows ever seen lmao.
You're way off, dude.
They went from a studio that I was happy to give money on kickstarter to a studio of which I wouldn't play the games if they were free because my time is more valuable than that. Kinda sad.
How these clowns completely took over all entertainment industry is beyond me. And in such a short period.
I will do NOTHING and they will seethe.
Pulling a Gabe
But Chuddah what if-
"Bigoted white male gamers once again boycott an inclusive and diverse game due to their sexism and racism."
"Obsidian lays of 50% of their staff due to Awoved poor sales figures thanks to bigoted gamers not buying the game."
How does Chuddha do it?!?!
Hating your customers openly is a bold business move. I can’t imagine how this will end. 😂
16:23 - Don't you mean "disavowed" his statements?
... I'll see myself out.
No, stay.
Dude that impersonation of Trump was golden, spot on. Keep up the good work.
Thanks 🤣🤣🤣 I need to work on the voice but I don't think my vocal cords can do it
We just have to continue to talk about these things. The more we talk about it, the more ears hear it and the more people understand what is happening.
I think it can't be worse than Dragon Age Veilguard, right?! 😰😰😰
Haha, I doubt it, in the footage we've seen so far, it has already managed to look better than Veilguard by giving people some roleplaying options and hopefully, more variety. Though to be fair Veilguard's bar is so low that that's not saying much. 😂
(Being purposefully vague so I don't spoil it for others) One of my favorite romances in recent memory was in an MMORPGs main story. You spend so much time watching 2 NPC support characters develop a relationship culminating at the endgame. It was so well written and wholesome and sweet. Also they were a same sex couple. It was never announced, they didn't demand anything from the player, it was just part of the story and hit me directly in the feels. In my humble opinion, that is how you do it. You're never going to make me care about unlikable characters demanding it.
Was it GW2? Because honestly, one of the few games I thought handled diversity well. They did it before it became a virtue signal, and it's just, there. They don't use it for cheap marketing lol.
GW2 had a couple of really nice lesbian couples from really early on, so that didn't feel like jumping on a bandwagon, and Gorrik is a nice sidekick too, but in EoD they went a bit too far with that annoying jade technician. Good thing they backpeddaled it and never pressed their audience across the line. But I find their writing the last two years a bit too safe modern, too. Really miss Rytlock and Canach and Logan trading jabs in Path of Fire and Season 4. For me it was peak GW2
@@VerminaeSupremacy Can't agree more on the wtiting, I dropped off almost immediately after the main story of EoD. I also tried Secrets of Obscure but only lasted about a week or two.
@ I mostly only do wvwvw and casual stuff these days as adulting drains me completely, I still hang around, but I haven’t completed main story quests since EoD, too.
Too bad 99% of the time a same sex couple will be a lesbian couple.
Why? It's the most accepted LGBTQ coupling. Why? Because fetishism. Just go to any Subreddit about any game with major lesbian ship and... Yeah it's rule34 galore.
One of the main reasons this insanity has been allowed to continually spread and be left unopposed, is because those at the top are either stupid and only care for money, or those that share the same exact mindset to begin with.
The only way we are ever going to see Marxism and radicalism in media/gaming be torn down, is to keep standing up against it (not buying their products, outright buying from their competitors, putting their competition on higher pedestals to show the difference, etc). If we so much as give them any more of an inch, it'll only make things worse over time.
I wouldn't even bother with the AAA industry anymore though, that sector is beyond salvation. It's far too embroiled in mobile gaming-like practices and business models, as well as now being nearly fully infected with the DEI/Marxist parasites. There is no saving what has been deeply infected, so the best route is to focus on areas not infected and helping foster new growth instead.
Hopefully one day the AAA industry completely collapses, with MS, Sony and Nintendo all being eventually broken up, and for new growth to come about, because in this current era, the old guard is too stubborn, follows trends and no longer creates for the customer, nor do they care to serve them anymore (it's all about CEO pay packets and investor dividends now)
Great video once more.
As someone who as spent a lot of money on release for Obsidian, Bioware and Bethesda Titles, I feel utterly betrayed by these companies for how they treat me for just having a different opinion to them. Am an old fan and enjoyed their earlier games thoroughly, only to be called a tourist online by people who never even played the Dragon Age: Origins, Pillars of Eternity, Mass Effect, Fallout 3 and etc... I kid you not I spent thousands of euros on those 3 companies only to wear a clown mask and be vilified by the current developers. They are dead to me, I won't be purchasing any more games from them and I hope most gamers do the same.
Sorry to hear that. It's terrible. This medium could be used to bring people of differing opinions TOGETHER. Instead they just want to vilify people who aren't 100% in line with their sh-t, and make games to FOCUS on the things that separate us, just to tear us even further apart.
It's disgusting.
To be fair, I don't think Bethesda Studios, like the one in Maryland, has betrayed their customers that much compared to the others. Starfield wasn't really woke. People can criticize the different mechanics of jumping to different planets instead of a massive province/area to explore like in Skyrim or Fallout, but I chalk this up to the vision of the game more than them trying to make fans unhappy.
Fallout 76 gets conflated a lot because it wasn't made by the Maryland studio, but it was made by the studio in Austin. Todd promoted it - because that's his job - but he actually had nothing to do with the game really. He's not in the credits or anything. So I feel like Fallout 76's failures are Austins, not the greater company. Just compare the credits list - these are not the people who made your favourite games. It may as well be a different studio.
I think Starfield's biggest issue was that the size and complexity might have stretched the studio pretty thin. But I will give them credit, the game wasn't that buggy - I played it for 150 hours and I don't really recall that many bugs. I also rather enjoyed it. Contrary to what you'd read online, there was definitely more hand-crafted content in Starfield compared to Skyrim for example - they were telling the truth there. There was also a lot of memorable quests and wonderful environments. As someone who likes Star Trek, I got the vibe the game was going for. I rather enjoyed it. It's not perfect and I can see why someone might not like it as much, but I wouldn't classify them as betraying their customers and I don't think there is reason to be too concerned for ES6 yet. I'd stay neutral on that personally and wait for evidence.
But Bioware? Yes, they are toast. And it looks like Obsidian is likely somewhere in the middle of these two company's, but it leans closer to Bioware by the day.
@Katie-hb8iq Right now I'm just putting my hard line on pronoun selection because it promotes an ideology that I simply cannot support, just like I would not support someone who says "in all aspects but one, I am a wolf awoooo"... It's mental illness of the same ilk that we are "normalizing".
Wow, what a fantastic video. Very great video. I clicked on this video and I thought to myself "Wow, this video is really fantastic" believe me. This may be one of the best video breakdown of what happened with Obsidian, I say. And some are saying that too.
I spoke to Mithrevan on the phone he said it was a great video, the best video. He said to me "DONALD, I've never seen a better video than yours, it's tremendous"... And he's seen millions and millions of videos, more videos than anyone else.
@@TheDezembroAnd people are going to say Mr. President this video is to great please stop the greatness we can’t take it anymore
«Sometimes it just means that the curtains are blue».
And why would an author spend time and printing space on establishing the fact that the curtains are blue if they don't matter?
To paint the canvas of your imagination, fleshing out the room so that you have a better setting to place the characters of the story in. How you derive the effects of blue curtains in the emotional atmosphere of the scene, as you read, is solely on your emotional experience of what blue curtains can mean to you.
The facial animations in Avowed are on par with Veilguard's... This tells me that the game will probably be similar in other aspects as well. As in, people were not hired for merit but based on "affinity bias".
Nobody expects the Portuguese Trump.
😂😂😂 I need to bring him back some time.
I know it may sound nihilistic, but it really sucks to see how large the influence of unnuanced and vapid online echo chambers has become. At this point, earnest art and genuine objectivity are deliberately being set aside for what amounts to fleeting "validation" and power grabs. Look at these games. No doubt you've said this before, but these people are so captured by ideology that they don't even understand that they're in the enviable position to gain genuine popularity and financial profit just by BEING CREATIVE. Instead, they can't even see past their emotional nonsense or the fact that their childish behavior harms the professional reputations of themselves and their teams (not too mention obviously not making them feel any less empty/unstable inside). Yet, that's the mentality that's constantly proliferating and being boosted in online spaces, and being taken seriously by others to the point that these dev studios/groups are essentially self-destructing. How do these people define success?
It's all iconoclasm. There's a reason why after conquering peoples, their statues and places of worship were destroyed only to be replaced by the conquers'. It's a sign of domination. If I can do these high investment physical, yet symbolistic acts, it means I'm winning and we both know it.
1st time watching a vid of yours. Excellent talk on the derailment of Avowed - a game that could have given gamers what they want and, presumably, been a GOTY shoe-in. Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 looked like a potential banger from the get-go, and now is looking more inviting than ever! Subscribed. :)
Thanks a lot! 😄 Welcome aboard 🙏
The only reason why they don't try to distance themself from Veilguard, is probably because it's the truth.
But damn, even Veilguard was trying to pretend that the game is nothing like the 1st trailer shown, even if it turned out, that the 1st trailer was very accurate description of the tone of the game.
These game devs can’t just make a good game and they wonder why I still play Elden ring
6:21
Thing is in this game you can choose to side with corporation or ppl
so they aren't injecting you, its just the game's story..unlike vailguard
I know nothing about avowed but that skeleton dude art is sick.
i got banned yesterday from the reddit . i explained to a guy why matt tweet was racist, seems mods didn't like it .
i did 6 discussion on that reddit about the lore of eora and still these far far left people censor every comment that is not ( red pill) and (chuds) . absurd. i truly want for dev to step up and apologize cause these people are completely ruin their game.
i have screenshot yes.
Subreddits are horrible echo chambers and if you fall outside of the current status quo of the sub, you will be downvoted to oblivion or just banned.
For example, I get my comment removed every single time from r/Fantasy if I mention how creepy it is that smutty Romantacy is slowly investing YA fantasy.
I dunno what the conclusion I should make is, but to me it looks like they are trying to silence people who point out erotica shouldn't be provided to teens.
Now I’m kinda scared for Outer Worlds 2….
One of the best videos about the subject - ups
Andromeda had great companions/party members. You could actually disagree with them and piss them off. And if you wanted to engage with them, they were interesting and enjoyable. And their quests from what I remember didn't completely suck (unlike The Veilguard.)
I haven't even played more than the first hour or 2 of Outer Worlds, as it just didn't click with me early on like the Fallout / Skyrim games.
Something about it's choice of colors, design, etc, just felt off. 🤷♂️
Side note: your Donald Trump impression is hilariously accurate. 😅
That stupid Microsoft/Xbox list of things to "adhere" needs to be done away with. It's so restricting, ideology pushing, and is EXACTLY the type of things that has been making games so damn soft with no edge. 🙏
Obsidian banning people is what drives it all past just Matt Hansen being a bad apple in the bunch... now I'm definitely not so sure there's as much hope for the game as I would've liked to have.
Sweeping what he did under the rug is unacceptable. Obsidian needs to be gutted and built anew. If left as they are, they are going to fall and ontop of that, they will leave a crumbled legacy, going off on the most sour note possible. It's sad tbh.
Fingers crossed someone actually sues Matt Hansen or he faces consequences. The only way I see something being done from their higher ups is when this game comes out and is a total sink of funds when no one buys it. Or if someone sues and ends up costing them tons of money in lawsuits.
Silencing people in the comments on reddit, steam, or twitter is not going to make this go away.
People, reviews, and content creators will show this game and Obsidian for what they are when it comes out.
Final words are... screw Matt Hansen. He's a disgusting and hateful individual.
Yeah, dude I remember some of them. Liam had that "comedy-written one" where the bad guy kept opening the communication to threaten us, but we were arguing and slapping the comms button off every time 😂 ship even goes sideways and shit, shifting the interior.. Jaal had that serious one where we can TRUST HIM and freeze up in a very tense moment where he almost dies, paying off to do it (vs us reacting and saving him but it not paying off since we didn't trust him), Cora I think had the Asari ark, right? Which was alright as well, nice insight to her training and insecurities. Drack, I think, had us going after some assssssssssshole (Spencer??) who felt so good to hate. A total douchebag saboteour that annoyed us at several points thru the game, making revenge feel so so sweet...
Overall, I don't hate Andromeda. Maybe some day I'll talk about it on the channel.
Thanks btw lol I can't get the voice right at all though. I tried over and over until my throat hurt. Maybe our vocal cords just aren't compatible. 🤣
Andromeda was better than ME3, but not better than ME1&2.
The combat in that game is unmatched.
At this point, what western AAA studio isn't cooked?
I can only think of Valve, Id Software, 4A Games and Saber Interactive at the top of my head
We have more than enough studios that are in the business of creating incredible experiences..
the western AAA industry will have no choice but to coarse correct one way or another. They either fall in line and create what gamers want without judgement or the go bankrupt as they continue to attack their customers..
Balls in their court
Balls in their skirts
Balls in their skirt
this game is now Disavowed for me
Great orange man impression. 😂 I'm half tempted to fish for a review code for Avowed, but I don't have time to invest in a scheme like that haha
I just want to be excited for a game again
Indie games, Korean games, ad games from Japan are there my friend.
Customers? They ain’t gonna have none when they put this game up for sale now
I'm not throwing Avowed under the bus just yet. But I am very sceptical so I'll wait for trusted reviews
If you must play it get it on gamepass. Do not give money to people who hate you.
Outerworlds too is made by Tim Cain
I agree with you 100%, thx for the video.
The answer for the question in the tumbnail is : Yes
Great video & take!
7:35 the original creator did say that, it was all over the fallout subreddits.
Jannies banned everyone eho point that out because it invalidated some user's opinions or something and it implied the creator's stated intentions are more credible than a user's reading of it.
Well obsidian is owned by Microsoft and as I stated in a comment on a different video. Blackrock owns Microsoft. The CEO Larry fink loves this DEI and progressive crap in games regardless of money. He just wants to influence people to think and act the way he wants.
Yep. Admits it himself "Forced Behaviors". I put the clip up in my video of the Unfair Villainization/Demonization of Gamers, but I still get comments saying it's a conspiracy theory lol
@ all we can do is keep spreading the word and shedding light on this shadow monopoly controlling the industry.
This is just crazy, I was about to buy an xbox series s for this game but they can count that sale as lost, I honestly don't understand what is going on, its like there is an all powerful entity/dragon/god that's holding most of the game industry hostage.
His name is Blackrock and he sits on a lot of gold in his hoard
The Series S isn’t worth it anyway, my man. If you’re going for an Xbox console, you’re better off with the Series X.
Obsidian has lost most of the original members a long time ago. So it was obvious that the remaining members don't have the talent the original group had
I'm so tired of beating this dead horse... At this point, it's barely recognizable.
And yet, they still keep trying to raise its corpse.
Just keep modding skyrim fellas nothing to see here.
I did not find Outer Worlds more ideologically preachy than any other "avoid unfettered capitalism" title, - but what I did notice was that it refused to take itself seriously. Way too many moments being played for laughs. And things that you think are jokes are apparently supposed to be taken seriously. Some clownshoe got into the writing team and it's been downhill since then.
You got me at "Power Rangers". Have a Like, dear Sir! Also, good job!
That thumbnail, I think he and his whole team are so dumb that I could bring this mess up to snuff by myself and make it sell. This whole team isn't worth one actual designer with passion, talent and a brain. TBH, I'd need a sound designer because I'm tone deaf but that's about it. WTF happened? Obsidian was among the few that I never imagined going down this road, it's an absolute tragedy.
It's insane that the first teaser trailer looked like a grimdark hard-fantasy; everything was black and grey, there was soot and ash and smoke everywhere, the player wore realistic, gritty armor and held a typical medieval-European style sword, and you were against this legion of reanimated skeletons.
Fast forward to now; it's this bubbly, cartoony, colorful setting with your typical generic fantasy armors and weapons, millennial writing ("Erm... so that just happened!" type crap), and the most hideous character lineup imaginable. It looked like grimdark, then somewhere between then and now it turned into a "Veilguard-like". What the actual fuck happened?
100% agree with you with the outer worlds and andromeda take. I actually occasionally download andromeda every now and then and play it to completion because i enjoy the game play so much. I think it's a niche game which caters to a specific kind of player (people who like shooters or hero shooters). If i were to review it i'd give it a 7/10. Objectively it's not bad but it's not great either. It's similar to veilguard in that it's connection to the established IP does more harm to it than good but unlike veilguard it's actually fun to play if you are not expecting to play mass effect 4.
Edit: 10:52 I'm dying here dude 🤣
The people who do this are hurt, by someone or something or just society.
So they are lashing out and hurting other people in the process, which they day is good because those people are "evil"
If the devs and producer's want the modern audience so badly, they're willing to scorch the majority of customers for their ideologies... let the devs and producer's have all 1% of them to keep their business afloat.
Never mind preorders, I've stopped buying anything in early access anymore. I'm now working towards not buying anything at full price anymore, at least by the time things are on sale you can be pretty sure they've been patched enough to be stable. Regarding relationships, I personally can't stand that nonsense so not including that would be a plus for me. It's just another time-wasting system added in to make a game feel like it's bigger than it actually is.
Pronoun Pandemonium - because people mustn't worry too much about ever-rising inflation.
“No you don’t get it! Inflation is reduced!”
“Reduced” from 12% to 2%, but not being a negative number so inflation is still rising
A quick comment I'd like to make on something you said about the Outer Worlds, about the satire in it. "I dont mind it, it is the same kind of anti-corporate satire you find in games like GTA5". And you know what, that's the problem. Outer Worlds has the same kind of very silly, very over-the-top, very exaggerated and at times quite dumb satire focused on corporations and capitalism that you find in GTA games. But it's not GTA. It works in GTA because it is simply a background piece of the larger worldbuilding of the series. It works because it contrasts how awfully blunt and exaggerated, unrealistic, the satire is with how true to life and realistic the overall world of the games is. But in Outer Worlds this satire essentially is the WHOLE world of the game. It does not have the same effect as in GTA because there's nothing to contrast to(besides itself). So the player is simply left thinking how stupid and silly the world of the game is because it's all just satire and nothing else.
I totally agree. It's part of why I am not a fan of the game's inability to be a bit more serious. To make me care about something. I just meant that it's akin to GTA's satire in that it's not trying to throw ideological propaganda at the player as some people like to hijack games like these, or Bioshock or Fallout and say that they've always been "woke" for simply presenting dystopias or apocalypses.
Given Obsidian's recent comments and direction with Avowed I think it's pointless for me to be hopeful that the Outer Worlds 2 would expand itself beyond the constant satire and comedy.
Makes you wonder, what did Microsoft buy? They seem to have the name obsidian but not any of the human capital that is necessary to produce quality games
I would have the same response if every character in their games started wanting to talk about Jesus. I don't want to be reminded of someone's modern ideas and ideologies in my game set in another world
Obisidian se afundou com essa polêmica e tratou de forma estúpida... triste
What even happened to the gaming industry? How did it get flooded with ideological cultists?
Bang on. This is why I dumped wokebox. At least with PS5 I can customize the menu to filter out crap I have no interest in. Microsoft Xbox with their progressive messages and woke game recommendation spam are so bloody f'king annoying. As.for the industry,. Inevitably these studios will all go broke. People have had enough of this crap. You summed it up perfectly.
Avowed was never going to have romance? oh yeah no that's a red flag from the start from an open world story driven game!
DEI know that people will recognize the pattern but they can’t control customers behavior in game industry bcs at the gamers are the main costumers , game industry is heavily dependent on customers
So sad for Obsidian turning into this. Guess It's time I finally pick up Baldur's Gate 3.
the only guy i trust is force gaming hes not afraid to rip a game
I just hope one day Western devs actually have straight male romance options that are actually attractive. I finished Dragon Age: Inquisition and Andromeda, having turned all of the females down. Why can't it be like Japanese JRPGs and dating sims where ALL of the girls are attractive and have different personalities that make them stand out from each other?
man you don't get games like Prototype anymore
I think you nailed it on the head. The money doesnt matter, what matters is the deconstruction amd repurposing of a cultural norm.
Its the root of their philosophy. Doesnt matter which one from gender ideology, queer ideology, critical race theory...its all rooted in the deconstructive philosophy of post modernism.
Ungil these folks can put on their big boy pants and stop hating the world they live in youll just have to play other games.
It's very clear Obsidian agree with Matt's insane views and think he is in the right.
i have been playing games for a long time and seeing game devs fall to such an extent is disheartening , bioware was one of the best devs out there with hits like kotor , mass effect and dragon age but after andromeda i already accepted that bioware was not the same company . One company im really afraid of following this path is cd project red , they made my favorite series of all time the witcher and i also loved cyberpunk . Im afraid that the witcher 4 will forget what made the original series so great and make a generic bland game like veilguard was , it makes me so sad that the game devs i looked up to when i was young have fallen to such an extent.
cd project has embraced ESG, theres of video of some old fuck in the company talking about it
Avowed will be on game pass this gives them free reign to do whatever they want since sales figures arent the deciding factor for succes its the amount of subscribers to game pass and since black ops 6 is also on it i doubt there will be any repercussions
I agree with what you said and I think there is something more we don't know. It's really strange that companies continue creating these games with "The Message" that they want to convey and continue losing money, I don't think any company wants that and we have examples like the SAINTS RAW company that closed down because of this. However, there is something more that companies are deriving from this, even the Jaguar brand itself is already being woken up and losing a lot of money with "The Message". Something that has a lot to do with BlackRock and other companies like that, which FORCES companies to change their logos to LGBT colors where the WOKE agenda is all... I don't know when this will stop. I hope that with Trump's election something will change, because we are (already) heading towards ridicule.
Forgot to mention the state of Ubisoft with all this too
OK: Vote for Best Portuguese Trump Impersonator 2024
This should be a category at the Game Awards.
Snails. Can't keep up and retreat into their shells at the slightest salt. Gaming won't die, only business. 😌
Guess obsidian wants to go out of business just like BioWare is it’s never a good idea to bash potential customers
I can't believe that you got Trump to promote Avowed on your channel. Very impressive.
I made sure to turn the bell on after your last video, so now I get to be early to all your uploads when possible. Looking forward to hearing your take on these shifts we've seen within the gaming industry/our favorite game studios. I'll comment again after watching with my thoughts.
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Loving the consistency, keep up the good work yo.
microsoft desperately needs to get rid of all these unhinged/woke devs.
3:59 lol
you guys want a great game coming in February then check out kingdom come 2 deliverance
Yes!! I got high hopes for the continuation of Henry's adventure!
Disavowed.
I went into the outer worlds with no expectations, and never finished it. I've tried 3 times, what a snore fest.
Honestly, obsidian gets more praise then they deserve.
All of you young kids haven’t been alive long enough to realize this but every decade since 2000 has been worse than the one that proceeded it. If you think the 2020’s have been bad then boy do I have news about the 2030’s.
Everything went to shit after 9/11 and everyone born too early to remember it will never know a world where there was geniune hope for the future
Chaos caused by good-intentioned idiots
Prototype 2 is a permanent download
Have fun! 🎮
The trump impersonation was beautiful man do it more
11:13 😂😂😂
"Let's make gaming great sgain!!"
-Donald Trump (Probably)
The west needs to make great media again. I haven't been excited for a piece of entertainment from there for a long time. Only thing I can recall is John Wick final chapter.
I did cancel my preorder of Avowed on Steam. I am a massive fan of Obsidian. I played New Vegas, KOTOR 2, Pillars 1 and 2, Tyranny, and I even liked The Outer Worlds. I think I even own Alpha Protocol too. I also played all of Josh's Icewind Dale games and stuff. God, I love these guys so much. Anyway, I hope this is isolated to Matt and not the studio, but I am having my doubts increased by the day. I am leaning towards not buying again at all. I was originally going to wait for an apology and reviews before deciding to buy, but I don't expect to find good news now. My hope is that the game isn't very woke at all, and that Matt was just trying to "own the chuds" rather than speak for the actual content of the game itself.
Considering that Josh Sawyer retweeted Hanson's "crusty white guys" post I doubt that this attitude is isolated to Matt Hanson.
@@PseronWyrd I agree, and I think it's more than that. The person blocking posts on the reddit and X accounts also agrees with matt. The execs at Obsidian and Microsoft who could have apologized already also agree with Matt too - he's not fired yet. There are others there too. So yes, I likely won't be picking this game up. I want to be hopeful but I am okay with not buying it again too.
@@PseronWyrd It's also worth pointing out that Josh is a smart guy. Despite his political leanings, he has never actually spearheaded a game with this kind of political stuff in it. Even his last game, Pentiment, completely stuck to the source material of the game and did not inject anything. So whatever we can say about Josh, let's keep in mind that he at least separates his political views from his work, because all the evidence say that is true.
AWESOME VIDEO!! NAiLED IT! 100*