South of Midnight thread

One thing I don't understand is if those people care so much about these issues why are they not working directly with it? Why are they not social workers themselves? Why tackle it while selling overpriced toys to people with too much disposable income?

same reason why movie critics don't make movies

this is the tenth thread using this OP image in the past two days

I laughed. Throw in an ukele and you're golden

Making movies is not for everybody since it is extremely expensive. Social Worker is a regular job you can apply to.

Visual novels are not video games.

artbook confirms that was originally white

confirms that grummz's leak was right and that she was changed after microsoft hired sweet baby to consult on the game

I get why they changed it but I think it'd be incredibly funny if they never did. It'd be a white antebellum girl going on this extremely black culture themed adventure and going, "Wow... You nigs - er, I mean... Darkies are so interesting!"

artbook confirms that was originally white

confirms that grummz's leak was right and that she was changed after microsoft hired sweet baby to consult on the game

yeah even if they didn't change it, the story and gameplay would have been forgettable slop. the SBI shit was just the final nail in the coffin for the studio.

groomz

They probably realized it would fop and used DEI to get more funds they would never repay

youtube.com/watch?v=Dg3J9DMcLvI

South of Midnight easily pulled me in through its masterful use of engrossing folklore and tall tales, though it’s the nuanced exploration of dark themes and harsh realities that truly resonated with me. You see, Mark's job as a Weaver is to mend ebonics, wounds caused by heinous acts — wounds that fester in the immaterial realm before seeping into reality. The story is filled with emotionally impactful moments, such as with Mark's father, a plantation owner who’s looking for a way to exorcise the ghosts of slaves. Just as well, there are equally disturbing segments of the game’s story, including slaves murdering, raping, abusing animals, and being criminally retardation.

this game could have been so fucking kino with just a few easy changes

2011

mfw this shit was the theme for my wedding

female character

not cute or sexy

What's the point? They think black women are gonna start flocking to buy video games?

I knew my generation was truly lost when this obnoxious shit started getting big

this game could have been so fucking kino with just a few easy changes

I remember seeing the first previews a year or two back and people were like

oh shit modern day version of Shadow Man?

and instead they gave us this.

It's another "Day -5 gamepass game has le bad steamcharts" episode

I don't even give a shit about South of Midnight. It looks like shit. But I will be forever butthurt about how you shitposted my beloved Avowed.

Pic related. Fuck you.

Because they don't actually care. They just virtue signal for good boy points cause the social vindication makes them feel better about themselves.

They think black women are gonna start flocking to buy video games?

they think that chuds should be forced to play these games

I just can't believe that any director or producer would allow a game to be so repetitive. This game could've been decent because of the music alone, but they didn't care about level design whatsoever, rehashing the same boring stuff. This is a studio that probably deserves to be shut down, the same for Ninja Theory, but for some reason I bet Microsoft will keep them around

good morning saar

this thread is clerly unorganic
Anon Babble is targeted for advertsement

Because they don't actually care. They just virtue signal for good boy points cause the social vindication makes them feel better about themselves.

It's like a social vindication ponzi scheme.

if I help 1 person. I only get 1 good boy point.

but if I call myself an """""organizer""""" and just post about shit online all day, i can collect good boy point fragments all day every day.

faggot

Why are we discussing this?

beloved Avowed

That game is objectively terrible and I refuse to believe anyone actually unironically liked it

Stop making these threads, cracka. Game releases in 2 days. It will easily surpass Concord numbers.

Sorry Avowed has more staying power than Yakuza #3345000
Doesn't look so good for your agendas, does it?

You were cringe but you were free, and still happy with your missus I hope

it is the new woke thing that your not supposed to buy until it bombs and then you suddenly are

will be forever butthurt about how you shitposted my beloved Avowed.

Pic related. Fuck you.

don't reply to copypasta
arch.b4k.dev/v/search/text/shitposted my beloved Avowed/

Well I was right

Game is objectively good and you objectively suck dicks.

Image keeps changing to show how Avowed keeps continually beating Yakuza

kek based

Making the same steamchart thread over and over again = GOOD

Making the same post replying to the same shit thread = BAD

Cope, cocksucker.

subject matter in a game...? NOOOOOOOOOO

OH NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Honestly? based

Original IP

Thematic reason for main character to be black

Believable in the setting

So what's the problem here exactly? Hard mode: don't admit to being racist

I bet you’re the type that still thinks you can magically fix society by becoming a dutiful lawyer/playing good cop and ‘changing it from the inside’

7 years

Peak oneyplays game

why black folxs not buying dey game?

If you're married and happy then you have the last laugh.
Still fucking hate clap clap hey music though holy shit

It comes across as wimpy progressive navel-gazing

the problem is that you didnt fuck off the first time i told you to fuck off

I believe we need to bring hipsters back. They contained all bad tastes and gatekept annoying things, but with them gone all of that shit is now popular and spread everywhere.

I am racist.

a few months ago when it was first announced Anon Babble was mostly okay with it because it was black people in a black people setting, but grummz made a tweet about it so now they're acting like they hate it because they love grifter cock

So what's the problem here exactly?

i dont know, why didnt leftists and niggers buy the game?

subject matter in a game...? NOOOOOOOOOO

yeah that's definitely the reason why nobody's buying it. too much subject matter lmao.

Because it's like donating to an NGO. Nobody really cares, they just want to give spare change to someone else to feel better.
And the NGOs know this, that's why they only ask for money, not help.

Leftroons keep asking for these nigger games, but when one gets released none of them buy it.
Then they just blame the chuds who never wanted the nigger games to begin with for not buying it.
Every single time.

So you want to change society by getting filthy rich profiting from hobbyists from the comfort of your first world town? They're like childless people preaching to parents on how to raise kids. All talk, no work.

More like South of 500 Concurrent Players

Then they just blame the chuds who never wanted the nigger games to begin with for not buying it.

Ok, but you retards are the ones that keep bringing this game up lol
Why do you want to be victimized so badly?

what replaced hipsters?

words words words

Left cant meme

Ok, but you retards are the ones that keep bringing this game up lol

Yeah, to laugh at it lol.

these people never really went away they just became fat redditor "beardy mcbeardersons" playing the newest GoW/AAA moviegame

So why are you conjuring this scenario where people are angry at you for not buying this game when it's you that keeps bringing it up?

uhm steeamchartsis explain this

conjuring this scenario where people are angry at you for not buying this game

You're right there, nigger.

i would love to support this game, but it was not made for me, i am not the target audience
it's black women' job to lift the flag this time! wouldn't want to steal this honor from them

Zoomers mad at positive, upbeat, forward-looking music that is fun to dance to

Shame. You'll never remember the optimism of the early 2010s. You truly think the modern malaise and popularized hatred is the norm, I actually pity you. Go ahead and make a millennial burger meme knowing full well your generation won't even open restaurants because you can't even talk on the telephone without crying.

why try subverting the entirety of society when you could do some small thing instead

Maybe they aren't fully open and honest about their goals.

Gamers are the only media consumers that ask questions like this.

Scarface

"A movie about mobsters, crime, and drug use? Why not just try to fix these issues in real life instead of making a movie about it?"

The Wire

"A drama about the decay of America's inner cities and the corruption associated with it? Why not fix it in real life, why make a movie about it?"

Firmly convinced a lot of you people don't believe video games should explore any topics beyond rescuing the princess or the anime girl fucking you. Other mediums have been looking at societal problems through the lens of the media for decades but gamers violently insist only bing bing wahoo is acceptable unless Hideo Kojima made it.

There's a reason you're not posting the all time high lol
Cope

They're wrong there too if the primal point is to "educate" people. And why the hell are you talking about movies? They've been used as propaganda for decades and targets of criticism of this since always.

Why do you care? Since when are sales indicative of quality? What does that even have to do with what I asked?

Any of these mediums talking about societal problems at a base level wants to educate to some degree.

Any discussion of societal issues from any lens ever is propaganda

The problem is 100 people spent 7 years on making this. I almost feel bad for microsoft for having to pay those idiots.

They only ask it when it comes to progressive games as well, because 'it's not propaganda when we do it'. They'll just cloak their own propagandistic tendencies with language deliberately meant to invoke less of a feeling of nefariousness than 'propaganda', even though all the conservative movies and books and games are just as guilty of it as muh wokeslop

Ohmmmm...

It's not that anything replaced them. It's that everything they liked became popular and mainstream. Most normies are into things hipsters liked ten years ago.

Why does that matter? People should only make something if it has mass appeal? This board is full of politically correct supporters of democratic idiocy. Everything should just fit in a mold that just so happens to be to the exact taste of you and the broader community

Conclusion: They don't actually care about the issues that much.

The culture of the south doesn't just belong to black people. I wonder what the story looked like before the change, when it was going to be all SBI and slavery all the time.

We happy few actually had SOME interesting story ideas.

There are degrees. You can easily tell when the goal is to entertain but mention something as background or flavor and when the goal is to spread propaganda.

They literally do.

Does your weird obsession extend to the rest of the POE games? Because the first one was actually good.

The culture of the south doesn't just belong to black people

It 100% does, white culture of the South is just English. The actual culture of the South now would not exist without black slavery and reconstruction. All of the mythology in this game is basically from slave stories told on plantations, all of the music comes from that etc.

We Happy Few is interesting because if they hadn't chased the open world survival trend like they admitted to doing, then it could've been a solid low budget Bioshock clone. Contrast is also really good but not finished because of the recession.

''woke liberals should be making their own games instead of making existing ips woke''

woke liberals make their own game

''WTF NO NOT LIKE THAT''

they are free to make a game just for themselves, but they dont get to complain when it flops and they all get fired
makes it funnier when you realize that 20% of the steam player count is the devs themselves

Propaganda of what?

"The systems around caring for people are broken"

"The South has a lot of cultural issues"

"Animal abuse is bad"

"Give others a chance before you judge them"

>woke liberals make their own game

and it flopped
this is exactly why they keep using popular IPs, it's the only way to get people to buy their gay nigger games

that brown skin people are real and scare me :(

they shouldn't because nu societal topics are boring and shallow as shit

>"The South has a lot of cultural issues"

leftists expect praise regardless of quality

Clearly the budget priorities were to the 6 producers, and SBI, rather than making things like enemies or levels or mechanics.

as they should since most violent crime is committed by them
you are over 100 times more likely to be killed by a nigger than a white person

Funnily enough it's less English and more Scotts-Irish, so the Scottish and Irish clans that had their clan structure destroyed by Britain. It's why the South is both rather authoritarian (tribal authority structure) while also being very anti-authoritarian when it comes to a larger entity like the feds (Britain bad supremacy bad).

Which ultimately doubles back to them being so unwilling to end slavery and industrialize because it was against that culture and basically the same thing the Brits tried to force on them (end peasantry/feudalism, start industrializing).

It's an SBI game.

Unless your'e Hyenas, you're not going to lose to Concord.

I really liked the boss designs in this

and it flopped

so what. whats the point being made here. that the game doesn't have mass appeal? is that supposed to be a slight against the game? that it was willing to do its own thing even though they knew it was going to flop? they should just tow the line right? make something that appeals to everyone right? because its just all about money and sales to you right?

''WTF NO NOT LIKE THAT''

Said no one ever

Firmly convinced a lot of you people don't believe video games should explore any topics beyond rescuing the princess or the anime girl fucking you.

Yes. No more moviegames. Make something cool, not """impactful""" moralslop. We have books for that already.

This is legitimately what a few Youtubers think, Andypants thinks everything should be a brown and bloom military shooter to promote dying for Israel and gets mad at the existence of anything else

No one is telling them to stop, we're all laughing at them as no one is buying their games.

Do this

"Okay then, video games are not art and are for children"

"NOOOOOO"

Not conjured at all. See also, the arguments made to fund these games with tax dollars, and NGO dollars.

at least give it a fair shake. game hasn't even released yet.

Tumblr women who got out of college and into the HR workforce.

You categorically hate video games if you think that their success has any relation to their level of quality whatsoever.

I was gonna buy it, but I bought 200 euros of paint instead

Shame. You'll never remember the optimism of the early 2010s

It was fake optimism backed by corporate greed. I guess zoomers call that "toxic positivity" but here's where it started.

life is gonna be awesome forever. now come on down and sign a 5 year lease for a brand new kia soul. hashtag #YOLO!

You don't have a rebuttal for this besides trying to accuse me of being a zoomer or a pessimist.

grummz

you realize that guy is 58, right?

Firmly convinced a lot of you people don't believe video games should explore any topics beyond rescuing the princess or the anime girl fucking you.

My due, it's video game. A toy for children. If I wanted to explore these topics I'd use the correct medium for it like a book or the fucking News

ok but it sounds bad

Both Pillars games are good too, yes. And Pentiment.

a few months ago when it was first announced Anon Babble was mostly okay with it because it was black people in a black people setting

im sure it was real in your head

Firmly convinced a lot of you people don't believe video games should explore any topics beyond rescuing the princess or the anime girl fucking you.

Maybe fantasy storytelling shouldn't be full of social commentary that's so hamfisted that you feel like you're sitting through a lecture. Subtlety is a lost art.

Don't jump so deep into the shitposting anon. There's some actualy good ideas here. Unforutnately they hired SBI instead of making more levels and gameplay.

It was not fake optimism at all. We had just come out of one of the worst recessions in generations and had a lot of hope for the future. You either weren't there or your view of the past has been tainted by the present. It did genuinely seem like things were fixed, that life was awesome, and that people were going to get along. Zoomers will never experience that so they get mad at music that was positive and fun. They don't even have anything like this anymore, just fun music. The closest I can think of still has whiny political undertones (Charlie XCX, Chappell Roan)

SUCK THE DICK
DRINK THE PISS

You'd have a point but people absolutely just dismissed this game for the protagonist being a black girl. It could be the most subtle thing ever and they'd still just gloat about it flopping instead, because they care more about culture war faggotry and venting their petty resentments than about actually discussing ludos.

That is so hillariously reductive, that I think you're just trying to be racist. or maybe it's a clever slight against the french I'm not catching.

I watched a playthrough of it. It's not as overt with the woke stuff as dustborn, concord, or forespoken. It's just a really bland game with nice looking environments, ugly character models, some good music, some shit music, and horrible level design.

You had no problem playing GTA San Andreas and the MC in that game is a black guy

Why won't you play this then?

so what. whats the point being made here. that the game doesn't have mass appeal? is that supposed to be a slight against the game? that it was willing to do its own thing even though they knew it was going to flop? they should just tow the line right?

"flop" means that they lost money, because they amount of money they made is less than the amount of money they spent.
maybe the lesson is to stop spending 200 million dollars for a 20 million dollar game.

It looks boring. That's the only reason

t.bought Death Loop day 1 it sucked

I like both music and fashion, sans the tattoos
I'll take this over the overproduced pop or nigger noise any time

so what. whats the point being made here.

That SBI is PURE fucking cancer. That hiring pol level racists like their community manager, or that art director on Avowed is a ticket to shitty sales. And that this company REALLY needs to work on gameplay. I have no idea where you're getting all that other fantastic weird shit you think I'm bitching about, but that dude's a retard.

Gonna tell you guys something
This game takes 70GB

It's available for DL right now on the usual sources. Not available for repacks so you shitty third worlders with crap internet should wait a bit. 61 GB.

for same reason people buy wokeslop sequels in other franchises - brand recognition
mortal kombat is a husk of it's former self but it still sells gorillions

no mention of gameplay

Oooh. What color?

Good enough for you to lose your shit and post in every charts thread?

here's the reason i won't buy this game: hamfisted moral lecturing

uhm well ACKtually your reason WOULD be valid except that some people are racist and if you don't buy the game you're helping them win

If you get the deluxe or whatever the fuck edition, there's a 15GB documentary.

SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR

Yeah, you are not an artist for reading up on ${current_thing}s politics and shoving it into your game. Like I said, books are already a good medium for this. It's not impossible to deliver some sort of impactful message but writers in the last few decades have proven themselves incapable of doing so. Go read some actually important liturature and compare it to the average modern game or movie that shrieks its message at you and tell me if video games are a good place to """explore""" important topics. And 9/10 times they are parroting the same couple points. The average short story by Chekhov is more important than any "press x to advance the story" brave and insightful moviegame.

YEAH YOU BEST BELEIVE BOY THERE'S HELL TO PAY youtube.com/watch?v=93LFz_j5fQA

Because there's nothing to really add. It's a generic action adventure.

she was supposed to be white before SBI got invlved

You can't stop racists from being racist anon. And other people wanted shadowman. And pretty much EVERYONE noped out when they found out SBI was writing. It's asinine on your part to blame the culture wars on the local idiots when they hired the biggest culture warriors on the planet to write.

Toriumi-sensei...?

Most importantly because the gameplay looks like ass. Second most important because the game was made by massive fucking racists who deserve to be fired.

But if any anon wants to give it a shot, its' easily piratable now.

That's not what I said. Not sure why you felt the need to plaster your faggot face on your shitty post, though.

Not available for repacks

Repacks were up yesterday.

you're remembering it wrong, but even if you're remembering it right, you're still wrong.

No, i could just see the writing on the wall that this type of pastiche was always being used to sell you some shit. I'm not a zoomer and I'm not a pessimist. Life is whatever you make of it. But the "everything is awesomesauce and amazeballz" attitude has always felt phony as fuck. Like the people you see in cults that are fake smiling all the time.

You can't stop racists from being racist anon

sure you can, it just involves a lot of lead

I have too many games in my backlog to care about either of these

He just recontextualized it. it's Transformative. Deal with it spanky.

Sorry, I don’t play games with niggers in them
I hope your studio and black family starves to death

This is a marketing thread anon. They'll keep making these until their budget can no longer fund it.

Who isn't?

It's called misrepresentation actually. Not that a dumb nigger like you would know

As someone who actually played all these Xbox releases:

Indiana Jones

Fantastic. Favorite game of 2024. Gameplay is like mix between Dishonored and a Jackie Chan movie, and the story is genuinely the best Indy adventure since Raiders.

Avowed

It's fine. The combat is fun enough and there's nothing technically wrong with it, but otherwise it's an ultra-generic RPG with nothing distinctive or remarkable about it. Pretty obvious it was rebooted from an MMO too.

South of Midnight

More like South of Mid. I'm not a chud so I found the art style/premise compelling, but once you start playing the game you realize it's a totally boilerplate action-adventure game in every other way. Like it feels like you're playing a throwaway licensed game from the mid-2000s. Even the voice acting is pretty amateurish.
The woke consultants are actually right about this one. If you're going to make a game about Louisiana folklore, it makes way more sense to have a black protag. The obnoxious thing about culture warriors is that they can't even identify why the game is so mediocre. No, the game would not be fixed with a sexy white southern belle protag. It would still be a completely bland adventure game with a half-baked, poorly-integrated combat system and unimaginative platforming/puzzles that are the same "go here and press button on interactable" you've seen a million times before. On a purely game design level, the game is just boring.

Anon doesn't have the stones, the firepower or the frequent flier miles to try. Also, did you learn NOTHING from the game? You just get racist ghosts.

I guess I'm a slowpoke.

he thinks i play the games i talk about on Anon Babble

Eh, Xbox has like ONE dude on this. Did the avowed threads. Did the Indiana Jones threads. Did a good job of getting people to not buy either one.

Hey, this one was overwhemingly white liberals. Don't blame me for it. I

Buys a game full of blacks.

none of them can learn to swing in trees

i hate fantasy games.

Hipsterism was the last white subculture in america

Why would I want that?

"NOOOOOO"

?????
No one wants this shit to be art.

Crazy idea here: why not make a good game with a sexy white southern belle protag?

You claim of misrepresentationis a misrepresentation. You cannot silence the voice of the people!

The consultants didn't just stop at a black lead anon. They also threw weird social worker shit in it, and gave the lead character design the SBI special. And while you're right that a white lead wouldn't have fixed the game, would taking the money that went to SBI and cultural sensitivity and used it for more gameplay have helped? I think so.

It's called misrepresentation actually. Not that a dumb nigger like you would know

How am i misrepresenting what you said to me? I told you why I think the story sucks and you tried telling me that my reason for not buying would be valid if other people weren't being racist, but they are so it's not.

It's a core concept in the game anon. I expect the HIGHEST quality of shitposting from you and that means knowing enough about the game to accurately and precisely shitpost about it. Dont' sweat it though. Volume is it's own quality.

You wouldn't. That's the point, you can save quite a bit of space by deleting it.

Man, I think a level dealing with the ghosts of plantation slaves could be interesting and scary as fuck but I know that modern vidya writers in the west have a 0.0001 % change of pulling it off well and instead take the chance to lecture you on 'SLAVERY BAD'.

the culture warrior calling other people culture warrior

I’m going to spell this out in a way that will cause you to shut your pants and throw a tantrum since it’s going to be the kind of truth that you can’t get around with dishonest arguments and lies. When they make a game and focus on trying to put in woke shit it ends up bringing the overall quality down given that the so much of the focus and budget is going to hiring these retarded consultancy firms. Like SBI asks for 2 million fucking dollars just to do this shit. That’s 2 million that could have gone into improving the gameplay, or the story, or level design and mechanics. But no they had to waste it on a bunch of retarded ideologues because they were told if they didn’t they would be labeled as the Klan and have dozens of hit pieces written about them.

Good

The devs have NEVER done good.

Sexy

I think xbox is alergic to that, especially with SBI on it.

Southern belle.

Corps arent going to let that one fly.

You MUST care about this game

This was the era I both got into and out of music. Now all I listen to is podcasts.

Man, I think a level dealing with the ghosts of plantation slaves could be interesting and scary as fuck but I know that modern vidya writers in the west have a 0.0001 % change of pulling it off well and instead take the chance to lecture you on 'SLAVERY BAD'.

I don't recall totally, but weren't some of the ghosts from The Suffering based around dead slaves / civil war soldiers / burned witches and shit?

Firmly convinced a lot of you people don't believe video games

The "games are an art form" crowd in the early 2010s were a mistake and is partly why we're in this shit now.

Using chuddha to try and make people stop talking about another woke flop isn’t going to work since chuddhas thing is “don’t buy shit games” and you faggots are the ones that say “stop caring”.

Clearly, we need to have Japan do it. Imagine the Fatal Frame people or the OG clock tower crew. And not just slaves. The screaming and dying civil war soldiers. The bloody vengance of nat turner's slave revolt and bloody kansas.

Hell, take it up a notch. Resident Evil Haiti.

They’re not, the people causing this are Hollywood rejects that see games as a way to cope with their own failure.

Didn't they try to do this with the Assassins Creed 3 DLC?
I didn't play it, because fuck paying extra money for a partial game, but it sounded interesting at the time.

There are literally 10's of millions of people in sharecropping plantations all around the world today, but I doubt these activist types give a shit about that.

Sheboon mc
Gorilla features
Baby sweet inc involved
Woke story
Woke character
Shit gameplay
Shit story
Forced liberal shit

Was absolutely nothing learned from Dustborn or Hyenas

In a minimal, halfassed AC way. Take a game that ONLY used actual historical atrocities in the hatian slave revolt and following genocide and you're well into AO only, and possibly headed towards DLsite only.

you tried telling me that my reason for not buying would be valid if other people weren't being racist

You are actually illiterate wow. You don't even realize what *you* said or implied in your original message. First off you don't need a fucking 'valid' reason to not buy something. Secondly even if I *did* say that (I didn't, I said your reasoning doesn't explain why a lot of other people dismissed this game, which is that they dismissed it because its racist), I *did not say ANYTHING* about 'helping the chuds win' by not buying that. That is quite literally just a fabrication on your part conjured up in your illiterate monkey mind because you're one of those faggots with a persecution complex that have infested this board (indicated by you posting that retarded fucking wojak). Third you DID NOT SAY ''I didn't buy South of Midnight because of hamfisted social commentary'' you were REPLYING to a post that is talking about ''YOU PEOPLE'' as in MULTIPLE PEOPLE which means that when you write a message like you did you CLEARLY imply that the ''hamfisted social commentary'' IS THE REASON PEOPLE AVOID THIS GAME. Fuck you for annoying me enough to waste my time replying to your unbelievably, unfathomably, shamelessly retarded post.

Wasn't that a scooby doo movie.

Wasn't that a scooby doo movie.

KEK zombie island

now show the NBA 2k25 grpah

yeah, that's actually what I was think of.

DAT NIGGA TORQUE IS CRAZY

I liked that game a lot

i dont know, im not the target audience

No. That's just a conspiracy, according to forbes.

Hey, it was. And they made 3 of them. And the writing is WAY better than this sack of shlock.

bro im not reading this ai generated shit can you please get to the point

It looks like shit and plays like generic shit.

Terrible gameplay. SBI. Racist employees.

Who honestly thought this was going to be successful? The developer made We Happy Few before this and that was an incredibly massive pile of shit

to try and make people stop talking about

Nobody is doing that

oh no no no no no

Sage

sounds like he copied the sentence from the pokemon creator

You are though, it’s called appealing to triviality. You’re saying it doesn’t matter and trying to shame people for caring because you have no way of arguing why it’s not shit. But go ahead and try to back pedal now that you’ve been called out.

Girls will go day hiking or to an indoor rock climbing venue one time, then based their entire social media identity on it.

how much did Microsoft waste on this shit pile?

You want my actual reason? Sexiness is like sugar. It adds a lot of flavor to a dish in moderate doses or even heavier doses for some desserts, but it's also a lazy way to disguise a fundamentally bland entree and consuming copious amounts of it is a sign of juvenile, indiscriminate taste. If you're not going to dare yourself to try more nuanced, challenging things you may as well plug yourself into the pleasure matrix and OD on fent.

Sure, maybe the woke budget stole resources away from the gameplay. But given the studio's trackrecord as well as the reasonable amount of polish, the more likely guess it that they're simply not that talented of a studio. And if your goal to get better games, why speculate anyway? Why rely on the devs to correctly deduce that "too woke" means "spend more resources on the gameplay" when you could simply tell them to spend more resources on the gameplay? If anything you're just providing more cover for bad devs. Indiana Jones was a fantastic game and it was STILL derided for being woke (even though it wasn't woke at all). So now South of Mid devs can say "see we're just like that, gamers just have bad taste." My greatest fear is that they're right and the grummz-pilled chuds don't really want good games, they want coombait gachaslop.

And in what way is that an attempt at getting people to not talk about the game? Do you only express negative opinions about something in an attempt to stifle any counter opinions? If that's how you operate that sounds pretty fucking pathetic to be honest but I'm not sure why you think you can project that onto me or anyone else.

had time to make a documentary.

Sweeping aside the passing 'love letter' exaggeration which will surely won't be tinged with milquetoast liberal arts passive aggression—

What other games did this?

youtube.com/watch?v=SqqqUI_6uSw
youtube.com/watch?v=zy3FBMBxpuc

What other games did this?

did what? have a "making of" documentary on the disc? or serve as a "love letter" to a genre?
A bunch of old playstation 1 and 2 games had dev videos hidden on them.

because they are playing madden or NBA ant not boring ass games made by pretentious faggots

And in what way is that an attempt at getting people to not talk about the game

I just said how retard, don’t go in circles if you can’t argue.

Do you only express negative opinions about something in an attempt to stifle any counter opinions

Constructing a strawman isn’t going to prove me wrong but it’s good to know I struck a nerve by calling out your bullshit.

Holy shit she looked so much better

I just said how retard, don’t go in circles if you can’t argue.

Yeah, projection

Constructing a strawman isn’t going to prove me wrong but it’s good to know I struck a nerve by calling out your bullshit.

Yet again, projection

Test

And instead of getting people with talent they just hire retarded ideologues. Again like I said before you can’t get around this. This is an all encompassing issue but you need to minimize it because at the end of the day you can’t actually say why it’s good.

My greatest fear is that they're right and the grummz-pilled chuds

Bringing up this retards outs you as the kind of retard that unironically defended Dustborn because the hive declared it worthy and not because it was good. I know you think he’s Hitler but to most people he is a literal who.

no u

So at the end of the day you’re just falling into a tantrum spiral like every axewound that gets btfo and can’t argue. It’s not hard unless you have the iq of a dog.

It's a fucking different career. You don't Mario devs become plumbers?

you sound upset. Almost as if I struck a nerve by calling you out on your bullshit after you constructed a strawman and now you're just going in circles cause you can't argue. lmao. It really is funny how often "no u" is a perfectly valid argument given you dumb fucks so often criticize other people and while literally being guilty of the shit you're trying to throw at other people.

The woke consultants are actually right about this one. If you're going to make a game about Louisiana folklore, it makes way more sense to have a black protag.

This is funny because it's the opposite reasoning with games like Assassin's Creed Shadows where the game is about japanese history and culture and they add a gay african samurai as a protagonist anyways. Either way I agree a black protagonist kinda fits the theme better but they could have made her look a lot better than they did

game is only 8 - 10 hours

still gave her three costumes

Go woke go broke. It's that simple.

It's always ironic that the creation of black characters always seems super racist when they make them look like some kind of fucking 1920s caricature.

You’re the one that can’t argue and is hurling nothing but logical fallacies and child arguments. But it’s clear you can’t argue what I said and can only project.

It really is funny how often "no u" is a perfectly valid argument

So you admit that you’re using “no u”? You admit you’re arguing like a child?

Explain how pointing out that you're hypocritically accusing other people of doing what you yourself are doing isn't a valid argument without seething like a little bitch. Also

no u

lmao

?

Dang those are pretty cute, I only made it 2-3 hours in.
The combat was just so standard.

why do people make art about things they're not personally engaged with IRL????

God this place is asinine.

Because it’s not hypocrisy given I didn’t do any of the shit you said and you’re just projecting your own shit onto me because you can’t argue. It’s all a part of your temper tantrum because you were called out for trying to get people to stop talking about the game.

inb4 yes you were

Prove it show me what post I was being hypocritical and explain how. And if you can’t/refuse you’re showing that you’re full of shit and doing exactly what I said you were.

the fucking wakanda outfit at the end

Why do they advertise this stuff at gamers? They should buy some ads on WE or Bravo channel or in women's magazines. It would probably generate more sales that advertising to gamers at this point

And you think it's going to increase that much when we have a plethora of game pass games to compare on how they did in early access and upon release? Hell, the biggest concurrent players that Compulsion Games has is We Happy Few with 3,498 peak. They are already in the territory where they are performing worse than Hi-Fi Rush and Redfall and those studios got shut down. It'll just take a year to confirm it because Microsoft is good an obfuscating "success" by using player count.

You think the women that watch that shit play anything more than candy crush?

If it means anything apparently this game is being heavily shilled in Louisiana and they see it as a point of pride.

A southern belle protagonist or Huck Finn protagonist would not work here. They'd be an even bigger fish out of water considering the setting. It would just be "gawrsh, these coloreds sure have strange stories" for ten hours

should've let me play as a good ol' boy with a straw hat then instead of another black woman

Do you think that Huck Finn talks like Goofy? Also a southern belle sounds more like debutante ball than Daisy Duke.

Everything south of the Mason Dixon line deserves subjection to nuclear hellfire

Hires a consultant company who literary says they want the gaming industry to crash and burn

Game crashes and burns

Wow

Why does every character in every context in every game need to be white for you retards?

Because most protagonists are white? Why do they need to be black? What purpose does that serve?

Indiana Jones was a fantastic game and it was STILL derided for being woke (even though it wasn't woke at all).

Hold up. Indiana jones's woke rep going in was because of the COMPANY's actions, including the marketing shill, or his predicessor we have in this very thread. They announced it with a nonbinary dev who said that it was going to be for modern audiences. Their social media presence and interviews were 100 percent about punching nazis and clumsy modern political references. It turned out to be false advertising, and you're trying to blame that on Anon Babble? Get the fuck out of here with that shit. They should have accurately portrayed it as a love letter to raiders of the lost ark, and while punching nazis is very important, it is absolutley not the whole goddam game.

It's a game about black folklore set in the fucking bayou. Not the cajun part either.

It's in pre release for people who paid extra. Or who have average parrot and rum skills.

It's the same three brown faggots from x/twitter posting the same shit about this game that nobody cares about.

Because their marketing department is completely incompetent, and because it probably woudln't work. Forespoken tried it and failed horribly. This is really just subscription bait and they know it.

Do you think that blacks are the entire south? Also have you never heard of Cajun people?

Why does every character in every context in every game need to be white for you retards?

Not all white people are good, but ONLY white people are good.

shiiled by who? And if it results in thots wearing outfit 3. I may have to tone my critcism down...slightly.

Because I am white. Representation matters and apparently nobody can enjoy anything unless they are personally represented. U mad?

I listened to The Lumineers and Of Monsters and Men once because a Anon Babbletant recommended them and this is what literally crossed my mind even though I'd never seen this video before

Andypants thinks everything should be a brown and bloom military shooter to promote dying for Israel

What? He constantly exposes "those nosed people".

games made by wokesters and are so bad that even other wokesters don't want to play them

Really makes you think

His favorite games are all pro-Israel US propaganda, he's a millennial dudebro who just had a rant about how you're a loser if you're a Nazi and how he'll point out propaganda no matter what but he still loves pro-US war propaganda

I think it looks good.

Nothing, subcultures died.

I see we have Sherman in the thread.

the mc reminds me of this lol

Kys Jeet shill.

and...?

Oh no, not the sanctity of the steam charts threads.

They need to get that guy at Microsoft back who kept tell all the devs to stop putting black people on the cover. He knew what he was talking about.

telling*

Why be a social worker if you've got the privilege and connections to be a video game reviewer instead?

It wasn't until SBI came and turned the main character black

It was actually a good change and the character is half white. It makes a lot of sense given the setting, more than a full white one.

You were into the genre before it went mainstream. Also you're married so you've won at life anon.

the nigger is the main character
even if she wasnt on the cover people would find out

a change so good that it's flopping hard lol

SJWs.
All the bad taste and social privilege, and now they get to destroy anyone they disagree with on top of that.

Yes, we already knew this particular audience is full of virulent racists. They made the game they wanted to make in spite of that.

It makes a lot of sense given the setting, more than a full white one.

True, americans are all niggers

Oh right, that was genuinely funny

yea he would have told them to change that too. Another classic point he made as the princess and the frog being the lowest selling animated disney movie is all but supported here.

His renditions are unironically kino. youtube.com/watch?v=Kk-Fum6YMOw

oh boo fucking hoo. Cry yourself a river while Madden which is full of black people makes best selling list. Cry more.

we

this guy is unironically one of the devs lol

Princess and the Frog was intentionally sabotaged in order to get rid of an attempt at revitalizing Disney's 2D animation

You were into the genre before it went mainstream. Also you're married so you've won at life anon.

no. im getting divorced rn.

then why not cater to the non-racist audience?
they'll definitely buy the game, no?

At what point should one stop being upset over injustice?

Nah, it's the other way around.

outs you as the kind of retard that unironically defended Dustborn because the hive declared it worthy and not because it was good.

Dustborn is some low budget title by a Norwegian indie studio. The honest truth is that 99% of gamers even extremely woke outlets like the GamingCirclejerk subreddit would never have heard of it if it weren't for chud outrage. It blew up not because it's indicative of the industry but it was a perfect example of a bad woke game for content creators to lampoon. But what about Spiderman 2? It also has cringey social justice segments that add nothing to the game. Why don't chuds make an example out of it? Because it's an otherwise technical masterpiece that was very successful commercially. It doesn't serve the narrative of "DEI = incompetence" and would force them to critically analyze its artistic coherence beyond lazily insisting "go woke go broke".

Feminists like Anita Sarkeesian haven't been relevant in gaming criticism in over a decade. We've clearly swung in the other direction where now chuds like Grummz and Asmongold are the retarded ideologues driving the conversation. You're projecting hard trying to make me out to be some agenda-driven gamer who only plays games I ideologically agree with because deep down you know that's what you are.

It's a game where you talk to a magic catfish anon. This is like asking why Assassin's Creed 2 needed to have an Italian protagonist.

They're legitimately stuck in 2016 socially forever. They've won but don't want to actually win, they want to be the minority opinion even though people like Grummz and Asmongold ARE the culture.

beloved

You love a woke faggot game

Why not? Stories that tackle themes that have to do with relationship problems such as addiction, family trauma, religion, mental illness, and race are the exact kind of stories that women read about in their fiction. The actual problem is mixing that stuff with third person action platforming gameplay. On paper, the parts of this game may have appeal but when combined together they don't really land with any existing demographic. I may have even watched the story of this if it was a 90 minute streaming movie

I just finished playing it, got to chapter 4. Its really an unremarkable game so far, the most generic platforming mixed with the most generic combat. The story is also pretty shit so far, the whole "fix the pain in this backstory while we play music" is a huge cop out for any originality. I'm giving up here, I just don't see the game or the story getting interesting. Also I hate it when a character, like in forspoken, gets transported from a mundane life into a mystical and fantastical world and instantly dismisses their surroundings with sarcasm and quips. Awful writing.

I didn't buy spiderman 2
Tranny ass MJ and that fag pajeet did give me a good laugh tho

White or black, I don’t trust modern western video game devs to write a game about the Deep South

Hazel is nothing like Frey. Frey was an ungrateful criminal brat, Hazel is just a generic YA protagonist who doesn't appreciate her mother and has daddy issues because he died young

You're vaxxed and get off on the idea of chemically castrating children

Grummz and Asmongold ARE the culture

lol

They are. They get tens of millions of views. People hang on every word that they say. You won and are in denial about winning because you are obsessed with being an oppressed minority even though you are the majority.

Both are bad, but at the very least in the former there can be fun if people don't go full retard.

I'm not telling you to stop making games. Just don't expect me to buy them.

It's a nice game, a niche title, moody, but entertaining. I'm a millennial, mid 30s, and I feel like the game was made for someone of my age. But it's awfully marketed, tbt, it basically had no marketing at all. Even among the people who actually heard about it pretty much no one had any idea what it's meant to be, not the genre, not the combat style, nothing. And the target audience is perpetually tired and/or on meds hence the dogshit sales.
Unfortunate, but it is what it is.

lol

You lol, but it's true. Streamers are in the zeitgeist.

Gameplay looks pretty mediocre
Chick looks niggery
Probably not buying it

And I hope asmon and grummz keeps winning until games themselves start swinging the other way too :)

Because the type of person you’re talking about don’t play anything more complex than a phone game. You’re talking about wine moms and generic bitches that think everything not on a phone is Nintendo.

Indiana jones's woke rep going in was because of the COMPANY's actions

They announced it with a nonbinary dev who said that it was going to be for modern audiences

They featured him because he was the Senior Narrative Designer responsible for the game's story. He said they were trying to introduce Indiana Jones to modern audiences because Indiana Jones is an old franchise young people don't care much about. I don't think there's anything particularly misleading about that unless YOU'RE the one going in assuming that all LGBT writers are automatically bad at their jobs and modern audiences only enjoy MCU dialogue. As it turns out said woke dev did a fantastic job and the story is phenomenal homage to the original movies.

Their social media presence and interviews were 100 percent about punching nazis and clumsy modern political references.

It is a game about punching Nazis. The whole franchise features punching Nazis prominently; they're the main bad guys in the two most well-liked movies. The game's final boss is literally punching a Nazi. Again, there was nothing misleading about the advertising. YOU ASSUMED that punching Nazis was an attack on your beliefs. Why?

This game releases in two days.

People in the minority opinion will just get their power back then.

I accept your concession :)

Those are the things in stories for everyone. I dont see any issue with this game's presentation. Its obviously not for everyone but it does at least look interesting. It does seem to have a southern gothic vibe to it that is unique for a game. I don't know if the game is good but i don't see what's wrong with anything in its presentation outright.

If what you were saying was true, Hideo Kojima and Neil Druckmann wouldn't have careers.

Ermm no. We haven't gone back to non-dei non-tranny games yet
Until then, I'll just have to keep cheering asmon on I suppose

YOU'RE the one going in assuming that all LGBT writers are automatically bad at their jobs

they are

Nah, it's the other way around.

And you won’t elaborate on that so this is pretty much just a kid saying “nu uh”

Dustborn is some low budget title by a Norwegian indie studio. The honest truth is that 99% of gamers even extremely woke outlets like the GamingCirclejerk subreddit would never have heard of it if it weren't for chud outrage

And yet you fags still defended it, which is what the point of what I said and not what it actually is.

Why don't chuds make an example out of it

Tourist spotted holy shit, that game was criticized heavily.

Because it's an otherwise technical masterpiece that was very successful commercially

Didn’t make back its money and sold less than the first game.

It doesn't serve the narrative of "DEI = incompetence" and would force them to critically analyze its artistic coherence beyond lazily insisting "go woke go broke"

Literally the only success you retards have is BG3, while everything else just flops and dies and then you cry how no one should care.

Feminists like Anita Sarkeesian haven't been relevant in gaming criticism in over a decade

Except they are because they’re the ones that have control of the industry for fuck sake this game was made by them. Or are you going to say that SBI isn’t real now like you fags tried to do a year ago.

We've clearly swung in the other direction where now chuds like Grummz and Asmongold

It hasn’t only you fags care about these people because they allow you to say that all the sentiment against woke shit is coming from them and isn’t something that has been steadily growing for the past decade. Barely anyone knew show grummz was prior to the SBI shit and then he made a few tweets and you retards blasted him up into relevance and cry about him and every post he makes. You’re the only ones that care about these retards.

fake games for fake people

CJ is a legitimately cool guy, and in the more "moral" spectrum of GTA protagonists morality.

women dont play kojima games

So know nothing of southern culture and just think that it’s all blacks, got it.

White Southern culture absent black influences is just worse Scots-Irish and poverty.

Hideo Kojima still makes games and Cuckman exclusively appeals to the bottom of the barrel psudo intellectual garbage eaters. The audience you’re describing isn’t that it’s the kind of person that knows nothing about games outside of their phone and what their kid or boyfriend plays and doesn’t care about them in any capacity beyond that.

woke "quirky" cityfag slop.

ftfy

just look at africa if you want to know what "black culture" is like
spoiler: there's no black culture

So what does that have to do with you not knowing the culture of the south? Because you’re the one that labeling everything as just being by blacks.

Bailey Jay is still alive?

Here is every mention of grummz from 2014 to 2023 on Anon Babble. Notice how it barely hits 200 while there have been thousands of mentions of him from 2024 onwards. Yet you’re trying to present him as being some huge thing that has always been relevant.
arch.b4k.dev/_/search/boards/v.meta/text/Grummz/start/2014-01-01/end/2023-12-31/

Probably gonna play this game just for the lulz

I also played Tales of Kanzera ironically for the woke stuff and the game turned to be good

you better pirate it at least you fucking subhuman

But what about Spiderman 2? It also has cringey social justice segments that add nothing to the game. Why don't chuds make an example out of it?

?????????????????? This place laughed at spiderman jobbing to a FUCKING FRIDGE, the hell are you rambling about?

Not even gonna pirate it, I have Gamepass so meh

you are an absolute faggot, nobody respects you

fratricide

bullying

animal abuse

hatefulness against those deemed to be too different

One is not like the others.

Indiana Jones

Fantastic. Favorite game of 2024. Gameplay is like mix between Dishonored and a Jackie Chan movie, and the story is genuinely the best Indy adventure since Raiders.

Lol, you can't be serious. Story and gameplay fall down all cliff after the Himalaya section, Gina becomes even more unbearable since she doesn't have any motivation to be there anymore and after like the fifth or sixth villain gloating scene the game fucking finally ended with a finale even worse than Dial of Destiny or Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. This game has absolutely no legs to stand on and isn't evne better than The Infernal Machine from the 90s.

And you won’t elaborate on that

That's literally what the rest of the reply was, anon. How retarded are you?

And yet you fags still defended it

I can genuinely say I have never said a single thing about Dustborn until that comment.

[Spiderman 2] Didn’t make back its money and sold less than the first game

Again, I can honestly say I have never played a Sony published game in my life because I hate movie games yet even I know this is cope. Yes it was overly expensive because of the licensing/labor expenses but it still made a lot of money.

Literally the only success you retards have is BG3

I haven't even played BG3 because I'm fatigued of all the ultra-generic high fantasy D&D-inspired RPGs out there.

Except they are because they’re the ones that have control of the industry for fuck sake this game was made by them.

There is actually nothing preventing anyone with the capital from releasing their own game. CDPR is nothing but pandering to chuds with edgelord shit and they make money hand-over-fist.

Or are you going to say that SBI isn’t real now like you fags tried to do a year ago.

They're a rando contractor with 20 low-paid employees anon. Professional creatives, e.g. game developers, are just naturally ultra-progressive on their own and have been since the dawn of time. Conservatives tend to focus on more pragmatic professions.

YOU DEFENDED THIS, YOU PLAY THIS, YOU BELIEVE THIS

And you got it wrong every time. Anon I'm a white Christian engineer from Wisconsin. The difference between us is only our intelligence (I have a math degree, you have Medicaid) not our cultural background.

More like south of sales expectations.

south of 500 players looooooool

It's a Shane they went with the whole nigger thing, because the gage is decently fun but the constant reminder that white people=bad weighs it down. It kinda feels like 2008 game in a good way.

Don't mind me my phone fucks everything up. You get the point.

Gina becomes even more unbearable

after like the fifth or sixth villain gloating scene

I don't think you've ever watched the old Indy movies if these are your core complaints. Gina is quite literally the least whiny love interest of any of these movies. The bad guys (barring the Temple of Doom) are always gloating about their evil plans before they're divinely smote for their hubris.

redditkuzasisers....

That's literally what the rest of the reply was, anon. How retarded are you?

It wasn’t it was you crying about grummz and other shit that had nothing to do with how devs are wasting money on woke shit rather than making a good games.

I can genuinely say I have never said a single thing about Dustborn until that comment

Considering the tizzy you went into at its mention that’s bullshit.

Yes it was overly expensive because of the licensing/labor expenses but it still made a lot of money

Funny how you say that but not that it made its money back.

I haven't even played BG3 because I'm fatigued of all the ultra-generic high fantasy D&D-inspired RPGs out there

Is this all you can do? Just say how you either haven’t played or don’t care about all of the shit that I bring up? Because that doesn’t take away from what I said it just shows you can’t argue it.

There is actually nothing preventing anyone with the capital from releasing their own game. CDPR is nothing but pandering to chuds with edgelord shit

By putting gay and tranny shit in their games? You need to stop talking out of your ass, I know you’re a narcissist that assumes everyone is dumber than you but you’ve already shown you don’t know what you’re talking about and this will just end with you going into a tantrum spiral and getting progressively more unhinged as the thread goes on.

They're a rando contractor

They’re not, they went from no names to working on big games over night and have been on record as saying they extort people into hiring them. There is a reason they got into shit last year.

And you got it wrong every time

I didn’t given you’ve done nothing but show your hand and lie and now you’re trying to play it off like you’re totally not some wokefag playing damage control yet again after another game flops. I mean you’re so desperate that you have to come up with this false image of yourself to try and make it look like you didn’t get btfo online while trying to defend woke shit.

I wouldn't play this if you gave me a year of gamepass for free.

the anti-woke campaign around this games release sure is low energy

I never heard of the game before today but apparently it has nigger mc so its political? Apparently the sales are low too, cool, we won the culture war, I guess...?

these woke journos giving it a praising review sure are goofy, or not. I didnt play the game but my opinion is TND so they must be silly goobers

fashion: kino

music: kino

why did we hate it again?

<500 players, and wondering what percentage of that are paid streamers doing anything new, paid "journalists" who think they're social influencers on the side, the devs pulling overtime to sell their game, the devs and publisher's friends and family who got it for free, literal idle sign-ins at the studio before it closes it shop, etc. etc.

fashion:kino

I'm sorry, but it screams 30-something year old hipster in early onset midlife crisis phase, when they're all done up like that.
It's some Zoolander shit, unless you akshully work with your hands and muscles. Not just gym-ratting.

The only people who should be permitted suspenders are fat, old tradesmen with blown-out knees and squat-backs. Especially if they are one aggravated manslaughter charge from ending it all, because they have nothing to lose after their bitch of a wife left them years ago, and their daughter's out of state uni bill will surely be covered by their life insurance policy.

Woah