The guys who claim the woke agenda is why corporations are ruining games… how do they explain the overwhelming high quality and popularity of queer indie games? These games are not made by corporations, they’re made by small teams (some times just one or two people) of passionate and dedicated people who love games. They typically have long development cycles and sell for low prices despite being high quality and beloved classics that are defining gaming this generation.
Celeste: Trans main character
Undertale and Deltarune: Unabashedly queer. Non-binary lead. Butch Lesbians that aren’t male gazey, etc etc.
Webfishing: Do I even need to say anything? This game was made by one person When this game was accused of being too queer, they doubled down and became even more queer.
Lisa: It’s about misogyny and toxic masculinity.
Shovel Knight: Has a gender swap option and strong non sexualised female characters.
There are many more that have positive non-white cis-male characters.
All without the “scary Chinese” or “Sweet Baby” or “DEI mandates”.
These are what actual fans of video games are making. It seems that the deciding factor of the difference in quality of AAA games seems to be capitalism, not inclusiveness.
Are the anti-woke crowd so out of touch that they can’t see this? Or maybe they’re so infested in gifting reactionaries that they turn a blind eye.
There are hundreds of indie games released every week. What the ones you listed have in common is that they were all wildly successful. I don’t think indie games as a whole are overwhelmingly queer and progressive, but there is a market for games that are.
Yeah but I mean that those are the ones that tend to be high quality and become popular.
It kind of flies in the face of the whole idea of “Go woke get broke” and the implication that the thing ruining games is progressive ideology.
Also I love your profile pic. Lmao.
Shaun was talking about this in his stream a bit. He suggests that if a game gets popular enough they back off because people enjoy playing it and they won’t get traction, so that leaves the bad games nobody wants to play and they can say whatever they want because nobody is checking.
It’s all quite hilarious — one person makes a YouTube video about some game then a bunch of other reactionary video game nerds just play the stupidest game of telephone all just repeating the first guy.
Like 2/3rds of the time “Go woke go broke” is used, the thing they’re accusing of going broke made like $642 trillion in a weekend. They were throwing it around regarding the Star Wars sequel trilogy…as though everyone didn’t go see it and it didn’t make stupid amounts of money.
They are disingenuous and say the wrong things on purpose.
If you flip through itch, everything is either super gay, completely abstract, or an extremely low effort horror game. With the very occasional Super Gun Arcade Man.