I do kinda agree with this and someone else was making a similar point previously but I'd like to point out how marketing and game journos have greatly helped in framing this toxic mindset, it's too easy to blame it on gamers being political when it sure af ain't gamers who made this environment so politically charged to begin with.
Yeah but on that i don't think larian was aware of the journo reaction. They most likely did that or added that for a laugh and lost control of it.
They are freelancer PR Marketing, they just wear the disguise of "journalism". See Kotaku (lmao), Nintendo decided to blacklist them and now every opportunity is a hitpiece how Mario is racist or that weirdo wanting to drop another nuke in Japan
Complaints back then existed, and were very vocal. However, there was another key difference: videogames were trash, and people playing them were trash. It's the elevating of fantasy, sci fi and videogames as "Culture" with a capital C instead of trash that's lead us to the current issue. In the 90s every videogame and anime was sexist and ultraviolent, but people making it took some pride on it, the kinda pride you get when you do "genre" things. I'ts like the scene in Ed Wood where one dude says "I don't do motion pictures, I make trash". That's the sort of thing you did. And because it pissed off conservatives, it was fun, under the confrontational spirit of the 80s and 90s. But now, nerd culture is mainstream, and everything is "friendly". It didn't appear out of thin air, though. Spiderman became an icon of american youth because he was "literally me". It makes sense that as a social reject you want to feel included, but the current nerd landscape is fucking care bears everywhere you look (no pun intended).
Exactly. You see it's a gag. The game is made for adults. But because of the way the media reacts to it, and the way the propaganda routine settles in the news cycle, as a normal person you viscerally reject it. Categorize it as bestiality. Find yourself repulsed. Call out that Larian is degenerate.
This shit in video games at least you can pinpoint exactly when it started. Anita Sarkesian, greatest scammer of all time started with the speech that all video games are sexists yadda yadda that we all know radfemlib retardation same time when Occupy Wall Street was running and got sunk by the same group of fucktards.
She wasn't the first to lift those accusations, but she was a) a woman b) "ethnical" c) from "academia" instead of a boring white dude so of course people were willing to listen to her. However she lost respect and support when two things happened: even her own supporters realized she was heavily nitpicking and using clips and scenes in very bad faith and also she scammed a lot of people with undelivered promises from a kickstarter she did. The "videogames are sexist and non inclusive" isn't of her creation, as I said, it has been going on since long before, but more heavily handed since Mass Effect 3. Nobody takes her seriously anymore, I mean, even Joe Roggan called that brit guy out on his borderline obsession with her, and when JR thinks you're stupid, you're actually, undeniably fucking stupid.
Oh yes now she irrelevant as ever but other events kept fueling this narrative so I see her and the happenings at the time as the start of the rise of so called Pink Money Capitalism.This sum ups with the whole policy of we want the wider audience possible so you have to neuter your material at max to avoid offending anyone.
I am not. Porky calls me that just for memeing. I play a Viera in ff14 but thats far from being a furry "That is mostly a phenomenon in america".
Oh she still has some clout and is being hired as a 'gender consultant' for various AAA studio's. She was, for example, hired for that position by Naughty Dog for "The Last of Us 2".
So the scam continues
Personally, this is the reason why I don't visit many websites. It's because it'll just be other people trying to tell me what to think. Or try to influence my thoughts.
They have sound awareness sometime even if you are back of an ennemy you do a stealth check. However that depends also at the distance you are from them.
“Tbh all this scandal about the bear scene happened because we are in 2023 and people cannot laugh anymore games had wicked shit long before bg3
Remember Vendetta?
Side scroller fighting game?
In a level you could get humped by homos.
In another you could get humped by dogs.
Of courae at the time there was not this need to make everything political so people just laughted at it.”
“Most of these people would've joined burning D&D on the stake for demon worshiping if it were the 80's still.”
This has nothing to do with it being disgusting or not, but how you're only willing to make it eclipse everything else about the game. And most of you are damned hypocrites that imagine themselves standing on some sort of moral high-ground while willfully neglecting or cherry picking from "the good old times".
Why should I when I'll not pick the option for him to shit in my car in the first place, or even bother with him at all?
Ye olden days:
