Topic is very simple: There are many western games coming nowadays that are plain unfun, boring, or shoved with ugly people and certain politics. TLOU 2receiving GOTY was a joke. Is there a game, if any, coming from the west, that you are kinda hopeful about?
Some of the western games I enjoyed playing this year were Deep Rock, Synthetik, Desperados 3, Children of Morta, Satisfactory and Hitman 2, though they are hardly recent. I’m kinda hopeful about Hitman 3 but I heavily dislike the “always online” game model.
What about you guys, though?
Also, to mods, add a gaming/ geek culture tag or whatever. Options here are limited as it is.
Baldur’s Gate 3 full release, kind of. I tried a little of the early access version and it was pretty good.
Doom Eternal’s next DLC
Stalker 2, the System Shock remake/ System Shock 3 if they don’t fuck them up.
Scorn
Cyberpunk , but I just already know is gonna be disappointing.
I’m tentatively hopeful for Bethesda’s future games after Msoft buying them, hopefully they’ll see how smooth-brained they’ve made Fallout and the ES and turn things around but I doubt it.
There are some big things in Mods that I’m looking forward to, fallout : The Frontier, some big Mount and Blade 2 mods, so that’ll be cool.
I’m sure there’s a lot of good stuff I’m missing but that’s about it right now.
Does Baldur's Gate 3 seem woke and If so how much and is it forced?
Is the story good? I found DOS2 to be lacking in the story department despite all the praise it got and I have a higher standard for a BG game.
I've tried to pirate it but it keeps crashing.
I haven’t noticed anything explicitly woke so far, but there are some potential concerns. You can fuck pretty much anyone regardless of gender there’s a party member from a polygamous culture and she will fuck other dudes even if you romance her.
Tieflings are kind of treated like “oppressed fantasy race that could be a stand-in for refugees or black people or indians” but I haven’t seen anything too egregious yet.
There are a lot of black characters, I don’t know much about the setting so Idk if that’s accurate or not. I thought character creation was pretty shitty, all the faces suck, if you’re creating a human male like most of the population than your choices for a face are pretty much limited to black guy, Arab, or cucky white guy.
The story and characters seem pretty good, the events that set off the plot are interesting and I definitely want to keep playing to see what happens.
I'm a bit surprised by lots of black characters. Where in Faerun is BG3 taking place? If it is in BG then having a bit of diversity makes sense as BG is a port town, although the location would make it very hard to get there from Chult having a few traders or maybe a business office set up would make it realistic. Faerun is not the regular modern day diversity melting pot that globalists are thriving for. In fact DnD forums had a problem with the fact that DnD campaigns, books and games are Medieval Europe focused and as everyone knows white men are bad.
I don’t know if it really says where you are, without going in to too many spoilers you start out washed up on a beach on some Island. I haven’t played much BG aside from 1 and 2 years ago so I can’t really speak for demographics, but I definitely don’t get the feeling that you’re supposed to be in some kind of especially exotic area, which is why all of the non-white characters stood out to me. But then again I also raised an eyebrow at the fact that the default male and female human character models are both black so I don’t know if they’re really pushing something or I’m reading too much into things.