So he self censors to abide by the chilling political correctness of today, and this is a good thing because…?

Anyways, the best games now come from small and medium sized teams of mostly white/Asian male devs. The moment a team becomes large enough to attract diversity enforcers, it’s over; hiring quotas force you to dilute your team with leftist activists who will destroy your product in the name of progress.

Wasn't the original Psychonauts the last thing from him that was actually good?

Tim Schafer has been dumb his entire career and has made a ton of ok games. I’ve liked a lot of games he’s worked on well enough pre 2014 where i didn’t feel like I was ripped off but not so much that I’ve ever recommended them to anyone other than brutal legend, and that was because of the music the game play was just ok. Double fine could could literally have the slogan we make average stuff at best.

Tim Schafer went full Anita Sarkeesian during gamergate, resulting in the absolute pile of trash that was Broken Age Part 2 (which was nothing but terribly written woke propaganda). I assume everything else coming out of his useless, trash-tier studio is similar these days.

Too bad, b/c Grim Fandango was good shit.

you prove your own statement wrong.

The problem with the theory of "old games wouldn't fly in today's culture", is... Older games are better. Generally speaking. Especially when it comes to writing. So that isn't exactly a point in his favor.

Political correctness never makes any art better. Only a worthless hack would say it does.

I don't care if you think making a 'caring' game is better than one with unrestrained humor, if you had to self censor because of outside pressure it's already less than it should have been.

He has to tell himself that everything before CURRENT YEAR was mean spirited and horrible because that's the only way to quiet the cognitive dissonance that tells him what a sellout he is. He knows it isn't true. This is pure cope, manifesting as moral grandstanding

people will criticise that and say ‘woke culture, PC police’ and stuff – but for any art, I’m thinking about how my art will be interpreted by the viewer.

Bullshit Tim. This just means you can't make anyone uncomfortable and the habitually offended are dictating the path of your game. Your 'comedy' will be surface level fluff at best. You have failed.

If these ESG/DIE brownnoser types ran the show way back when we wouldn't even have Mario bros. It would have been "Jumpperson" and the majority of the cart's storage would have been occupied by various 8bit outfits, hairstyles, and unspecified secondary sexual characteristics.

Bobby Kotick of all people was right about Tim Schaefer.

"I've never met him in my life – I've never had anything to do with him. I never had any involvement in the Vivendi project that they were doing, Brütal Legend, other than I was in one meeting where the guys looked at it and said, 'He's late, he's missed every milestone, he's overspent the budget and it doesn't seem like a good game. We're going to cancel it.'

"And do you know what? That seemed like a sensible thing to do. And it turns out, he was late, he missed every milestone, the game was not a particularly good game..."

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