Gotcha. Yea it makes no sense. Unfortunately any black character I see in current era I assume they will be anointing and lecturing. One exception being Denzel. They could make a cool game with him as the main character. Or a character voiced by him. But it sucks that Japan is bending the knee.
A white male character with the same dialogue would’ve been torched by critics
Square Enix would sell their own mother if it made them 0.1% more profit. All this is, was some woketards at Squenix thinking that they could make a woke pander game to sell to Gaijins for easy Hwhitebuxx.
Unfortunately because the corporate culture at Squenix is totally out of touch with reality thanks to woke subversion, they badly miscalculated and got a cold hard dose of reality.
So hopefully they've learned their lesson.
A white male character with the same dialogue would’ve been torched by critics
and no one would care because critics are worthless now. people don't trust them, they trust people like popular streamers and youtubers. the "critics" torched Hogwart's Legacy and it smashed sales records while Forspoken languished.
True. YouTubers have taken over but the garbage media still yours rotten tomatoes or rolling stone as if we don’t already know what they will say. I trust Critical Drinker or Dave Cullen much more
Most likely scenario was a bunch of glitzy consultants came in and pitched the idea to Nippon Honorburu Business execs who thought it looked like garbage but figured if the round-eyes say it's good who are they to argue?
The usual result of failures in the western markets is pulling back and making more standard jap games, which then "unexpectently" make it big in the west (eg Monster Hunter) and they try making more western-focused games again with similar results as this.
Some kind of eternal east-west game dev cycle.
The bigger issue to me is the defining issue of entertainment today, which is also the genesis of GG and this site: the attempt to forcefully change the tastes and habits of the market. Products are being made not based on what people want, but on what the developers think they should want. Everyone thinks they can just throw their customers away and create new ones from magic. it's quite insane, and I think it will be studied in the future much like "tulip mania" today.
SquareEnix made THREE Final Fantasy 13 games, despite the original being almost universally hated. With the final one being a literal waifu jerkoff fest for the director.
Squenix is physically incapable of learning from their mistakes in smart manner.
Gotcha. Yea it makes no sense. Unfortunately any black character I see in current era I assume they will be anointing and lecturing. One exception being Denzel. They could make a cool game with him as the main character. Or a character voiced by him. But it sucks that Japan is bending the knee.
A white male character with the same dialogue would’ve been torched by critics
Square Enix would sell their own mother if it made them 0.1% more profit. All this is, was some woketards at Squenix thinking that they could make a woke pander game to sell to Gaijins for easy Hwhitebuxx.
Unfortunately because the corporate culture at Squenix is totally out of touch with reality thanks to woke subversion, they badly miscalculated and got a cold hard dose of reality.
So hopefully they've learned their lesson.
and no one would care because critics are worthless now. people don't trust them, they trust people like popular streamers and youtubers. the "critics" torched Hogwart's Legacy and it smashed sales records while Forspoken languished.
True. YouTubers have taken over but the garbage media still yours rotten tomatoes or rolling stone as if we don’t already know what they will say. I trust Critical Drinker or Dave Cullen much more
I don't even look at critic scores anymore, only user scores on places like metacritic or RT
The only indication critic scores give me is that if they live a game or show then I know not to bother.
I'm hoping SquareEnix seeing the poor sales and firing their President is a sign they are about to change course.
Most likely scenario was a bunch of glitzy consultants came in and pitched the idea to Nippon Honorburu Business execs who thought it looked like garbage but figured if the round-eyes say it's good who are they to argue?
The usual result of failures in the western markets is pulling back and making more standard jap games, which then "unexpectently" make it big in the west (eg Monster Hunter) and they try making more western-focused games again with similar results as this.
Some kind of eternal east-west game dev cycle.
The bigger issue to me is the defining issue of entertainment today, which is also the genesis of GG and this site: the attempt to forcefully change the tastes and habits of the market. Products are being made not based on what people want, but on what the developers think they should want. Everyone thinks they can just throw their customers away and create new ones from magic. it's quite insane, and I think it will be studied in the future much like "tulip mania" today.
SquareEnix made THREE Final Fantasy 13 games, despite the original being almost universally hated. With the final one being a literal waifu jerkoff fest for the director.
Squenix is physically incapable of learning from their mistakes in smart manner.