No one is taking your characters away, bigots
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Fun fact: The “advanced writer” is Brittany Morris. She is a black activist who wrote the book, “Slay,” which is about a black teenage game developer fighting back against an online troll harassing her over her Black Panther-inspired indie game. She also wrote for Subnautica: Below Zero, a game that has been near universally condemned for its awful story, dialogue, and characters. Brittany is a talentless bitch who is also involved in writing the story for Insomniac’s Wolverine game, so expect that to be shit as well.
Less about infiltrated and more infected people’s brains, especially those who live in the metropolitan bubbles. If the peer pressure and struggle sessions ever stopped, some of these people would normalize.
There are a shocking amount of people who think promoting blacks is good for its own sake, and that this will somehow translate into sales.
When it fails, it's not because they're wrong, but because the audience is "racist."
That's why I'm genuinely shocked they gave up on Forspoken that easily. It was probably one of the blackest games out there, and even the usual suspects didn't even bother to defend it.
I didn't expect them to buy it, but even games they don't buy they rant and rave about other people not buying and being racist. But for that one they just let it go and become a literal laughing stock unopposed.
It has more to do with who owns it.
Made it about 15 hours in before I gave up. Every time I started getting a little bit immersed, the protagonist would open her mouth and yammer on to herself for no reason at all. I'm guessing just to remind you that you're playing a STRONG INDEPENDENT BLACK WOMAN. God forbid they keep to the "silent protagonist" model we got in the first one that only added to the immersion (if they did that the black/woman thing wouldn't have been a factor at all for me beyond the initial eyerolls).
Even the AI device had some kind of indian woman voice (thick accent and all), which would make zero sense from a technological standpoint.
Hell, even the cover art has her with no mask on despite it being near-freezing waters (showing the world she's a black woman is more important than anything else). That aside, the story is nothing but girl-bosses running around being smarter/stronger than everyone else, especially anyone with a penis. When I saw some old Karen come up in some kind of cartoony mech and start bitching, I had the game closed and uninstalled about ten minutes later.
i think in heelvsbabyface review of Alan wake 2 almost all the npcs have some silly talking to themselves lines about their jobs instead of just act like people who were hired to do the jobs. these writers never had a real job or deal with real workers, all their dialogs sound like elementary school students' answers to teacher's question "what do you think <job> do?"
Not just that, some of the dialog too.
"As I live and breathe, Saga is back! People feared you'd never come back after your daughter drowned! What do you mean you don't know what I'm talking about? Oh, I know what this is, you've suppressed your memories of everything due to trauma! That's gotta be it!"
Subnautica is a great game. The sequel is Intersectional garbage. At this point I just nope out when they shove blacks in.
Was just checking a new colony building game demo and the medieval Europe style colonists are full of blacks. Into the garbage it goes.
Remnant from the ashes has the protagonist yell shit when you have to reload during or fight, a “elite” monster shows up, or after a big fight. It’s pretty awesome for immersion when your character tells “OH SHIT” when a giant with a sword shows up.
Only somewhat connected with what you said but I love the game and want to shill for it.
And this is the problem. Stop hiring talentless hacks like her. And everytime I hear “online trolls” I just assume it means legit pushback from real fans
If they don't hire these people, then (((shareholders))) will use their weight to damage the company.
Then I guess we should’ve gatekept harder
Sounds like the perfect resume to get hired by Sweet Baby Inc
Wolverine is black in 3... 2...
"His regenerative powers healed the broken Melanin Yakub had damaged."
And so he became... Japanese.
brown (and possibly gay) replaces normal White.... <itsallsotiresome.jpg>
He can't be gay, he has to hook up with Gwen. Otherwise the writers can't get their mixed race couple box checked. They'll make a side character gay to check that box.
I've seen some lunatics calling for Gwen to be trans. So they might.
So miles morales is gonna kill tranny gwen in a fit of rage?? Damn. Sounds like real life. Lol.
It's all just so tiring. The very first game was fun, I refuse to even acknowledge any of the other games because I don't like black spiderman. Cannot make an own character gotta push for the brown people to be some stand in and take over. And the mixed race stuff is just par for the course so will happen.
Yup, they already made Black Cat gay, and they've also introduced apparently another spider person named Cindy? So that's a possible shoe-in for another gay protag. You'll play as the black kid and the gay kid in Spider-Man 3 and a bunch of Sony simps will praise it for being "stunning" and "brave".
Miles is meant to be half black and half latino. Strangely that never gets focused on by these writers who ironically only ever care about skin colour.
I can officially make the statement that if you want more lore accurate representations of western comic book characters, go to porn or R34 work.
And I'm not even exaggerating, that's how bad current studios are!
"Miles Morales" standalone sold only a third of what "Marvel's Spider-Man" did
Anyone that knows is most likely avoiding Miles' side missions like the plague
They showed how little they cared about player opinion when not only do they double down on Mary Jane missions, they actually try to make her an action hero, going up against trained super-hunters and monstrous symbiote-infected
"Marvel's Spider-Man 3" is going to flop in comparison.
Oh, and I almost forgot, Yuri Watanabe is now a punk dyke with a chain&sickle, and somehow able to go toe-to-toe with Spider-Man.
"In comparison"
It’s got some momentum but loads of people have complained about 2 being dumbed down hard from the first game and loads of useless, boring side missions. The momentum has slowed down and it’ll probably be worst when Iso throws out the first trailers with no Peter.
Sequel sales are a vote on the predecessor. I suspect if The Last of Us 3 was ever made it would be a total disaster.
Mile Morales has always been a terrible character but I think Insomnia did the impossible and made him decent. However they can't help themselves and just let him be the side kick, he has to take over the hero spot.
Most people didn't pay attention to Miles' game, as even Sony outright called it an expansion pack, and it was rightfully assumed to be irrelevant spinoff fluff.
Which means that 2 is coasting entirely on 1's successes. Vanilla original 1 specifically, as I saw a lot of people surprised and upset at the Tom Holland model they replaced the original Peter with in the re-release of it. So this one had hype from people who paid zero attention to the greater picture, and just remember really enjoying the first one and went from there.
I doubt 3 will flop, but I think it'll be a notable downtrend overall.
indeed they aren't, because I'm not playing these games in the first place
My buddy from church bought the game. I just decided to let him find out for himself
Synthetic Man made it super clear this would happen in his review. Worth a watch, love that guy.
Thanks. Forgot I had him as a sub
Synthetic Man is one of the last good content creators left.
Endymion isn't bad but he waffles way too much and is far too afraid to call a spade a spade. He also tries to tip-toe around Rainbow Reich faggotry, when he should be calling it out for being as degenerate as it is, which Synthetic Man will occasionally do.
Who didn’t see this coming? I sold my Miles first appearance to some movies only normie. I didn’t mind him at first but they should’ve given him a different name and power and have him be inspired by Spider-Man. At the time I didn’t think he would take over. Boy was I wrong. I am so glad I have the older comics. Peter Parker is Spider-Man. Also, I can buy Alphacore soon
I'm actually desensitized about the industry's behavior at this point, it's old news.
But I'm still amazed that "red pilled" people will still give their attention to this shit. They'll buy it, they'll watch people playing it, they'll talk about it, they'll post about it. Even if it's just hate watching and rant posts, people still feel compelled to engage with this shit.
As I said on c/Gaming :
Expect more tings to follow the Miles strategy of blacking without destroying the franchise. It's a sort of frog-boiling approach.
Don't just outright race swap an existing character.
Have the black and white character exist together for a while
Slowly whittle down the white character's status and credibility
Slowly focus more and more on the black character.
Taking bets on when Miles is replaced with Gwen! I’m putting my money on the next game.
Apparently they're hinting at some asian character called "Silk."
Ah yes, Silk. Another character created by Dan Slott, who was retconned in as having been bitten by the same spider as Peter, who has better powers than Peter since she not only still has her organic web shooters but can use them to create her costume as needed in multiple colours, and as of the recent Spider-Verse comic, written by Slott ofc, turns out to be more important than Peter.
Speaking of that comic, Slott used it to retcon in yet another new character, Spider-Boy.
It really is amazing how the extent of Spiderman's writers creativity is "another spider powered one, another symbiote" over and over.
Even Batman only threw in a Manbat and called it a day with the bat people.
Man that’s like naming a Superman clone from India “Elephantman” or “Flying Naan.” It’s pretty funny.
Clockwork.
All non-white characters paired up with classic heroes are trojan horses to kill off those heroes and replace them.
This edition of the game will sell at expected levels because the players are expecting Peter Parker and then get bait and switched. Spiderman 3 will sell about a third less. Spiderman 4 will be a commercial failure and shut down Insomniac games.
I'm kind of glad they're doing this. Miles Morales exists in a different universe.
Peter Parker exists in our universe.
The fact that they're focusing on Miles means that it's all non canon, because it's not our universe.
Glad I don't give a shit about superhero games or this would probably make me immediately stop giving a shit about superhero games!