I've always known that indie gaming was a cesspool of leftist scum, but there were at least a decent amount of games that tried to have some semblance of good gameplay,. Now though, the scene is absolutely dominated by trannies and faggots in the West. The Nintendo Indie Direct epitomized this perfectly. Sure, we had Shantae and Blade Chimera (a game made by a Japanese developer, if I recall correctly), but everything else was just derivative shit. They showed the creative director of some walking simulator "hiking game" and the creative director is an ugly tranny with the squeakiest of voices, of course. It's just a perfect encapsulation of how bad indie gaming in the West has become.
Every other game was some variation of a "cozy" game (like Animal Crossing, but nowhere near the appeal) or a walking simulator with some leftist drivel of a "story." Characters are obnoxious women or minorities, or are degenerate looking furries. The vast majority of games are some variation of roguelike/roguelite, with either farming, crafting, or deckbuilding inserted. Souls-likes are frustratingly common among metroidvania games, and the vast majority of them are some variation of Castlevania Symphony of the Night with Dark Souls (as though they are copying and pasting some kind of gameplay template from somewhere). None of these games try to do anything deeper in terms of gameplay and any "gimmick" is forcefully inserting a different genre that adds nothing to the experience.
As technology becomes easier, more and more lame faggots take over who really don't give a shit about video gaming (they treat games like movies) and just want to make some woke nonsense with as little gameplay as possible. We are at the point where trannies and faggots are the norm rather than the exception, and gaming is completely suffering as a result. What few good indie games coming out compared to the shit, is basically just slightly better than ratio of "good" AAA games to slop AAA games, and it's pointless to pretend that indie gaming is adding anything to the industry other than decline.
These days, Western indie developers shouldn't be seen as talented individuals who wanted to strike out on their own to do their own thing. They should be treated as incompetent leftists who are so awful that even AAA studios refuse to hire them. It's pathetic to see how open and proud these Western indie developers are with their faggot lifestyles, and the games they produce are all soulless and creatively bankrupt.
I put a bunch of hours into Vampire Survivors. Thought it was a great game. Then the dev hired a tranny to write (completely unnecessary) story content for the game, and of course that story content featured tranny bullshit (because they can’t not self-insert). So I stopped playing Vampire Survivors.
But then I found Halls of Torment, which is basically a superior and heterosexual version of Vampire Survivors.
TLDR: indie gaming is frequently gay and lame, but there are still a lot of great games.
I found Halls of Torment as well, great game. There was even a 2d anime porn one that is on steam that is better then Vampire Survivors, since it has more options with the upgrades and different active abilities on the characters.
VS has a tranny story now? Jesus. I played it a bunch around the start of the year and then stopped before that happened. Lucky me.
Yeah and HoT is great, agreed.
The kind of autists that make good indie games are extremely susceptible to this shit and have been basically forever. The most famous example I can think of is Dan Bunten, who made M.U.L.E. in the early 80s. Despite being a tranny from the early days of gaming, lefties ignore him because twenty years later he wrote about how awful it was and advising anybody else thinking of getting such an operation not to. He specifically lamented about how everybody involved in his surgery acted as a supportive cheerleader the whole way, even though this was back in the 90s when all this wasn't as widespread as it is now.
If you look for his writings, one thing that stood out to me was that he said taking hormones did make him feel better, because they killed his libido and thereby halted his obsessive sexual fantasies about being a woman. He took this as confirmation that he was on the right path and literally none of the doctors or therapists involved contradicted this.
Just replying to that last bit, but it really does highlight just how a lot of this deranged logic does tend to stem from a complete incapability of identifying and recognizing actual cause and effect.
It's something people in general are occasionally susceptible to, but it's even worse when people put themselves on such a long path to the point of mutilating their minds and bodies all because they couldn't be bothered to self reflect and get some basic perspective.
I think it's just the opposite: they're so good at identifying cause and effect that they get stuck in a local optimum that normal people just blunder past.
Some groomer jerks you off and the dopamine feels good. You say you're a girl inside and you get attention. You take hormones and you feel more like how you imagine yourself. Ever individual step makes sense at the time.
Same reason why autistic guys are always weak or fat. You have to get over a weeks-long initial hump of pain from working out or hunger before you see the rewards and get addicted to fitness.
Sadly it's just a sign of the artsy scene in general.
Well then you're looking in the wrong place, because some of the best stuff I've found for the last five years is indie.
>Nintendo Indie Direct
Well I skipped through it and the thing that stood out to me was how the two presenters were baby-talking like they were putting on an amateur episode of blues clues while many of the games seemed to be targeted to the obese middle aged cat-mom demographic.
It's a very mixed bag, and depends on where you're looking.
The vast majority of low-effort indie games that seem like they're trying to emulate or recapture iconic retro favorites? Decent chance there's some cons00ming leftists at the helm, with at least a few trannies. They can be the worst of nostalgia whores and have little creativity whatsoever. They also lack much in the way of technical competence either, and it shows.
But I wouldn't pave over indie productions as a whole because of that. Or because of the shovelware. And it's worth noting that there is absolutely going to be a larger sum of shitty games coming out on a regular basis, just as a matter of probability. Good games take a decent amount of time, even more-so with small teams, and can easily get overshadowed by all the garbage.
I've played lots of good indie/small dev games, but you're not going to see many of them in any sort of mainstream indie game showcase.
There are way more indie games by definition, so even if there's a low ratio of "good" indie to slop indie games, that means there's still tons and tons of good indie games. My games backlog is so large I don't think I'll ever get to them all before I retire.
Your other points stand. I've noticed all the same things about gamedevs sadly.
It's good that we have powerful tools to make video games and bad that they have powerful tools to make video games.
Domina dev is based af; only one I know of though. It is a shame but that's sort of the way it goes. Conservative people (including myself here) are generally not very creative. They (we) are far more likely to get into math/programming/etc.; but be an efficient worker/manager at a company. Maybe it's just a dumb stereotype but it seems to hold true in my experience.
This is exactly why I alwasy chuckle when i see a naive sentiment such as "Indies will save the gaming industry" in this community. Indie is just as bad as the rest of the industry.
Please do continue to pursue indie gaming. I understand it is not easy to do and there are still people who just want to make something without the corporate bullshit and such, It just is laughable at how glorified indie gaming is as a whole as though indie gaming is filled with "based" developers and not the globohomo boot-lickers the vast majority of them clearly are.
"Nintendo Indie Direct" that's your problem right there, all that is carefully curated BS by Nintendo. Zero doubt in my mind some perpetually angry blue-hair working for Nintendo went through every applicant studio's twitter feed for anything "problematic".
Are you talking about A Highland Song? Skimmed through the video just to make sure I knew what you were talking about, and imo, that’s just a 5/10 woman with XX chromosomes. Maybe I’m giving that person the benefit of the doubt, but I’d rather not assume that every 5-6/10 I see is an MTF person.
Find a better hobby, one that teaches usable skills
As much as people don’t want to hear it this is the real advice.
Enjoy something useful that isn't retarded and full of brainwashing bullshit
Hard to invade woodworking. Hard to take the skulls learned from other hobbies.
How about we compromise and say, keep gaming in moderation with everything else.
I see these games in passing, but I never subject myself to actually playing any of this leftist garbage. It's like television and movies; I refuse to watch that shit, but the garbage fire burns so brightly that you can't help but notice the globohomo agenda from the marketing. I'm not some retard who hate-watches/hate-plays products.
I wish I'd never picked this trash up and I'd done a sport or a real hobby. Gaming is worthless in the long run
Yep, I remember being as brainless as them I wish I had cultivated more skills or something instead. Oh well, some might hear the words and absorb them
It's never too late to start a new hobby.