How long is the internet going to pretend that indie gaming is some kind of bastion of creativity and ingenuity? For YEARS, we have been assaulted with trailers of indie games that push the same propaganda as AAA games, if not worse than AAA games oftentimes. So many indie games have female protagonists, or LGBT, or black women as protagonists and are filled with SJW themes or marvel slop humor and dialogue. Even the ones that aren’t filled with that garbage tend to just make derivative games that regurgitate the same survival crafting, farming, souls-like, deck-building or roguelite/roguelike elements in their games. They are just as guilty of trend-chasing and soullessness as the AA and AAA studios.
You can tell me, “not all indie games are like that,” but if we are giving such leniency to indie gaming as a whole, why do we not do the same for AAA games? AAA games of today are complete slop, with a few exceptions mainly coming out of Japan, and I feel the same way about indie games nowadays.
Why do we continue to defend indie gaming when the indie gaming clique is overwhelmingly filled with the same SJWs who write for game media sites like Kotaku, or work in consultancy groups like Sweet Baby Inc? A big part of GamerGate was the relationship between indie devs and game journalists and how corrupt the relationship was and most likely still is, whether they were having sex for positive coverage, giving financial incentives such as profit-sharing for positive coverage or awards, or just getting positive coverage because they were good friends with the game journos without any disclosures by the game journos, indie devs were at the heart of all of this controversy and the fact that people are willing to give indie gaming a pass for all the woke shit they are inserting into their games is absurd.
It’s ok to praise indie games when they are done well, but it’s foolish to believe that the indie developers producing anything of actual value would be the ones who take over the industry and not the SJWs who are seemingly able to fail their way upwards.
Yeah, Celeste especially hurts because the game was actually good, and both the gameplay mechanics and music were solid.
But...it's a game meant for speedrunning. It shouldn't be a surprise, in hindsight, that one of the creators later started crossdressing and then retconned the main character. Ditto the music's composer. Ditto most of the major mod-makers.
I love speedrunning. I'm not autistic enough (in the internet and not clinical parlance) to be any good at speedrunning, but I am autistic enough to enjoy doing it. The groomers running the Discords are poisonous snakes who need to be kept off the Internet, but I can't help but feel pity for the autistic kids just wanting to get good at a video game, who stumble on these forums and get sucked into a world of degeneracy.
Nobody should have bought Celeste because it was made by the same dude that did Towerfall who came out as a vocal Sarkeesian supporter and anti-gamer very early on.