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.
You nailed it.
Worse yet is that way too many people keep saying the "pendulum is swinging the other way", but in reality, it's not. It's just swinging further left.
A lot of games that gamers now consider to be "good" are still Leftist propaganda, it's just not as bad as the more prominent Leftist propaganda.
For instance, all the people complaining about The Acolyte being "woke" will then go and watch The Boys, or Gen V, or Arcane and praise those shows as being "good". They're all Leftist, just some are more extreme than the other.
I see the same thing in gaming A LOT. People complaining that Suicide Squad was "woke" but then in the next sentence praise Baldur's Gate 3 as being "amazing!". Even though Baldur's Gate 3 is actually way more woke than Suicide Squad.
Sadly, the Left's plan is working; they're playing the long game and Gen Z and Gen Alpha are eating up a lot of their slop.
They have the two pots -- the hard boil pot featuring ultra-woke nonsense, and the soft-simmer kettle featuring moderate-woke nonsense. When the frog hops into the hard boil pot and recoils, it then hops into the soft-simmer kettle and claim that it's fine.