Naughty Dog’s new IP is a retro sci-fi space game starring a butch, shaved-headed black lesbian girl boss.
The Witcher 4 stars a female lead, an uglified middle-aged Ciri who is also a sassy girl boss.
The new co-op game from Hazelight, (developer of It Takes Two) stars a pair of insufferable millennial female writers.
Outside of what was shown last night, we have the sequel to Ghost of Tsushima with another new girl boss protagonist.
Grand Theft Auto 6? Another new female protagonist.
Is there a literal prohibition on white male leads in western game dev?
Virtually every western advertisement put sassy girl bosses - both real and virtual - front and center. You’d think the majority of competitive online players are female, the way the industry panders to the demo.
Meanwhile, Eastern game devs are cranking out the only media with masculine males and feminine females. The Last Berzerker and Crimson Desert feature white male leads even, a clear indicator that Asian devs are targeting what they correctly perceive to be a gap in the western market.
And the countless female characters in Eastern games? Just as present and powerful, but they aren’t insufferable cunts or masculine abominations. No, eastern female characters are unapologetically attractive and feminine.
The awards also focused on women nonstop. Women in the crowd. Women on stage with the award winners. Female presenters. Meanwhile, almost every winner was a white or Asian dude. Because they are still the ones who put in the hard work to make the fucking games.
Watching the live chats was great, though. The moment you saw purple, people were calling woke. And the best part is knowing that all of the defenders and shills are definitely seething leftists who are terrified of the current cultural realignment.
I think the idea is white males were over represented for so long that they are trying to even the scale as quickly as possible.
White males were correctly represented based on the demographics of the player base. Now we have a still mostly male player base being served by an ideologically possessed industry that is forcing masculine female characters on everyone. It’s bizarre. I can’t think of another industry that is so clearly obsessed with giving the customer the exact opposite of what they want. Any wonder that these people are being laid off in record numbers?
The first wave was the attack on the White male space marine character in the 2010s. Reddit was posting collages of every single one of them to make a stupid point.
I hope more than a few people saw the pictures and went that looks awesome let's do that
Then a few chad devs released a “generic white dude space marine” game in 2024 and made a ton of money.
I agree with you, unfortunately I don't own a video game development studio.
Now we have a decade since they pushed the lie that more women play games than men, by citing fucking farmville and candy crush.
I know that is their mindset but then you have to look at how many white guys were playing. Or guys in general. So they were crazy to ignore a large fanbase to appeal to a small minority by over representation
You'd think but life has become that "burgers" memes
Very true
It’s a reversal of cause and effect, which is typical of leftists (as well as deliberate). The proliferation of “masculine white male dudebro” protagonists was an organic result of successful market research. It wasn’t an arbitrary trend. Capitalist companies wanted to make money, so they created what they knew to be appealing characters.
Organic trends only became problematic when they interfered with leftist progressivist social engineering. The calls for “representation” were inherently Marxist. It was a demand to forego or ignore what solid market research indicated so that lefty producers could instead create media that adhered to the arbitrary standards of their pet identity ideologies.
All of this was made possible by top-down enforcement of “correct behaviors” by woke investors like Blackrock. The woke became so ubiquitous that it briefly detached the industry from market forces; when people can only choose between different flavors of neo-Marxism, it creates the illusion of success via the absence of alternative options.