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.
All you’re seeing is the inevitable collapse of AAA games. They’re too corrupted with bureaucracy and too stupid/arrogant to actually figure out what their audience wants. They are the legacy media of gaming, they will shovel the bullshit until they die out because it’s what’s China/ESG funding is forcing and what their all female HR teams hired “diversely” for. PlayStation has to be completely insane to keep funding cuckmann after concord flopped, let alone the other woke bs they’re funding. Xbox has completely eclipsed them in that regard and the game pass, sadly I don’t see how Sony survives another console cycle with the horrible management and terrible acquisitions. Makes me wonder if consoles in general will die out in the next decade or two.
Games used to be made by small teams of white and asian men, like groups of 5-10 people made some of the most acclaimed games of all time.
That will keep going with indie games, they just won't be quite as big or have as much attention on them. Which is a good thing.
I expect Nintendo to keep going, and the future of consoles is probably more like the Steamdeck and android/emulation handhelds.
Power corrupts. So does success.
I would argue that the corrupt seek power rather than the other way around.
If it were true that power corrupts, people like Cincinnatus, Washington, Aurelius, etc. would have tried to abuse their power. Even self serving leaders like Augustus or Khan made sure to benefit the people as well as themselves.
What I would say is the real corruption is the lack of honor and dignity. Just look at Biden pardoning his criminal son, after explicitly saying he wouldn't do that. Or Newsom having fancy dinner parties while everyone was locked in their houses. John Adams would never have dreamed of doing something so shameless, so utterly self serving.
The real failure is not that the corrupt seek power. They have done that since the dawn of civilization. The failure is the people. If medieval king had done half the shit that our congress does on a daily basis, the peasants would have revolted, drawn, and quartered him in the town square. Our founding fathers revolted over a single digit tax increase.
We outnumber the people in power 100:1, and yet we are so content with our air conditioning, our computer games, our SUVs, fast food, sportsball, etc. At this point I think the only way people, especially whites, would revolt is if the food stopped coming.
Those in power seem to operate on Stalin's Chicken theorem, where they can hurt us as much as they want, and all they have to do is give us some bread crumbs and we all fall back in line. And it has worked like a charm so far.
So only the most corrupt are successful