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.
Even during better times, when the corporate world was not a consensus-driving ideological monolith trying in futility to mind control normal people, it still lagged behind the zeitgeist. These studios live in a layer of abstracted reality, where many of their employees will have suffered mental trauma and physical ailments from the shock of a brown woman failing to be installed as their puppet of worship. They are still larping as if their preferred reality played out, while their works in progress all have a momentum of their own as well. They are fiddling nervously while their Rome burns.
It's too predictable to get annoyed at. I'm more curious at how normies are reacting. So far it's hard to get a gauge on how much they're either rejecting the industry pills or else manufacturing their own happy consensus of excitement, to soothe the cognitive dissonance.