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 know I blame Sarkesian for this obsession with “we need to push more women into male spaces” mindset, but I would imagine it goes deeper than that. I’ve seen this in comics and sci-fi as well. Although almost anything that appeals to guys is infested
The unfortunate reality is that game dev is wildly leftist. It might be the most left wing industry in existence. Their customers are, on average, way more right wing. So there’s a huge disconnect between what the creatives want to make and what the consumers want to play.
Super hero comics went through that system shock over the last 12 years. It went from some editors at Marvel and DC hiring some assistants, AKA work girlfriends from convention applicants. They had no canon or lore knowledge, didn't know shit about comic books, but were quasi cute compared to the meat locker of dudes at the office.
Fast forward to workplace culture hostage scenario, me too, and these lunatics hiring from old Twitter and Tumblr, versus the usual way comic book pros were farmed, and you've got an industry that all of a sudden hates it's customer patrons.
It's just the comic book industry is miniscule in revenue compared to the game industry. This coup on AAA studios is like their Pearl Harbor. They are celebrating punching gamers in the nose, but it's only going to last a metaphorical weekend in the grand scheme of things. Motivating gamers to cause a real crash this time. Pyrrhic victory.
Female writers are the reason why modern comics are soap operas, focused on who is fucking who and who identifies as who, instead of stories about... heroism