Like him or hate him, RGE is right about the western game industry
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Anyone crowing over "Woke" being put away without seeing massive layoffs going all the way up to the C-suite of these corps doesn't understand the problem.
This.
I keep seeing all these milquetoast opinions about "woke" finally "failing" and "woke is over"; it's not.
Until Blackrock/Vanguard stops funding this nonsense and until companies like Disney, Sony, and Microsoft fire everyone in charge, this will not stop.
They will just find new ways to inject the propaganda, like they have with stuff like Kingdom Come 2 or Arcane or Baldur's Gate 3.
We're already seeing the financiers target Eastern European and Korean developers; it's just a matter of time before the Japanese fall as well. The only holdouts will be the Chinese, since this is part of their plan anyway.
The regressive left is going to beg the globalist occupied governments catering to them to help them fudge the sales like what Disney did with the captain marvel ticket sales, likely in exchange for a money laundering deal.
Someone I have been watching for a long time is Raging Golden Eagle. While I'm not too fond of him constantly glazing Chinese and Korean gachaslop, almost everything else, he has good takes and pretty funny as well. I think he's spot on in this video, that the western game industry realised it too late to jump on the new bandwagon and it's going to probably take decades to recover.
You hate gacha because it manipulates children and the gullible out of money.
I hate gacha because it will be permanently unplayable when the servers are switched off.
We are not the same.
At least some companies have already started releasing gacha games as "fully released" titles on Steam (and probably elsewhere wherever the Asians have access to) to keep them accessible once the servers go offline. Which I imagine is a trend that will only increase in prominence because its literally free money for assets that already exist.
What Square Enix is currently doing with Dragon Quest X, a defunct MMO, is the right move.
All content released as a fully functional OFFLINE RPG.
I know Squeenix has a lot of problems now, but I'm giving credit where credit is due.
Capcom did the same with the Megaman gacha game, which they removed all online features, rebalanced the economy around not having any MTX available, and then just let people buy it.
Which then became a huge modding scene since it was offline that allowed what is basically continued events and updates through the fanscene to keep it alive.
Same as Squeenix, a company with many problems but sometimes Capcom turns around a cool move like that too.
Forgot all about Mega Man X Dive. That counts too.
More like I have the same reason as you that's why I dislike live service games just as much. Personally I'm not fond the game model they are designed in, the fact that you have to always be online, pay money to unlock new stuff and I do not really like how game is designed around set of new updates/chapters.
Take Metal Gear Solid 1, 2, 3, 4 for example. They each tell separate whole stories in each of their own game, you don't need to play 1 or 2 to understand 3 or 4. Sure it helps to play the whole to understand the context. From what I seen of gacha, the quality of the story depends on the characters. To me that's quite disappointing.
Personally I don’t understand 4 anyway. Why didn’t Naomi just give Sunny the code for the worm at the start? Why have a pretend rescue and then pretend betray and then suicide? Why does every female but Meryl act like a whore? Why didn’t snake shoot ocelot in the first act instead of slowly walking out of cover with his gun trained on him? Why did snake trail the resistance guy and then start beating everyone up? Wasn’t he trying to join up with them. Why does eve keep her saggy gross tits out? Why doesn’t vamp attempt to dodge my bullets anymore? Liquid ocelot doesn’t act like liquid or ocelot, why is this?
I just found Hideo Kojima to really start to go off the rail and get far up his ass after the success of MGS 3. If you check out the chronology, you may see the name Tomokazu Fukushima on the writing team credit in 1, 2, 3. His name is missing after 3, meaning Fukushima's input must have been meaningful, or you could say his role was to tardwrangle Kojima making sure he doesn't go too wild.
Kojima absolutely needs multiple tard wranglers, because as you pointed out once he was without one, and had free reign and infinite budgets, his games became increasingly stupid, wasteful, and completely Westaboo'd.
Because you can explain so many of his bad decisions from MGS4/5 and Death Stranding as him just so hard trying to be an American Hollywood guy.
And what's sad is he clearly still has talent and ideas that should be refined. MGS5 could have been the defining open world stealth game, you can feel it getting just close to it but falling short. DS is fun once it stops trying to tell you a retarded story and just lets you enjoy the world and its mechanics.
But without that wrangler he puts too much focus on his nonsense stories and cheesy dialogue, and then forgets that the gameplay elements aren't supposed to just be bridges between cutscenes.
Funny how he fired the actual Hollywood writer, David Hayter, doing VA. The guy who also gave up a portion of his pay check for the GameCube remake to get more OG cast members back to boot.
He replaced him with the guy from 24, which was a big budget Hollywoodesque action series. To his Westaboo mind that's way more fitting than boring old Hayter the guy who made like 2 movies and is mostly just a video game VA.
It really is egregious just how much Kojima is influenced by generic Hollywood slop and how much he will simp for it, despite he himself technically being "above" them in most hierarchies.
RGE is transparently a contrarian, often motivated by jealousy. He often discards facts because he doesn't like who is saying them.
At least the Quaterpounder is up front about summarizing news stories and shilling his generic coffee.