This one got hit pretty hard by the localization stick. There's a team assembled to try and retranslate the game.
The same people who told us racism was bad also went around telling others racism against us was good.
Now, were they teaching us good values while they taught themselves and others bad ones?
Or were they teaching us not to fight back?
Here you go. This is just a sample. You should probably hit up the forums and check for more you'd want.
They went from promising no microtransactions to microtransactions + the Amazon WH40K show going belly up and losing Henry Cavil + Female Custodes being retconned into the lore (possibly at Amazon's insistence) = Bad time to be a 40K fan.
They've said the writer was excised at an earlier date and there would be "respect" for the lore. However, given all the lies GW have been peddling in the last month alone, nobody trusts them.
Protest and counter-protest threads are popping up. People are not happy.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2183900/discussions/0/4360124016308020406/ - I refuse to buy a game written by Anti White / Anti Straight Male/Female Racist Senior Writer for 40k Space Marine 2
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2183900/discussions/0/4326349508216341342/ - The game just went woke. BLACKLISTED (temp) BIG TEXT WARNING!)
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2183900/discussions/0/4328601806877846402/ - Good riddance, Chuds!
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2183900/discussions/0/4328601806881479186/ - Crying about Ashley
He runs the risk of getting Kanye'd.
Got the image for you right here.
Effeminate men, fat women, pronouns, races read like an AD&D multiclass...
Links (CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK):
https://validategame.itch.io/validate-struggling-singles-in-your-area - Game Site.
https://validategame.com/#cast - Cast list.
https://x.com/redcoast/status/1770592480410423714 - "On god fuck white people".
https://steamdb.info/app/1319850/charts/ - All-Time peak of 80 players on Steam.
https://files.catbox.moe/n04a2i.png - They're disappointed the White character is popular.
He looks like a ritual poster. You can see them every news post for Helldivers 2; begging for rainbow capes.
Nothing says "manly, badass space marine" like multicolored cat armor.
That's the key point. Your rights are subordinate to their desires.
The red flags for Homeworld 3 went up 3 months ago.
https://communities.win/c/KotakuInAction2/p/17sOsWHmiH/red-flags-on-homeworld-3/c
The intact black family is a bigger fantasy than Lord of the Rings.
Yep. Several pieces of DLC for the Warhammer games can only be obtained through creating an account with them.
You and me both.
Imagine how many of the words they use that aren't in the dictionary. Imagine them being challenged over and over again and told these aren't real words by their mocking relatives.
For the first time in 75 years, Mattel is making a major change to the iconic board game Scrabble — and touting a “No More Scoring” gameplay option. The new launch is a double-sided version of the famous board game — one side with the original game for those who want to stick to the long-time traditional version, and one side with a “less competitive” version to appeal to Gen Z gamers, the New York Post reports. The flip side of the classic game, called Scrabble Together, will include helper cards, use a simpler scoring system, be quicker to play and allow people to play in teams. “The makers of Scrabble found that younger people, Gen Z people, don’t quite like the competitive nature of Scrabble,” Gyles Brandreth, who co-hosts the language podcast Something Rhymes With Purple, told BBC Radio 4 Today. “They want a game where you can simply enjoy language, words, being together and having fun creating words.”
Elron was the first person on the forums to point out the mistranslations as well as the changed intentions of dialogue. His first post was locked after shills dropped in to start fights. He started another one, but now he's banned? Sheesh.
Edit: I see what got him banned. He start another post complaining how the localization ruined a character. The shills goaded him into a fight. However, another translator verified the character's tone was changed from "polite, but miffed" to "shrill bitch".
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1658280/discussions/0/4358997268255410354/?ctp=3#c4358997268255615350
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1658280/discussions/0/4358997268253902012/#c4358997268253923324
Depends on what you define as woke. Gender pronoun jokes? Sure. Belittling and mocking of the male protagonist? sure. Annoying strong female characters? sure. Sexual harassment / catcalling scene with grapey connotations by three men? sure. Resolved by a loud vulgar strong female character who dont need no hero's help? sure. Oh and I'm only about 6 or 7 hours in and have come across all of this. Just to be clear in not saying its 100% a woke dumpster fire, but many of these elements all do exist and seem to be a result of the localisation and not the Japanese dialogue.
The "chud" image is in the Twitter thread; just not by the OP. Scroll a little.
Source - https://twitter.com/zakogdo/status/1782340520670527759
After my last post, several side-by-side comparisons between what was localized and what truer translations actually say were posted on Twitter.
The localizers completely changed some lines and the characterization of several playable characters.
Also, Elron, the person who originally pointed out the issues on Steam, has been banned from the Eiyuden forums.
Edit: Forum posts are being locked left and right as the complaints are coming in.
I know that feeling all too well.
I just posted another article. Check out the Twitter account I linked. Plenty of side-by-side comparisons of what was localized and what the Japanese actually said.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1658280/discussions/0/4358997268253578395/
From the streamer I've watched playing, In my opinion the English localization (and that unfortunately includes the text when you have Japanese VA) is a disaster, 50% of the time the dialogue spoken by the Japanese VA, doesn't match the text or their Japanese personality in the least. I don't know if it counts as identity politics, but I already saw a "did you assume its gender" "joke".
Also, if you were banned from a previous version of Call of Duty, you're banned in Black Ops 6 as well.