(talking about an indie game about fishing)
Is this game woke?
Between Dead Space's woke bathrooms, Hogwarts Legacy's woke genders, and RE4's woke soundtrack I'm starting to doubt if I'll be able to play any new games this year...
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What would a ‘woke’ fishing game have?
Does the OP stay awake at night worrying if his next driver’s license will list whether or not he’s cis?
Dead Space's woke bathrooms, Hogwarts Legacy's woke genders, and RE4's woke soundtrack
To clarify, the Dead Space stuff is because in the remake, some bathroom signs (aboard an industrial mining vessel) appear to be unisex. That is literally all there is to complain about for these idiots.
Hogwarts Legacy I haven’t played yet, but I do recall hearing a transgender character appears in it. Possibly done to appease the players after JK’s controversial statements.
And when it comes to RE4, I have no idea. Since when is a soundtrack (an awesome soundtrack, btw) “woke”? Regardless, the game’s awesome!
@DarkPhoenix #161571
More annoying than that one openly disrespectful fetch quest giver? Or the clumsy attempts to guilt you in subsequent playthroughs? Or that every single bad thing Taro wants you to feel personally responsible for a la the gamer mentality is really more easily pinned on every character making the dumbest possible communication decisions and the overarching subplot of humanity being absurdly spiteful and self-superior running through the entire Drakengaard series?
... Yeah crappy mini games for progress I can deal with. The developer flubbing an attempt to give the player a heel realization and continuously trying to imply they are terrible people (made worse by hidden context you the player are not privy to but are supposed to feel guilt as though you were and intentionally acted upon with such knowledge) I find worse.
Undertale pulls off what this series was going for perfectly.
<@KeithInc. > #161540
I looked up the soundtrack to the game earlier, and it’s apparently all music created for the game, so I have no idea what song they would be talking about. I dunno, tho, do games like that even have songs with lyrics in them usually? Like, if I think about music I remember from video games, the only song with lyrics that comes to my mind is one from the indie hentai RPG I play a lot, lol. (when you encounter a woman who’s a singer, and then eventually naughty times ensue, and she becomes the bard of the party, lol)
@Passerby #161576
I’m pretty sure Drakengard was meant to show the logical conclusion of protagonist-centered morality; a main character who in any other context would be the frontline villain, because Caim is basically a blood psychopath who moves from battle to battle because he enjoys killing and doesn’t care who he’s fighting as long as he gets to do it, and one of the most horrible parties ever formed in RPG’s (the only one who I think isn’t completely awful is Seele). Why are they the good guys? Because you control them. And that’s not even getting into the multiple endings where Caim is perfectly willing to end the world as long as he gets what HE wants…
Nier, on the other hand, is supposed to show what happens when two sides who both have valid reasons for fighting come into conflict. Both Nier and the Shadowlord ultimately want the same thing (to save Yonah), but only one Yonah can survive. The issue, as you mentioned, is that a lot of the backstory of Nier is not in the game, and thus following it becomes difficult unless you seek out Grimoire Nier.
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