I *mostly* agree here. Domina was fun imo, I liked it a lot back when the creator was not openly a fucking psychopath and kept that shit hidden. I'd probably go back and play it again occasionally had he not outed himself as a freak.
Meanwhile I’ve been playing Rimworld and The Sims 2 for the last week. Practicing tribal communism in Rimworld and uhh, giving my sims the best life I can give them.
I dunno what exterio drama there was around «domina», but to me it was a fun, cheap game with somewhat high difficulty. Did I miss something in the content somewhere?
Basically every time the right makes their own media that's explicitly catering to right-wing philosophies I've never seen it not be completely terrible. Meanwhile some of the best games ever made are, very much what could be called "woke". Applies to media in general, honestly.
It's almost like his an open mind and broad world view actually helps make better games for more people.
And before some CHUD pops up to say "But Concord!" nobody was asking for another uninspired team arena shooter. That's what failed Concord, not "Woke!"ness.
They started including weirder and weirder statements in the patch notes and the loading screen of the game.
Around the time they started with anti-trans, anti-mask stuff people started downvoting the game with the explicit comments that the developer was going alt-right.
The display name, Steam info is the same, but the loading screen for the last steam version (1.3.23) is the Dominus nonsense.
He also used to check in weird nonsense in that same box about things like "If you think you should wear a mask you're probably too stupid to play this game." etc
Apparently he's since been banned from Steam, he did a few more updates on the fersion that is available on Gumroad and the web site, but he gave up pretty quick.
nah, this is an older game. i got it way back when it was still called zombies, but it really didnt have much to it besides "zombies in an office". shame the guy went down the freak hole, I remember the music being pretty alright for Zombies.
One thing to mention: I love how they like to blame "Woke GameDevs" for ruining games, whenever they see someone with colored hair in a makingOf Documentation or something. Completely ignoring that they are not the people to make decisions AT ALL.
It's a tad tounge in cheek. It is a very boring management sim, but dev tumbled down the alt-right pipeline seemingly independent of the game, and started going on alt-right conspiracy rants in the patch notes of all things.
Most of their "original games" are either AI shit, literally just a soapbox for the creator's beliefs and/or they're an alt right, Epistle 3'd copy of an existing piece of media with the writer's self-insert added in.
Art without politics isn't even truly possible unless it is a conscious decision to make something mediocre that no one can relate to. People don't exist in a vacuum and leave a bit of themselves in everything they make, after all.
I mean, they've warped the word politics in the same way they did woke, to them it just means 'not a cis het white guy', look how so many missed the whole environmentalism aspect of FF7 until the remake came out
Them "missing"(actually willful ignorance) the progressive themes in the Metal Gear and Yakuza/Like A Dragon games (One Piece too) blows my mind because those series aren't exactly subtle about it.
I guess "cool and/or 'manly' things+progressive themes" does not compute for them, doubly so when the thing in question comes from Japan. The fact is even in countries that slant conservative policy-wise, artists(and games ARE art in potentia) and creative types themselves rarely are.
It's the same with comics. The amount of them crying over the new Captain America, because a black guy has taken up the mantle.
Trying to claim Stan would be rolling in his grave if he knew the MCU had gone woke, ignoring that Stan himself has spoken up against racism.
one of the reviews in my language literally says:
"this game is crap but i bought anyway because freedom of speech"
You could easily convince those people that rubbing their faces in cow shit would make the woke mob angrier
People are so weird about freedom of speech because it's only really in America that it's a heavily protected right, even at the detriment and contradiction of other amendments and laws. 🤷♂️
And free speech defenders will constantly try to tout that as the thing that makes us somehow more free than the rest of the world. Meanwhile, because we allow fascist voices to have an equal space at the marketplace of ideas, we're still facing the consequences of the Reconstruction.
The same goes for Christianity.The United States has always been a predominantly Christian nation but with some diverse beliefs but the moment these other beliefs began to gain more prominence, this somehow became a risk to the existence of Christianity and it's believers claiming to feel oppressed
Don't forget about the over-hyped rightoid garbage like Black Myth Wukong which I am positive was a Tencent industry plant game. Not to mention that it only became popular because grifters latched onto it after seeing that their bank account was a little empty.
Ah yes, Black Myth Wukong, made by the dev that pretty much hates the idea of women protagonists for mysoginy reasons, and told reviewers not to mention anything about China or COVID.
It's funny that people conveniently left out the bits about not mentioning COVID or criticizing the Chinese games industry or government but the fucking idiot rightoids were more than happy to grift all over for it because the NDA said that feminism was bad.
AFAIK it's literally just a generic Souls-like (in a sea of generic Souls-likes because god forbid anything be different) retreading on a story that was told a thousand times better in both its original literary work and by other games like Enslaved: Odyssey To The West.
And no, I'm not mentioning Horizon as while that was inspired by Journey to the West, I feel it's kind of also over-hyped and Enslaved did the concept better.
All it would take to piss them off would be to have a physically masculine character be referred to as "they" once, but we're the snowflakes who are anti freedom of speech.
Hilarious to see how fickle they are. The same thing happening with Kingdom Come Deliverence 2, where they suddenly turned on it when a gay romance was discovered.
and the fun thing is most of those options are optional options.. and yet they cry having "politics" shoved down their throats.. but if you look at the right wing games
their ideologies are the entire personality of the game!
as cerberus said : "They want art without politic they don't like"
Yep, they've been beating that same old drum since bioware confirmed an optionsl gay romance would be included in Mass Effect 3.
Funny how optional 'politics' are bad, but blatant and mandatory stuff in their games is just fine.
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Which mind you, players got in the end. Absolutely based.
Tolkien being on point as always ^^
Et le lead dev est clairement à gauche du spectre politique japonais dans ses interviews.
Bon après "woke" c'est dès que ça les secoue un peu hein ces neuneux ^^
And before some CHUD pops up to say "But Concord!" nobody was asking for another uninspired team arena shooter. That's what failed Concord, not "Woke!"ness.
...and the creator really, really went off the deep end.
Around the time they started with anti-trans, anti-mask stuff people started downvoting the game with the explicit comments that the developer was going alt-right.
Steam, being Steam, ignored the reports.
So they had the ultimate meltdown and removed the game from the store. It still runs if you already own it but...
He also used to check in weird nonsense in that same box about things like "If you think you should wear a mask you're probably too stupid to play this game." etc
He also started work on another game and...
like food without seasoning
Trying to claim Stan would be rolling in his grave if he knew the MCU had gone woke, ignoring that Stan himself has spoken up against racism.
"this game is crap but i bought anyway because freedom of speech"
You could easily convince those people that rubbing their faces in cow shit would make the woke mob angrier
In quite a few European countries Holocaust denial is a crime. Racism, sexism and queerphobia are all generally punished in many countries.
Free speech outside of America doesn't mean freedom from consequence.
And yes it's a big CCP pr project but it's not hidden really ; it was on loop on every chinese tv channel for almost a month before release.
But it’s one of the first AAA PC/console games made for the Chinese market with their folklore/mythology. S it sold like crazy over there.
Right wingers were a small drop compared to the Chinese players.
And yet everyone raved about it.
that game will put the games back on the right track again!! "
their ideologies are the entire personality of the game!
as cerberus said : "They want art without politic they don't like"
Funny how optional 'politics' are bad, but blatant and mandatory stuff in their games is just fine.