phil spencer: avowed is in our sights. release the game!
obsidian: i can't, sir. i'm woke!
matt booty (watching through binoculars): they're woke! they won't do it!
New Vegas is one of the most amazing progressive games ever made. It also shows the opposite (the Legion) and it mixes it all together and gives player the choice and the repercussions. I find it fantastic, educational and showing how kindness goes a long way, unless you want to be a terrible person
Make the main character trans with no ability to change that. Should do the trick. The funny part is they can look like a cis person you simply need to call them trans in marketing. But Microsoft would rather toss themselves into a black hole I bet.
Vegas was fairly woke, especially for the time, still some of the best LGBT characters to date in my opinion.
And I mean seeing that in Eora, Berath is represented by both male and female (Pallid Knight, Usher), and is an actual *god*
Feels like self defined gender identity should be fairly common.
Yes correct the best thing about New Vegas was the absolute lack of politics in any form. Nothing in there that could be construed as political in any way.
There are way too many tribal instincts and political assumptions to ignore this fact for it to sink in, but. The fact that game designers can't see past their own cultural biases and insist on harming their companies by creating products that are hamfisted, sloppy agitprop, is a massive indictment.
Years ago, I came across a New Vegas forum where min-maxing users were desperately trying to convince themselves that Confirmed Bachelor wasn't a gay perk. It was the funniest fuckin' thing.
I remember this too, and it was a sight to behold. Up there with people trying to argue that "Justin Bailey" was English slang for "in a swimsuit" levels of delusional
100% agreed. So many of these YouTube channels are just a bunch of cavemen taking big gulps of each other's bad takes and calling everyone else 'woke' for pointing it out.
It's the wokest game I've ever played and I'm so grateful for that. In no other game can I aid a co-op farming community with my gay scientist companion as a bisexual cowboy myself. It's truly one of a kind in that regard
NV let you do that, sure. It also let you do the opposite and kill the co-op farmers and sell Arcade into slavery. And that is why NV was so beloved and celebrated, it gave the player actual agency and multiple choices. Woke "RPGs" (it barely qualifies) like Veilguard represent the polar opposite.
My favorite observed cognitive dissonance is these people decrying “Big Woke”. Because if you believe wokeness is profitable in games then you are inherently admitting that your position (“anti-woke”) is the minority position, and therefore should not be catered to.
Only concern with #Avowed is Xbox handing copies to the press early who have a solid reputation for eviscerating Xbox titles for clicks.
Expect 5s and 6s out of ten to please their largely insecure playstation audience.
Maybe hint at a future PS5 version early so they're honest for once?
Someone once compiled a massive spreadsheet of a list of apparently woke games and the stuff that made them woke, which included female player characters and a rainbow in the background of a cutscene.
So Arcade Gannon, Veronica and Parvati weren’t really well written gay, lesbian and asexual characters? Or the fact New Vegas had perks that defined your characters sexuality? I don’t think these people play RPGs very thoroughly.
Arcade and Veronica were capable companions who just happened to be gay/lesbian; their sexuality isn't their entire character, just a part of who they are. Not so with Veilguard's Taash - there is no subtlety whatsoever because the devs want to push their politics. That is the issue with wokeness.
What is woke to you. No joke serious question cause the fact that arcade and Veronica are gay and Parvati is asexual is considered to far and to woke for some people. I didn’t played veilguard I’m not into dragon age but I did see “that” scene and it was cringey and stupid. So what is woke to you?
Does "woke" mean anything anymore? Sometimes I feel like it's the voice of a thousand dumb idiots screaming all at once about a thousand different things implied by the same accursed word that means nothing
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obsidian: i can't, sir. i'm woke!
matt booty (watching through binoculars): they're woke! they won't do it!
And I mean seeing that in Eora, Berath is represented by both male and female (Pallid Knight, Usher), and is an actual *god*
Feels like self defined gender identity should be fairly common.
14 even!
We need to make games even more "woke",
set an even newer precedent.
I want to hear the lamentation of the chuds,
I want to see them implode in quantum nuclear fusion.
"NO! Not the Woke Switch!"
"THROW IT! THROW IT, DAMN YOU! AHAHAHA!"
Deus Ex is one of the few games like this. And Morrowind, despite atrocious animations and a few other issues.
Boi, have you never played New Vegas.
Expect 5s and 6s out of ten to please their largely insecure playstation audience.
Maybe hint at a future PS5 version early so they're honest for once?
Completely normal behaviour.
Now it is just the current widespectrum slur. Just as SJW, PC, DEI, radical, communist, satanist and what else they have used before it.
Oh right, "political". That is my favourite.