Not even hiding the racism and homophobia.
The very idea of having a choice feels threatening to their tiny minds. Like, just choose to be a white cis man if it’s really all that important to you.
Not to mention everybody will have pronouns now! Previously we were just referring to the individuals by the individuals’ names, of course.
Why would they? Actors, politicians, etc openly show hate and there’re no meaningful consequences. It’s accepted now…
guess it’s time to be as aggressively anti-bigot when they are being aggressively racist/homophobic 🤷🏻
Elden Ring already has gender fluidity, a strong female POC, people with physical and mental disabilities, and homosexual implications. “Wokeness” should be the least of their concerns about what Sony could do to From.
Elden ring already has body A body B customization. These chodes have never played elden ring and may be Russian.
I’m more concerned with having to get a Sony PSN account to play my steam game.
And the possibility of it turning into a Playstation exclusive once again. Or at the very least a game developed for Playstation with a terrible PC port.
Yep, the main thing I worry about. But the parent company that the Sony is considering buying owns only like 65% of From Software. So maybe from software will have some leeway and they can put their foot down and say they don’t want to use PSN. Maybe? Hopefully? Otherwise, elden ring will be the last game that I bought from them.
And having to wait a year and a half.
Or longer, if they decide to go the bloodborne route.
I’m sure everyone will have pronouns as well
Like they don’t already?
when a black woman becomes the next sekiro
… Sounds cool?
non white people? in my Asian-themed fantasy game?
Right? If I want historical accuracy I’ll watch a documentary
Only reason I wouldn’t play it is because I still suck at the first one. (I have to give it another try though, then I would totally play a second one)
God when did racism, homophobia, and misogyny become the new opinions you can hold instead of developing an identity.
It was obnoxious enough with pineapple pizza hate and clown fear.
God when did racism, homophobia, and misogyny become the new opinions you can hold instead of developing an identity
Honestly? Maybe sometime around mid-late 2015 after Donald announced his first run for president.
The moment he was taken seriously, it emboldened all the chuds.
Upon further thought, I believe that year also marked the start of what led to Brexit as the UK Conservative Party won a majority. Not a great year.
Uhhh, like, 50 AD, I think? Or if you’re talking about bottoming, like 1000 BC. People have always been lame
“Terminally online”
Now look, half of Lemmy is terminally online, those people you talk about are simply racists.
Fair point :)
Probably more than half, let’s be honest here!
Black people and homosexuals? Omg, can you imagine trying to play a game when the NPCs have a different race or sexuality than you do? It must be impossible.
Do I need the /s?
I don’t want no gay darkies in my fantasy game where I fight wizard fish people and British jars /s
At least there won’t be any black homosexuals.
Don’t go to YouTube comments. Tis a silly place.
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy
The jerk store called and they’re out of YouTube comments
Nextdoor comments
What’s Nextdoor?
It’s original intention was to create hyper local groups of neighbors to help each other and support local businesses etc. It turned into Karens complaining about everything, full of people who don’t know how to use Google, and the worst users of Facebook, Craigslist and Yelp rolled into one.
I’ve seen it be a good community spot, but only in rural areas.
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Instagram comments
where you can change pronouns of your main character
As if choosing your player character’s gender hasn’t been a common thing in video games for decades
Dark Souls 2 has a mechanic to swap your character’s gender whenever you want to. From is already okay with genderfluid protagonists.
You have to fight a bunch of ogres about it though, so business as usual.
There was an outrage about that either back when Dark Souls 2 came out, or when they added that to the game - I vaguely remember there not being anything worth note just after the game came out. Either way, “some people” freaked out about it, and the controversy got some wind in the sails due to the gamergate culture war being a thing back then.
What if from software makes a character that’s biologically male, but gets raised as a woman because of his moon powers? That would be so woke.
That’d be dope Sailor Moon fan fiction.
That’s the Sailor Stars arc.
What if From Software made a chracter who can swap sexes at will but struggles with two mutually antagonizing personalities and made them the main boss of their next game? That would be so woke.
Sony are actually the people who dictate that Spiderman remain straight and white though. It’s in all of his license agreements. Doesn’t have sex under the age of 16, doesn’t have sex with anyone under the age of 16, is white, is hetero, doesn’t swear over pg-13, symbiote is not peters design, lived/raised in queens, gains powers during high school, and a bunch of other things.
So how did they reconcile Miles Morales?
Wiki says he’s an “Alternate Spiderman”. Alter Egos have an exception from what I understand. He’s from another universe according to Marvel. He’s not Peter Parker. It’s specifically Peter Parker who must be all these things.
That’s interesting. Have they been told by Marvel to make it that way or do Sony hold rights over Spider-Man to an extent where they can dictate his appearances on screen? I remember hearing that Sony kinda owns Spider-Man for the movies or something? Not sure
Honestly, I’m not sure - not a fan, just a dude who picks up on random tidbits of information.
Can’t wait to play a woke game ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ) but Fuck Sony. Sony should be last option ( ; ω ; ).
I mean, I get it - as a gamer myself, when buying a new title I don’t really care about things like if the game is fun or good or has a healthy community/playerbase, these things don’t matter. How many non-straight characters are there, now that’s much more important - in fact, if you feature too many it might bring the end of the western world or something.
Sometimes characters in my games have pronouns and I still play those games, but I’m always weirded out by it. Why do people need to talk about them and not use only their name?
Oh no, now I am using pronouns! The woke people have corrupted my mind!
sybilvane means sybilvane* uses pronouns. rational people such as sunbather and sybilvane would never use pronouns, lest those wokies defea… wait…
I need REALISM in my sci-fi fantasy game!!!1
and by realism, they mean “Everyone is white and all women meet their standards of what is attractive”, because of course, white men and supermodels are the vast majority of the human population in real life /s
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