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[Terenty]

People asking "why is it woke, because of a black protagonist??" Like it's some kind of a gotcha. The answer is "YES, because of a black protagonist"

This is what left wing schizoids achieved with their noble cause of diversity. A black character is instantly suspicious in the minds of gamers.

Congrats, idiots, you played yourself

 

[Dr.Morris79]

So did Valve.

Yet to see a Valve game implementing them

 

[sachos]

This looks fucking awesome. Artistically amazing, great designs. Only thing im worried about is the low framerate animation, how it could feel while playing. People complain about wanting more original stuff and when they finally get it they weaponize the game for being different to serve their tiring culture war. Its ridiculous.

 

[Lionel Richie]

This looks fucking awesome. Artistically amazing, great designs. Only thing im worried about is the low framerate animation, how it could feel while playing. People complain about wanting more original stuff and when they finally get it they weaponize the game for being different to serve their tiring culture war. Its ridiculous.

Agreed, although I'm more worried about the overall gameplay loop since Compulsion Games hasn't exactly earned my trust. I think this game is being wrongfully treated in this asinine culture war like Tales of Kenzera was, both games with unique artstyles that not once looked shoehorned with their black leads. Nuance is lost in the current year and I badly miss it.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

People asking "why is it woke, because of a black protagonist??" Like it's some kind of a gotcha. The answer is "YES, because of a black protagonist"

This is what left wing schizoids achieved with their noble cause of diversity. A black character is instantly suspicious in the minds of gamers.

Congrats, idiots, you played yourself

The funny thing about DEI stuff is how supporters arent actually DEI diverse when it comes to the racial demographic part of the equation. It's almost always aimed at benefiting Black people, while Latinos, Asians, Native and East Indians are often punted to the side ignored.

In the US, the Latin/Hispanic population is by far the biggest minority group at approx 20%. Yet in gaming you hardly see any representation. And when you do, a good portion of them are relegated to thuggery kind of roles as if every Latino person is like a GTA back alley guy.

This looks fucking awesome. Artistically amazing, great designs. Only thing im worried about is the low framerate animation, how it could feel while playing. People complain about wanting more original stuff and when they finally get it they weaponize the game for being different to serve their tiring culture war. Its ridiculous.

The low frame rate stuff I think(?) is relegated to cut scenes. In gameplay clips it seems fine from what I remember. Adamsapple said choppy cut scenes are optional to turn off. So Id assume when it's off, cut scenes should be 30 or 60 fps. But who knows till we all see the game.

 

[nial]

The game doesn't deserve any of the dumb attacks, but the pushback should be instead targeted to top studio and Microsoft management for still employing an actual racist person as the game's community manager.

 

[mckmas8808]

Looks woke

Why?

 

[mckmas8808]

People asking "why is it woke, because of a black protagonist??" Like it's some kind of a gotcha. The answer is "YES, because of a black protagonist"

This is what left wing schizoids achieved with their noble cause of diversity. A black character is instantly suspicious in the minds of gamers.

Congrats, idiots, you played yourself

Isn't that just being a lazy racist thinker? Why blame left wing schizoids, when it's what some of those people think anyway? It's seem like an easy cop-out to me. I mean honestly...........would more people in this thread reeeeeallly like this game more if it was a white protagonist? I don't think so personally. So why be lazy about it?

Stop allowing the algorithms and the internet fry your brain. Be a critical thinker. And take some responsibility every once in a while.

 

[Zacfoldor]

Okay, zeitgiest/microcosm guy here. I'm exceedingly ordinary in my gaming habits. I'm middle bear for goldilocks. Usually the shit I do is seen in the larger gaming populace soon after I do it.

I want to remove the woke from the argument. I think the game will probably be woke, but not 110% sure yet, but probably. Let's ignore that for just this post.

I've recently had a revelation after a decade of regularly buying indie darlings.

Usually, I buy the game, play it once or twice and never pick it up again. There have been a few notable exceptions, Wukong(not really an indie), Inscryption being the standout, the Outer Wilds another one. Hollow Knight the best eva. Baba Is You, Hades, Underwell, Celeste, Obra Djinn, Balatro, Vampire Survivors, Stardew, Disco, ect all great, and many more.

Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed my time with Dave the Diver, I was a Teenage Exocolonist, Spiritfarer, TMNT, Chained Echos, Braid Remake, Slay the Princess, ect but here's the thing. I think I'm done. I don't play these games enough to continue to buy them and I don't have time. As I go, usually, so goes all. So we'll see how indies hold up the next few years. From here on out it needs to be Lucas Pope or AAAAmazing indie to wake me up from my AAA stupor. It needs to be special like Wukong, stick figures ain't cutting it for me anymore, and I'm coming around to the idea that creating games is a trade not an art.

 

[TMLT]

This is a somewhat rare instance of a black protag actually making total sense for the setting. No problem with that at all.

 

[Ozriel]

People asking "why is it woke, because of a black protagonist??" Like it's some kind of a gotcha. The answer is "YES, because of a black protagonist"

This is what left wing schizoids achieved with their noble cause of diversity. A black character is instantly suspicious in the minds of gamers.

Congrats, idiots, you played yourself

Blaming others for your racism is some whole other level of inanity. What were you thinking when you posted this?

This is what left wing schizoids achieved with their noble cause of diversity. A black character is instantly suspicious in the minds of gamers.

Lol @ ‘gamers’. Speak for yourself. Anyone who looks at this game’s setting and is ‘suspicious’ of a black character cannot be a serious person.

 

[Astray]

Cut-scenes are always with that frame rate tho.

I hope they don't have them be prerendered FMV videos, that way the community could mod them to 60fps without introducing visual issues.

Game looks interesting tbh and I might pick it up at some point this year.

 

[Ozriel]

The low frame rate stuff I think(?) is relegated to cut scenes. In gameplay clips it seems fine from what I remember. Adamsapple said choppy cut scenes are optional to turn off. So Id assume when it's off, cut scenes should be 30 or 60 fps. But who knows till we all see the game.

It’s the other way around. You can turn off the framerate stuff in gameplay, but cutscenes are fixed.

 

[adamsapple]

The game doesn't deserve any of the dumb attacks, but the pushback should be instead targeted to top studio and Microsoft management for still employing an actual racist person as the game's community manager.

They had us in the first half, not gonna lie.

People asking "why is it woke, because of a black protagonist??" Like it's some kind of a gotcha. The answer is "YES, because of a black protagonist"

This is what left wing schizoids achieved with their noble cause of diversity. A black character is instantly suspicious in the minds of gamers.

Sounds like that's more to do with you as an individual, than anyone else, fam.

It’s the other way around. You can turn off the framerate stuff in gameplay, but cutscenes are fixed.

As of the last reported info, the above is correct.

Game play = animation on two's can be disabled
Cut-scenes = it's always there

 

[Kabelly]

Oh snap. Didn't know this got a release date finally. Will def check it out

 

[nial]

They had us in the first half, not gonna lie.

Nah sorry man, I know culture wars have gotten pretty weird lately, but that was still a very stupid and inexcusable comment.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

It’s the other way around. You can turn off the framerate stuff in gameplay, but cutscenes are fixed.

As of the last reported info, the above is correct.

Game play = animation on two's can be disabled
Cut-scenes = it's always there

Ah. Maybe I got adamapple's post last week mixed up. But if that's true, choppy cut scenes are the worst.

People asking "why is it woke, because of a black protagonist??" Like it's some kind of a gotcha. The answer is "YES, because of a black protagonist"

This is what left wing schizoids achieved with their noble cause of diversity. A black character is instantly suspicious in the minds of gamers.

Congrats, idiots, you played yourself

To be fair, I think people immediately state the DEI/Woke thing because the vast majority of promoting minoroties in games, TV shows, movies, even TV ads is usually black people.

Where's all the latinos, asians, natives etc....? Latinos are by far the biggest minority group in the US. How come there's hardly any in media and game characters?