• Phegan@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Anyone who doesn’t play a game because it’s woke, has their head so far up the culture war ass, they have lost all reason.

    It’s also the same people where the message behind more subtle media is lost on them. Starship troopers, for example.

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      13 hours ago

      agreed, there is so much lore more to criticize about this game but of course this is what gets headlines and rage clicks.

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        Imho it’s marketing. The game is bad, writing is bad, gameplay is boring after a while, it seems (except for technical optimization) the game itself is a big mobile game. The “woke criticism” is exploited by ea to sell more, since it create engagement and hide the real flaws of the game

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          13 hours ago

          Remember when EA did a whole gaywashing thing after being voted worst company in America, two times running.

          Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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      21 hours ago

      For some reason the second most followed curator on steam is Sweet Baby Inc Detected. Its pretty widespread brain rot.

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        Sweet Baby Inc Detected

        Never heard of this. It took me some time to even figure what their comments meant.

        It’s almost comical to see how obsessed people are about this stuff.

        Don’t get me wrong, the commercialization of minority themes and the preachy attitude can get annoying, but it’s hardly a dealbreaker if the gameplay and/or story are good.

        Games are full of extremely stupid and lazy tropes.

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          16 hours ago

          That’s it. The Alan Wake 2 “race change” actually allows for some interesting links between Quantum Leap and the Alan Wake stories, but it was seen as a DEI situation. If a game is bad, it’s generally bad for reasons beyond DEI or wokeness.