New Games Suck... Or Is It Just Me?

The western video game industry pushed progressive politics so hard onto gamers and it has become so obnoxious and blatant, that they have created a zero tolerance pushback against them. Now things that used to be ok, are not.

Also Square Enix need to stop pandering to western values and get back to making great games for their audiences, China gonna eat their lunch and steal their fanbase away.

I haven't been excited for a FF game for a long time, and this Chinese game is hitting the perfect FF aesthetic and looks like it has really good gameplay too.

You are satisfied way too easily if boob physics covered clothes is good enough for you.

Here is real Chinese censorship on boobs:
https://censorship.fandom.com/wiki/Genshin_Impact


Chinese isn't your friend if you like ***.

At least western government doesn't ban naked woman in games, see Witcher series or cyberpunk 2077 etc. No boobs are censored in those games.

You are being double standard here.

What I meant is, although I agree that there are a few "woke" entertainment story that's entering the territory of being
ridiculous (some example includes Netflix's Cleopatra controversy), I think both sides has entered the territory of being hypersensitive on how a story should be done due to politics, to the point that it's hurting freedom of creativity.

Every meaningful story will have some kind of ideology as part of the theme. As long as it doesn't hurt the overall story quality it should be fine. If it really hurts the quality than critism should focus on the actual problem of a story: such as unnatural dialogues, or wrong race in that particular setting etc.

Popular story trend isn't necessarily political nor specific design choices like female scientists or male villains. If you focus your critism on those, you already lose your chance to convince other people in your argument.

Ugh

Stop lusting for virtual girl, you pervy nerds

Those arent more than 0s and 1s passing the illusion of a woman.

Also stop objectifying a woman body, and stop the lust all together.

Thats a capital sin.

We must live without those flesh desire and focus only in our spiritual growth.

It's already hard enough to be a villain, it's even harder with Panta preaching light side.

Back to my cave and my villain training, before I lost too much exp here.....

/wave

1-Most people arent lusting for virtual girl. They just want virtual girl to actually look like a girl.
2-The primary subset of people who would lust for virtual girl are the people with brainrot due to porn.

Sophistry

Seems to be all RA cares about. Mecha Break looks like just another F2P gacha game. Western studios need not be worried. Certainly in no danger of having their fanbase stolen away.

I agree

Then why would microsoft splurge for exclusivity if its "a generic F2P gacha game that western studios shouldnt worry about"?

If I'm Sony, I'm not paying for that game. You have the mecha genre covered with the Gundam games and other stuff. As a bonus, you get to avoid the monetization controversy. Whereas if I'm Microsoft, you don't have much of anything in that genre. How much did they actually pay? How long is the exclusivity? A few months? What playerbase is it really going to cut into? A third person mech game that's heavily monetized? Who is it threatening?

That would indeed be a very poor business decision, because the mecha genre is covered with Gundam games, and all that other stuff you said. Sony would never be careless with their money.

Who burned four hundred million dollars ($400,000,000) on Concord again? A generic hero shooter filled to the vrim with woke elements that no one wanted. And no, thats not a conspiracy theory.

Mens brains evolved to be rewarded for looking at a nice looking woman and their curves (and the younger the men are, the stronger this is), in real life, a statue, a painting, a movie or in a video game. You still get that dopamine release for looking at it and it makes you feel happier than if it's not there, this is a system that took thousands of years of evolution to hardwired into men.

If you're playing a game with a nice looking woman in it, you're gonna get a little more enjoyment from it and give it a little longer to grow on you whether you like it or not. That's just how it works, you can pretend you're above it if you like but you're not.

The game still has to be good, this is a sprinkles type deal ontop but still adds to the enjoyment of the thing in the same way a nice meal presented well increases your enjoyment of that. No game has ever been made worse by having a pretty girl in it, and if most of your customers are men (which they overwhelming will be) you're out of your mind not to use this "simple trick" cause it works.

Ultimately though, it's not actually so much about that itself as much as it shows the mindset of the developers. If a game has pretty girls in it and a little fan service in it, then it's a massive signpost on the product that you know it's being made to cater to the customer far more and there is going to be far less or none of the other obnoxious crap in it people are sick and tired of.

This is why even though BG3 can be said to be woke in some ways, they have very pretty characters in it and lots of fan service so you can see they are massively catering to fans over anything else.

This is a pretty universal rule in gaming, cause it's very rare you'll get a game with all the other crap in it if it has pretty female characters in it. The intentionally bland / ugly female characters is the tip of the spear for progressive game devs.

No it's not. It's just your unsubstantiated opinion.

how many intentionally ugly male characters are in video games?

this one doesn't count

got a kick out of this, game is gonna be great I think but slow start

MH: Wilds is so good, but damn does it have poor optimization. All of my PC friends spent all day yesterday updating their drivers and trying to make everything work. I'm even having muddying issues on PS5. Still, it's an amazing game. Could easily be the best online multiplayer of the year.

which weapon did you pick?

Been reading a lot of the optimization woes - my PC is probably not good enough to play it then :(

Charge blade

That's why reviews are important. They will update their reviews after the company fixes their game.

(Monster Hunter Wilds got mixed ones on steam.)

All male protagonists have to be over 180cm, ripped, extremely athletic, wear suits, expensive watches or otherwise part of some royal family.

stunning and brave

smile

Square Enix interview with Naoki Hamaguchi (co-director of ff7r)




https://www.sony.com/en/brand/createthebeyond/voicesofcreativity/pspa1/

Square Enix don't seem to understand that nobody wants them to sterilize their games and become a clone of ubisoft, if they keep going this way they will be utterly irrelevant in 10 years. If not for remakes and remasters of games people actually loved, and booby models of Tifa and 2b they sell for £1200 they already would be.

They are like a sushi restaurant, that gets super popular and then someone comes in and tells them steak is actually where it's at and they change their entire business model for that, then are confused when they go out of business.

They seem to think their future is in dropping everything that made them popular in the first place, and just become a clone of western studios. Pushing out more bland, safe modern slop everyone is sick of.

This is like Anime publishers deciding they need to be more like Disney, or Manga producers deciding it's time to copy Marvel.

Its just you.

Found the only person who preorder AC: Shadows.

You forgot the angst part.

Also they don't have to know they are otherwise part of some royal family.