Anyone else tired of this? Even in progressive games, I see that the devs sometimes make the effort to send a good message, only to ruin it in the next scene with some subtle misogyny either on purpose or out of ignorance. Examples like Kingdom Come with female NPCs assaulted and then damseled in distress by the male protagonist with dialogue option to sleep with them as a reward (and no, it doesn't matter she refuses it). Games are full of good messages, but they still fail to deliver coherent narrative in details. Focusing too much on male stories, having less lines done by female characters and so on. At this point all the creative people must be aware of this and yet they still do it. Do they get a secret kick out of it? Or is it because it sells better? How many times do I have to be subtly put in my place through some digital encounter while playing otherwise fantastic RPG?

I guess games like the Sims or Animal Crossing aren't videogames? Even in games like dark souls there are entire communities dedicated to character attires and fashion, because of course they are part of playing the game.

How do people fall for every corporate lie no matter how ridiculous it is so easily?

I hate how easy it is for ubisoft to get away from the real ongoing shit they are currently under by just having an intern defend hasan piker and own elon musk on twitter.

I get being extremely annoyed at the ongoing neofascist gamergate part 2 that has been happening on the internet these past months and, to an extend, i even get wanting to defend the targeted videogames from criticism that is not only unfair but straight up fascistic. I did experience similar feelings a month ago when one of my favourite studios, obsidian entertainment, was under fire by the same people, again all the way up to elon musk.

And while ubisoft isn't exactly the pinnacle of innovation and even from a consumer perspective they've pioneered predatory transactions in single player games, i'm sure their recent game is fine and if i'm being honest i've enjoyed all the games from the various ubisoft studios i've played quite a bit.

But

a) corporations are not our friends and anything they do or say, good or bad, they do it as a way to try and maximize their profits

b) fucking ubisoft is not just any corporation. Please read the article i posted above and don't fall for their marketing so easily. They are deliberately picking a side here because they hope to gain some moral high ground in the eyes of the consumers, specifically because of their situation which is extreme and has damaged their overall reputation. I am talking multiple cases of sexual, verbal and physical assault of their workers across various different teams and going all the way to the top and from what i can tell even when they had to fire some famous people the situation didn't improve. They shouldn't be able to get away with their disgusting stuff by mentioning hasan piker on twitter. They don't get to be on our side.

Play or don't play ubisoft games, the free market is a lie and you don't change anything by consuming or not consuming on an individual level and if you bought the latest AC game I hope you enjoy it, but please don't internalize far right internet narratives that paint ubisoft as progressive because of a black character existing in a video game like holy shit.

It's something that's been bugging me for a while and have not been able to voice out; When the right-wing complain about "every (modern) game" releasing with their usual string of negative complaints attached (you know the ones). They'll then continue by praising eastern (usually Japanese) games, and their developers (which on it's own would be fine). The issue now is that, they almost instinctively know that the game they just praised, disproves what they previously claimed of "every game" being of so-and-so quality. So instead of admitting they were wrong they divide games into "Japanese and Western Games" so they can have an idyllic vision to look up to and something to demonize. Most of you here, already know their true intentions and why they do this, and can provide additional context. There is a lot to unpack in this discussion. I haven't even touched on the racism and Orientalism used when they do this. tldr there is no actual reason Eastern games should be put against Western ones from the haters of "modern gaming" but bigots need a reason to always be angry, so here we are.

i pirate everything on my wii and 3ds, custom firmware and homebrew stuff is AMAZING. i just don’t have a switch because the lowest price for it new here in aotearoa/nz is $500. i’m poor. its a bit better for second hand switches to be around $350 with games. i got given a ps4 and get all my games for it second hand or when theres a sale.

the prices are gonna be crazy for the switch 2 here in nz.

the base price for a switch 2 is USD$450. in nz it’s $799. a ps5 is 40 dollars less (not that i’d buy one)

new games are already around NZD$100 here and nintendo wants USD$80 for digital and USD$90 for physical 😭

also their stupid tech demo tutorial would be free on most other consoles. and upgrades from switch 1 to switch 2 cost money?? it would maybe be free on other consoles. i guess the reasoning would be trump’s tarriffs. but still nintendo is greedy. i’m so sick of subscriptions for using online games and playing previous generations games, like wind waker on switch 2 online, when a superior version is on wii u? there’s just so many things wrong and nintendo fans will still buy things despite glaring issues.