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Single women with no prospects of being married do this shit. That's all it is they turn everything into a fanfic they oversexualize everything to the point of it being disgusting just because they can't get laid or aren't seen as very attractive even in their own head.
11:38 They don't have "friends". They only have "allies". Those they're willing to get along with as long as their political leanings align, but they'll immediately backstab and throw them under the bus the moment it starts to get a little bit heated up between them.
A quote from Gaia in God of War 3 sums up their mindset nicely. For context, Kratos had been climbing up Mount Olympus on Gaia's back. A couple boss fights later, Gaia's arm has been torn in half, with her hand literally hanging on by just a thread. Not surprisingly, it's taking everything she has just to maintain her grip on the mountain. Meanwhile, Kratos is losing his grip on her back, and he calls for her aid. Rather than just pointing out that if she she tried, they'd both fall off the mountain and likely die, Gaia says something unbelievably stupid (especially given how she personally guided Kratos the god-killer on his path of revenge against Zeus through GoW 2): *_"I saved you to serve the Titans... Listen carefully, Kratos. You're just a simple pawn, nothing more. Zeus is no longer your concern. This is our war, not yours."_* (Not surprisingly, the Ghost of Sparta was not happy with this response. You can guess what followed after he fell.) *_THAT_* is what I hear whenever I hear these reprobates use the word "ally."
@@Xbalanque84 exactly; "ALLY" doesn't necessarily means "Friends" cause friends got your back all the time and same for you having their back. "Ally" is simply 2 or more people using then disregarding each other in the end at least from the perspective of the quote from the game.
I think this is more telling about you than others if you are the one bringing politics into a game trailer that has zero politics in it, lmao. Good lord.
I miss the days when Shipping was just fun and kept to fanworks. People didn't go around trying to force it into the source material and making it into this big deal claiming it was the author's original intention. It was kept to Fan art and fanfic and left there.
I was planning to do a crossover fan-fiction soon (along with four sub-stories of my own) with including some characters from canon with having some or plenty LGBT stuff and mostly or some Mature/NSFW/Explicit stuff. And I also wish of becoming an artist as well. But I started having flashbacks about Yang & Blake, Korra & Asami, Vivian and Bridget & Testament are being ruined by Twitter/Reddit/Tumblr users. I wouldn't be surprised they would try to ruin Ike, Soren, Randul & Soleil, Valentine & Parasoul and Any Sonic character (especially Sonic himself, Amy, Shadow, Tails, Sally etc) next.
Meh, shipping "forcing" characters together would happen eventually. If a 'couple' gets enough fanmade content then the creator(s) will assume that is what is desired and often push those charactera together. The South Park episode where Tweek and Craig is a pretty good analogy of it, where Asian students draw fanart of them and everyone assumes that is the way things should be.
No one would have a problem with this game if it didnt use the Lord of the rings franchise. Letting big companies get their grubby hands on beloved franchises was a mistake.
Let’s be intellectually honest, we shat all over Concord and Dustborn even though they are booth original IPs. There’s more variables then just the wokification of legacy franchises.
@@unkpo5189But Star Wars Galaxy is not doing too well, along with Ubisoft. Not to mention how rancid the reception by the intended cultural audience, the Japanese, are to the latest Assassins Creed game. People are fed up with these skinsuit projects so much that not even name recognition is helping. Even for well known and even well made titles like the new X-Men 90's revival cartoon. The slightest whiff of agenda and people boycotted it.
personally I don't think having different skin toned hobbits ruins any "lore accuracy" for a farming game. It looking like a janky 2000s malware game does.
I don’t know if it is narcissism or incompetence or just hiding how far behind schedule they are, but filling up half of a 15 second trailer with unattractive devs that no one knows or care about as opposed to gameplay would never be a good sign
Both. It's why they keep getting hired. Either way, the ESG investors destroy cultural touchstones by just letting the worst people for the job do what comes naturally.
Sam and Frodo hugging each other - THEY WERE ON A ROCK IN THE MIDDLE OF A LAVA FIELD AND ABOUT TO DIE! If that scene makes you want to ship them, then you are the pervert.
People who claim that toxic masculinity prevents from man being emotional with each other, are the same people which are incapable of seeing man showing emotions to each other without seeing them as gay.
"Now, in this filthy hole, lived old Wokeisitus, a HAIRY purple creature, with eyes as sunken as holes in a mud pile! "WHAT IS THIS", the creature cried, "A WHITE MALE, HISSSS, CRINGE!" it screamed!"
Seriously, when it appeared, my eyes involuntarily rolled so violently into my skull that I thought I went blind for a moment. Truly terrifying. The purple thing is a visage of horror.
@@sacredpower7530 Don't insult dart frogs like that. Dart frogs are actually quite adorable. Useful too, as the tribesmen that live in those same places use the frog's toxins for hunting.
So, the biggest issue with DEI is the lack of diversity. All these people think the exact same thing. I'm a liberal, but I just cringe at this. I can almost picture them gathered around the cooler to shame their coworker for having a Starbucks ceramic cup on their desk while sneaking through the drive through that very day.
@@Mothpostle Dead On Arrival, basically the whole thing is a bad idea and the moment it's released, it'll flop. The term basically means that when something is dead on arrival, it's destined to fail and it's inevitable
That dude trying to portray the moment where Frodo is fisically and mentally exhausted from the journey of carrying the Ring and being held up by Sam as a gay relationship is the scum of scums. I feel genuinely embarassed even knowing that an asinine person like this likes the same IP as me.
Remember, these people were probably the bullies in your school who picked on you for being a nerd, now they’re trying to steal your money and entertainment for their own.
Some other people say these people were the losers who had no friends in school, but I think you're closer to the mark. They feel like people who have trained their whole life to be manipulative, gaslight people, forming cliques and appeal to authority when things don't go their way.
Nah , look at them 5 seconds , they were not bullies LOL. They're ugly not fit and needed to die their hair for attention because they were getting 0 even though they're women.
Dyed hair and glasses is the human equivalent to those poisonous frogs that are the bright neon colours that basically scream: if you eat me you're in for a bad time the aposematism is real.
In itself diversity and inclusivity should sound like a positive but somehow people managed to turn it into the opposite and now each game or movie labeled with these words by the marketers or journalists is doomed to be bad. Cant really think of anything that was advertised as diverse and turned out good
@@HyliaFell There should be 0 black people, that's just a fact. Middle Earth was written to be an extremely homogenous, white society. Randomly seeing asians, hispanics, blacks, etc. meshed into the society in Rings of Power destroys the world-building.
I have always hated the trend of making monsters sympathetic. Especially in children's movies. It will teach kids that there are no real monsters, they are just misunderstood. THAT IS DANGEROUS! There is evil, there are monsters. And most of them are in the Didn't Earn It field.
Its fine when its a one off thing, the exception to the rule. Such as for DND Drizzt used to be the posterchild for it. Where he was one of the few who had left the underdark and survived.
I read the books by one author where nobody was allowed to be evil. School children destroyed a ghost that had killed people and 1 character, completely unpromted, goes "She wasn't really evil, she was just trying to exist."
I realized something at work today, a great analogy to what's going on in AAA gaming might be comparable to Garth Brooks and the Chris Gains fiasco. He tried to appeal to a broader audience, changed his genre, and it appealed to practically nobody. His old fans weren't interested, and there was not really an audience for his new persona. From what I remember (and it's probably not accurate), it nearly tanked his career.
The problem with trying to alter a brand/IP to appeal to a new audience is that someone who already knew of that brand and wasn't interested before, isn't going to suddenly start being interested in it after the change. So all you end up doing is losing the people that don't like these changes rather than gain a new following. It's very simple yet companies fail to understand this.
@@hertzwave8001 The funny thing about She ra is that the new audience is miniscule compared to the audience they once had and lost when they tried to appeal to the modern audience.
TBH a game where you're just vibing as a hobbit is a great idea. There's entire guest houses based on the Shire and living as they did and do amazing profit wise. Having a game here you just live as a hobbit would be a fantastic fun concept. IF done correctly and had a good art direction that doesn't look like Steven Universe meets mobile graphics.
Personally I think they should have gone more pixel art sprite with visual novel style portraits for dialogue, instead of trying to make a completely 3d world. it obviously is not within that studios skill set.
Sweet Baby Inc. CEO Kim Belair :” If they don't see the value in what you are asking for when you ask for consultants and when you ask for research, go have a coffee with your marketing team and just terrify them with the possibility of what's going to happen if they don't give you what you want.”
@@Cure_Hana Yes it is, that's not the issue. It's the marketing. Particularly the quirky part because there is a predominance of 'cozy and quirky' market to and by these individuals and their target audience. Like everything else the rest of us are no longer allowed 'cozy' because they have co-opted it for their own use to the exclusion of others. It's a very common tactic and it's called subsuming.
@@immortalkaos80 I guess I can see where you’re coming from. Though I’m still going to give this game a fair chance unless it comes out a broken, buggy mess.
So technically if a guy is friends with another guy or a girl is friends with another girl they're automatically gay for each other. That makes no damn sense friendship does not mean smashing your friend. Twitter is very weird
When i saw a "Tales of" title i expect a next game of the Japanese "Tales of" franchise not this woke trash. Bandai should sue them for harming their brand.
While I'd love to see that... that's not going to happen, they can copyright the entire batch 'Tales of whatever' titles, but they can't copyright 'Tales of' itself.
You realize bandai has said they embrace dei? And that the tales games have got more and more censored over the years? Bandai would be congratulating them.
They could have all the black/brown and everything in-between "halflings" they want if they made their own IP. But noooo, instead they always try to piggyback on another IP's popularity, wich in this case is specifically set in a mythical version of medivial England. If you dont respect the original IP or drastically try to change it, then you have no business doing anything with it to begin with....
@GoldSrc_ that's so stupid, it keeps being stupid everyday. You gatekeep your franchises from new fans, what will it do to the multi millionare companies that intend to make money off of it? Absolutely nothing. They will still buy the rights and make it even more mainstream to attract those people you rejected.
Friendships between two men (both unfortunately real and fictional) have been fetishized by weird people. No one can *fathom* two men that aren’t the typical super macho bros deciding to be vulnerable and hug and comfort each other. If they wanted to do things like that, fanfiction and fanart exists for this reason. You wanna ship those two guys from Lord of the Rings together, fine, nothing is stopping you, I ship characters together too, but trying to change canon to make them be together while only making their relationship more on the romantic side goes a step too far. That would be like me trying to change Sonic the Hedgehog’s narrative to make Sonic x Amy canon even though Sonic is not about romance. It just won’t work and someone will (rightfully) say that I should just make my own IP.
This is what happens to Korea & Asami and Blake & Yang respectively. I could Imagine if they do the same with Sonic x Amy or Shadow or any Sonic ship, Ike x Soren or Ranulf and Valentine x Parasoul into the canon, and I wouldn't be surprised if that happens.
@@Redneck_Herolol no she isn't, she looks like a high school desk in a ghetto neighborhood. The first dev looked like a trash bag stuffed with cookie dough + purple wig.
That's not an actual quote from Tolkien. But it very vaguely resembles what he wrote about Morgoth and the origin of the Orcs: "No, they eat and drink, Sam. The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own. I don’t think it gave life to the orcs, it only ruined them and twisted them; and if they are to live at all, they have to live like other living creatures." (LoTR The Return of The King) "To the unfriendly who, not knowing them well, declared that Morgoth must have bred the Orcs from such a stock the Eldar answered: "Doubtless Morgoth, since he can make no living thing, bred Orcs from various kinds of Men, but the Drúedain must have escaped his Shadow;" (Unfinished Tales)
@@shirleymaemattthews4862 not everyone follows one of those religions, and even for those who do the sane ones wouldn't be bothered by fictional demon characters
For who? Concord has failed, Dustborn failed, Rings of power is failing, Suicide Squad failed, The adventures of Jane Solo is failing(3 more games can't remember failed), Woke studios are going out of business and "warm seats" are being laid off since Jan 2024 as the Pandemic economic injection money and DEI money spigots were cut off in Feburary 2023 and current grants needing more accountability and receipts so even SBI is running out of sucker money to stay afloat😹 Everything seems fine to me
Lord of the Rings has elves, dwarves, Hobbits, wizards, and human races coming together to fight a common enemy. Somehow it's not diverse enough for some people. The original books were written between the world wars.
Only real world DEIversity counts to them, you could have all kinds of non-human animal species in a show or game and they'd still be trying to work out which ones are black, white, Asian, etc.
Damn, as if Ring of Power and Gollum were not enough. Tolkien must be spinning in his grave at such velocity, that we risking our planet to go out of it's orbit.
As a proper Tolkienlore fan, i know they just heard some names within the Shire and shoved them into a game, "hobbits entering Bywater"? Bywater isn't even at the edge of the Shire! And there's Hobbits who live on the outskirts and outside the Shire in Bree. They'd know that if they were real fans or did a modicum of research
This is so sad, because Weta workshop has made some very good things, like Thunderbirds and they’re very good at making things like mockups. I’ve been to their workshop in Wellington and was pretty cool.
Whoa... I've never heard this one before, but it is shocking how true this statement is. It's wild to me how many dei consultants are being revealed as extremely racist individuals. 😂
Why those people stick to the same cliché, they have neon dyed hairs tattoos and pierces… when you have full team of developers “if they really qualified” you know that it will be crapp.
I'm very curious how their appearancecs affects their ability as a developer? Also curious why you talk the same way as my pearl-clutching grandmother. Nini, is this you?!
@@HyliaFellnot innately, but in terms of pattern recognition. In other words, it's not that the appearance is dictating the person, it's the person that is dictating the appearance, and those with those appearances pretty consistently tend to do the same kinds in regards to games ( and other types of entertainment media), and more often than not it's not for the better
@@shirleymaemattthews48623 different things: to be awake ( not applicable here), Marxism crossed with intersectionality ( sometimes applicable) or excessive focus on political/ social activism to the point of both detriment and irrelevancy ( most commonly applicable)
Tolkien said in his letters that orcs weren't absolute evil, they were corrupted and redeemable. He also said there should be orc women, but any form of family would definitely be a corrupted evil form thereof. Doubt mothers would care about protecting their children or treating them good in any shape or form.
I feel like these hijackers keep taking the name of these IP's hoping fans will be paypigs, then get mad with the shocked pikachu face when it doesn't work.
The thing is Stardew Valley was made with love and care, and had a soul you could feel from the characters, designs, the artstyle, the gameplay and the writing. You don't feel any of that there
Without understanding Tolkien's two motivators, his love of rural England, and his deeply held Roman Catholicism, you will never do Tolkien justice. These games and ROP are wiping their arse on a series of books that are basically love letters to a country and a belief system.
Tolkien did not base LOTR on either of those things, though. Most of his inspiration for it was from the Norse Eddas and the Sami tribe, especially when it comes to the languages he crafted. Tolkien was also very anti-racist and wouldn't have stood for people shitting on other people like this.
@@HyliaFell Horseshit. He stated outright the whole of Middle Earth was an English origin story. And without understanding both England and the religious basis that Tolkien used to underpin the whole mythos you cannot understand him.
@@HyliaFell OP did not say that , he said they were motivators. Tolkien was also not anti-racist as that is a modern twisted term used to hide bigotry.
It’s our failure too that Lord of the Ring got to this point to be honest. Way too many people said “Ah, its okay, i’m sure it won’t get worse than this” too many time. It got to this point because it went woke and they still profited off of it.
You don't understand how licensing works. It's a business based on speculation. How much the actual customers end up spending doesn't affect the quality of the product, because it is made before anyone pays for it.
This is so sad. Weta Workshop used to be a goated studio who made movie props. They made the armors and weapons for the Peter Jackson LOTR movies and they were so great. They made a woke game studio?
Ah yes… orcs… I’m a dark, evil corrupted creature made solely for the purpose of war and destruction… I obviously want to start a family, build plows instead of swords, and live peacefully Ugh… this isn’t TES folks… these things aren’t supposed to be sympathetic
its literally like, if you wanna explore that avenue, then don't bloody use a franchise where there is absolutely no room to debate that they're evil, no ifs, ands, or buts.
@@wolfsongrising Orcs were corrupted elves, turned into what they are by Melkor. They were not innately evil but became that way through horrific abuse and corruption. Tolkien himself even stated that he is uncomfortable with the concept of an irredeemably "bad" race, and that orcs were "Begotten of sin" but not "Naturally bad". Their entire existence is that of a slave to evil, but that doesn't make them naturally evil. So yeah, there is room to debate on what their future might consist of; if they could ever become uncorrupted, regain their sense of humanity, etc and so on.
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." “Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.” "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” Orwell 1984
I was just thinking the other day about how ALL of my favorite IPs have either been destroyed or completely forgotten. I don't even want to type any of my favorites in the forgotten category in fear of it flagging some algorithm hunting for more IPs to "modernize"
I really love how they go "oh, let's make a twist, where the race of bad guys are actual the good guys" as if that hasn't been done all the time already. But at last there they take a race from mythology where you can excuse it as "the real ones are different that the stories" not a race in the same world that was literally created to be evil. For them to become good guys we'd need a story of someone fighting against their programming and trying to teach the others of their race the other way.
EA's shit is so full of microtransactions you'd find less ants in a fucking anthill than you would microtransactions in an EA game. Even if the 'game' is good, the microtransactions ruin everything.
@@Ashurman666 I'm pretty sure the bigger things people questioned were the actions, presentation and characterisation of Shelob, Celebrimbor, Annatar/Sauron etc..
FFS, don't those CEOs have internet?! How in tarnation are they able to go "yep, this will sell well!" with all of the negativity, and heck proven fact that this kind of DEI crap gets you bankrupt?! I just cannot believe that investors like Blackrock that push this give them that much money with no repercussions.
I'm glad that "Woke" developers are trying to create "Woke" versions of games, books, movies. What happens is that no one buys their stuff, the investors lose money and eventually everyone involved get burned enough to stop.
The people behind the Lord of the rings, intellectual property licensing, have got to be the absolute worst when it comes to vetting. Must be the people that used to run the games workshop licensing division. 🎩 🐍 no step on snek!🇺🇸🇭🇰
The Family should’ve pulled a Dahl family and gatekeepept people to defend the legacy of their relative they probably hate this as much as you if not more at least I’d hope so
With few exceptions all of Games Workshop's games I know of are pretty fucking good, and I'm talking video games not the logistical and financial nightmares that are their tabletop games. So that analogy isn't a very good one.
One woman with neon dyed hair and another with tattoos going down the entire length of her arms. Yep. Dead on arrival. The only thing surprising is neither of them have piercings through their nose/lips/wherever else on their face
Oh my goodness, don't clutch your pearls too hard, you might break them! Seriously though, they're in fucking new zealand, and those tattoos look extremely similar to traditional Maori tattoos, which I know this might upset you, but there are light-skinned Maori just like there are light-skinned natives in the USA.
@@HyliaFellDoesn’t matter. Physical appearance is everything in business. You can’t go “I have the right to express myself!” when trying to attract customers, especially on an international scale. And her cohort with the dyed hair doesn’t help give a professional appearance either.
So, Amazon took advice from Extra Credits for the depiction of orcs in Rings of Power Season 2. And Tales from the Shire? More like Tales from the 'hood.
The wokeness wasn't a major factor in why Concord failed. Its audience is playing Overwatch 2 and Valorant instead. Most people aren't dumb enough to spend $40 to play a worse version of a game they are already playing for free.
@@NuchiAsaki It was a major factor. Why is The First Descendant still around with 25,000 people playing it currently? Mind you, this is 20 times the amount of people that played Concord's FREE beta. Don't tell me that The First Descendant is a better game than Concord--I played Concord's beta for around 20-ish hours before calling it quits, and while it wasn't great it was leagues better than the 10 hours I spent with The First Descendant. Hell, why does Dead or Alive: Venus Vacation have 1,700 players right now, 1,000 more players than Concords peak on a random Saturday night? That game is not only more boring than Concord, it's banned in 95% of the world! Trust me, if Concord brought them sweet sweet anime tiddies it would be alive and well today, 40 USD pay-in or not.
@@stizzo135 The First Descendant is free, it costs nothing to try it other than time. Dead or Alive: Venus Vacation doesn't have competition. The live service game industry is a zero-sum game. For a game to succeed, it must pull an audience from another game. To do that, you have to be so much better than the competition that players are willing to abandon an account that they may have thousands of hours on. You're not going to do that by copying your competitor and requiring a purchase. Baldur's Gate 3 is woke and was a massive success. Hades 2 is woke and will likely be a massive success. Normies don't care about your culture war.
@@NuchiAsaki as I said earlier, Concord had a free beta (that is how I played it). The all-time peak was 2,388 players. The First Descedant peaked at 10 times that amount. Dead or Alive has no competition in the gacha space? I mean, I guess, if you really badly want to watch girls play volleyball (you don't get to control the girls in this version). If you are just looking to collect waifus, there is plenty of competition. Also note that you cannot buy this game in 95% of the world and it's not even searchable in the US Steam store. I had to download it by searching for it online through the web browser and use a VPN to spoof my IP to somewhere in Asia.
''Diversity and inclusion'' Diversity and inclusion'' Diversity and inclusion'' Diversity and inclusion'' There was a time when I use to look at those words and agree ''yes, it's important to have it everywhere!''. Nowadays, everytime I see that, I just know the product isn't worth it.
Dear lord, that looks terrible. Not even getting into skin color or anything like that, the character and background design and the movement look worse than a cheap and crappy 360 game
I am so pissed off by the Frodo and Sam thing at the end. I LOVE my friends, I really really do, but I wish I had a fraction of the heart that Sam has... and they call him gay? I call him the broest bro that ever broed, and I want to be like him.
Sam carried the whole fellowship and is the sole reason why they were actually able to dispose of the ring, then he went home and married his sweetheart and had FOURTEEN lil hobbits. These people are insane.
It’s crazy they got the rights. You can’t just slap lord of the rings and on a project. This had to be cleared by multiple people and probably spend a bunch of money to get access to use. Right? So everyone involved in that process are completely disconnected from the target audience? Seems hard to believe. Mind blowing.
Im not even sure how to comment about this. As a New Zealander seeing weta workshops name on this is just so sad. Hearing about them making a lotr's game years ago for this to release is just a spit in the face. It was probably funded a lot by NZ too. I still have hope for anything Peter Jackson does but its clear to see this game studio was probably trusted to someone to run and is just cooked now.
@@Kvitebjorn257 yeah but as small as wellington is, its not 1 block. Also Peter lives in outer greater wellington over an hour away, hes not directly involved with most of weta.
The developers who made the things you like are either long gone or they hate you. Weta Workshop is just a name they are using to trick you into buying their propaganda. Don't fall for it.
As another new zealander i agree Its embarrassing and it stings seeing what Weta workshop is becoming. and then that makes all new zealanders look bad because of shit like this. DEI ruins everything
I didn't know anything about it and saw it on my feed without any context. Within 2 seconds I asked "why does it look so ..." And the a second later the candy color hair. It is pure woke
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WETA is kind of in a corner about the inclusivity thing. A few years back they got hit with sexual harassment and male worker favoritism allegations.
Single women with no prospects of being married do this shit. That's all it is they turn everything into a fanfic they oversexualize everything to the point of it being disgusting just because they can't get laid or aren't seen as very attractive even in their own head.
"For the love of god go make your own IP."
They did, and it didn't last two weeks
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@@TheDementedSig imagine they made touhou doujins 😭
Week and a half*
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@@shirleymaemattthews4862 Not the 2hues!
11:38 They don't have "friends". They only have "allies". Those they're willing to get along with as long as their political leanings align, but they'll immediately backstab and throw them under the bus the moment it starts to get a little bit heated up between them.
A quote from Gaia in God of War 3 sums up their mindset nicely. For context, Kratos had been climbing up Mount Olympus on Gaia's back. A couple boss fights later, Gaia's arm has been torn in half, with her hand literally hanging on by just a thread. Not surprisingly, it's taking everything she has just to maintain her grip on the mountain. Meanwhile, Kratos is losing his grip on her back, and he calls for her aid. Rather than just pointing out that if she she tried, they'd both fall off the mountain and likely die, Gaia says something unbelievably stupid (especially given how she personally guided Kratos the god-killer on his path of revenge against Zeus through GoW 2):
*_"I saved you to serve the Titans... Listen carefully, Kratos. You're just a simple pawn, nothing more. Zeus is no longer your concern. This is our war, not yours."_*
(Not surprisingly, the Ghost of Sparta was not happy with this response. You can guess what followed after he fell.)
*_THAT_* is what I hear whenever I hear these reprobates use the word "ally."
@@Xbalanque84Excellent analogy for what they mean by "ally."
First thing I thought was "that sounds like the Lawful Evil alignment in DnD."
@@Xbalanque84 exactly; "ALLY" doesn't necessarily means "Friends" cause friends got your back all the time and same for you having their back. "Ally" is simply 2 or more people using then disregarding each other in the end at least from the perspective of the quote from the game.
I think this is more telling about you than others if you are the one bringing politics into a game trailer that has zero politics in it, lmao. Good lord.
"I hope Disney buys your favorite franchise" is the worst insult you can throw at someone
truly the worst punishment
Only someone passionate about their franchise
Fate worse than death.
Naah. It's not that big of a deal. Just don't watch it.
My god keep Disney away from anime - oh wait...
7:58 They did make their own IPs. They were called Concord and Dustborn. We all saw how that turned out.
Yep, thats why they highjack old ones
If you showed this to someone 15 years ago, they would have thought this was a crappy mobile game ad that is a rip-off of something.
It really does.
More like wii shovelware
at this point it might as well be a rip off game
I doubt my youngest cousin who was a half my age would even have an interest in this.
2009? No, we would have thought it was a trash corpo java game. Or nintendo shovelware, yeah.
I miss the days when Shipping was just fun and kept to fanworks. People didn't go around trying to force it into the source material and making it into this big deal claiming it was the author's original intention. It was kept to Fan art and fanfic and left there.
I was planning to do a crossover fan-fiction soon (along with four sub-stories of my own) with including some characters from canon with having some or plenty LGBT stuff and mostly or some Mature/NSFW/Explicit stuff. And I also wish of becoming an artist as well.
But I started having flashbacks about Yang & Blake, Korra & Asami, Vivian and Bridget & Testament are being ruined by Twitter/Reddit/Tumblr users. I wouldn't be surprised they would try to ruin Ike, Soren, Randul & Soleil, Valentine & Parasoul and Any Sonic character (especially Sonic himself, Amy, Shadow, Tails, Sally etc) next.
Meh, shipping "forcing" characters together would happen eventually. If a 'couple' gets enough fanmade content then the creator(s) will assume that is what is desired and often push those charactera together. The South Park episode where Tweek and Craig is a pretty good analogy of it, where Asian students draw fanart of them and everyone assumes that is the way things should be.
When Japanese doujins about orcs are more accurate to Tolkien's work than whatever Hollywood and game devs are doing to LoTR
And the Japanese conception of orcs are usually pigmen.
The only thing that's bad HOWEVER is how they're seen to [REDACTED] innocent women to "pleasure" creepy incels
It's at least lore-accurate, provided you ignore that the orcs in the doujinshi's have pig's heads.
@@wesleythomas7125 I like to imagine that some dude said "Orcs are BOARISH", Meaning they're dirty or nasty, but the Japanese took it TO LITTEARLY!!!
💀💀💀
As soon as you see the two developers you know what's coming.
No one would have a problem with this game if it didnt use the Lord of the rings franchise. Letting big companies get their grubby hands on beloved franchises was a mistake.
But then it would sell 100-2000 copies judging by recent and past original ip failures, and they know it.
Let’s be intellectually honest, we shat all over Concord and Dustborn even though they are booth original IPs. There’s more variables then just the wokification of legacy franchises.
Not really
People would just shit on it, rightfuly so, don't get me wrong.
But they wouldn't get success if they made this on their own
Naw the fact they proudly tout diversity and inclusion is our priority would have killed it regardless.
@@unkpo5189But Star Wars Galaxy is not doing too well, along with Ubisoft. Not to mention how rancid the reception by the intended cultural audience, the Japanese, are to the latest Assassins Creed game. People are fed up with these skinsuit projects so much that not even name recognition is helping. Even for well known and even well made titles like the new X-Men 90's revival cartoon. The slightest whiff of agenda and people boycotted it.
you know honestly a farming game set in a lore accurate shire would honestly be a pretty nice all things considered.
Would be so cool if someone would actually make this 🥰
A Shame no Shire Farming Game exists😝
That's what this is.
personally I don't think having different skin toned hobbits ruins any "lore accuracy" for a farming game. It looking like a janky 2000s malware game does.
A cozy LotR farming sim sounds like a pretty good game, too bad they messed it up.
0:10 Too wordy Rev. "May your hobby go mainstream." That's all you need to say.
Dude that's awful
May your favorite japanese studio gets a California subsidiary
“May your games be woke
And the fans - few.”
May your hobbies go mainstream, and it's days few
"i hope Disney reboots your favorite franchise."
I don’t know if it is narcissism or incompetence or just hiding how far behind schedule they are, but filling up half of a 15 second trailer with unattractive devs that no one knows or care about as opposed to gameplay would never be a good sign
Both. It's why they keep getting hired. Either way, the ESG investors destroy cultural touchstones by just letting the worst people for the job do what comes naturally.
Yup. The answer is both and they will face failure without humility, as always.
If the female characters make Gollom look handsome, you know you fucked up.
Precious will always be gorgeous!
How dare you say that to precious! Precious is gorgeous!
The character or the video game? Either way they still look more handsome.
We hates it, my Precious.
😂
Sam and Frodo hugging each other - THEY WERE ON A ROCK IN THE MIDDLE OF A LAVA FIELD AND ABOUT TO DIE! If that scene makes you want to ship them, then you are the pervert.
Pretty much
People who claim that toxic masculinity prevents from man being emotional with each other, are the same people which are incapable of seeing man showing emotions to each other without seeing them as gay.
Tolkien hit the nail on the head with that quote
It rings all the more true as they keep desecrating his own work
This is not the "real" quote but it is in essence what he means.
@@mrturbo84Pretty sure it’s either from his letters or the Silmarillion.
Indeed. Little did he expect it would reach his own art after he was no longer around to protect it.
@@SergioLeonardoCornejo Considering how closely he guarded his works, I’m quite sure he did worry about it.
If they made the game "Litlle black gay gnomes" no one would have bated an eye.
But instead they decided to r@p3 a established IP with their idiology.
Which is entirely the point. This was always about iconoclasm.
Gnomes shouldn't be black! They're from SCANDINAVIA! Unless if they're African pygmies or something.
@@johnzero7 they will still hate you MORE for saying the R word
Your kind still would complain.
That sounds like a parody name
Like that 1992 space movie
I fully expected a purple-haired creature to reveal itself at any point, and it STILL felt like a jumpscare
"Now, in this filthy hole, lived old Wokeisitus, a HAIRY purple creature, with eyes as sunken as holes in a mud pile! "WHAT IS THIS", the creature cried, "A WHITE MALE, HISSSS, CRINGE!" it screamed!"
Seriously, when it appeared, my eyes involuntarily rolled so violently into my skull that I thought I went blind for a moment. Truly terrifying. The purple thing is a visage of horror.
That's just a Dart Frog letting us know to stay away from it.
We really have a subculture of l0s3rs now and w0k3ness is their religion.
@@sacredpower7530 Don't insult dart frogs like that. Dart frogs are actually quite adorable. Useful too, as the tribesmen that live in those same places use the frog's toxins for hunting.
So, the biggest issue with DEI is the lack of diversity. All these people think the exact same thing. I'm a liberal, but I just cringe at this.
I can almost picture them gathered around the cooler to shame their coworker for having a Starbucks ceramic cup on their desk while sneaking through the drive through that very day.
This is so going to go wrong.
Calling it now:
It'll get canceled or once it comes out, it'll be DOA then we'll get blamed for whatever reason.
Story of the woke life cycle
DOA?
@@Theprince034 The irony of the woke never wake up.
@@Mothpostle dead on arrival
@@Mothpostle Dead On Arrival, basically the whole thing is a bad idea and the moment it's released, it'll flop.
The term basically means that when something is dead on arrival, it's destined to fail and it's inevitable
That dude trying to portray the moment where Frodo is fisically and mentally exhausted from the journey of carrying the Ring and being held up by Sam as a gay relationship is the scum of scums. I feel genuinely embarassed even knowing that an asinine person like this likes the same IP as me.
Remember, these people were probably the bullies in your school who picked on you for being a nerd, now they’re trying to steal your money and entertainment for their own.
Some other people say these people were the losers who had no friends in school, but I think you're closer to the mark. They feel like people who have trained their whole life to be manipulative, gaslight people, forming cliques and appeal to authority when things don't go their way.
Nah , look at them 5 seconds , they were not bullies LOL. They're ugly not fit and needed to die their hair for attention because they were getting 0 even though they're women.
@@RobotTanuki Exactly bro. The kids that only did things because it was "cool" to do it.
Ever seen the original The Craft? Its just like the clique in that movie.
definely
Dyed hair and glasses is the human equivalent to those poisonous frogs that are the bright neon colours that basically scream: if you eat me you're in for a bad time
the aposematism is real.
whenever i hear "diversity and inclusivity" in their sentences, i always sigh in disappointment. like WHY?! seriously, why?
It is their religion.
I just start screaming internally. As does the caged chimp in my brain. Pray he never breaks out...
@@NuchiAsaki
Nope. Cult. Religions have standards. Religions are internally consistent.
In itself diversity and inclusivity should sound like a positive but somehow people managed to turn it into the opposite and now each game or movie labeled with these words by the marketers or journalists is doomed to be bad. Cant really think of anything that was advertised as diverse and turned out good
@@ghostthelizard like, at least make it right... but when we see the results its just worse than a dumpster fire
I was unaware that 95% of the hobbits were black
Actually there were 98 other Invisibility Rings at Bilbos Birthday Party. That's why you didn't see them😝🙃
They have been for a while now.
Their first trailer had mostly white hobbits. You guys need to chill the fuck out.
@@HyliaFellThe one who needs to chill is you, Go read the actual books. You are oblivious as you are angry.
@@HyliaFell There should be 0 black people, that's just a fact. Middle Earth was written to be an extremely homogenous, white society. Randomly seeing asians, hispanics, blacks, etc. meshed into the society in Rings of Power destroys the world-building.
I have always hated the trend of making monsters sympathetic. Especially in children's movies. It will teach kids that there are no real monsters, they are just misunderstood. THAT IS DANGEROUS! There is evil, there are monsters. And most of them are in the Didn't Earn It field.
Do you ever think that the ones pushing the "monsters are just misunderstood" line are the monsters themselves?
@@Trystan-k5s Oh that is absolutely what I think. Kinda like the groomer teachers in school trying to normalize their "alternative" lifestyle to kids.
Yep. When people do away with good and evil then no one will be able to discern right from wrong, truth from lies.
Its fine when its a one off thing, the exception to the rule. Such as for DND Drizzt used to be the posterchild for it. Where he was one of the few who had left the underdark and survived.
I read the books by one author where nobody was allowed to be evil. School children destroyed a ghost that had killed people and 1 character, completely unpromted, goes "She wasn't really evil, she was just trying to exist."
I realized something at work today, a great analogy to what's going on in AAA gaming might be comparable to Garth Brooks and the Chris Gains fiasco.
He tried to appeal to a broader audience, changed his genre, and it appealed to practically nobody. His old fans weren't interested, and there was not really an audience for his new persona.
From what I remember (and it's probably not accurate), it nearly tanked his career.
The problem with trying to alter a brand/IP to appeal to a new audience is that someone who already knew of that brand and wasn't interested before, isn't going to suddenly start being interested in it after the change. So all you end up doing is losing the people that don't like these changes rather than gain a new following. It's very simple yet companies fail to understand this.
@@bluefang62 only thing i can think of as far as brands replacing their old audience goes is that newer version of shira
@@hertzwave8001 The funny thing about She ra is that the new audience is miniscule compared to the audience they once had and lost when they tried to appeal to the modern audience.
TBH a game where you're just vibing as a hobbit is a great idea. There's entire guest houses based on the Shire and living as they did and do amazing profit wise. Having a game here you just live as a hobbit would be a fantastic fun concept. IF done correctly and had a good art direction that doesn't look like Steven Universe meets mobile graphics.
It'll be cool if it looked like the old Rankin Bass hobbit cartoon
@@shirleymaemattthews4862 For sure something that had a nice vintage bookish feel
@@CybellaN Like what the HOBBIT is supposed to be!
Personally I think they should have gone more pixel art sprite with visual novel style portraits for dialogue, instead of trying to make a completely 3d world. it obviously is not within that studios skill set.
There was a Steven Universe mobile game. Its graphics were Flash animation.
Sweet Baby Inc. CEO Kim Belair :” If they don't see the value in what you are asking for when you ask for consultants and when you ask for research, go have a coffee with your marketing team and just terrify them with the possibility of what's going to happen if they don't give you what you want.”
3:02 Aposematism, also know as warning coloration, is the phenomenon of animals displaying bright, obnoxious colors to advertise their toxicity.
"if you eat me, you will die."
@@xenopsychologist4943 "If you look at me, your eyes will burn."
@@dansmith1661 "If you touch me, your flesh will melt."
The fact that the game was being marketed as “cozy and quirky” was the biggest red flag.
Why? The Shire has always been considered a cozy environment.
@@Cure_Hana Yes it is, that's not the issue. It's the marketing. Particularly the quirky part because there is a predominance of 'cozy and quirky' market to and by these individuals and their target audience. Like everything else the rest of us are no longer allowed 'cozy' because they have co-opted it for their own use to the exclusion of others. It's a very common tactic and it's called subsuming.
@@immortalkaos80 I guess I can see where you’re coming from. Though I’m still going to give this game a fair chance unless it comes out a broken, buggy mess.
Yeah that style of games is getting old and boring
Evil constantly gets exposed cuz these people in charge of these places make it obvious by their actions.
So technically if a guy is friends with another guy or a girl is friends with another girl they're automatically gay for each other.
That makes no damn sense friendship does not mean smashing your friend. Twitter is very weird
When i saw a "Tales of" title i expect a next game of the Japanese "Tales of" franchise not this woke trash. Bandai should sue them for harming their brand.
😂❤
While I'd love to see that... that's not going to happen, they can copyright the entire batch 'Tales of whatever' titles, but they can't copyright 'Tales of' itself.
No, I don't want to vindicate Candy Crush for trying to sue the creators of Banner Saga.
You realize bandai has said they embrace dei? And that the tales games have got more and more censored over the years? Bandai would be congratulating them.
I don't think that Bandai owns the word Tales followed by Of
They could have all the black/brown and everything in-between "halflings" they want if they made their own IP. But noooo, instead they always try to piggyback on another IP's popularity, wich in this case is specifically set in a mythical version of medivial England. If you dont respect the original IP or drastically try to change it, then you have no business doing anything with it to begin with....
I wish normal people could have something not be destroyed by weirdos
From furry to weeb to edgy dweeb and people who smoke weed, none them like woke trash. It's almost funny how everyone has come together against them 💀
Remove the "be" and replace "weirdos" with "woke". Woke has already corrupted the US society, and now they want to influence gamers.
Just like anime fans 👀
That's why we have to gatekeep our hobbies.
As an example, we gotta keep those tourists from corroding anything to do with anime.
@GoldSrc_ that's so stupid, it keeps being stupid everyday. You gatekeep your franchises from new fans, what will it do to the multi millionare companies that intend to make money off of it? Absolutely nothing. They will still buy the rights and make it even more mainstream to attract those people you rejected.
Simon Tolkien really sold us out.
He will be damned for this atrocity.
That 15 seconds teaser feels like the High Guardian Spice "Kickstarter" teaser.
You forgot to put quotes on the "teaser" as well...
Friendships between two men (both unfortunately real and fictional) have been fetishized by weird people. No one can *fathom* two men that aren’t the typical super macho bros deciding to be vulnerable and hug and comfort each other. If they wanted to do things like that, fanfiction and fanart exists for this reason. You wanna ship those two guys from Lord of the Rings together, fine, nothing is stopping you, I ship characters together too, but trying to change canon to make them be together while only making their relationship more on the romantic side goes a step too far. That would be like me trying to change Sonic the Hedgehog’s narrative to make Sonic x Amy canon even though Sonic is not about romance. It just won’t work and someone will (rightfully) say that I should just make my own IP.
This is what happens to Korea & Asami and Blake & Yang respectively. I could Imagine if they do the same with Sonic x Amy or Shadow or any Sonic ship, Ike x Soren or Ranulf and Valentine x Parasoul into the canon, and I wouldn't be surprised if that happens.
@@sirkinsella9831 Yup
@@sirkinsella9831 I am pretty sure if Sonic X Amy were to become a thing, it'd be a really toxic relationship considering Sonic is kind of a prick
Those two devs alone raised massive red flags
At least the second one was good looking🤷♂️
Physignomy check 😂
@@Redneck_Herolol no she isn't, she looks like a high school desk in a ghetto neighborhood. The first dev looked like a trash bag stuffed with cookie dough + purple wig.
Transwomen hates biological women.
tolkien was exhaustingly extremely thorough in his work. If there was anything romantic between sam and frodo WE WOULD KNOW.
That's not an actual quote from Tolkien. But it very vaguely resembles what he wrote about Morgoth and the origin of the Orcs:
"No, they eat and drink, Sam. The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own. I don’t think it gave life to the orcs, it only ruined them and twisted them; and if they are to live at all, they have to live like other living creatures." (LoTR The Return of The King)
"To the unfriendly who, not knowing them well, declared that Morgoth must have bred the Orcs from such a stock the Eldar answered: "Doubtless Morgoth, since he can make no living thing, bred Orcs from various kinds of Men, but the Drúedain must have escaped his Shadow;" (Unfinished Tales)
Well you can't spell Devil without D E I
@@Lvmyen ironic cause some anime fans have devils as "WaIfUs";
Koakuma, Satania, The Helltaker girls, The succubus from Street fighter.
@@shirleymaemattthews4862darkstalkers*
@@shirleymaemattthews4862 well succubus is a demon, or monster at least
@@zonnodon163 yes..and I wonder how do people gt away with adding succubi in fiction if they're EVIL in Jewish, Islam, and Christain beliefs
@@shirleymaemattthews4862 not everyone follows one of those religions, and even for those who do the sane ones wouldn't be bothered by fictional demon characters
Destroying our beloved franchises is a humiliation ritual.
Bro just copying asmongold clips comments at this point
@@joelhodoborgas work smart not hard
@@joelhodoborgas For real
Smeagol: wtf is this shit
For who?
Concord has failed, Dustborn failed, Rings of power is failing, Suicide Squad failed, The adventures of Jane Solo is failing(3 more games can't remember failed), Woke studios are going out of business and "warm seats" are being laid off since Jan 2024 as the Pandemic economic injection money and DEI money spigots were cut off in Feburary 2023 and current grants needing more accountability and receipts so even SBI is running out of sucker money to stay afloat😹
Everything seems fine to me
Lord of the Rings has elves, dwarves, Hobbits, wizards, and human races coming together to fight a common enemy. Somehow it's not diverse enough for some people.
The original books were written between the world wars.
At least the bad guys aren't big nosed, money hungry, bearded people....YIKES!
Only real world DEIversity counts to them, you could have all kinds of non-human animal species in a show or game and they'd still be trying to work out which ones are black, white, Asian, etc.
One of the trailers is called "Life in Peace".
More like Rest in Peace.
If they wanted a peaceful game, why don't they just play Animal Crossing?
@@Xbalanque84 Haven't those gay autists already violated Animal Crossing and Splatoon before?
Another day i am proud of my own culture and grateful of being an Asian. Lord have mercy on this homosexual developers.
Damn, as if Ring of Power and Gollum were not enough. Tolkien must be spinning in his grave at such velocity, that we risking our planet to go out of it's orbit.
As a proper Tolkienlore fan, i know they just heard some names within the Shire and shoved them into a game, "hobbits entering Bywater"? Bywater isn't even at the edge of the Shire! And there's Hobbits who live on the outskirts and outside the Shire in Bree.
They'd know that if they were real fans or did a modicum of research
This is so sad, because Weta workshop has made some very good things, like Thunderbirds and they’re very good at making things like mockups. I’ve been to their workshop in Wellington and was pretty cool.
Well it's clear that they have been infected with American identity politics. This is a game that comes from their studio.
The devs who made those things are long gone. Weta Workshop is just a name.
Weren't they involved with the special effects of the movies?
@@Antillles Yup,yup and they did awesome work with the props and effects
DEI is basically racism with rainbows attached to it
Whoa... I've never heard this one before, but it is shocking how true this statement is. It's wild to me how many dei consultants are being revealed as extremely racist individuals. 😂
Why those people stick to the same cliché, they have neon dyed hairs tattoos and pierces… when you have full team of developers “if they really qualified” you know that it will be crapp.
Because they want to show how ‘unique’ and special they are.
I'm very curious how their appearancecs affects their ability as a developer? Also curious why you talk the same way as my pearl-clutching grandmother. Nini, is this you?!
@@HyliaFellnot innately, but in terms of pattern recognition. In other words, it's not that the appearance is dictating the person, it's the person that is dictating the appearance, and those with those appearances pretty consistently tend to do the same kinds in regards to games ( and other types of entertainment media), and more often than not it's not for the better
Wokeness has destroyed so many beloved IPs…
WHAT IS WOKENESS?!?
@@shirleymaemattthews4862 This trash game, to give one exemple.
You're disgracing to Autistic people (including me).
@@shirleymaemattthews48623 different things: to be awake ( not applicable here), Marxism crossed with intersectionality ( sometimes applicable) or excessive focus on political/ social activism to the point of both detriment and irrelevancy ( most commonly applicable)
@@christophermonteith2774 Weren't the N@zis National socialists?
Tolkien said in his letters that orcs weren't absolute evil, they were corrupted and redeemable. He also said there should be orc women, but any form of family would definitely be a corrupted evil form thereof. Doubt mothers would care about protecting their children or treating them good in any shape or form.
I don't believe they can surpass the Gollum game, of course you have to guess on which aspect they surpassed it.
They dont only take popular IPs for clout. They take it to insert their OWN weird headcanon.
"How does it feel to live long enough to witness your favorite franchises go down in flames?"
"Feels great!"
just call that stuff what it is, fanfiction.
Red Letter Media nailed it.
goes down in flames to flamers
"I hope your favorite franchise becomes mainstream" is also a good threat
Just about every IP I have enjoyed as a child has been destroyed / burnt down in front of me...... And it feels truly amazing 😂
How is it amazing?
@@Cloudrunner62it's so ridiculous that he can't stop laughing
@@handleloverkira With sadness perhaps.
Ik this is sarcastic and people don't care but-- I'm legit sorry to hear that bro. About to have a kid myself so, idk, this hit home.
A lot of newer things just don't exist in the canon, I'm looking forward to reboots in a decade or two
I feel like these hijackers keep taking the name of these IP's hoping fans will be paypigs, then get mad with the shocked pikachu face when it doesn't work.
I'm honestly sick of seeing so many "cozy farm games." They're late trying to capture the stardew valley fame/crowd.
Just ignore them. They aren't worth your time/energy.
The thing is Stardew Valley was made with love and care, and had a soul you could feel from the characters, designs, the artstyle, the gameplay and the writing.
You don't feel any of that there
"Why do cats keep disappearing in the Shire?"
OMG I'm dying
@@shirleymaemattthews4862Ironic ? Why ? Please develop.
One of the few times Rev laughed
@@shirleymaemattthews4862Isn't eating cats and dogs a Korean stereotype?
@@erichzannbusoumuzan Its referring to haitian immigrants kidnapping and eating cats in America
@@erichzannbusoumuzan I thought it was Chinese. Also, WHERE did Trump got th idea of Haitians eating cats from?
"Why do cats keep disappearing in the Shire?" Pfffffffft ahahaahaha
Haitians, probably.
@@huntertaylor367I mean, it could be Gollum covered in tar!
Ironic cause Rev is a JAPANESE ANIME fan
It obviously isn't the orcish
Refugees that the steward of gondor sent to the shire stating that all of middle earth must except these poor refugees.
Hobbits are hungry vermin ofc they will eat and hunt all animals they can get on their grubby little thieving hands on...
Without understanding Tolkien's two motivators, his love of rural England, and his deeply held Roman Catholicism, you will never do Tolkien justice. These games and ROP are wiping their arse on a series of books that are basically love letters to a country and a belief system.
That isn't their goal.
Tolkien did not base LOTR on either of those things, though. Most of his inspiration for it was from the Norse Eddas and the Sami tribe, especially when it comes to the languages he crafted. Tolkien was also very anti-racist and wouldn't have stood for people shitting on other people like this.
@@HyliaFell Horseshit. He stated outright the whole of Middle Earth was an English origin story. And without understanding both England and the religious basis that Tolkien used to underpin the whole mythos you cannot understand him.
@@HyliaFell By the way, in terms of language, he used Finnish and Welsh.
@@HyliaFell OP did not say that , he said they were motivators. Tolkien was also not anti-racist as that is a modern twisted term used to hide bigotry.
It’s our failure too that Lord of the Ring got to this point to be honest. Way too many people said “Ah, its okay, i’m sure it won’t get worse than this” too many time. It got to this point because it went woke and they still profited off of it.
You don't understand how licensing works. It's a business based on speculation. How much the actual customers end up spending doesn't affect the quality of the product, because it is made before anyone pays for it.
@@RokuroCarisu i’m sure you thought you said something smart, but you didn’t.
This is so sad. Weta Workshop used to be a goated studio who made movie props. They made the armors and weapons for the Peter Jackson LOTR movies and they were so great. They made a woke game studio?
i saw the art style and my brain said, noooo!
They have purple haired orcs now? Wait, that's the dev???
Ah yes… orcs… I’m a dark, evil corrupted creature made solely for the purpose of war and destruction… I obviously want to start a family, build plows instead of swords, and live peacefully
Ugh… this isn’t TES folks… these things aren’t supposed to be sympathetic
its literally like, if you wanna explore that avenue, then don't bloody use a franchise where there is absolutely no room to debate that they're evil, no ifs, ands, or buts.
@@jzpowell2108 THE HECK IS A TES?
@@wolfsongrising Orcs were corrupted elves, turned into what they are by Melkor. They were not innately evil but became that way through horrific abuse and corruption. Tolkien himself even stated that he is uncomfortable with the concept of an irredeemably "bad" race, and that orcs were "Begotten of sin" but not "Naturally bad".
Their entire existence is that of a slave to evil, but that doesn't make them naturally evil. So yeah, there is room to debate on what their future might consist of; if they could ever become uncorrupted, regain their sense of humanity, etc and so on.
@@shirleymaemattthews4862 The Elder Scrolls… sometimes shortened to TES
They just got the tolkien orcs and men the wrong way, lol.
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.”
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
Orwell 1984
I was just thinking the other day about how ALL of my favorite IPs have either been destroyed or completely forgotten. I don't even want to type any of my favorites in the forgotten category in fear of it flagging some algorithm hunting for more IPs to "modernize"
It's better that the IP is forgotten than be involved with modern American entertainment.
Same.
forgotten is preferable to subversion
I really love how they go "oh, let's make a twist, where the race of bad guys are actual the good guys" as if that hasn't been done all the time already. But at last there they take a race from mythology where you can excuse it as "the real ones are different that the stories" not a race in the same world that was literally created to be evil. For them to become good guys we'd need a story of someone fighting against their programming and trying to teach the others of their race the other way.
I guess it's a blessing Shadow of War released before all this Chaos.....
It had questionable characters as well but no one cared for them because the Orcs were the main point.
EA's shit is so full of microtransactions you'd find less ants in a fucking anthill than you would microtransactions in an EA game. Even if the 'game' is good, the microtransactions ruin everything.
@@ZPu95 No it didn't? What, just cause it had that one black dude? He's human, humans are allowed to be black
@@Ashurman666 Yes.
@@Ashurman666 I'm pretty sure the bigger things people questioned were the actions, presentation and characterisation of Shelob, Celebrimbor, Annatar/Sauron etc..
FFS, don't those CEOs have internet?! How in tarnation are they able to go "yep, this will sell well!" with all of the negativity, and heck proven fact that this kind of DEI crap gets you bankrupt?! I just cannot believe that investors like Blackrock that push this give them that much money with no repercussions.
It doesn't need to sell well. It's just another step towards creating the modern audience.
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Never has a 15 second clip given me such a strong endgame myself urge
I'm glad that "Woke" developers are trying to create "Woke" versions of games, books, movies. What happens is that no one buys their stuff, the investors lose money and eventually everyone involved get burned enough to stop.
The people behind the Lord of the rings, intellectual property licensing, have got to be the absolute worst when it comes to vetting.
Must be the people that used to run the games workshop licensing division.
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The Family should’ve pulled a Dahl family and gatekeepept people to defend the legacy of their relative they probably hate this as much as you if not more at least I’d hope so
considering that his family hates the movies, i am not surprised
Freaking EA treated this franchise with more respect
That shouldn’t be possible
With few exceptions all of Games Workshop's games I know of are pretty fucking good, and I'm talking video games not the logistical and financial nightmares that are their tabletop games. So that analogy isn't a very good one.
They betrayed the family.
One woman with neon dyed hair and another with tattoos going down the entire length of her arms.
Yep. Dead on arrival. The only thing surprising is neither of them have piercings through their nose/lips/wherever else on their face
A goth girl I met had more class than those two.
Oh my goodness, don't clutch your pearls too hard, you might break them! Seriously though, they're in fucking new zealand, and those tattoos look extremely similar to traditional Maori tattoos, which I know this might upset you, but there are light-skinned Maori just like there are light-skinned natives in the USA.
@@Corrderio they could be the Onis Japanese folks been warning us about 👀
@HyliaFell it's ugly
@@HyliaFellDoesn’t matter. Physical appearance is everything in business. You can’t go “I have the right to express myself!” when trying to attract customers, especially on an international scale.
And her cohort with the dyed hair doesn’t help give a professional appearance either.
So, Amazon took advice from Extra Credits for the depiction of orcs in Rings of Power Season 2.
And Tales from the Shire? More like Tales from the 'hood.
@@thejaegerbomber99 "My bro Gandalf betta give me summa dat Pipe weed, or I so gonna bust a cap in his beard, dawg!"
8:30. "Just make your own thing."
Concord shows what happens when they make their own thing. No one shows up.
The wokeness wasn't a major factor in why Concord failed. Its audience is playing Overwatch 2 and Valorant instead. Most people aren't dumb enough to spend $40 to play a worse version of a game they are already playing for free.
@@NuchiAsaki It was a major factor. Why is The First Descendant still around with 25,000 people playing it currently? Mind you, this is 20 times the amount of people that played Concord's FREE beta. Don't tell me that The First Descendant is a better game than Concord--I played Concord's beta for around 20-ish hours before calling it quits, and while it wasn't great it was leagues better than the 10 hours I spent with The First Descendant.
Hell, why does Dead or Alive: Venus Vacation have 1,700 players right now, 1,000 more players than Concords peak on a random Saturday night? That game is not only more boring than Concord, it's banned in 95% of the world!
Trust me, if Concord brought them sweet sweet anime tiddies it would be alive and well today, 40 USD pay-in or not.
@@stizzo135 The First Descendant is free, it costs nothing to try it other than time.
Dead or Alive: Venus Vacation doesn't have competition.
The live service game industry is a zero-sum game. For a game to succeed, it must pull an audience from another game. To do that, you have to be so much better than the competition that players are willing to abandon an account that they may have thousands of hours on. You're not going to do that by copying your competitor and requiring a purchase.
Baldur's Gate 3 is woke and was a massive success. Hades 2 is woke and will likely be a massive success. Normies don't care about your culture war.
@@NuchiAsakiSo is yours.
@@NuchiAsaki as I said earlier, Concord had a free beta (that is how I played it). The all-time peak was 2,388 players. The First Descedant peaked at 10 times that amount.
Dead or Alive has no competition in the gacha space? I mean, I guess, if you really badly want to watch girls play volleyball (you don't get to control the girls in this version). If you are just looking to collect waifus, there is plenty of competition. Also note that you cannot buy this game in 95% of the world and it's not even searchable in the US Steam store. I had to download it by searching for it online through the web browser and use a VPN to spoof my IP to somewhere in Asia.
2:17 that 'prepare to go broke' comment is too accurate
''Diversity and inclusion''
Diversity and inclusion''
Diversity and inclusion''
Diversity and inclusion''
There was a time when I use to look at those words and agree ''yes, it's important to have it everywhere!''. Nowadays, everytime I see that, I just know the product isn't worth it.
It’s so sad what they did with that hobbit game cause that actually sounds like a good premise
Dear lord, that looks terrible. Not even getting into skin color or anything like that, the character and background design and the movement look worse than a cheap and crappy 360 game
They really just ruining everything huh
I am so pissed off by the Frodo and Sam thing at the end. I LOVE my friends, I really really do, but I wish I had a fraction of the heart that Sam has... and they call him gay? I call him the broest bro that ever broed, and I want to be like him.
Well said
They can't make their own shit, because they know no one will fkn buy it. 🙄
They used 8 years and $200 million to make Concord and it lasted less than two weeks. 😂
Sam carried the whole fellowship and is the sole reason why they were actually able to dispose of the ring, then he went home and married his sweetheart and had FOURTEEN lil hobbits. These people are insane.
Once your favorite franchise is in the hands of the modern audience, you know it’s all over
Weta is also working on Amazon's Ring's of Power; very sad since Weta also worked on Peter Jackson's films.
The "evil cannot create" quote isn't a direct quote from Tolkien. It's a quote from Frodo that's been paraphrased.
It’s crazy they got the rights. You can’t just slap lord of the rings and on a project. This had to be cleared by multiple people and probably spend a bunch of money to get access to use. Right? So everyone involved in that process are completely disconnected from the target audience? Seems hard to believe. Mind blowing.
What kind of scheme are behind these woke developers. How do they get those awful games founded by investors. Is this some kid of money laundry?
The investors want to spread their ideology. Propaganda works so they pay these studios to create it.
"Buy our game so you can enjoy an adventure where the most exciting thing you'll ever encounter is when a new microtransaction drops!"
Im not even sure how to comment about this. As a New Zealander seeing weta workshops name on this is just so sad.
Hearing about them making a lotr's game years ago for this to release is just a spit in the face.
It was probably funded a lot by NZ too.
I still have hope for anything Peter Jackson does but its clear to see this game studio was probably trusted to someone to run and is just cooked now.
I mean, they are based in wellington so
@@Kvitebjorn257 yeah but as small as wellington is, its not 1 block. Also Peter lives in outer greater wellington over an hour away, hes not directly involved with most of weta.
The developers who made the things you like are either long gone or they hate you. Weta Workshop is just a name they are using to trick you into buying their propaganda. Don't fall for it.
As another new zealander i agree
Its embarrassing and it stings seeing what Weta workshop is becoming. and then that makes all new zealanders look bad because of shit like this.
DEI ruins everything
I didn't know anything about it and saw it on my feed without any context. Within 2 seconds I asked "why does it look so ..." And the a second later the candy color hair. It is pure woke
Who the hell is in charge of Tolkien's estate these days? We need to find that person and shame them for signing off on all this shit.
Weta Workshop is Peter Jackson's company, so at least this game has more pedigree than Rings of Power or that Gollum game.
Purple hair is an immediate red flag
its amazing just how a picture of a dev tells you everything you need to know about said game