Are you sure about that. There have always been pretty depressing games out there. There was even a whole Era of war games which are a reminder of the wars in real life with some pretty fucked up stories. Some of the earlier call of duty for example or gears of war. I think you might of just been younger when you played those games dude.
Game stories based off real world is different to restricting artistic expression for the sake of modern cultural expectations and decorum. This whole topic runs parallel to freedom of speech
@@Mrpoop-zw2wh They were focused on telling stories instead of being cringe propaganda rubbish. That's what Walter actually means. The censorship is a hell of a lot worse these days too.
There were always games that depicted real world problems, but back then there were done right by people that actually cared about it and now is just a box to be checked and it feels weird
What's even crazier about characters needing to reflect current politics is that it applies to villains too: You can have a genocidal mass murderer no problem, but you can't make him genuinely racist in a truly offensive way, because that's somehow suporting racism???
In entertainment it's best to stay away from certain topics but racism can be done with fantasy type characters like elfs calling out dwarfs for example the problem is stay close to real life.
"Kay is already being described as the female Han Solo." Sooo... they need to compare her to a male character just to give her a leg to stand on? Imagine if she was interesting enough to be compared to herself.
This is what I've been saying for a long time ever since they started genderbending superheroes and whatnot. It only proves that the creators themselves don't feel confident a female character on her own can make it to popularity unless her origin is taken or even completely alternate universed a popular male character to be female, yet feels the utmost need to cater to the demand of diversity while also being too afraid to make the female character her own cause that might be controversial. So it's no surprise Kay is described that way cause the creators likely felt they needed to use the base form of Han Solo for her to make it, which is bullshit. Give us original female characters that don't feel like lesser versions of a popular male characters.
Remember when Neil Druckmann fired the most accomplished female writer in videogames because her writing wasn't 'feminist' enough.. Uncharted, Last of Us. Dead.
@@deanwilliams433 Well Neil is the biggest soyboy loser in the industry, but there's no denying Naughty Dog games have always been masterpieces. TLOU2 is a technical marvel, pushed industry boundaries, just like Uncharted 4. But its story was just stupid and filled with forced woke garbage that also ruined Joel's character. TLOU2 sub is justified in many. You can't get that much hate if you haven't been the best in the industry for generations. People have high expectations
I feel you. We play games to escape like reading a novel or playing a board game with friends. They got rid of everything good in games and made them political. I think game developers messed up going corporate now we have political ideals and advertisements not video games
The thing is there is room for a char like Abby, bc there are women bodybuilders IRL & even butch women, but u still need the majority to be femme & a few to be super hot
@@scarletsletter4466the problem with abbey is she is poorly written and unrealistically built like the girl in the vid says it just makes no sense for her to be that buff but the real problem is the execution of her character or lack their of lol
It's crazy that in an age where we're told to praise Onlyfans stars for empowering themselves with their sexuality, we have the same people telling us video game women are oversexualized.
The people saying this shit don't have consistent values and attempting to take what they say seriously is an exercise in futility. We need to get this straight. These people HATE YOU. At best they just see you as a mark to extract money from. They say whatever they need to in the moment to simultaneously status signal and shit on the things you like out of malice
I think the perfect example is 2B and A2. This game is about to turn 10 years old, but girls still cosplay these characters. No one is forcing them to. They just like to do it because they are beautiful characters. When the creator of the game was asked why the female characters look like that, he said “because I love beautiful women”. Yes, that simple and that honest.
But also it comes back to when some people say "nobody wants to play an ugly character in a video game" which I honestly do believe is true. If you look at something like an MMORPG where you get to choose the race of your character, even the races that could be considered "ugly" you can still modify to make any race of character look as good or as ugly as you want. However move over to something like Concord where those characters looked how they did and nobody wants to ppay as those characters.
Fat and ugly is fat and ugly, most don't like it, but more importantly is its your choice and its not wrong. The agendas are trying to make you feel bad or wrong for making that choice, and that you HAVE to like and accept everyone, especially when you choose against the deviants of societal norms.
Most "old gamers" are like this now. We know what a good game really is like. There's no comparison between the trash we have now and the greatness that was years ago. I really feel bad for the new generations.
Yup and I've even started to look at older games that I didn't like at first, another chance. I figure, at the very least, these games were well-made and not complete slop like nowadays.
@@marcusaurelius5149 You're not and they're not. Every age has garbage. The best survive the test of time, it's a bias. You're more acutely aware of the present's failings because you are living with them.
Nier Automata, GoW 2018, GoW Ragnarok, Persona 5, FFVII Remake/Rebirth, Octopath Traveler 1 & 2, FFXVI, BotW, TotK, Sekiro, Elden Ring, AC6, Black Myth Wukong, Mario Odyssey, Shadowbringers, Endwalker, BG3, I can keep going as long as you want. That’s just games I’ve played and enjoyed in the last 7 years, but I keep a spreadsheet and there are over 100 games on it, literally just too lazy to go bring up the tab and copy paste it. You’re absolutely delusional if you think we don’t get good games anymore.
This is what I’ve been saying. We girls don’t want to play ugly characters & modern games make all female characters unattractive. When I have a better body than the chars in most AAA games… that doesn’t make me want to play 😂
I married-up big time, and my wife gets comments from other women about her looks every time we go out somewhere. She also plays games and puts 100+ hours into RPGs like Skyrim, and she always makes her characters attractive. Attractive females exist, and some of them play games. I'll admit, even as a man, I always make my character an idealized better looking version of myself. Either that, or a hideous green skinned ghoul with a bowl-cut, like I made in Elden Ring.
They haven't just removed their physical beauty but also their feminine personalities. The irony is that in the name of feminism, these developers have removed all feminine traits in women and replaced them with masculine traits.
No it means exactly that. Attractiveness is a part of femininity. Personality is also portrayed masculine or feminine. Your understanding is limited by how deeply you understand the issue
Who gives a fuck, I'd play a whole game as an unattractive decaying grandma if it meant the gameplay was as good as dmc 5 or doom eternal. This is such a non-issue. There are a lot of problems with modern games and this is the one people want to talk about the most for some reason.
Never forget: for one women who says that she doesn't like new games like that, there is also a game designer how thinks that this woman has no idea what she wants and he knows it better.
well that is exactly how game devs think because part of their job is to make a decision based on what they believe the majority of their playerbase will enjoy. so i think you may be the next einstein
(good) Gamedevs do know what players want, more than they do. Like, literally. It's documented. Yo, science b**tch.. Lemme explain. Obviously it's my more nuanced than that statement, and by science I just mean it's a documented phenomenon. You can look it up. Players will naturally min max the fun outta games if you allow it. People don't do what's most fun. They do what's most efficient. If the most efficient behavior in your game means a terrible gameplay experience, that's what they will do. The LAST thing you wanna do is give them what they say they want. And it's not about what you want either, it's just: Make the experience fun. Straight up. That's it."Game fun? Game good." Simple.
Thats what happens when a once niche hobby goes mainstream. the talented devs we know remain talented devs while old bobby from the marketing team who also worked hard gets promoted as CEO 2-5 yrs later.
Games used to be gatekept, especially PC games. Now the floodgates have opened and the normies sunk their fangs into the industry and that means the suits come in and buy out the small indie developers and start implementing bs like microtransactions.
The last time I really enjoyed a game was The Witcher 3. Everything since then has been downhill. Arguably everything was going downhill before then, but Witcher 3 was the last hurrah.
People play games to escape and have fun. Part of that for a lot of us is seeing an ideal world, even if that world is teeming with monsters. Having beautiful people in your game is nothing to be ashamed of.
I think this is one of the reasons the Indie games scene has kind of exploded over the last decade. Indie devs have to focus on making their game as fun and enjoyable as possible because that is what sells the game.
We don't make ugly video game characters for a reason. Ugly lead characters don't make people buy games. We like beautiful things, nothing wrong with that.
@11:44 not weird guys pushing it, its a certain culture right now doing it and we all damn well know the people that are a part of that culture that are doing it.
Palworld, Helldivers, Stellar Blade, Wuthering Waves and Black Myth Wukong are all games this year that did incredibly well and none of them were made in America.
Pretty sure that's by design. Investors are investing in "untapped" businesses in other countries and are forcing domestic companies to tank with current politics. It's all about growing their money in Other countries and then reinvesting in the US when the economy tanks enough.
@@dustysmoke4996 This is what I don't understand. BG3 is pretty damn woke. But it brought great story telling, compelling characters, minimal tech issues, and at a decent price. Why couldn't studios see the success of the game and learn from it. They can be woke without shoving it down players throats and reach a far greater audience.
@@MikkosFreeit has a place in video games and other media As long as it’s not the focus of the story you’re trying to deliver like for example Ellie from the last of us 2 being gay didn’t really affect the story It was just a known fact that she is and people accepted that it hurts video games and other media when it’s put at the focus and it’s created to celebrate that they are this diverse or gay or whatever type person Everything else around it gets damaged because it’s sacrificed for the sake of celebrating their sexuality or their identity Too much effort is put into that instead of the game being good like gameplay. Another example is the horizon games Great story Great gameplay ( not legendary by any means but god damn it is fun ) Creative world building Still succeeded in being a good video game even though aloy is now confirmed to be gay the burning shores dlc confirmed it but it was an option people could choose and it wasn’t enforced although canon wise She is That’s just my thoughts on that Maybe I’m right maybe I’m wrong who knows but from my observation This is what I think.
@@MikkosFree okay, but you can just about destroy anyone at anytime, so if you dont like their message you just delete them, how many other games with woke stuff even let you scratch those characters?
Also they are often proud of being 40+ hours of gameplay, while having less substance than the original Castlevania on NES, which I can beat in under 20 minutes. Sure they have 40+ hours of stuff but it is like an hour until you are repeating the same stuff as though it is a chore. I remember when I beat Breath of the Wild and I was so glad I finally finished the last temple. Not because of the joy and sense of achievement, but because I could finally just stop playing it. It was a great game but please give me Link to the Past of Ocarina any day.
I got called a pick me for the first time the other day. A woman made a video saying they wanted romance options in Elden Ring, and that all games would be better if they had romance in them. I simply said "No thanks, games don't need to incentivise women to play them with romance". She got really aggressive and assumed I was a man, when I pointed out I was a woman I got absolutely dragged it was too funny 😂
Romance never has to feel forced or unnecessary and while I think Romance isn't that bad and she was just rude I do think Romance wouldn't feel as good as how you think it would in elden ring. It can be cool in the next game tho,IF our character can finally talk
I think it was more about being able to have it rather than being forced to go through it. I like romantic relationships in such videogames like BG3, I am early gen-z guy
@markpalmerton6625 Dragged is when a lot of people go in on you in the comments section. Basically calling me all kinds of names etc. like a bunch of bullies essentially.
Uncharted 2 was great but it was still more gameplay focused, while last of us was more story focused, plus it got way more popular and broke into the best games of all time
@@sane7527I mean Uncharted 2’s story is pretty damn long especially when you start counting up each installment’s plot too. U2’s also my favorite game out of the group especially when getting to the Tibetian mountain range storyline and Shangra-La
One missing component of this conversation is about how games in the past had more motivation to be good. Not only because they couldn't patch stuff later to make it better, but because their monetization strategies often included sequels that could be released at a much greater rate. This gives developers a reason to ensure that their games hit certain quality benchmarks while appealing to their base, so you will be more apt to purchase their future products. Nintendo, FromSoft, and Capcom seem to be some of the few major developers who still use this strategy.
People like to hate on Nintendo for PR and how they handle the legal side. However, Nintendo made a decision long ago to think about how they can make there business last long term. They weren't always making video games. But they shifted there business to them. And even with gaming they recognized certain trends ahead of time and made smart decisions to avoid future problems in the console wars.
@humanchannel9421 Not even close. Protecting your IP under Japanese law is a necessity that has almost bitten them in the past. So yeah, they both seem legally predatory, but it's a different rule set they're playing by. Financially, neither are particularly predatory compared to other major gaming companies. They are simply doing what is necessary to compete in a saturated market.
@@yujiro424 That's a nice story, but Capcom has some of the most disgustingly predatory monetization in games, commonly based on gambling, but often simply based on predating human psychology. Look at any modern Capcom game - it's filthy, much worse than most western devs. As for Nintendo, their name is synonymous with greed, so not much of an argument.
I love how they picture straight guys as bad guys, but as gay let me tell you, some of the most hateful people, that talk nonsense and is over-critic are people from the LGBT+ movement, and I love how most people that agree is people who haven't talk enough to other human being that isn't part of the same collective, wich make the whole take stupid (don't get me wrong, obviously you have a lot of people hating for the sake of hate, is not a sexuality thing and I do feel kinda bad that the gaming side of the community I belong has so many people who talk without knowing and making it a statement)
Its about time more people start speaking about this. I'm an older bisexual and let me tell you, some of the shittiest, nastiest self absorbed and downright toxic people I have ever met have been in the LGBT movement. And they use their gayness as a shield to never receive punishment or criticism for their nasty behaviour. I've been told I'm not a "real" member as a bisexual so many times over the years its part of the reason I don't really go for groups anymore, I'm just out here doing my own thing.
I watched a video yesterday that drives this point home. There's a UA-cam channel called "no cap on god" and he went undercover at the DNC convention as a gay guy. Pretending to be gay caused all these people to act completely different towards him vs if he went up to them as a straight white male.
I almost joined the furry community growing up as bi, but the constant sneering against conservatives and christians really put me off. Ironically it is christians who are the most understanding in my experience.
Not a LGBTQ+ member, but from friends who are and my ex dealing with a lot of pride people, the amount of talking shit behind each other's back, drama, making drama out of nothing worth making drama of and the "agree with everything I do, I say or I think or f**k off!" and sometimes intolerance is insane. Idk if there are more toxic people than outside, but the toxicity in there is just continuous, dishonest and spreads rumors in no time. It's different and you have to walk on eggshells and then some.
Cal kestis was like 10 when he saw his friends and protectors betray him, try to kill him, did kill his master and friends, and plunged the galaxy into tyranny Hes like 18, hes a traumatized kid who knows hell be hunted and murdered by the government if hes found out. He then goes on a journey he discovers his courage and bravery. Idk. Cal isnt luke or anakin or arthas or thrall. But hes quite good. I dont have to see everything in myself in him to like him.
Red flags in Assassins Creed Shadows: 1. Using an historical person as a main character. 2. Using a main character not from the culture and region. 3. Use of Chinese building structure in Feudal Japan. 4. Ubisoft stealing a flag from an army recreational group. 5. Hip hop music playing when Yasuke fights. 6. Ubisoft working with Sweet Baby Inc AGAIN. 7. Yasuke not acting like a Samurai in battle. 8. Yasuke being treated as a God when everyone is just bowing to him. 9. Ubisoft being involved with the edits around Yasuke on Wikipedia. 10. Ubisoft using Chinese Mandarin in the Kanji in a game set in Feudal Japan. 11. The pushing of LGBT stuff into the game (which also makes no sense in the realm of the animus). 12. Ubisoft working with a writer whose main "prominent" work is about monks being in relationships with young boys. 13. Ubisoft stealing the katana of Zoro from One Piece for Yasuke. 14. Not wiping blood off the katana before sheathing it. 15. Ubisoft got the seasons wrong. 16. Samurai wouldn't be walking around with their armor on at all times. Also the double standards media has to glorify Yasuke killing a bunch of Japanese people yet these same people attacked the likes of RE5. The double standards also continue with the people praising this game, a game that doesn't pay 100% correct tribute to Japan, were the ones attacking Ghost Of Tsushima, which did try to be as accurate as possible, simply because it was made an entirely European team. Those devs did their research. Ubisoft did not.
He's not even an historical character when what they used as base is made up and false rofl. Yes he existed but now the way they try to make us believe.
I have simple advice for people, If you want to play AC game play Ghost of Tsushima(it's out on pc). Sucker Punch have perfect the AC formula. And if you have already played Ghost of Tsushima then wait for Ghost of tsushima 2 because U ain't getting an AC game from Ubisoft. Ubisoft lost the sauce with AC games imo. Till unity you had hood on you head, you were connected to the assain brotherhood but from syndiacte player has a top hat and his boring sister who has hood isn't even fun to play. Then next installment you have origin where you can't even parkour. And latest entry was mirage, that shit just looks bland
@@shrike618 only thing i can think of is female MC hating men, i think there was something like that, so she allied with yasuke? something like that near campfire, it was more or less about trusting i think, but now it kinda comes to same spot but most probably it's about historian about male to male love in feudal japan, which was a thing since we even have men liking boys in Joanne'd'arc army... so 90% is that Yasuke was interesting to Nobunaga like that, which would make sense with all those proof people did throw around
The weird thing is that they "ugly-fy" characters to make them more "relatable". But who the fuck looks at an ugly character and thinks "wow he/she is ugly just like me!" Why cant an "ugly person" relate to a "good looking person"? I dont get it. Also, its roleplay and fantasy. If you can choose whoever you want to be then you would pick to be hot, everyone would.
I disagree. I think it is the case that everyone (in this context meaning the vast majority) would choose to NOT be ugly and be a 6 to 8/10 rather than a 9 or 10/10. Being a 9-10 has problems in scale equivalent to those being a 1-2. And it is obvious why an ugly person cannot relate to a good looking person. They have completely different life experience. That's like saying a short guy should relate to the problems of a guy who is 7 feet tall.
@@StoneDeceiver The "hot people problems" are not depicted in games though. People get to make their character as hot as they like, getting all the benefits but none of the downsides. You wouldn't get stalked any more by NPCs in a video game just because you made an attractive character.
@@Irosicndosjnf Look, I disagree with that take too, but comments like the one you just made are just bad. There's nothing good about dismissing others with lazy ad hominems. Leave that behaviour to the SJWs, they do it more than enough already.
@@smokelingers euhm. i havent played that game but when googling "titan quest main character" i just get a pretty normal dude. Kinda hard to even see his face because he has a helmet and every pic is of him with the back to the camera or far away from the camera. I wouldnt say "ugly". And the armor is cool as fuck? What do you mean? Ancient greek armor and helmets are the most badass thing from history. Are you just talking about the graphics being outdated? Or what? I really dont understand what you are even saying.
20:00 the whole Mortal Kombat controversy is ridiculous in the first place. The blood was cartoonish at best in those first 2 games, but because of the backlash console ports turned off the blood, and MK3 was cheesy AF. I stopped playing that series after that. The point of video games and TV, or any other form of entertainment is that it is FANTASY!! Anybody who is of average intelligence understands this implicitly.
They're not killing the industry, but the industry is definitely changing. These people are taking money from governments to add social conditioning into their games. From a financial standpoint, it's a lot safer than depending entirely on gamers to purchase your product.
It's the age of gaming for Alyssa Mercante and nobody else. It blows my mind how we can't customize the main character to what we want in Outlaws among a whole slew of other issues. We could do more in 2003 with Knights of the Old Republic.
Leftists are forcing you to play a Transformer in Star Wars: Outlaws. Look at a picture of Humberly González, IRL. Then look at her character in SW: Outlaws. Case closed.
When I see a character in a game being bullied for their race my immediate thought is "ok in this story those guys aren't good or at the very least are being misled by someone." When a DEI enthusiast sees this they seem to think "it's an endorsement of racism" I don't get it...
I would usually ask people who make such claims to explain the difference between "sexualized" and "oversexualized" but that has become a waste of time. Now, in a leftist mind the definition of oversexualized has become: "A female character that's not androgynous".
i disagree with asmon, its not men in game development making women look like that in games, its the women working in game development that are doing that to female characters.
thanks to gamer gate v2.0 we know not just facts, and not only genders, but also the names of people responsible for the deal we know who said about terrifying the game developers, who was behind these persons and who are the sponsors of this social experiment so guys and girls don't go into their catch, it's not about gender, it's about politics and agenda
No it’s really not. If you’re an artist in the industry trust me; we’re told to “cover up” the char, use real proportions, & also part of the issue is now they want to motion cap & be realistic which isn’t as appealing. With all due respect, I know that only a man would be saying this. In our industry it’s literally like 95% male in terms of mgmt & decision making. So if you think women are making character decisions, you’re just not in the industry. We do what our (usually male) bosses tell us to do, just like you do at your job
Case in point - they actually were quite actively promoting inclusion even 30 years ago. It just felt more sincere, they were making an effort, and it wasn't detrimental to the fun.
@@Always.Smarternah, there wasn't any microtransaction bs in AAA titles a decade and a half ago, and gacha or surprise mechanic bs didn't even exist in western gaming sphere
@@ConserpovIn other words, the inclusion now feels more patronizing than anything. Wheelchair character that can also make robots, but she can’t make legs for herself? Most video game characters that are fat nowadays are also ugly despite that not being a fat persons destined character trait? So they don’t appeal to anyone. It’s just insulting at best 😂
@@RIP_ZYZZ1738 Yes, but I meant more along the lines of: 1994 - let's add a Black character, make him a foreigner from distant lands in a believable way 2024 - let's just make king of England Black
In the communist regime where I grew up, fantasy and SF were a medium where you could freely discuss otherwise banned topics and make people think about serious issues. Watching these people effectively doing the same thing as that regime (telling you what to say and how to think, etc) is disgusting and scary.
And yet there still are washed up people who think 'past tries were a "wrong/bad" communism, but you must let us try to do another one' (and then one more, and so on...)
It has been enabled by people that would put instant gratification above important principles, as in throwing money and attention in the direction of these things when they shouldn't. "Not going to play this hyped game" sounds like a threat to them, then they complain that hyped game is bad in some way once the need for instant gratification has been fulfilled.
I think Uncharted series was the first puzzle piece in “movie games” as you all put it. More action inspired but I think that’s where it really started.
- The most I ever play in new games are Indie or small studios. This is usually because some of these games are made in the spirit of older games. - The vast majority of newer AAAs are horribly expensive, misguided, attack or is disconnected from their consumer base, etc. - Emulators and Roms have allowed access to many games that some have never played. They are simple, fun, and entertaining, with an utterly enormous library of older games. - Because of Emulators and Roms, many individuals have done translations for games that were never published in their nation/home. - The modding communities for older games are amazing, with Fallout 4 and Skyrim just two examples of the countless video games in which you can customize the games to your whim. - Some can argue nostalgia. Some can argue that these were the games we grew up with. Some can argue that the old games simply worked. I can almost guarantee any kid can still hop in and play Super Mario Brothers 3 on the NES and love it.
I like that people celebrate Kay as "Star Wars female lead" without looking at contents. Meanwhile, Kay is just an asshole, completely incompetent at anything she does, she's not very bright, she lacks any foresight - she disregards Bram's advice, fucks up the job and then lead bad guys straight back to his home. Dude took her in, provided for her for years and all he gets for it is getting shot. Not a word of apology from Kay, as she leaves on her new adventure. She has zero redeeming or likeable qualities. I don't know if she has any sort of redemption arc or character development later in the story but if the closest person to her getting shot because of her mistakes is not enough for her to look back on her actions, then I don't know what else would be necessary for her to change her ways... Cere Junda was infinitely better character than Kay. She wasn't perfect, deeply conflicted because of her past and trying to achieve redemption until she became badass enough to stand her ground against Darth Vader. I hated every moment playing as Kay but I'd love to play as Cere in her own game (imo she'd be better protag than Cal), especially if you'd have a choice which road to take: continue as mercenary doing some rebel stuff on the side, return to being a Jedi and openly fight against the Empire or even fall to the dark side and join the inquisition. Cere is how you write strong female leads, while Kay is just human garbage.
41:00 Classic WOW is an S-Tier for sure but TBC was A-Tier easily and you can argue for S-Tier. They added Arenas, Heroic dungeons, Guild Banks, and a lot of quality of life improvements without ruining the spirit of Classic. Horde had Paladins via Blood Elves, and Alliance had Shamans via Space Goats but no new classes. Classes still very much had their identity. While flying existed you had to be level 70 (or 68 if druid) and it cost a lot of gold that even at the end of TBC it was still amazing to see someone roll up on a Gladiator mount. I think the talent tree was probably at it's peak during TBC with JUST enough added/changed to really round out classes and specs. Crafting/Enchanting was just way better, especially with gems being added. The only things it lacked was 40-man content and while the isle was fun, they really shouldn't have added the catch-up stuff BUT I give is pass because it was the absolute end of the expansion.
@@Saynotoshonenin my times, people played everything from action, to RTS and point and click games. So it was never a problem for me. And there were actually good games that weren't popular and properly marketed back then, like Dominion. So the library is huuuuge.
The reason we don't have a Japanese protagonist in Japan is because wokes are also racist toward asians. For real. The term "white adjacent" is a thing in woke circles.
@@skaruts she is the main protagonist and also on the cover of the game front and center. Listen I hate Ubisoft for their shitty monetization practices but stop spreading this bullshit
Asmon - " in WoW we had enslave demon and they now changed it to subjugate demon" Me - "in Alpha WoW Fire Mages used to have an ability called Holocaust, Im sure that wouldve gone well on release"
@@cyanmage1 She is, but most people I see don't have problems with her. The problem is the dude, and that there should be two Japanese protagonists, or even just one, the girl. Besides, I don't know how true it is, but I've read that she was a late addition to the game to "check boxes".
I have to be honest, I find a lot of women don't understand consent either. It's not really too surprising in a world that promotes narcissism and entitlement.
I find it weird that Asmon thinks his female friends confide in him as they would confide in a close gay friend or a close female friend. There's no way in hell that his female friends all had issues with consent with the men in their lives and all told Asmon this. At most, they might have had issues with online men, because online many people (not just men really at this point) think they can do and say whatever the hell they want without consequences, but in person? I'm quite certain most men are afraid of false accusations or prison time in general or just happen to be good men (shocker). There's not a single man I've talked to in person that doesn't have those things in the back of their heads when interacting in public, especially with women (and especially if they are aware of how different men and women are). Just seems like a weird take to me to say that most men have issues with consent, when it's clearly a small minority that usually is terminally online (and when they aren't, they end up in prison eventually anyways, just because creeps can't help themselves, no matter the gender).
@@AnonningAnon Your comment makes me think that you are young and lack life experience, especially real life experience with real life girls. It is the vast majority of women have bad experiences with guys, it starts before they are even adults. By the time you are in high school there will already be a percentage of the girls who have had issues with guys. "When it's clearly a small minority that usually is terminally online" ? There is no way that you can say something so naïve and thoughtless, the only explanation is the internet has existed for the entirety of your life. Just in case you didn't know, men and women existed before the internet.
Growing up, it was the Christians that did their best to control all art. But in the 80's and 90's, people who wanted freedom of expression completely broke those shackles. Really, the 90's and the 2000's were a golden age for art. But I've come to see that it was not the Christian religion specifically that was censorious, that's just where all the control freaks launched their efforts from. I've come to see that there's ALWAYS going to be a rather sizeable portion of the population that seeks to have utter and total control over what art all others can enjoy. So when the left took most, if not all, of the social clout in the 2000's, those psycho control freaks went left as well. And now AAAALLLLL the art censorship comes form the left. For you young people, the left USED to be all about freedom of speech, and freedom of expression. But the MOMENT they got power, they immediately acted JUST LIKE the Christians did when they had the social clout. And I gotta say, the Christians were not as overbearing as the left is.
You bring an interesting point. As a Christian who witnessed it from the inside, it was always one or two crazy ladies in a church who wanted to ban a video game or cartoon. Most of our parents allowed us to have it, and we just ignored the few crazy people in the church. I don't think I've seen anyone in a church mention banning anything for the past few decades at least. Sure, people will say certain pieces of entertainment are sins, but it's more of a "free-will" type thing where people understand they live in the world, but try to not partake in things that negatively impact the soul. No one is trying to ban it though. Now that you notice it, the women who tried to ban things and tell other parents to throw our stuff away, none of them are Christians now, and they lean politically left. It does seem that controlling people just want to control, and they'll move wherever they think they have a better advantage.
Actually dude sorry to tell you this but it sounds like what really happened is you just grew up. When you were younger that's how you perceive the left, probably the rebellious side of most teenagers. Rebellion against your parents etc. That's how the left sees themselves today still. The left has always been the dominant cultural power, I don't know what you're smoking dude
Jade was such a great character, she should be the blueprint for a strong female character that is actually clever and creative without being obnoxious and without being sexualized either, but modern AAA developers are clowns that think they know better than people who created timeless classics.
They really do! Its not explained in the video but older games had more handcrafted elements. As games became bigger and more detailed, individual items were turned into classes of items.
One thing i feel the games these days have forgotten is that no matter how much money, no matter how many years and how many tea parties you invite to please investors, the success of the game ultimately all boils down to single iconic moments in the story with beloved characters that burns into peoples memories. Just think back on any game you loved the most and you remember how they were made either through stories, or through that moment with your friends by the games design.
The main issue is that the games are "made by committee", the executives and the higherups make the choices and force those choices. They choose who's in charge, they make sure it's someone who'll do what they want, and the entire time they are 100% ignorant of what the playerbases actually want. Then they're baffled when the games don't sell. Their charts told them it should, their analysts told them it should, therefore it's not their fault its the players fault.
@@Primalham-pz2iz the female characters how they act. Cyris plot line is girl boss plot story writing. Gay side characters gay characters where that's basically the whole plot line. An a cross dressing elf. Who credit where credit is do. Even they made Geralt question it an go dude wtf.
@@crazychase98 having gay characters does not mean woke, because they’re not put in for the sake of pandering, and are in theme with the books. Also, Cerys, I don’t understand how that’s a ‘girl boss’ story. She’s not overpowered, she struggles as Skellige has never had a queen before, she isn’t fully sure on what to do and needs Geralt’s help
37:31 "You're not going to have a complex and interesting story come out of any of these development studios because a lot of the people are boring, middle class privileged, white 'people'"... Yeah we all know that last "people" was supposed to be "women" and Asmon censored himself before he said it. 😅
Star Wars old republic was horrible even at being 10 years old… with Microsoft bringing in a new version for Star Wars does blizzard have any part in it?
That’s just nonsense though. You can’t blame women for the problems in a field where 95% of mgmt are men & virtually all game-making decisions are made by men. Ask any woman you know- nearly 100% of us would rather play a pretty character than an ugly one
And picking fire flower supports deforestation. Using fire ball supports arson. Collecting coins supports corporate corruption. Put away the allegory making machine.
i like watching this guy because it motivates me to work a bit harder and take care of myself so i don't end up like him he's like a story that someone would tell their kid to get them to do their chores and brush their teeth
That Black Myth: Wukong review really said the quiet part out loud. No women before chapter 3? Well that's an inclusion and diversity slight. We are down to chapters. When does it stop? The opening cutscene? It's completely unreasonable and it's no surprise that the video game industry is creatively bankrupt (in the AAA space more so). What's worse is these reviewers, developers, and journalists point fingers at Asmongold, among others, and cry about culture wars yet they are literally contributing to that same culture war they pretend to be above by being so outrageously disingenuous about everything and everyone.
I feel the same as her to be honest. If i play old games i know that i have everything available to me wothout opening my wallet further, i know those games were made with passion by people who actively enjoyed videogames. Meanwhile now gamers/nerds are giving money to the same people who used to beat them in the hallways and steal their lunch money. Sure a lot of it is based on nostalgia, but nostalgia alone cannot make me put 400 hours pn a game i already have 400 hours on. Meanwhile a modern game i can easily quit 20 hours in after spending 80€ on it (which would cost me 200€ if it were for DLCs) because they are soulless. Nothing beats that 2000s feeling of researching how to unlock a character by doing special missions or tasks, and knowing that it’s all there, no internet required, no time limited events, no pay to unlock.
@@byte-bg4ob I never heard of her and don't plan to follow her so idk how she's making money from me. Whether it's fake or not her spewing the anti-woke message is enough for me to appreciate it.
Worried about not sexualizing fictional characters while teaching kids it's cool to just decide your own gender. These people have zero sense of what is actually right and good.
"People play games to escape reality." I'm an atheist IRL and always plays as priests and supernatural characters. I don't belive this stuff exists in real life, but that doesn't make it less interesting. It's FANTASY.
Supernatural doesn't exist by definition. It sorta has to be natural to "exist".... That's also why we don't know how a soul links to a body in the natural world. I was an atheist too until my soul had a supernatural experience. I hope you never have cause to believe, because it messed me up big time and I haven't been able to sleep properly since.
My man. I'm an atheist too, but I can admit that religions have some of the coolest thematic designs ever. The entire Warhammer 40K universe is built on religious zealotry and that's created the most badass designs ever. Sign me tf up for religious depictions in fictional media, but keep it out of my real life. I'll consider changing my mind once a real god shows up.
"Strong" means more than your gains, women. Strong means resolve, stoicism, resilience, and how you respond to hardships. Also being able to fight AND lift heavy stuff. And such. I think.
I have a hot take. It was becoming clear that the birth of Abby is something that was going to happen in a naughty dog game way back in 2011 and 2016. The hints were there back in the Uncharted 3 and 4 games. They started to introduce female characters who were close in personality and sometimes better in ability too Nathan Drake. The second I played Uncharted 4, I knew whatever they do next it was going to be a female lead, then a gay female or male lead. I didn't think a character like Abby was possible, but I knew the concept of not making a male lead like in the first Uncharted game was their aim. So they created Lost Legacy, they had Nathan Drake have a daughter, they made the first Last of Us game and then Last of Us 2 was born. All these decisions came with the idea that leading female characters is their way, and then it was sexually diverse females. I think whatever they come out with next will again have a lead female character and probably some sort of variation in identity as well. Never a straight male who is capable and a feminine female. Those days are gone for that studio.
23:50 if one party is tipsy and the other is blacked out drunk, that's probably a problem. If both people are equally drunk, that's probably not a problem.
33:00 - It is like people in the Witcher universe discriminating against elves and dwarves. Having that as a part of the universe doesn't make those book/games racist. They are creating believable universe. Like Mass Effect is full of racial prejudice. In Star Wars it is almost comical how almost every race gets along.
It's not that all old games are great it's that all old games that are remembered fondly to this day have something special that keeps them from been forgotten
@@Ux1.73cno it's not nostalgia, it's exactly what OP is saying. The games you will remember in 10 years and more are great games, timeless. I've played hundreds of games since my childhood, yet it would be impossible for me to name more than 10% of them, let alone tell you what the fuck they were about lol
@iiMEiii not just nostalgia. The old games we play over and over were the best games of that time and still hold their own (we don't play the shitty games from back then) For example I played warcraft 3 again after years and instantly saw the amount of details that all were right: The colors, the aura's, the music, how the units looked etc. Same for HoMM3 or even Rollercoaster tycoon etc.
Sexualizing characters is only new in video games. It always existed in many forms because this is how humans are wired... Most famous actors/actresses, singers, entairtainers etc, have a good combination of skill, talent and beautiful appearance. When you're trying to find a mate, most people will seek beauty and then personality, unless they are old enough and experienced to know better. Playing a video game that has a good combination of gameplay and hot characters is not a crime... People are wired to think this way, nature makes sure of that!
Outlaw dev: "Hey! I made star wars outlaws" Women: "So you're the reason the female character looks like a dude?" Outlaw dev: **COMPLETE MELTDOWN** "I did it for women!!!!"
There's nothing sexual about Genshin if anyone's wondering. No fan service, no fetish pandering, no suspicious camera angles. I'm not afraid to play this game in front of my family, heck my sister and girlfriend plays it and I'm trying to convince my sister's husband to try it. I even sometimes seen someone plays Genshin on their phones during train rides. You're welcome to prove me wrong though. Especially those who keeps alleging genshin as a pedo game. This part confused me the most, 4 years of playing genshin and I still don't see any loli characters getting sexualized here.
My favourite Skyrim experience was playing a rogue melee only, with no life added. At a certain point t the change of music when dragons spot you became nerve racking. Your hp was always at a low life threshold where where they just eat you if you are seen when engaging in melee combat. Created a more…. Realistic approach to a world of dragons
There are no indie gems for me. I'm born in the 80s, I already played every game variety in 8-16 bit, but im happy younger people enjoy indie games. WoW vanilla was the big game. Im waiting for the next baldurs gate but then 3d or VR world
@@Jackthewolf no u dont understand. Im born in the 80s we already played 8bit endlessly. There is no new "groundbreaking" 8bit game. Us boomers are used every decennia games got better looking WITH new mechanics from textbased games, to 8bit to 3d and now VR.
@@N3mdraz Idk man, I've played tons of platforms and feel like games as Celeste and Super Meat Boy are amongst the greatest of all times, even tho they have very simple graphics
@@Jackthewolf its great you enjoy those games but cmon, they look like child's games for teens it doesn't appeal for many 30 years old men. Sorry mate, I was interested in those kind of games 20 years ago, that's why I hate mobile gaming aswell it feels like backwords technology and 99% of games looks like it's made for kids and grannies
18:55 Check out the original Tomb Raider sometime. They didn't have many polygons to draw Lara with, but guess what they focused on drawing with them...
By the way, "45% of gamers are women" is still massive cap and cope, just compare the amount of time men and women sink into playing games and you'll quickly find out that a woman playing Mario party once in a while that identifies as being a "gamer" doesn't really count towards the only statistics that matters which is sales and player retention.
True, very true. In real life, many men I meet are into video games with a passion, while most women are not interested or just snobbish. Reality tells a different story than statistics.
23:25 I remember a commercial. That said something on the lines of (dont remember the exact wording): "Jack and Jill got drunk and hooked up. Jill was drunk thus couldnt consent. So Jack was convicted for r*pe. Always ask for consent." And the first thing i thought off was, if Jill couldnt consent because they were drunk, then Jack also couldnt consent because they were drunk. Regretting sleeping with someone does not make it r*pe. It makes it a stupid choice. You and some guy at the bar drinking together, hooking up, sleeping together and you regretting it is not r*pe. You and some guy at the bar drinking together, he is deliberatly trying to get you drunk (and thus probably isnt getting that drunk himself), taking advantage of you in your drunken state and then sleeping with you, that is r*pe. There is clearly a difference. Which is "intent". I dont think that r*pe can occure unintentionally. And id love to see an example from anyone that can say otherwise. And no "I was drunk" is not an excuse, that doesnt make it unintentional, you did perform the act intentionally, you just didnt care/think because you were drunk. TIP: All that said, stay safe out there. There are some vile pieces of shit out there that will do whatever. And a great tip that i dont see to often. But if you go out with your friends to a bar, just share your current location in your groupchat. It will automatically update to your current location. Not only makes it easier to find eachother. But if your drunk friend suddenly goes missing, and you see that they arent nearby anymore, you can instantly call them to check up for the situation. And even call the police to that location if neccesary. (edit: missed a r*pe censor)
@@RichieKrol Censor is because UA-cam. Disclaimer is fair because many have experienced traumatic experiences. With that last statement I'd say report yourself to the police.
He had two videos there. He linked both videos in the description. You're upset he didn't put your name in the description with the link to your video? He didn't do that for the other dude either.
Oh I see I made an appearance - thanks for sharing your thoughts and reaction with your community(:
Just saw one of your Oblivion fashion vids the other day! When worlds collide!
Thank you. You're awesome.
how are you able to see the video just 15 min after it was released?
Women goated
I need you
Pay $100+ for star wars??? Hard pass. I just paid $2.99 for Kingdom Come: Deliverance
BASED
Awesome game 😂
Henry’s come to see us!
and it's way better
Suddenly, i'm feeling hungry for another playthrough...
I play old games because they actually released the whole game.
No you dont. But you do lie about it on yt 😂
Cause u have a 1060
Literally
Not always, the later years of the the xbox 360/ps3 era was the stsrt of unfinished piece meal, drip fed games
@@HelloImCrimson ?? You his mom?
Playing modern video games is like being best friends with a crackhead. They will constantly request money from you.
Video games use to be for escaping the real world, now they’re bringing the problems into gaming
Exactlyyyy
Are you sure about that. There have always been pretty depressing games out there. There was even a whole Era of war games which are a reminder of the wars in real life with some pretty fucked up stories. Some of the earlier call of duty for example or gears of war. I think you might of just been younger when you played those games dude.
Game stories based off real world is different to restricting artistic expression for the sake of modern cultural expectations and decorum. This whole topic runs parallel to freedom of speech
@@Mrpoop-zw2wh They were focused on telling stories instead of being cringe propaganda rubbish. That's what Walter actually means.
The censorship is a hell of a lot worse these days too.
There were always games that depicted real world problems, but back then there were done right by people that actually cared about it and now is just a box to be checked and it feels weird
What's even crazier about characters needing to reflect current politics is that it applies to villains too: You can have a genocidal mass murderer no problem, but you can't make him genuinely racist in a truly offensive way, because that's somehow suporting racism???
It make me like him ehat you on about can't have heros now can we
Media literacy at all time lows. Either that or adults with no concept of the morally grey, which is scarier tbh
@@ninakore Media literacy is low because activists have successfully forced authors and writers to act as if the fiction is reflective of real world
Well, they're enamoured with having "justified" villains, so they can't imagine justifying this, even though they wanted tk claim Wolfenstein.
In entertainment it's best to stay away from certain topics but racism can be done with fantasy type characters like elfs calling out dwarfs for example the problem is stay close to real life.
"Kay is already being described as the female Han Solo."
Sooo... they need to compare her to a male character just to give her a leg to stand on? Imagine if she was interesting enough to be compared to herself.
^ amazing comment.
2:54
Face it the current people in charge is too @$_# st$#@ to get that. The only thing that matters is 'the message'
This is what I've been saying for a long time ever since they started genderbending superheroes and whatnot. It only proves that the creators themselves don't feel confident a female character on her own can make it to popularity unless her origin is taken or even completely alternate universed a popular male character to be female, yet feels the utmost need to cater to the demand of diversity while also being too afraid to make the female character her own cause that might be controversial.
So it's no surprise Kay is described that way cause the creators likely felt they needed to use the base form of Han Solo for her to make it, which is bullshit. Give us original female characters that don't feel like lesser versions of a popular male characters.
that's exactly what I said to myself too
The 2000s was the peak of gaming, it's not coming back.
Movies, Music also
Mid 80s ,90s through 2000s was perfection, with Arcade and 3rd generation consoles, 6th generation consoles and PC RTS and MMORPG where good times
90s-00s in the West was the height of all of human history, and that encapsulates all of its culture.
@@tzuyd facts based non arrogant take
Still good indie games around
Remember when Neil Druckmann fired the most accomplished female writer in videogames because her writing wasn't 'feminist' enough.. Uncharted, Last of Us. Dead.
Based. Those games are dumb and rely on visual spectacle.
@@humanchannel9421
That is the dumbest thing I've heard this month and it's the 29th!
Congratulations
I'm not a fan of Neil but there's no evidence he fired Amy. That's just BS people on the TLOU2 subreddit like to spread around.
@@deanwilliams433
Well Neil is the biggest soyboy loser in the industry, but there's no denying Naughty Dog games have always been masterpieces.
TLOU2 is a technical marvel, pushed industry boundaries, just like Uncharted 4. But its story was just stupid and filled with forced woke garbage that also ruined Joel's character.
TLOU2 sub is justified in many. You can't get that much hate if you haven't been the best in the industry for generations. People have high expectations
The Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver is her magnum opus.
I remember how hard game journos tried to push TLOU2, calling people sexists for not liking Abby, while weird no one had an issue with Ellie.
I feel you. We play games to escape like reading a novel or playing a board game with friends.
They got rid of everything good in games and made them political. I think game developers messed up going corporate now we have political ideals and advertisements not video games
The thing is there is room for a char like Abby, bc there are women bodybuilders IRL & even butch women, but u still need the majority to be femme & a few to be super hot
That game was fucking garbage.
@@scarletsletter4466the problem with abbey is she is poorly written and unrealistically built like the girl in the vid says it just makes no sense for her to be that buff but the real problem is the execution of her character or lack their of lol
Witchhunts... When you got a hammer, everything becomes a nail... Or grain when you got a sickle.
It's crazy that in an age where we're told to praise Onlyfans stars for empowering themselves with their sexuality, we have the same people telling us video game women are oversexualized.
Welcome to clown world.
The people saying this shit don't have consistent values and attempting to take what they say seriously is an exercise in futility. We need to get this straight. These people HATE YOU. At best they just see you as a mark to extract money from. They say whatever they need to in the moment to simultaneously status signal and shit on the things you like out of malice
@@alshabib5849Key point right here. Logic isn't going to win this battle.
Cultural-Marxism
@@marcusgarvey9933 A.K.A Frankism/Sabbateanism.
The inversion of good and evil
I think the perfect example is 2B and A2. This game is about to turn 10 years old, but girls still cosplay these characters. No one is forcing them to. They just like to do it because they are beautiful characters.
When the creator of the game was asked why the female characters look like that, he said “because I love beautiful women”. Yes, that simple and that honest.
Truly a goat of a character
But also it comes back to when some people say "nobody wants to play an ugly character in a video game" which I honestly do believe is true.
If you look at something like an MMORPG where you get to choose the race of your character, even the races that could be considered "ugly" you can still modify to make any race of character look as good or as ugly as you want. However move over to something like Concord where those characters looked how they did and nobody wants to ppay as those characters.
Fat and ugly is fat and ugly, most don't like it, but more importantly is its your choice and its not wrong. The agendas are trying to make you feel bad or wrong for making that choice, and that you HAVE to like and accept everyone, especially when you choose against the deviants of societal norms.
Most "old gamers" are like this now. We know what a good game really is like. There's no comparison between the trash we have now and the greatness that was years ago. I really feel bad for the new generations.
No you just think your generation is better like people do with music.
@@pokermitten9795 No, we're right. And people are right about music too.
Yup and I've even started to look at older games that I didn't like at first, another chance. I figure, at the very least, these games were well-made and not complete slop like nowadays.
@@marcusaurelius5149 You're not and they're not. Every age has garbage. The best survive the test of time, it's a bias. You're more acutely aware of the present's failings because you are living with them.
Nier Automata, GoW 2018, GoW Ragnarok, Persona 5, FFVII Remake/Rebirth, Octopath Traveler 1 & 2, FFXVI, BotW, TotK, Sekiro, Elden Ring, AC6, Black Myth Wukong, Mario Odyssey, Shadowbringers, Endwalker, BG3, I can keep going as long as you want. That’s just games I’ve played and enjoyed in the last 7 years, but I keep a spreadsheet and there are over 100 games on it, literally just too lazy to go bring up the tab and copy paste it.
You’re absolutely delusional if you think we don’t get good games anymore.
This is what I’ve been saying. We girls don’t want to play ugly characters & modern games make all female characters unattractive. When I have a better body than the chars in most AAA games… that doesn’t make me want to play 😂
I married-up big time, and my wife gets comments from other women about her looks every time we go out somewhere. She also plays games and puts 100+ hours into RPGs like Skyrim, and she always makes her characters attractive. Attractive females exist, and some of them play games.
I'll admit, even as a man, I always make my character an idealized better looking version of myself. Either that, or a hideous green skinned ghoul with a bowl-cut, like I made in Elden Ring.
I think the one thing all male and female players have in common is that they like to play has beautiful women lmao
@@M98747 Ah, yes, the duality of man
A plagues tale
you cant identify what a woman is.
"The erasure of Feminimity in gaming" is a nicer and more subtle way of saying the removal of attractive women in video games.
They haven't just removed their physical beauty but also their feminine personalities. The irony is that in the name of feminism, these developers have removed all feminine traits in women and replaced them with masculine traits.
No it means exactly that. Attractiveness is a part of femininity. Personality is also portrayed masculine or feminine. Your understanding is limited by how deeply you understand the issue
It's far more than that. That's merely surface level.
Who gives a fuck, I'd play a whole game as an unattractive decaying grandma if it meant the gameplay was as good as dmc 5 or doom eternal. This is such a non-issue. There are a lot of problems with modern games and this is the one people want to talk about the most for some reason.
I don’t think she just means attractive but in general. Feminine games like dresses or flowers are just seen as childish. Most are tomboys now
Doom, Wolfenstein, Quakes 1, 2 and Arena, and UT GOTY. These are OLD games and yes, I still play them! 😛
Best part is I now can play them all on a pocketable handheld ARm device.
Never forget: for one women who says that she doesn't like new games like that, there is also a game designer how thinks that this woman has no idea what she wants and he knows it better.
A plagues tale
well that is exactly how game devs think because part of their job is to make a decision based on what they believe the majority of their playerbase will enjoy. so i think you may be the next einstein
(good) Gamedevs do know what players want, more than they do. Like, literally. It's documented. Yo, science b**tch..
Lemme explain. Obviously it's my more nuanced than that statement, and by science I just mean it's a documented phenomenon. You can look it up.
Players will naturally min max the fun outta games if you allow it. People don't do what's most fun. They do what's most efficient. If the most efficient behavior in your game means a terrible gameplay experience, that's what they will do.
The LAST thing you wanna do is give them what they say they want. And it's not about what you want either, it's just: Make the experience fun.
Straight up. That's it."Game fun? Game good." Simple.
This guy designs
That’s how intellectuals in general think
Feels like old games were made with more passion. Something like... art? Nowadays it's usually just about money.
Thats what happens when a once niche hobby goes mainstream. the talented devs we know remain talented devs while old bobby from the marketing team who also worked hard gets promoted as CEO 2-5 yrs later.
Yep. Money & politics.
Price fixing is illegal but quality fixing isnt
Games used to be gatekept, especially PC games. Now the floodgates have opened and the normies sunk their fangs into the industry and that means the suits come in and buy out the small indie developers and start implementing bs like microtransactions.
The last time I really enjoyed a game was The Witcher 3. Everything since then has been downhill. Arguably everything was going downhill before then, but Witcher 3 was the last hurrah.
When a guy claims to be "male feminist" you'd better keep a close eye on your drink if you're a woman.
The clock is reset.
@@NoNoNoNopeNopeNopeNo How does it feel knowing the democrats are going to be running your country for the next 8 years lmaooo
@@NoNoNoNopeNopeNopeNoPretty sure asmon's viewers are majority not dnc
@@NoNoNoNopeNopeNopeNoWhat do you gain by hate watching. At least get your facts correct if you're going to complain.
@@NoNoNoNopeNopeNopeNoasmon is pretty middle of the road. Being a typical Texas wow player while also living on Austin.
People play games to escape and have fun. Part of that for a lot of us is seeing an ideal world, even if that world is teeming with monsters. Having beautiful people in your game is nothing to be ashamed of.
you should be ashamed to not have beautiful ppl in your gameworld unless you have a good explanation in your universes lore as to why everyone is ugly
I think this is one of the reasons the Indie games scene has kind of exploded over the last decade. Indie devs have to focus on making their game as fun and enjoyable as possible because that is what sells the game.
Yeah but if you are this chick you don't play them because 'get off my lawn'
Lmao you jaded@@pokermitten9795
Dustborn and all of the other low effort "retro" graphics with a colorful cutesy look ARE the indie scene
@@gzuskreist1021is dustborn indie? Its funded by EU iirc
Exactly, majority of Indie games are just as cookie cutter garbage as AAA, with a few good gems every now and then@gzuskreist1021
The reason why women in games are getting uglier is because the devs are modeling the MC after themselves.
TRUE
Me after I transitioned to a woman 😅 kidding
Ya but women don’t want to play ugly characters so this is making games less appealing to us 😢
BWMG (bitter wmn making games)
Yep. The modding community has never been more appreciated by the masses and loathed by the producers.
They may call it sexualization but I call it celebration of the feminine form [^ - ^]
We don't make ugly video game characters for a reason. Ugly lead characters don't make people buy games. We like beautiful things, nothing wrong with that.
As one of my freinds said "im admiring creation"
People who complain are just jealous of a fiction. Why I am not that hot? Or Why are people say that about me.
I call it smart business.
@@SyLuX636 Or they are jealous they didn't think of it first.
@11:44 not weird guys pushing it, its a certain culture right now doing it and we all damn well know the people that are a part of that culture that are doing it.
Palworld, Helldivers, Stellar Blade, Wuthering Waves and Black Myth Wukong are all games this year that did incredibly well and none of them were made in America.
Damn i never thought of that good observation lol
*Popularism* means nothing if you have no playerbase & Games Awards mean even less cuz its biased by the Companies.
Try again.
Pretty sure that's by design. Investors are investing in "untapped" businesses in other countries and are forcing domestic companies to tank with current politics. It's all about growing their money in Other countries and then reinvesting in the US when the economy tanks enough.
Didnt play a single one of those stinkers.
Same thing happened last year too
I think the reason any of us play old games is because so many new games that have come out have been half baked, glitchy buggy, broken piles of shit.
Broken & woken.
@@dustysmoke4996 This is what I don't understand. BG3 is pretty damn woke. But it brought great story telling, compelling characters, minimal tech issues, and at a decent price. Why couldn't studios see the success of the game and learn from it. They can be woke without shoving it down players throats and reach a far greater audience.
@@MikkosFreeit has a place in video games and other media
As long as it’s not the focus of the story you’re trying to deliver
like for example Ellie from the last of us 2 being gay didn’t really affect the story
It was just a known fact that she is and people accepted that
it hurts video games and other media when it’s put at the focus and it’s created to celebrate that they are this diverse or gay or whatever type person
Everything else around it gets damaged because it’s sacrificed for the sake of celebrating their sexuality or their identity
Too much effort is put into that instead of the game being good like gameplay.
Another example is the horizon games
Great story
Great gameplay ( not legendary by any means but god damn it is fun )
Creative world building
Still succeeded in being a good video game even though aloy is now confirmed to be gay
the burning shores dlc confirmed it but it was an option people could choose and it wasn’t enforced although canon wise
She is
That’s just my thoughts on that
Maybe I’m right maybe I’m wrong who knows but from my observation
This is what I think.
@@MikkosFree okay, but you can just about destroy anyone at anytime, so if you dont like their message you just delete them, how many other games with woke stuff even let you scratch those characters?
Also they are often proud of being 40+ hours of gameplay, while having less substance than the original Castlevania on NES, which I can beat in under 20 minutes. Sure they have 40+ hours of stuff but it is like an hour until you are repeating the same stuff as though it is a chore. I remember when I beat Breath of the Wild and I was so glad I finally finished the last temple. Not because of the joy and sense of achievement, but because I could finally just stop playing it. It was a great game but please give me Link to the Past of Ocarina any day.
I got called a pick me for the first time the other day. A woman made a video saying they wanted romance options in Elden Ring, and that all games would be better if they had romance in them. I simply said "No thanks, games don't need to incentivise women to play them with romance". She got really aggressive and assumed I was a man, when I pointed out I was a woman I got absolutely dragged it was too funny 😂
Romance never has to feel forced or unnecessary and while I think Romance isn't that bad and she was just rude I do think Romance wouldn't feel as good as how you think it would in elden ring. It can be cool in the next game tho,IF our character can finally talk
I think it was more about being able to have it rather than being forced to go through it. I like romantic relationships in such videogames like BG3, I am early gen-z guy
I'm an Ole grouchy bastard, to hell with romance, but deary I've got to ask, what the hell is "dragged"??
@markpalmerton6625 Dragged is when a lot of people go in on you in the comments section. Basically calling me all kinds of names etc. like a bunch of bullies essentially.
why would you get called a pick me when you were the one who didn’t want romance in games
Last of Us wasnt the proof for narrative storytelling games. NaughtyDog confirmed this with Uncharted
Uncharted 2 was great but it was still more gameplay focused, while last of us was more story focused, plus it got way more popular and broke into the best games of all time
@@sane7527I mean Uncharted 2’s story is pretty damn long especially when you start counting up each installment’s plot too. U2’s also my favorite game out of the group especially when getting to the Tibetian mountain range storyline and Shangra-La
@@sane7527 true
Guess you never played king of narrative games back in ps1 era aka metal gear solid.
@Jebu911 all final fantasy and crash Bandicoot for PS1
Then there is rimworld where the creator inserted drug abuse, war crimes, bigotry, slavery, xenophobia all openly
Cant play Skyrim without the slavery mod 😉
Sounds like a fun game lol
@@THETWUAN-r3u it's insanely fun but also very high learning curb to get into.
such a good bloody game holy shite
Kenshi and Rimworld 🤝
One missing component of this conversation is about how games in the past had more motivation to be good. Not only because they couldn't patch stuff later to make it better, but because their monetization strategies often included sequels that could be released at a much greater rate. This gives developers a reason to ensure that their games hit certain quality benchmarks while appealing to their base, so you will be more apt to purchase their future products. Nintendo, FromSoft, and Capcom seem to be some of the few major developers who still use this strategy.
People like to hate on Nintendo for PR and how they handle the legal side. However, Nintendo made a decision long ago to think about how they can make there business last long term. They weren't always making video games. But they shifted there business to them. And even with gaming they recognized certain trends ahead of time and made smart decisions to avoid future problems in the console wars.
Nintendo and Capcom are some of the most legally and financially predatory companies out there.
@humanchannel9421 Not even close. Protecting your IP under Japanese law is a necessity that has almost bitten them in the past. So yeah, they both seem legally predatory, but it's a different rule set they're playing by.
Financially, neither are particularly predatory compared to other major gaming companies. They are simply doing what is necessary to compete in a saturated market.
@@yujiro424 That's a nice story, but Capcom has some of the most disgustingly predatory monetization in games, commonly based on gambling, but often simply based on predating human psychology. Look at any modern Capcom game - it's filthy, much worse than most western devs.
As for Nintendo, their name is synonymous with greed, so not much of an argument.
I love how they picture straight guys as bad guys, but as gay let me tell you, some of the most hateful people, that talk nonsense and is over-critic are people from the LGBT+ movement, and I love how most people that agree is people who haven't talk enough to other human being that isn't part of the same collective, wich make the whole take stupid (don't get me wrong, obviously you have a lot of people hating for the sake of hate, is not a sexuality thing and I do feel kinda bad that the gaming side of the community I belong has so many people who talk without knowing and making it a statement)
Its about time more people start speaking about this. I'm an older bisexual and let me tell you, some of the shittiest, nastiest self absorbed and downright toxic people I have ever met have been in the LGBT movement. And they use their gayness as a shield to never receive punishment or criticism for their nasty behaviour. I've been told I'm not a "real" member as a bisexual so many times over the years its part of the reason I don't really go for groups anymore, I'm just out here doing my own thing.
I watched a video yesterday that drives this point home. There's a UA-cam channel called "no cap on god" and he went undercover at the DNC convention as a gay guy. Pretending to be gay caused all these people to act completely different towards him vs if he went up to them as a straight white male.
Thank fuck i'm not the only guy in the community who feels the same
I almost joined the furry community growing up as bi, but the constant sneering against conservatives and christians really put me off. Ironically it is christians who are the most understanding in my experience.
Not a LGBTQ+ member, but from friends who are and my ex dealing with a lot of pride people, the amount of talking shit behind each other's back, drama, making drama out of nothing worth making drama of and the "agree with everything I do, I say or I think or f**k off!" and sometimes intolerance is insane.
Idk if there are more toxic people than outside, but the toxicity in there is just continuous, dishonest and spreads rumors in no time. It's different and you have to walk on eggshells and then some.
Cal kestis was like 10 when he saw his friends and protectors betray him, try to kill him, did kill his master and friends, and plunged the galaxy into tyranny
Hes like 18, hes a traumatized kid who knows hell be hunted and murdered by the government if hes found out. He then goes on a journey he discovers his courage and bravery.
Idk. Cal isnt luke or anakin or arthas or thrall. But hes quite good. I dont have to see everything in myself in him to like him.
Red flags in Assassins Creed Shadows:
1. Using an historical person as a main character.
2. Using a main character not from the culture and region.
3. Use of Chinese building structure in Feudal Japan.
4. Ubisoft stealing a flag from an army recreational group.
5. Hip hop music playing when Yasuke fights.
6. Ubisoft working with Sweet Baby Inc AGAIN.
7. Yasuke not acting like a Samurai in battle.
8. Yasuke being treated as a God when everyone is just bowing to him.
9. Ubisoft being involved with the edits around Yasuke on Wikipedia.
10. Ubisoft using Chinese Mandarin in the Kanji in a game set in Feudal Japan.
11. The pushing of LGBT stuff into the game (which also makes no sense in the realm of the animus).
12. Ubisoft working with a writer whose main "prominent" work is about monks being in relationships with young boys.
13. Ubisoft stealing the katana of Zoro from One Piece for Yasuke.
14. Not wiping blood off the katana before sheathing it.
15. Ubisoft got the seasons wrong.
16. Samurai wouldn't be walking around with their armor on at all times.
Also the double standards media has to glorify Yasuke killing a bunch of Japanese people yet these same people attacked the likes of RE5. The double standards also continue with the people praising this game, a game that doesn't pay 100% correct tribute to Japan, were the ones attacking Ghost Of Tsushima, which did try to be as accurate as possible, simply because it was made an entirely European team.
Those devs did their research. Ubisoft did not.
No. 6 alone is enough for me to stay away. lol
He's not even an historical character when what they used as base is made up and false rofl. Yes he existed but now the way they try to make us believe.
what lgbt stuff is in assassins creed shadows? game isnt even out yet and i havent seen it in marketting
I have simple advice for people, If you want to play AC game play Ghost of Tsushima(it's out on pc). Sucker Punch have perfect the AC formula. And if you have already played Ghost of Tsushima then wait for Ghost of tsushima 2 because U ain't getting an AC game from Ubisoft.
Ubisoft lost the sauce with AC games imo. Till unity you had hood on you head, you were connected to the assain brotherhood but from syndiacte player has a top hat and his boring sister who has hood isn't even fun to play. Then next installment you have origin where you can't even parkour. And latest entry was mirage, that shit just looks bland
@@shrike618 only thing i can think of is female MC hating men, i think there was something like that, so she allied with yasuke? something like that near campfire, it was more or less about trusting i think, but now it kinda comes to same spot
but most probably it's about historian about male to male love in feudal japan, which was a thing since we even have men liking boys in Joanne'd'arc army... so 90% is that Yasuke was interesting to Nobunaga like that, which would make sense with all those proof people did throw around
The weird thing is that they "ugly-fy" characters to make them more "relatable". But who the fuck looks at an ugly character and thinks "wow he/she is ugly just like me!"
Why cant an "ugly person" relate to a "good looking person"? I dont get it. Also, its roleplay and fantasy. If you can choose whoever you want to be then you would pick to be hot, everyone would.
I disagree. I think it is the case that everyone (in this context meaning the vast majority) would choose to NOT be ugly and be a 6 to 8/10 rather than a 9 or 10/10. Being a 9-10 has problems in scale equivalent to those being a 1-2. And it is obvious why an ugly person cannot relate to a good looking person. They have completely different life experience. That's like saying a short guy should relate to the problems of a guy who is 7 feet tall.
@@StoneDeceiverprojection detected
@@StoneDeceiver The "hot people problems" are not depicted in games though. People get to make their character as hot as they like, getting all the benefits but none of the downsides. You wouldn't get stalked any more by NPCs in a video game just because you made an attractive character.
@@Irosicndosjnf Look, I disagree with that take too, but comments like the one you just made are just bad. There's nothing good about dismissing others with lazy ad hominems. Leave that behaviour to the SJWs, they do it more than enough already.
@@smokelingers euhm. i havent played that game but when googling "titan quest main character" i just get a pretty normal dude. Kinda hard to even see his face because he has a helmet and every pic is of him with the back to the camera or far away from the camera.
I wouldnt say "ugly".
And the armor is cool as fuck? What do you mean? Ancient greek armor and helmets are the most badass thing from history.
Are you just talking about the graphics being outdated? Or what? I really dont understand what you are even saying.
I play old games because they used to be made with passion and entertain you. Now games preach to you, and only leans one way politically
go touch grass bro
@@jinto1980 lol award for most original comment goes to...... Not you
@@jinto1980 come up with something else
I will release "Trump Won in 2020" simulator just for you
@@jinto1980 Gayyyy lol
20:00 the whole Mortal Kombat controversy is ridiculous in the first place. The blood was cartoonish at best in those first 2 games, but because of the backlash console ports turned off the blood, and MK3 was cheesy AF. I stopped playing that series after that. The point of video games and TV, or any other form of entertainment is that it is FANTASY!! Anybody who is of average intelligence understands this implicitly.
My son is 12 yrs old. This is his playlist:
Fallout 1 and 2
Fallout Tactics
Elder Scrolls Arena
Fallout 4
Fallout New Vegas
Morrowind
Minecraft
Fallout 4 better be heavily modded sir.
If he plays Morrowind dont let him join House Hlaalu 😂😭
It weirded me tf out when i was 11 and had to take of my pants and kiss Uncle Crassius 😂
Are you proud of yourself??
@@agamersdiary1622are you proud of your comment?
@@LegendaryGoetz Yes :D
She’s not alone, the studios are killing the industry. And trying to charge you 3-5 x more for the absolute rubbish the call AAAA.
BG3
@@chalp1290 there are always exceptions, but exceptions are still exceptions.
They're not killing the industry, but the industry is definitely changing. These people are taking money from governments to add social conditioning into their games. From a financial standpoint, it's a lot safer than depending entirely on gamers to purchase your product.
@@RobertLutece909 what do you mean they are not killing the industry have you seen how many studios have closed down.
@@dave24-73 It happens every few years. We're just at that point in the cycle.
It's the age of gaming for Alyssa Mercante and nobody else. It blows my mind how we can't customize the main character to what we want in Outlaws among a whole slew of other issues. We could do more in 2003 with Knights of the Old Republic.
GOATED GAME
Leftists are forcing you to play a Transformer in Star Wars: Outlaws.
Look at a picture of Humberly González, IRL.
Then look at her character in SW: Outlaws.
Case closed.
@@marcusaurelius5149 They aren't forcing me to play anything. I'm saving my money.
When I see a character in a game being bullied for their race my immediate thought is "ok in this story those guys aren't good or at the very least are being misled by someone."
When a DEI enthusiast sees this they seem to think "it's an endorsement of racism" I don't get it...
Because activists live their entire life looking for problems that dont exist.
"how genshin impact oversexualizes its female characters" Mihoyo games are the most tame gachas out there
it's not wrong though, there is much worse. But it's also worth noting it's making millions per day
And yet they're still guilty of it.
its because they talk a lot about dont call them waifus and stuff .
@@TalonsAU based game company for making products consumers want.
I would usually ask people who make such claims to explain the difference between "sexualized" and "oversexualized" but that has become a waste of time. Now, in a leftist mind the definition of oversexualized has become: "A female character that's not androgynous".
a real gamer girl with real wisdom.
Must be AI or the most rare drop ever
Simp
Real heavies too
unicorn is real
This is the kinda women im tryna marry 😂
The corporate suits hijacked gaming. She makes great point, if people were growing out of games, they wouldn't play old games either.
Corporate with jew
24:07 You nailed it. Surprised the profound wisdom coming out of this channel.
i disagree with asmon, its not men in game development making women look like that in games, its the women working in game development that are doing that to female characters.
Yep and many of the characters they're making are self-inserts.
@@MjollTheLioness-o4y Or in the case of Star Wars: Outlaws, they're doing it to someone else.
The devs uglified Humberly González.
You are right. It is majority women who are pushing for that.
thanks to gamer gate v2.0 we know not just facts, and not only genders, but also the names of people responsible for the deal
we know who said about terrifying the game developers, who was behind these persons and who are the sponsors of this social experiment
so guys and girls don't go into their catch, it's not about gender, it's about politics and agenda
No it’s really not. If you’re an artist in the industry trust me; we’re told to “cover up” the char, use real proportions, & also part of the issue is now they want to motion cap & be realistic which isn’t as appealing.
With all due respect, I know that only a man would be saying this. In our industry it’s literally like 95% male in terms of mgmt & decision making. So if you think women are making character decisions, you’re just not in the industry. We do what our (usually male) bosses tell us to do, just like you do at your job
Back in the day games are focused on Fun not forced bulshitinclusion or cashgrab shit....
most games were always cashgrabs. its only the best games from back in the day that are still remembered today. its called survivorship bias.
Case in point - they actually were quite actively promoting inclusion even 30 years ago. It just felt more sincere, they were making an effort, and it wasn't detrimental to the fun.
@@Always.Smarternah, there wasn't any microtransaction bs in AAA titles a decade and a half ago, and gacha or surprise mechanic bs didn't even exist in western gaming sphere
@@ConserpovIn other words, the inclusion now feels more patronizing than anything. Wheelchair character that can also make robots, but she can’t make legs for herself? Most video game characters that are fat nowadays are also ugly despite that not being a fat persons destined character trait?
So they don’t appeal to anyone. It’s just insulting at best 😂
@@RIP_ZYZZ1738
Yes, but I meant more along the lines of:
1994 - let's add a Black character, make him a foreigner from distant lands in a believable way
2024 - let's just make king of England Black
In the communist regime where I grew up, fantasy and SF were a medium where you could freely discuss otherwise banned topics and make people think about serious issues. Watching these people effectively doing the same thing as that regime (telling you what to say and how to think, etc) is disgusting and scary.
And yet there still are washed up people who think 'past tries were a "wrong/bad" communism, but you must let us try to do another one' (and then one more, and so on...)
It has been enabled by people that would put instant gratification above important principles, as in throwing money and attention in the direction of these things when they shouldn't. "Not going to play this hyped game" sounds like a threat to them, then they complain that hyped game is bad in some way once the need for instant gratification has been fulfilled.
It is because these people are communists. Hence their emulation of communist regime elsewhere in the world.
I think Uncharted series was the first puzzle piece in “movie games” as you all put it. More action inspired but I think that’s where it really started.
- The most I ever play in new games are Indie or small studios. This is usually because some of these games are made in the spirit of older games.
- The vast majority of newer AAAs are horribly expensive, misguided, attack or is disconnected from their consumer base, etc.
- Emulators and Roms have allowed access to many games that some have never played. They are simple, fun, and entertaining, with an utterly enormous library of older games.
- Because of Emulators and Roms, many individuals have done translations for games that were never published in their nation/home.
- The modding communities for older games are amazing, with Fallout 4 and Skyrim just two examples of the countless video games in which you can customize the games to your whim.
- Some can argue nostalgia. Some can argue that these were the games we grew up with. Some can argue that the old games simply worked. I can almost guarantee any kid can still hop in and play Super Mario Brothers 3 on the NES and love it.
the days when you earned the armor sets and outfits through playing instead of buying them in the shop…man those were the days
I like that people celebrate Kay as "Star Wars female lead" without looking at contents. Meanwhile, Kay is just an asshole, completely incompetent at anything she does, she's not very bright, she lacks any foresight - she disregards Bram's advice, fucks up the job and then lead bad guys straight back to his home. Dude took her in, provided for her for years and all he gets for it is getting shot. Not a word of apology from Kay, as she leaves on her new adventure. She has zero redeeming or likeable qualities. I don't know if she has any sort of redemption arc or character development later in the story but if the closest person to her getting shot because of her mistakes is not enough for her to look back on her actions, then I don't know what else would be necessary for her to change her ways...
Cere Junda was infinitely better character than Kay. She wasn't perfect, deeply conflicted because of her past and trying to achieve redemption until she became badass enough to stand her ground against Darth Vader. I hated every moment playing as Kay but I'd love to play as Cere in her own game (imo she'd be better protag than Cal), especially if you'd have a choice which road to take: continue as mercenary doing some rebel stuff on the side, return to being a Jedi and openly fight against the Empire or even fall to the dark side and join the inquisition. Cere is how you write strong female leads, while Kay is just human garbage.
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41:00 Classic WOW is an S-Tier for sure but TBC was A-Tier easily and you can argue for S-Tier. They added Arenas, Heroic dungeons, Guild Banks, and a lot of quality of life improvements without ruining the spirit of Classic. Horde had Paladins via Blood Elves, and Alliance had Shamans via Space Goats but no new classes. Classes still very much had their identity. While flying existed you had to be level 70 (or 68 if druid) and it cost a lot of gold that even at the end of TBC it was still amazing to see someone roll up on a Gladiator mount. I think the talent tree was probably at it's peak during TBC with JUST enough added/changed to really round out classes and specs. Crafting/Enchanting was just way better, especially with gems being added. The only things it lacked was 40-man content and while the isle was fun, they really shouldn't have added the catch-up stuff BUT I give is pass because it was the absolute end of the expansion.
If they stopped making games tomorrow.... there would still be enough games for me to play a new game every day for the rest of my life.
Yah as long as your willing to give all genres a chance and not get hung up on graphics. This is a concept a lot of people do not seem to get.
@@Saynotoshonenin my times, people played everything from action, to RTS and point and click games. So it was never a problem for me.
And there were actually good games that weren't popular and properly marketed back then, like Dominion. So the library is huuuuge.
The reason we don't have a Japanese protagonist in Japan is because wokes are also racist toward asians. For real. The term "white adjacent" is a thing in woke circles.
is the female ninja not from Japan or did we forget that she is in the game
@@cyanmage1 she's not the protagonist.
@@skaruts she is the main protagonist and also on the cover of the game front and center. Listen I hate Ubisoft for their shitty monetization practices but stop spreading this bullshit
Asmon - " in WoW we had enslave demon and they now changed it to subjugate demon"
Me - "in Alpha WoW Fire Mages used to have an ability called Holocaust, Im sure that wouldve gone well on release"
@@cyanmage1 She is, but most people I see don't have problems with her. The problem is the dude, and that there should be two Japanese protagonists, or even just one, the girl. Besides, I don't know how true it is, but I've read that she was a late addition to the game to "check boxes".
I have to be honest, I find a lot of women don't understand consent either. It's not really too surprising in a world that promotes narcissism and entitlement.
Tell me what you mean by that, like what have you encountered?
@@zethrilzethril571he encountered women
I find it weird that Asmon thinks his female friends confide in him as they would confide in a close gay friend or a close female friend. There's no way in hell that his female friends all had issues with consent with the men in their lives and all told Asmon this. At most, they might have had issues with online men, because online many people (not just men really at this point) think they can do and say whatever the hell they want without consequences, but in person? I'm quite certain most men are afraid of false accusations or prison time in general or just happen to be good men (shocker). There's not a single man I've talked to in person that doesn't have those things in the back of their heads when interacting in public, especially with women (and especially if they are aware of how different men and women are). Just seems like a weird take to me to say that most men have issues with consent, when it's clearly a small minority that usually is terminally online (and when they aren't, they end up in prison eventually anyways, just because creeps can't help themselves, no matter the gender).
@@AnonningAnon Half the women I know have had trouble with guys being creepy, weird or straight out anti-consent word.
@@AnonningAnon Your comment makes me think that you are young and lack life experience, especially real life experience with real life girls. It is the vast majority of women have bad experiences with guys, it starts before they are even adults. By the time you are in high school there will already be a percentage of the girls who have had issues with guys. "When it's clearly a small minority that usually is terminally online" ? There is no way that you can say something so naïve and thoughtless, the only explanation is the internet has existed for the entirety of your life. Just in case you didn't know, men and women existed before the internet.
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Growing up, it was the Christians that did their best to control all art. But in the 80's and 90's, people who wanted freedom of expression completely broke those shackles. Really, the 90's and the 2000's were a golden age for art. But I've come to see that it was not the Christian religion specifically that was censorious, that's just where all the control freaks launched their efforts from. I've come to see that there's ALWAYS going to be a rather sizeable portion of the population that seeks to have utter and total control over what art all others can enjoy. So when the left took most, if not all, of the social clout in the 2000's, those psycho control freaks went left as well. And now AAAALLLLL the art censorship comes form the left.
For you young people, the left USED to be all about freedom of speech, and freedom of expression. But the MOMENT they got power, they immediately acted JUST LIKE the Christians did when they had the social clout. And I gotta say, the Christians were not as overbearing as the left is.
You bring an interesting point.
As a Christian who witnessed it from the inside, it was always one or two crazy ladies in a church who wanted to ban a video game or cartoon. Most of our parents allowed us to have it, and we just ignored the few crazy people in the church.
I don't think I've seen anyone in a church mention banning anything for the past few decades at least. Sure, people will say certain pieces of entertainment are sins, but it's more of a "free-will" type thing where people understand they live in the world, but try to not partake in things that negatively impact the soul. No one is trying to ban it though.
Now that you notice it, the women who tried to ban things and tell other parents to throw our stuff away, none of them are Christians now, and they lean politically left. It does seem that controlling people just want to control, and they'll move wherever they think they have a better advantage.
Actually dude sorry to tell you this but it sounds like what really happened is you just grew up.
When you were younger that's how you perceive the left, probably the rebellious side of most teenagers.
Rebellion against your parents etc.
That's how the left sees themselves today still.
The left has always been the dominant cultural power,
I don't know what you're smoking dude
Jade was such a great character, she should be the blueprint for a strong female character that is actually clever and creative without being obnoxious and without being sexualized either, but modern AAA developers are clowns that think they know better than people who created timeless classics.
Not gay enough!!!
I recall Jade was being received as "not that sexy"; still a good game though, really interesting world.
@@Panssel like in dustborn?
The advance in graphics was the biggest setback to making actually good games.
This!
old games just have that soul in em, man. they somehow feel more alive
They really do! Its not explained in the video but older games had more handcrafted elements. As games became bigger and more detailed, individual items were turned into classes of items.
The difference with a lot of old games is they were made by talented people that formed a studio and now games are made by studios that hire talent.
And they actually liked and played games themselves
Check out what the Daggerfall devs are doing now!!! Good stuff coming there!
11:35 No the reason they push it is because it's what gets them ESG investment money.
I'm pretty sure Neil Druckmann was virtue-signaling before the ESG money.
One thing i feel the games these days have forgotten is that no matter how much money, no matter how many years and how many tea parties you invite to please investors, the success of the game ultimately all boils down to single iconic moments in the story with beloved characters that burns into peoples memories. Just think back on any game you loved the most and you remember how they were made either through stories, or through that moment with your friends by the games design.
Meanwhile another 3000+ Skyrim modlist have been released for you to play
Just wait for those mandatory updates to all BGS games when ES6 flops as hard as Snorefield did xD
As much as I love skyrim, we don't owe this to Bethesda. It's the modding community. And they mostly do it for free.
@@malakianknight They can try but I already downgraded all my games and stopped steam from updating the game automatically
The main issue is that the games are "made by committee", the executives and the higherups make the choices and force those choices.
They choose who's in charge, they make sure it's someone who'll do what they want, and the entire time they are 100% ignorant of what the playerbases actually want.
Then they're baffled when the games don't sell. Their charts told them it should, their analysts told them it should, therefore it's not their fault its the players fault.
I started playing the Witcher 3 again last night and it was the first time I’ve had fun playing video games in what feels like 3 years
Even then there was wokeness in it but they made a good game foremost
@@crazychase98sorry, not trying to be confrontational but how exactly is that game woke at all?
@@Primalham-pz2iz the female characters how they act. Cyris plot line is girl boss plot story writing. Gay side characters gay characters where that's basically the whole plot line. An a cross dressing elf. Who credit where credit is do. Even they made Geralt question it an go dude wtf.
@@crazychase98 having gay characters does not mean woke, because they’re not put in for the sake of pandering, and are in theme with the books. Also, Cerys, I don’t understand how that’s a ‘girl boss’ story. She’s not overpowered, she struggles as Skellige has never had a queen before, she isn’t fully sure on what to do and needs Geralt’s help
It was Dragon's Crown for me
34:50 at the time Skyrim came out they were generally just on the dumbing down of gaming kick so I think it had more to do with that really
37:31 "You're not going to have a complex and interesting story come out of any of these development studios because a lot of the people are boring, middle class privileged, white 'people'"... Yeah we all know that last "people" was supposed to be "women" and Asmon censored himself before he said it. 😅
Star Wars old republic was horrible even at being 10 years old… with Microsoft bringing in a new version for Star Wars does blizzard have any part in it?
That’s just nonsense though. You can’t blame women for the problems in a field where 95% of mgmt are men & virtually all game-making decisions are made by men. Ask any woman you know- nearly 100% of us would rather play a pretty character than an ugly one
@@scarletsletter4466 I never talked to a woman in real life so I wouldn't know. 😏
"Mario jumps on turtles and is therefore animal abuse" in 2024 instead of 1985.
And picking fire flower supports deforestation. Using fire ball supports arson. Collecting coins supports corporate corruption. Put away the allegory making machine.
Do people still care about what PETA says?
Oblivion shown, I have been summoned.
i like watching this guy because it motivates me to work a bit harder and take care of myself so i don't end up like him
he's like a story that someone would tell their kid to get them to do their chores and brush their teeth
"Games have cultural baggage now." This is perfectly put.
Games always had the culture thing is that modern culture just sucks
@@Dragonfury3000Games didn’t use to be vessels for activism.
@@Dragonfury3000 Yeah but games used to *BE* culture themselves. Live service games and other cash grab bullshit are just sacrilegious in that regard.
That Black Myth: Wukong review really said the quiet part out loud. No women before chapter 3? Well that's an inclusion and diversity slight. We are down to chapters. When does it stop? The opening cutscene? It's completely unreasonable and it's no surprise that the video game industry is creatively bankrupt (in the AAA space more so). What's worse is these reviewers, developers, and journalists point fingers at Asmongold, among others, and cry about culture wars yet they are literally contributing to that same culture war they pretend to be above by being so outrageously disingenuous about everything and everyone.
Preach. It will NEVER be enough.. until we are all lgtbs
I feel the same as her to be honest. If i play old games i know that i have everything available to me wothout opening my wallet further, i know those games were made with passion by people who actively enjoyed videogames. Meanwhile now gamers/nerds are giving money to the same people who used to beat them in the hallways and steal their lunch money. Sure a lot of it is based on nostalgia, but nostalgia alone cannot make me put 400 hours pn a game i already have 400 hours on. Meanwhile a modern game i can easily quit 20 hours in after spending 80€ on it (which would cost me 200€ if it were for DLCs) because they are soulless.
Nothing beats that 2000s feeling of researching how to unlock a character by doing special missions or tasks, and knowing that it’s all there, no internet required, no time limited events, no pay to unlock.
Same honestly, i have played lots of games the last 3 months, but they were all from 2009 and below
I love anti-woke women.
Its like a breath of fresh air
@@michaelw6015 true
She definitely knows how to make money from you guys.
@@byte-bg4ob I never heard of her and don't plan to follow her so idk how she's making money from me. Whether it's fake or not her spewing the anti-woke message is enough for me to appreciate it.
@@Rinoto 100
Worried about not sexualizing fictional characters while teaching kids it's cool to just decide your own gender. These people have zero sense of what is actually right and good.
Exactly. Also, you have feminists that say men are terrible whilst saying men and women are equal. lmao
How are these two things in any way related.
@@JD-ny9qj you have a brain m'y Friend use it
Because old games are peak.
Funny she mentioned cosplay I saw those concord characters and immediately thought they look like badly done cosplay.
"People play games to escape reality."
I'm an atheist IRL and always plays as priests and supernatural characters. I don't belive this stuff exists in real life, but that doesn't make it less interesting. It's FANTASY.
Evening, fellow Mage-Priest-Necromancer-Arcanist-Conjurer. Having a good night?
Supernatural doesn't exist by definition. It sorta has to be natural to "exist".... That's also why we don't know how a soul links to a body in the natural world. I was an atheist too until my soul had a supernatural experience. I hope you never have cause to believe, because it messed me up big time and I haven't been able to sleep properly since.
My man. I'm an atheist too, but I can admit that religions have some of the coolest thematic designs ever. The entire Warhammer 40K universe is built on religious zealotry and that's created the most badass designs ever. Sign me tf up for religious depictions in fictional media, but keep it out of my real life. I'll consider changing my mind once a real god shows up.
I am a humanoid cat drug dealer IRL, so I always play as a vigilant in my play throughs. It’s nice to get away every once in a while
I am usually an atheist in game.
"Strong" means more than your gains, women. Strong means resolve, stoicism, resilience, and how you respond to hardships. Also being able to fight AND lift heavy stuff. And such. I think.
I have a hot take. It was becoming clear that the birth of Abby is something that was going to happen in a naughty dog game way back in 2011 and 2016. The hints were there back in the Uncharted 3 and 4 games.
They started to introduce female characters who were close in personality and sometimes better in ability too Nathan Drake. The second I played Uncharted 4, I knew whatever they do next it was going to be a female lead, then a gay female or male lead. I didn't think a character like Abby was possible, but I knew the concept of not making a male lead like in the first Uncharted game was their aim.
So they created Lost Legacy, they had Nathan Drake have a daughter, they made the first Last of Us game and then Last of Us 2 was born. All these decisions came with the idea that leading female characters is their way, and then it was sexually diverse females.
I think whatever they come out with next will again have a lead female character and probably some sort of variation in identity as well. Never a straight male who is capable and a feminine female. Those days are gone for that studio.
Who is abby?
N3mdrazthe roroid-addict-looking girl from last of us 2
@@N3mdraz a great Character in The Last of Us 2
Uncharted 5 is going to have Nathan's daughter as the protag, which just makes sense plot wise.
@@kegosan7622 whats the last of us?
Me too. My main games are Heroes of Might and Magic 5.5, Warhammer 40K Down Of War Soulstorm, Stronghold Crusader, Lineage 2 and many other OG games
23:50 if one party is tipsy and the other is blacked out drunk, that's probably a problem. If both people are equally drunk, that's probably not a problem.
33:00 - It is like people in the Witcher universe discriminating against elves and dwarves. Having that as a part of the universe doesn't make those book/games racist. They are creating believable universe. Like Mass Effect is full of racial prejudice. In Star Wars it is almost comical how almost every race gets along.
It's not that all old games are great it's that all old games that are remembered fondly to this day have something special that keeps them from been forgotten
Nostalgia.
@@Ux1.73cno it's not nostalgia, it's exactly what OP is saying. The games you will remember in 10 years and more are great games, timeless. I've played hundreds of games since my childhood, yet it would be impossible for me to name more than 10% of them, let alone tell you what the fuck they were about lol
True. I've played countless games over the past few decades but there are some I keep going back to like HOMM2&3 or Fallout 1&2.
@iiMEiii not just nostalgia. The old games we play over and over were the best games of that time and still hold their own (we don't play the shitty games from back then)
For example I played warcraft 3 again after years and instantly saw the amount of details that all were right: The colors, the aura's, the music, how the units looked etc.
Same for HoMM3 or even Rollercoaster tycoon etc.
people will NOT feel nostalgia about games like Concord that's for sure
Sexualizing characters is only new in video games. It always existed in many forms because this is how humans are wired... Most famous actors/actresses, singers, entairtainers etc, have a good combination of skill, talent and beautiful appearance. When you're trying to find a mate, most people will seek beauty and then personality, unless they are old enough and experienced to know better. Playing a video game that has a good combination of gameplay and hot characters is not a crime... People are wired to think this way, nature makes sure of that!
The Star Wars Outlaws woman hits harder than Mike Tyson and whoever the "Punch Out" champion is now.
Outlaw dev: "Hey! I made star wars outlaws"
Women: "So you're the reason the female character looks like a dude?"
Outlaw dev: **COMPLETE MELTDOWN** "I did it for women!!!!"
they did it for ESG
There's nothing sexual about Genshin if anyone's wondering. No fan service, no fetish pandering, no suspicious camera angles. I'm not afraid to play this game in front of my family, heck my sister and girlfriend plays it and I'm trying to convince my sister's husband to try it. I even sometimes seen someone plays Genshin on their phones during train rides.
You're welcome to prove me wrong though. Especially those who keeps alleging genshin as a pedo game. This part confused me the most, 4 years of playing genshin and I still don't see any loli characters getting sexualized here.
Can you say the same about ZZZ tho?
@@Carens186 what zzz got to do with genshin for? It's the game we're talking about, not the company.
My favourite Skyrim experience was playing a rogue melee only, with no life added. At a certain point t the change of music when dragons spot you became nerve racking. Your hp was always at a low life threshold where where they just eat you if you are seen when engaging in melee combat.
Created a more…. Realistic approach to a world of dragons
"it's like a caveman rediscovering fire"
This is now a cannon event
How to play Assassins Creed Shadows:
1. Dress Naked
2. Equip a Club
3.....
4. CANCELLED
Press X to chimp-out
Yep. 99% of modern (AAA) games are bad.
There are many Indie gems, but I find myself going back to the classics more often.
There are no indie gems for me. I'm born in the 80s, I already played every game variety in 8-16 bit, but im happy younger people enjoy indie games.
WoW vanilla was the big game. Im waiting for the next baldurs gate but then 3d or VR world
@@N3mdrazthere are indie gems for everyone, some games might have a 8bit graphic, but they'll have revolutionary mechanics 😻
@@Jackthewolf no u dont understand. Im born in the 80s we already played 8bit endlessly. There is no new "groundbreaking" 8bit game.
Us boomers are used every decennia games got better looking WITH new mechanics from textbased games, to 8bit to 3d and now VR.
@@N3mdraz Idk man, I've played tons of platforms and feel like games as Celeste and Super Meat Boy are amongst the greatest of all times, even tho they have very simple graphics
@@Jackthewolf its great you enjoy those games but cmon, they look like child's games for teens it doesn't appeal for many 30 years old men.
Sorry mate, I was interested in those kind of games 20 years ago, that's why I hate mobile gaming aswell it feels like backwords technology and 99% of games looks like it's made for kids and grannies
18:55 Check out the original Tomb Raider sometime. They didn't have many polygons to draw Lara with, but guess what they focused on drawing with them...
By the way, "45% of gamers are women" is still massive cap and cope, just compare the amount of time men and women sink into playing games and you'll quickly find out that a woman playing Mario party once in a while that identifies as being a "gamer" doesn't really count towards the only statistics that matters which is sales and player retention.
Those 45% is counting mobile users too BTW. It's a very misleading metric.
Yea my grandma is technically a gamer lol but she's playing bejeweled on Facebook. Its not the same
True, very true. In real life, many men I meet are into video games with a passion, while most women are not interested or just snobbish. Reality tells a different story than statistics.
23:25 I remember a commercial. That said something on the lines of (dont remember the exact wording):
"Jack and Jill got drunk and hooked up. Jill was drunk thus couldnt consent. So Jack was convicted for r*pe. Always ask for consent."
And the first thing i thought off was, if Jill couldnt consent because they were drunk, then Jack also couldnt consent because they were drunk.
Regretting sleeping with someone does not make it r*pe. It makes it a stupid choice.
You and some guy at the bar drinking together, hooking up, sleeping together and you regretting it is not r*pe.
You and some guy at the bar drinking together, he is deliberatly trying to get you drunk (and thus probably isnt getting that drunk himself), taking advantage of you in your drunken state and then sleeping with you, that is r*pe.
There is clearly a difference. Which is "intent". I dont think that r*pe can occure unintentionally. And id love to see an example from anyone that can say otherwise. And no "I was drunk" is not an excuse, that doesnt make it unintentional, you did perform the act intentionally, you just didnt care/think because you were drunk.
TIP:
All that said, stay safe out there. There are some vile pieces of shit out there that will do whatever.
And a great tip that i dont see to often. But if you go out with your friends to a bar, just share your current location in your groupchat. It will automatically update to your current location. Not only makes it easier to find eachother. But if your drunk friend suddenly goes missing, and you see that they arent nearby anymore, you can instantly call them to check up for the situation. And even call the police to that location if neccesary.
(edit: missed a r*pe censor)
Giving a warning and disclaimer makes you part of the problem
I didn't read you post but I want you to know I get girls drunk all the time. So drunk they can't prove it was me lol
@@RichieKrol Censor is because UA-cam. Disclaimer is fair because many have experienced traumatic experiences. With that last statement I'd say report yourself to the police.
Thanks for reacting to my core keeper video asmond :) can you credit me in the description?
UPDATE: Credited now, thank you!!
Give Sam his views.
He had two videos there. He linked both videos in the description. You're upset he didn't put your name in the description with the link to your video? He didn't do that for the other dude either.
@@dkail08 no that’s not it. My video was just not linked at all, both of the ones linked aren’t mine. It’s fine if he doesn’t show my name
Good stuff man, I just watched that earlier and I will see if my girl would like to start playing that game with me. Also I will sub to you. Chheers!
@@dkail08 update: he added mine! There are 3 links now!
I like her. She's authentic and decent. Like non corrupted. That talks about her character and her parents. Respect.