Avowed, a TOW-like game from Obsidian

[Tweed]

Gettin' all those "disavowed" jokes ready to rumble.

[rusty_shackleford]

Swen in 2015: "Where are all the freakin women?!?!?!?!" http://web.archive.org/web/201602071343 ... the-women/

"Developer wants to know where potential larger audience is for more money"
I'm shocked.

Why not link the article he wrote about how they included scenes in Dragon Commander that are just closeups of the dwarf princess's breasts as opposition to censorship?

[Yankee Zulu]

Everyone's a libtard these days. Svenike, Vavra, Melon Tusk, etc. And you included. If you think russians or chinese are different, you are sorely mistaken. Afaik russian gaymers suck the same western **** as everyone else.

[rusty_shackleford]

And you included

silence, libtard

[Roguey]

"Developer wants to know where potential larger audience is for more money"
I'm shocked.

Why not link the article he wrote about how they included scenes in Dragon Commander that are just closeups of the dwarf princess's breasts as opposition to censorship?

http://web.archive.org/web/201306241444 ... ensorship/

It also doesn’t help that our lead animator decided that on this particular game he was going to show the world what he thinks of censorship. He made the most obvious sexist camera shot ever for the introduction of the dwarven princess to the dragon knight, and then queried me whether I thought it was over the top, and whether or not such an expression of artistic freedom belonged in a game. As I was debating the issue openly I somehow managed to get half Larian around me, who vigorously let me know that censorship is a thing of the devil and what they thought about their right to aim a camera at a dwarven princess’ breasts.

I let them cook a bit by playing the devil’s advocate, but let it in because a) I’m no big fan of censorship, b) I’m no fan of enforced politically correctness because it gives media too much power to shape opinion and c) I thought there was something symbolical about this particular shot being such a discussion generator just because it was visual. I think there is much more controversial stuff than this in the way the councillors formulate their opnions , but apparently the fact that that’s just words doesn’t provoke the same emotions.

But the knee was soon bent. https://www.deviantart.com/orogion/jour ... -380891149

Our kickstarter campaign for Divinity: Original Sin has gotten quite some criticism on its original poster art. Apparently it was deemed to be sexistic and women unfriendly by the way the female protagonist was portrayed: with a bare belly.

A bare belly was for some enough a trigger to send our company enough hate and threatening mails to persuade my boss to ask me to change the cover. I did, but did so reluctantly. Disagreeing wholeheartedly with the claim of the artwork being sexistic, the better half of me decided to meet "offended-by-design" people somewhere in the middle.

[Rand]

Veilguard was released October 31st. These previews happened... last week? Two weeks ago? It takes time to write all this stuff up, edit videos. It is way too soon for any large company to make any kind of shift in response. These ships can't turn on a dime.

Why are you being so willfully dense and doing this gaslighting ********?
What is in it for you?

[rusty_shackleford]

Veilguard was released October 31st. These previews happened... last week? Two weeks ago? It takes time to write all this stuff up, edit videos. It is way too soon for any large company to make any kind of shift in response. These ships can't turn on a dime.

The backlash to the character creator started weeks ago, before the game even released. It was obvious the reaction to the game was negative in the first few days of this month.

[Roguey]

Why are you being so willfully dense and doing this gaslighting ********?
What is in it for you?

I'm a hyper-logical autist and aim for accuracy in assessments.

You believe MS came to the conclusion that Veilguard bombed days after release, decided that it was 100% because of pronouns (and not other contributing factors that could be pointed to so they could hold on to pushing their personal politics on the masses), and then immediately decided "STOP EVERYTHING, HIDE THE PRONOUNS IN NEXT WEEK'S BIG PREVIEW EVENT." All the while ignoring that in 2022, Larian made a big deal of shouting "WE SUPPORT PRONOUNS" and went on to sell tens of millions.

Just doesn't seem accurate to me.

[Roguey]

The backlash to the character creator started weeks ago, before the game even released. It was obvious the reaction to the game was negative in the first few days of this month.

People on the internet are always backlashing against something. Anyone with sense ignore people grumbling on the internet, they're not representative of normies.

They give in to leftwing backlash because they already agree with those views.

[rusty_shackleford]

You believe MS came to the conclusion that Veilguard bombed days after release, decided that it was 100% because of pronouns (and not other contributing factors that could be pointed to so they could hold on to pushing their personal politics on the masses), and then immediately decided "STOP EVERYTHING, HIDE THE PRONOUNS IN NEXT WEEK'S BIG PREVIEW EVENT." All the while ignoring that in 2022, Larian made a big deal of shouting "WE SUPPORT PRONOUNS" and went on to sell tens of millions.

If your implication here is that product managers keep an eye on similar products to see how the market reacts, my answer is yes.

[Roguey]

If your implication here is that product managers keep an eye on similar products to see how the market reacts, my answer is yes.

The market reacted quite well to BG3. https://gaymingmag.com/2022/12/baldurs- ... ry-option/

[Rand]

Why are you being so willfully dense and doing this gaslighting ********?
What is in it for you?

I'm a hyper-logical autist and aim for accuracy in assessments.

You believe MS came to the conclusion that Veilguard bombed days after release, decided that it was 100% because of pronouns (and not other contributing factors that could be pointed to so they could hold on to pushing their personal politics on the masses), and then immediately decided "STOP EVERYTHING, HIDE THE PRONOUNS IN NEXT WEEK'S BIG PREVIEW EVENT." All the while ignoring that in 2022, Larian made a big deal of shouting "WE SUPPORT PRONOUNS" and went on to sell tens of millions.

Just doesn't seem accurate to me.

A category. Not necessarily it in isolation, ffs.

[Roguey]

A category. Not necessarily it in isolation, ffs.

What else is there? Starfield also had pronouns. Sold tons, got a lot of backlash because the game itself sucked, but pronouns weren't on the top of the list of grievances other than the grifttube circuit (people they happily ignore).

[rusty_shackleford]

What else is there?

Maybe you overlooked Concord?

[Rand]

Concord?
Dustborn?
Star Wars Outlaws?
Suicide Squad?
the blowback on the GTA VI reveals?
And, yes, Starfield as well.
To name but a few. Like The Last of Us 2

They are learning that the IDpol faggotry is poison, doubly so if it can be detected before release so word of mouth tanks sales.

[rusty_shackleford]

Reminder that the majority of the target audience for CRPGs in America voted for Donald Trump, btw. White male zoomers swung heavily right.

[rusty_shackleford]

Reminder that the majority of the target audience for CRPGs in America voted for Donald Trump, btw. White male zoomers swung heavily right.

This isn't even correcting for race, we know whites are the massive majority of people playing these games.


Every piece of data I've seen with regards to RPGs — I mean actual RPGs, not dating simulators — has a hard cap of around 15% female audience. RPGHQ's userbase is even estimated to be roughly 15% female by analytics.

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[Irenaeus]

Veilguard was released October 31st. These previews happened... last week? Two weeks ago? It takes time to write all this stuff up, edit videos. It is way too soon for any large company to make any kind of shift in response. These ships can't turn on a dime.

Why are you being so willfully dense and doing this gaslighting ********?
What is in it for you?

Roguey has always been a gay ******.

[WaterMage]

Swen in 2015: "Where are all the freakin women?!?!?!?!" http://web.archive.org/web/201602071343 ... the-women/

The question is: is he the type of libtard to quickly develop a strong support for something as ******** as "gender identity," or is he the type of libtard to do it begrudgingly to appease others?

Gender ideology is euphemism for "Gender Lysenkoism" ie - the same **** that everything is social and that genetics is a fascist talk point.

Vavra

Vavra is hated by game journos and many higher ups in cdpr are now working for him, after cdpr started to openly discriminate against Polish man.

BTW, there is degrees of wokeness.

For eg, Elden Ring has body types instead of Gender. But is not as woke as Dustborn. Is not fair to see the wokeness as a "binary" thing. Some low degree of wokeness is tolerable. Failguard, Forspoken, is not.

[Roguey]

What else is there?

Maybe you overlooked Concord?

Concord?
Dustborn?
Star Wars Outlaws?
Suicide Squad?
the blowback on the GTA VI reveals?
And, yes, Starfield as well.
To name but a few. Like The Last of Us 2

They are learning that the IDpol faggotry is poison, doubly so if it can be detected before release so word of mouth tanks sales.

None of those are RPGs.

A lot of slop is flopping, but it's flopping on its own merits, not because the games are a little too liberal.

[rusty_shackleford]

What else is there?

Maybe you overlooked Concord?

Concord?
Dustborn?
Star Wars Outlaws?
Suicide Squad?
the blowback on the GTA VI reveals?
And, yes, Starfield as well.
To name but a few. Like The Last of Us 2

They are learning that the IDpol faggotry is poison, doubly so if it can be detected before release so word of mouth tanks sales.

None of those are RPGs.

A lot of slop is flopping, but it's flopping on its own merits, not because the games are a little too liberal.

Gee, I wonder what might have helped BG3 sell far more copies than any other recent RPG.

Truly, a mystery.

"B-b-but starfield was a success!!"
Yeah, because it had Bethesda's name attached to it. Obsidian is 'literally who??' for 99% of gamers. Believe it or not, FNV is a niche title and your average gamer was like 5 when it was released.

[Stack of Turtles]

Autists aren't really logical, they just feel that they are.

[ArcaneLurker]

Gender ideology is euphemism for "Gender Lysenkoism" ie - the same **** that everything is social and that genetics is a fascist talk point.

Yeah, basically they've had to admit that genetics is correct. Lysenkoism proved itself to be false, they were left with no other option than concede.
It was not something they could avoid.
Outspoken non-Jewish Marxists like Haldane voiced strong criticism against the abject retardation of the Soviet Empire "Lysenkoism is not merely a pseudoscience but an obscurantist reaction against genetics."

Instead the Marxists in Academia employed other means of navigating the genetics obstacle by producing fake science and repeatedly pushing it on the masses.
Figures such as: Abraham Jacobi, Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Richard Lewontin, Israel Ehrenberg (Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu), Stephen Jay Gould, who are mostly of Jewish descent,
had to find various ways of combating Social Darwinism, Scientific Racism (realism, the idea that races are species with immutable characteristics that go beyond cosmetics), Eugenics, Essentialism, Biological determinism, this lead into promoting Cultural Relativism, and more generally: subjective truth over objective truth, which is as bad as saying any answer to a math equation could be correct. It's all manipulative psychobabble meant to exhaust and confuse NPCs, they know they'll accept it if it's repeated enough, they're incapable of critically processing the information.

Here is a quick take-down on Lewontin's fallacy:
https://thuletide.wordpress.com/2021/01 ... ween-them/

[rusty_shackleford]

Lysenkoism

This isn't taught at all in US schools AFAIK and it's very amusing that the dominant ideology of one of the world's superpowers is just ignored because uhm… reasons…

[Roguey]

Truly, a mystery.

"B-b-but starfield was a success!!"
Yeah, because it had Bethesda's name attached to it. Obsidian is 'literally who??' for 99% of gamers. Believe it or not, FNV is a niche title and your average gamer was like 5 when it was released.

Here's what's currently popular on the tube
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/browse/t ... rt:popular

Biggest hit right now is an incredibly woke cartoon that I hear went even woker in its second season. The rest of it, woke as far as the eye can see.

[rusty_shackleford]

Truly, a mystery.

"B-b-but starfield was a success!!"
Yeah, because it had Bethesda's name attached to it. Obsidian is 'literally who??' for 99% of gamers. Believe it or not, FNV is a niche title and your average gamer was like 5 when it was released.

Here's what's currently popular on the tube
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/browse/t ... rt:popular

Biggest hit right now is an incredibly woke cartoon that I hear went even woker in its second season. The rest of it, woke as far as the eye can see.

Wow if rotten tomatoes says so it must be true.
Completely unrelated, Netflix had to crack down on account sharing to make up for profits lost from hemorrhaging subscribers.

[Stack of Turtles]

Truly, a mystery.

"B-b-but starfield was a success!!"
Yeah, because it had Bethesda's name attached to it. Obsidian is 'literally who??' for 99% of gamers. Believe it or not, FNV is a niche title and your average gamer was like 5 when it was released.

Here's what's currently popular on the tube
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/browse/t ... rt:popular

Biggest hit right now is an incredibly woke cartoon that I hear went even woker in its second season. The rest of it, woke as far as the eye can see.

You know only blacks watch TV now, right?

[Nooneatall]

Truly, a mystery.

"B-b-but starfield was a success!!"
Yeah, because it had Bethesda's name attached to it. Obsidian is 'literally who??' for 99% of gamers. Believe it or not, FNV is a niche title and your average gamer was like 5 when it was released.

Here's what's currently popular on the tube
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/browse/t ... rt:popular

Biggest hit right now is an incredibly woke cartoon that I hear went even woker in its second season. The rest of it, woke as far as the eye can see.

Reminder that Roguey is attracted to trannys so he is gay and his opinions are meaningless.

[Roguey]

Truly, a mystery.

"B-b-but starfield was a success!!"
Yeah, because it had Bethesda's name attached to it. Obsidian is 'literally who??' for 99% of gamers. Believe it or not, FNV is a niche title and your average gamer was like 5 when it was released.

Here's what's currently popular on the tube
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/browse/t ... rt:popular

Biggest hit right now is an incredibly woke cartoon that I hear went even woker in its second season. The rest of it, woke as far as the eye can see.

Wow if rotten tomatoes says so it must be true.
Completely unrelated, Netflix had to crack down on account sharing to make up for profits lost from hemorrhaging subscribers.

The critic scores are what they are, but the audience score reveals the preferences of the masses.

Truly, a mystery.

"B-b-but starfield was a success!!"
Yeah, because it had Bethesda's name attached to it. Obsidian is 'literally who??' for 99% of gamers. Believe it or not, FNV is a niche title and your average gamer was like 5 when it was released.

Here's what's currently popular on the tube
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/browse/t ... rt:popular

Biggest hit right now is an incredibly woke cartoon that I hear went even woker in its second season. The rest of it, woke as far as the eye can see.

You know only blacks watch TV now, right?

Most of these shows are direct to streaming.

[rusty_shackleford]

Here's what's currently popular on the tube
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/browse/t ... rt:popular

Biggest hit right now is an incredibly woke cartoon that I hear went even woker in its second season. The rest of it, woke as far as the eye can see.

Wow if rotten tomatoes says so it must be true.
Completely unrelated, Netflix had to crack down on account sharing to make up for profits lost from hemorrhaging subscribers.

The critic scores are what they are, but the audience score reveals the preferences of the masses.

Here's what's currently popular on the tube
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/browse/t ... rt:popular

Biggest hit right now is an incredibly woke cartoon that I hear went even woker in its second season. The rest of it, woke as far as the eye can see.

You know only blacks watch TV now, right?

Most of these shows are direct to streaming.

Rotten Tomatoes doesn't have audience score, it hasn't for a while now. The "popcornmeter" is curated now.