• Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
      141·
      3 months ago

      because the creators using it to hide their bad games

      How does this work in particular? The hiding bit? Doesn’t it actually draw attention, considering how many people then spam “OMG SO WOKE!11!!angry-1!!” and so on threads everywhere?

        • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
          102·
          3 months ago

          When they have no good material, they start to promote unrelated things to gameplay. This is just one of those things.

          Didn’t YOU just say that people focus on the visuals of characters? As in, something unrelated to gameplay?

            • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
              4·
              3 months ago

              Visuals are part of the experience, it’s not unrelated.

              Why? Or rather, why this, but apparently not your character or their back story?

              There are a lot of good games that can be considered as “woke” and no one talk about them like this.

              [citation needed]

                • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
                  4·
                  3 months ago

                  So “woke” means all of the following together, trying to summarize:

                  • A game includes anything related to LGBTQ+ or political left-leaning ideology.
                  • The above is presented via non-gameplay elements. It’s fine if its in the gameplay.
                  • The game was a commercial flop or critically panned.

                  Did I sum that up correctly?

                • Mrs_deWinter@feddit.org
                  2·
                  3 months ago

                  Citation: Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur’s Gate 3, I can even put Stardew Valley in this list, though not as vocal as others. I didn’t see anyone bash these games as being woke, or maybe they are a minority if there are.

                  You have spend zero time in game forums talking about Baldur’s Gate 3 if you think it wasn’t criticized for being woke. The best game of the year by every metric, and conservatives got batshit insane about a slider for gender that contained “non-binary” as an option. The first year or so every second steam discussion was about that topic.