To be fair, these guys agree with the stated opinions of every major news network and 95% of politicians around the world but still somehow call themselves The Resistance
They made a game about a woman who’s offended by racism while embracing the stereotype of the “angry black woman.” This is a fictional character. She has nothing to be upset about.
Racist for what? Using the literal, most easy to describe trait about someone you're with? I use terms like "that one white/black/asian dude" all the time. It's sad they considered that racist 💀
We see it more often than not sadly. They aren't actually being oppressed, but need to validate their oppression by calling things that aren't actually racist, racist. It makes zero sense
It's a Western thing, shouting and accusing you of things others could feel reprehensible to discredit you. Fallacies. I was playing a game in the NA server in 2023, if I had arguments with someone over there, they'd rapidly accuse you of different things, obvious conservatives would accuse you of certain things, obvious liberals of other things, some conservative thought I was from EU and as other cons, he came with his fake morals and he targeted my supposed origin to then him considering himself better than me. Liberals would be rapidly to victimize someone and swarm me. A guy that said he was from England, he did something like that, along with the accusations. All in all, conservatives and liberals should stop pretending, both are similar and only disagree in some incompatible views. Those things didn't happen to me in other servers during arguments, well, I didn't try the EU ones, but I know immature people with tantrums and discrimination it's usually the way to go over there.
My primary school teacher (who's Chinese) once shared us her experience when she just moved to Singapore and was walking with her friends when apparently she referred to a black person as "that black guy" and her friends immediately freaked out and told her calling blacks "black" is racist. My teacher was so confused and pretty hurt too as she had no intentions of racism and at her homeland everyone just refers black people as "black people", with no racist connotations
Punk stopped being punk when the contracts with the big labels were signed. Same thing with all revolutions, they always become worse than what they substitute.
Reminds me of an old joke: Last week was the Hamburgian Virgin Association's meeting day. One of the members was ill and couldn't go and the other one didn't want to go on her own. (Reminder: Hamburg is famous for its redlight district)
150K euros funded for this? Damn, with that money, you could build a nice, big park, which would have definitely beaten that "thing" in terms of people visiting in MINUTES.
with 150k you can build a medium playground in a rural area, in a big city it does not even pay the land, to give you an idea central park as a operating budget of around 74M a year
I mean, who will even recognize these characters? They have nothing unique or even recognizable about any of them, they are just the perfect archetype of woke character design and nothing more. And besides, its not like anyone played the game to get familiar with them to begin with, there is only around 100 people on the entire PLANET who did, most likely being reviewer and the devs themselves
It's hilarious how the protagonist? gets triggered by the officer/whoever who says "the black kid", when he's talking about a group of strangers that is so INCLUSIVE and DIVERSE that "black kid" is the most efficient way to specify who he means. But nope, it's apparently racist simply to point out the colour of someone's skin
In context, the police officers are actually that racist... They're called Justice (REAL subtle) and they are all cartoonishly evil parodies of flyover country Americans. This game would be great if it understood its own satire.
The game really captured the delusional mindset of these people. What the guy did was point out the persons features so they could better identify him. But somehow he’s racist for it? Ok game.
No, it's worse than that if you look at the narration. The character uses the "racist" label to gaslight the officers so that they don't ask more questions. It's not an emotional reaction, it's deliberate deception .
Their game urinalist "friends" are having to split their time between playing Concord, Dustborn and screaming at gamers in twitter for rejecting them 😂
I mean the entire crew is one big check box. Women of color for black representation ✅ Obese girl who has a disability for body positivity and disability representation.✅ Gay Asian for lgbt representation✅ Guy I don’t know much about him but I’m pretty sure he’s supposed to be these people ideal man. That simply shuts up and accepts what ever these people say.
Black Myth: Wukong: Forget your worldly troubles, embrace monke. Embrace our origins as primates. Scientists: I hate to break it, but it actually makes sense.
Eh, the whole game just sounds like an early 2000s edutainment fail. "Let's fight with the power of words" Sounds a lot like word world+headsprout. How boring as a 5 year old I had already out grown those types of edutainment.
@@0zero739I’m Norwegian and trust me the majority of people did not give much of a shit about what happens in the US I’m so let down by my country for this game tho 😭
Well, it was made by Norwegians, we're notoriously racist without realizing it, so it makes sense. We didn't have much of the whole slavery thing going on, so this is just what some Norwegians imagined America to be like. And honestly this game would have probably have worked better if it came out when they actually started development on it, but instead it came out as the woke movement was digging it's own grave in cemetery of hypocrisy. A lot of Norwegians auto aligned themselves with the US left after Trump because they appeared to be closer to our own culture, little did we know what they'd devolve into, we really screwed up on that one.
“We’re the Dust Born. This bug is airborne. We’re the new porn. Our kind is newborn” This is actual lyrics from a song in the game sang by the main group of characters who are a band. They rhythmed "born" with "born" 3 times while calling themselves the "new porn" and "newborn" at the same time.
You missed the lyrics before that, too. "We're the aliens. We're the refugees. We walk among you. We're right behind you. Your time is past. Your kind won't last." It's not just that they're incompetent, they're outright malicious.
@@JohnDoe-yp3zv OH, so, we should all go back to Europe and leave the poor oppressed Native Americans to thrive (without any of our technology they've been enjoying)? While at the same time accepting all illegal aliens and allow them to drown us out? Wow, and the left calls conservatives two-faced.
"fight with shouts and use vox in conversations to manipulate people" Oh my lord they made a game where you can roleplay the social justice warrior of twitter that no one likes
Vitiligo affects just over 1% of the population. However since we never see a white, hispanic or asian person with vitiligo, that's really only 1% of 13% black people. Yet with how often you see vitiligo in modern games, you'd think half of all black people suffer from it. On top of that, in modern video games, vitiligo automatically makes you really gay, and has a strong chance of giving you nose piercings and purple hair.
The degree to which these people very blatantly fetishize vitiligo is so hilarious. I'm glad it's becoming a meme. When will we have our first Vitiligo President? That's the real question.
@@NightKevI think it's a skin condition that has some spots on your skin, and it's always appear much brighter than your skin color. One of my teachers in elementary school has this. (Sorry for a messed up grammar, English is not my primary language)
@@NightKev it's the skin condition that appears as "blotches" on the skin where pigment doesn't take hold. It's famously what Michael Jackson suffered from
@3:30 Not only was it born from TDS, but it was _also_ made by non-Americans. Some Norwegians hated Trump so much even though they don't live in America, that they decided to pour all of their tears into a game.
Boy do I love lyrics in this game such as: “We are the aliens, we are the refugees, we walk among you, we're right behind you, your time is past, your kind wont last" So inclusive!..../s
What annoys me is the song blatantly targeting white people saying that they won't be around much longer really shows how r acists these woke people truly be. And stidio promoting these type of behavior is disgusting
That should have been clear long ago. They literally hate on white people every chance they get but "you can't be racist against white people because they are the oppressors".
Well fun fact. DEI was originally called DIE before the gamergate incident making them go upfront about the plan. Look it up, it was always about hating and purging whites.
I actually liked the consept of using words for power This would be a great system if its done right Just imagine this system in a horror game You just type "gun" and game gives you a gun with 5 bullets But there is a limitation, you write words with ink and if your character runs out of ink, you can't write anything and you can't have weapons if you can't write There is a limited amount of ink every level so you need to be careful
I think woke artists need to start hiring INsensitivity readers. Their whole job would be to tell them "This looks like something we'd make as a deliberately over-the-top joke to make fun of you. Maybe dial it back a bit."
I pretty sure these woke artist will definitely not choosing and hiring people.. who keep questioning their narrative, character design, and gameplay wise.. because it will trigger them constantly and effect their 'mental health' and 'well being'
As a Norwegian I feel insulted by being from the same country as the people who made this game. I promise you guys the only Norwegians like this either live in Oslo or escaped from an insaneasylum!
Maybe your people should have a slap back to reality, before even thinking of the market. This is what happens when you put emotion and wokeness before logic and statistics.
A group of "punk" rockers traveling the country singing songs supporting the views of the majority of governments, corporations, and media with special powers based on how triggered they are by everything...
I wonder what the words to the equivalent of Dragon Rend are for them? What words would 'Woke Rend' have? For Dragons it was enforcing on them morality, I suppose for the Woke it would be Truth so... Truth, Honor, Loyalty? "Vahzen, Zin, Midun!" [Incoherent screeching] I think it works!
I often forget 'triggered' is actually THEIR unironic word THEY use to describe it and not a word people made to make fun of 'getting triggered'. Just saying your vidya game character is "triggered" is hilarious.
nobody could force me to play this or even buy it. This was recommended to me on Steam, checked it out real quick since it had the LGTBQIA+ tag (literally saying "please don't buy my game") it had a chubby girl in the background, a black woman in the foregrond with a baseball bat, clicked it away right after, not worth my time. (good to know that my gut feeling was correct)
@@ZackarySchejbalCODBO2RGM2 The first one almost didn't pass as a joke, the second one passed, the third one was clowned and crowned the joke of the year if nothing else.
An even closer comparison: Undertale. That game promotes pacifism, diversity, inclusion, acceptance, and even a touch of LGBTQ awareness. Playing pacifist = using only your words to coax enemies to like you. Huge hit, practically everyone loved it. It told the messages it wanted to tell perfectly, and it was made by one person who didn't need tax dollars to make it.
There is a VN called Katawa Shoujo on Steam that deals with disability, but not in the predictable, woke way, but in a nuanced way that feels natural. I mention this because Katawa Shoujo is free on Steam and it has way more passion and talent behind it than Dustborn, which is horrendously priced for what it offers.
The Dev try to portray how 'modern audience' feel and see in their sad day to day life.. which I say hit the mark with how we see these people reaction are when confronted. When someone say 'something that they feel offensive' by their own twisted standard, they usually will have Triggered option instead of 'refute with calm mind' Now how it being approved.. let's just say the game company was jumping into DEI bandwagon and for some reason there's country decide to support these game company by giving fund and trust to make these... 'game'..
It should be studied how these people refuse to support their own side when they make a product. It's so interesting how almost all of them are only hooked on legacy IP's and interpreting them to fit their worldview instead. They will tell you that Link is trans, Ness is black, and Crash Bandicoot would hate you if you don't support blm, but they seemingly have no interest when something is custom made for them to enjoy. Like isn't that incredibly lucky from their perspective? Yet every time they pass it up and instead try to convince you that pac man is anti-capitalist. I am so curious about this.
Because simply it's a bad game Regardless of how you think the political worldviews the game doesn't do anything well It's like expecting someone to like the show, Mr Birchum, or the game, Ride to Hell retribution, all properties try so hard to desperately cater to the side they're aiming for and ultimately fail There are genuinely great games that have many elements of what you'd consider to be "supporting their own side" that people currently enjoy, no one is forcing you to interpret legacy characters that way and if you think they do then you need to step off the Internet
@@B0r3Dude Can't you put a little more effort into the gaslighting? I'm more offended at how lazy it is than that you're trying it. "This thing people say straight to your face repeatedly never happened and no one has said that" Like what are you waving a watch around to hypnotize me or something? Regardless of that, that doesn't really explain the failure of generic new properties like Concord, Zau, Flintlock, etc etc. I don't think there's anything worse about these games objectively compared to their generic competition that gets far more support. People are still playing buggy trash like starfield for fun and a game with a pronoun bestiary needs to meet an absurdly high bar to even touch success from it's own audience, and even that has yet to be seen.
@@vanilla8956 ok if some random Internet people told you about their opinion on character's ideologies then sure complain all you want about how it bothers you. The only game that you mentioned that's actually decent is Zau and that's what other people who regard the political aspect of the creation mostly say, it's an ok game that's rough around the edges, Concord is a paid for game in a free genre and also a game in a genre that people are already burnt out of and flintlock is just a mess
@@B0r3Dude Yeah sure, disregard tens of thousands of twitter likes for asserting that link dressing up like a bugs bunny gag is "canonically" an expression of his fluid identity. What's the point? We both know the people I'm talking about are real. I didn't even really bash them, I'm just questioning their priorities. I think I've been rather cordial about them despite my own opinions. But about what you're saying about Zau, doesn't that prove my point? That game wasn't made for me, and honestly I just don't care about it either way, and that's fine. My statement is that as an outsider looking in, I see that game flounder and fail to get players and wonder "What is the reason for this phenomena?" The target audience for it is visibly numerous as soon as it's a legacy property that has been altered and changed for their tastes, for example, Guilty Gear. But absent as soon as it's a new IP. Beyond that don't you think it's rather odd that your argument is that these games are just cursed by coincidence to happen to be bad? I think there's an unignorable pattern here. Goodbye Volcano High was like a love letter to these people and it's support by it's own side was underwhelming compared to the overwhelming popularity it got with right leaning types because of a parody fan game. Is that not the slightest bit odd?
Celeste has gained a reputation as "the Trans game" and still is widely loved because it's an actually good game and doesn't make you feel like you're a teen who corporates try to cater to by putting a swear in every phrase of a movie and doing nothing else
Soyboy Pax & friends: fighting ""Nazis"" in America by singing cringe songs, randomly screaming RAYCEEST and getting TRIGGERED Gigachad William J Blaskowicz & friends: fighting actual third reich Nazis in America (and the rest of the world) by leading a full-scale multinational uprising, yoinking Nazi aircraft, mechs and even a flagship nuclear submarine - all while disposing of Nazis by utilizing anything from smol knives to nuclear weapons. I dunno, I just find the parallel funny as hell.
Remember: when an investor chips into a business, they can get get their money back. When a government chips into a business, tax payers do NOT get their money back.
Depends...the idea when gov supports small industries with grants is to stimulate to growth in that industry. Hopefully seeing several larger companies down the line - that would contribute with jobs and tax paid to the govt. I.e. a net benefit and "the money back" - just at a longer perspective. Of course it may not be successful - just like the investor is taking a risk - you lose some and you win some - you just need to win more than you lose.
I kinda Agree with that. Focusing on making a good game will attract the people that is needed to keep the game alive with a balance on todays trends, but if game devs merely focus on meeting todays trends it'll just feel like it was just made to be trendy or to "give a message".
And we couldn’t have gotten a better example of this than Black Myth Wukong and Duskborn. One is entirely built on good gameplay and monkey king lore while the other is entirely built on “diversity”, and one succeeded and one didn’t. Hopefully it will give game companies the hint that making good games is the best way to profit
@@scrapeddiamonds5776 Not Sweet baby inc related, sorry. It IS a DEI failure, hell yes. But my bet was on SBI specifically as it is the biggest target, the "elephant in the room".
Did you know there is a game that lets you use toxicity as a weapon against facts and logical reasoning? I believe it's called Twitter but it's called X now. And it costs money.
FYI folks, the villain of this game is an older JFK. Apparently the game is set in an alternate timeline where after surviving his assassination attempt in 1963, JFK becomes a dictator and America is now a Italian Fascism style one party state.
At least the other scandanavian (try to) balance it. Amazing game like Fear and hunger ( and the second is release but still in progress since the author want to add fews things before working in the third and last game of the trilogy).
4:53 Problems with this scene: 1. The cops didn't really say anything racist. In order to build sympathy with the audience you need to show us just how evil your villains are. Here's a better line: "Yeah, we stomped his skull into the dirt. What the **** are you gonna do about it? Call the police?" 2. Not enough anger in her voice. The player should feel the same rage as the main character does for a bigger and louder payoff (see part 1.) This just sounds like some Karen eavesdropping by the water cooler. With that said, I think this leads into the greater issue with "woke" games, and why "Do you consider Diff'rent Strokes to be woke," e.g. isn't a proper rebuttal: These pieces of media are ineffective at changing the minds of anyone who isn't 100% on board already. Modern works with left wing themes are designed to be self-congratulatory rather than the thought-provoking works of the 1970s.
"The cops didn't really say anything racist. In order to build sympathy with the audience you need to show us just how evil your villains are" This is a window into the mental health of the creator, and it's FREQUENTLY seen in these types of products. They actually think they were doing that. They genuinely think they wrote an evil character who deserved to be reprimanded, but to the rest of us, what the "evil" character said is inoffensive and common sense. The creators of this type of media are completely insane and/or brainwashed.
@@HeruLuingul yeah that's the main issue. if the cop actually said something like "that black kid, always stealing watermelons" or something to that effect, I could probably understand, even then if I would hear that I would just shrug and continue with my day. I don't get the need to get triggered, start a discussion with strangers and even yell at them, it's just so ... weird, feels like a waste of time.
@@DarkDyllon the funny part is if they had the cop say that they'd get in trouble simply for having it in their game, doesn't matter if it's a villain saying it, it being in their game at all is enough to get them cancelled.
Fun fact, there are more recorded shark attacks from 2012 to 2021 in the state of Florida (94)than people who have owned and played dustborn (85). 🎩 🐍 no step on snek!🇺🇸🇭🇰
i was in the official discord yesterday and i swear they have a guy on payroll whos specific job is to obsessively monitor the general chat its dead as hell in there but i saw three people come in, shit on the game and get banned within like five seconds this is all very funny
It's kind of like how in the past (especially NES, SNES, PS2, and Wii) there were tons of low quality licensed games because corporations treated video games like another piece of merchandise to push. These people treat video games as nothing more than a political signpost.
2:31 I feel that mechanic would be good for like a game stylized off of a comic book, the character shouts out an onomatopoeia like “Wham” or “Bam” and it actually attacks the enemy, but the execution of it in this game looks boring.
I'll give it some credit. They made their own game no matter how shitty it is. But after this, they'll probably go back to inserting their fantasies in existing franchises cuz it's easier.
I mean, theoretically it wouldn’t be much different to developing a tollway, or a community center. The people get enjoyment and the government makes money back from it to cover the cost and put profit back into the community. Only issue is the project sucks.
The program that funded it was set up to support indie media companies making stuff. This one is a massive miss, but some dearly beloved games like Frostpunk and Darkwood have also come out of it. I get what you mean, but the issue here is more the echo chamber devs that made the game than a system meant to foster a small country's local talent.
Relax - not a single USD has gone into this game. They got funded by the Norwegian gov by 14mil nok (about 1.1 mil USD) and 150k Euro from EU. Both of these grant systems are setup to encourage and stimulate growth in a very small industry (in Norway). Clearly the wrong game however....
I still find it incredibly funny that the game that “game journalists” tried to defame and kill is doing massive numbers in player count. 2.5 million is ONLY the Steam count, not counting PS5 players and the major market of WeGame in China. While both the games that “game journalists” tried to hype up and push to the front failed miserably and barely got any player count. If your game can’t even make a 4 figure player count it’s so f*ckin bad. Gamers need to show who is ACTUALLY in control. Who ACTUALLY have the power. Outlets like IGN and stuff have been defaming amazing games and thinking they have all the power to change what we play.
@PurpleCyanideTube The only way to truly bankrupt these companies is for the countries backing them to vanish. Which is exactly what they want, because the majority of the people funding this crap are white in origin that have been infiltrated and are being forced to suffer from "white guilt" for crap they didn't/don't do. So losing these companies, unfortunately, means the loss of the modern world. Y'know, because those same countries BUILT THE MODERN WORLD. Literally, not figuratively.
@@scythesasin4181 The Norwegian gov usually only fund max 50% of the total budget. They got a total of approx 1.2 mil USD/EUR as support. But it seems like they have had about 15 peeps working on the game for about 6 years. Usually dev teams start small and grow over time - so lets say 10 peeps average over 6 years = 60 years of work at a cost of about 100k - 150k USD/EUR per year (salary, studio rent, licenses, hardware, etc). That gives a total of 6 mil - 9 mil dev cost. I.e. they must have gotten most of the money from somewhere else. Loans, investors, etc. I.e. with the current sales numbers it will probably be very difficult to survive as a small studio.
@@FizzieWebb The funny thing was, after looking at how truly bad Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was, and how woke Dustborn became, Fornite is probably not a bad game at all in comparison.
That “Dustborn” “game” was so terrible that two YTbers who played the game to make an honest review and to see how bad it was. By the time they were done playing it, they were mentally and emotionally exhausted from playing such a dreck.
Dustborn claim to fame is that it’s the wokest game? It’s must be the opposite of Black myth Wukong with diversity, representation and DEI at its core, it must be skyrocketing to 3 million concurrent players. Let’s sit back and watch the fireworks.
It might just be making fun of the Bible "ashes to ashes, dust to dust" means we were born from the Earth and we will return to it when we die, i.e. we were born from dust...
The sad thing is the "words have power" could be a cool premise for a game styled after Psychonauts/Scribblenauts where you could use words to affect the environment or help characters with their problems. But no this dev team just wanted a power fantasy where screaming "RACIST!" at someone makes them explode into glitter and rainbows.
Well, if you're looking for a 'words with power' game, you can try out Cryptmaster. It has a more typical D&D setting, with words being actual spells or actions. You're guaranteed not to see or hear current politics in that one.
It is a cool concept, and one that’s been explored in many different ways. Skyrim is everyone’s go-to example, but also consider Alan Wake, which did some neat stuff - especially with Alan’s writing room in Alan Wake II.
@@dragonmaster1360 No it didn't. Skyrim's shouts are just magic spells. Scribblenauts has an actual word-based system. The gameplay allows for real words to be used to influence things based on their meaning.
The weird part? I keep getting recommended this game in Steam for some reason. I have to actively search to find Wukong. I know what I play, and what I usually get recommended because of that… …something’s up. 🤨
@@prime-of-two3753 Steam do have an Algorithm that put NEWLY released game on top for like 2 weeks, regardless or how good or bad they are. As for WuKong, I think Steam knows they don't need to advertise it. Steam do actively try to promote Indie games, the first 2 weeks of indie game pretty much decides the fate of the studio. Some Games that Died on Steam modifies their games a little, moved onto a PC Gaming Platform that is 50% bigger than steam and gets a 2nd life. Some actually made pretty good money on it. Is not a Joke, there is a PC gaming Platform with 50% more users than Steam that I can't say the name on youtube, but you can easily look it up.
That diverse cast of characters look a lot like all the other diverse characters in all games that specifically go out of their way to have diverse characters.
If you ask me, Dustborn did gaming a service by existing: It helped to support the case that games like it are not viable and make for poor business decisions. In so doing, it helps to ensure that less games like it will exist in the future. So really, didn't it do us all a favor?
I wish that were the case. Unfortunately, they’ll assume the game’s failure was the result of some kind of -ism, and keep at it under the banner of “we’ll make you understand!” All while ignoring the definition of insanity.
Idk, its kind of like saying "thank goodness that one resturaunt tried doing shit sandwiches and failed at it. Now I won't have to worry about trying it!"
"Words have power. Use the power of words! Create new words!" So it's the Thu'um from Skyrim, but instead of Word Walls, it's probably special books or diaries.
at 3:06 they were absolutely right with this quote "As game developers we wanted to tell a story that felt relevant and thematically timely, with a cast of characters that could more accurately represent our player base" they were right, those 76 players were their core player base, well not all of them, some played it for shits and giggles
Partially correct. Total funding by Norwegian govt was approx equivalent 1.1m USD/EUR and EU contributed 150k Euro. Total cost to develop the game (15 devs, 6 years) is probably around 5 to 6 mil USD.
You know in mmo's they say if you catter to the top 1% of the players you will kill the game. I wonder how this woke trend trying to catter to 1% of the population has ever been considered a good idea, in what insane mind ?
Because CEOs and CFOs and COOs get golden parachutes of ESG/DEI funds, activists get to make their fan-fics, and the normal gamers get to suffer. Yay, "progress" is here.
@@SvenHeidemann-uo2ylWhich makes this horrible fiasco more malicious than we can imagine. They're trying to wait us out so that they can influence the new generation enough to become *The Modern Audience.*
Hobie Brown from Across The Spider-Verse was a punk. He was as punk as you could get. His character was written in a way so that it felt like the people writing him knew what it meant to be a punk. Dustborn's he-...characters that we follow are so phony, I'm surprised they don't have landlines attaching them to power poles so they could feed off the electricity. That is how un-punk-like they are. They're also extremely unlikable, but that's a whole other rant for another day.
