Not even hiding the racism and homophobia.
The very idea of having a choice feels threatening to their tiny minds. Like, just choose to be a white cis man if it’s really all that important to you.
Why would they? Actors, politicians, etc openly show hate and there're no meaningful consequences. It's accepted now...
guess it's time to be as aggressively anti-bigot when they are being aggressively racist/homophobic 🤷🏻
Elden Ring already has gender fluidity, a strong female POC, people with physical and mental disabilities, and homosexual implications. "Wokeness" should be the least of their concerns about what Sony could do to From.
Elden ring already has body A body B customization. These chodes have never played elden ring and may be Russian.
I'm sure everyone will have pronouns as well
Like they don't already?
when a black woman becomes the next sekiro
..... Sounds cool?
non white people? in my Asian-themed fantasy game?
Right? If I want historical accuracy I'll watch a documentary
Only reason I wouldn't play it is because I still suck at the first one. (I have to give it another try though, then I would totally play a second one)
God when did racism, homophobia, and misogyny become the new opinions you can hold instead of developing an identity.
It was obnoxious enough with pineapple pizza hate and clown fear.
God when did racism, homophobia, and misogyny become the new opinions you can hold instead of developing an identity
Honestly? Maybe sometime around mid-late 2015 after Donald announced his first run for president.
The moment he was taken seriously, it emboldened all the chuds.
Upon further thought, I believe that year also marked the start of what led to Brexit as the UK Conservative Party won a majority. Not a great year.
Uhhh, like, 50 AD, I think? Or if you’re talking about bottoming, like 1000 BC. People have always been lame
"Terminally online"
Now look, half of Lemmy is terminally online, those people you talk about are simply racists.
Fair point :)
Probably more than half, let's be honest here!
Black people and homosexuals? Omg, can you imagine trying to play a game when the NPCs have a different race or sexuality than you do? It must be impossible.
Do I need the /s?
I don't want no gay darkies in my fantasy game where I fight wizard fish people and British jars /s
At least there won't be any black homosexuals.
where you can change pronouns of your main character
As if choosing your player character's gender hasn't been a common thing in video games for decades
Dark Souls 2 has a mechanic to swap your character's gender whenever you want to. From is already okay with genderfluid protagonists.
You have to fight a bunch of ogres about it though, so business as usual.
There was an outrage about that either back when Dark Souls 2 came out, or when they added that to the game - I vaguely remember there not being anything worth note just after the game came out. Either way, "some people" freaked out about it, and the controversy got some wind in the sails due to the gamergate culture war being a thing back then.
What if from software makes a character that's biologically male, but gets raised as a woman because of his moon powers? That would be so woke.
That'd be dope Sailor Moon fan fiction.
That's the Sailor Stars arc.
What if From Software made a chracter who can swap sexes at will but struggles with two mutually antagonizing personalities and made them the main boss of their next game? That would be so woke.
Can't wait to play a woke game ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ) but Fuck Sony. Sony should be last option ( ; ω ; ).
I mean, I get it - as a gamer myself, when buying a new title I don't really care about things like if the game is fun or good or has a healthy community/playerbase, these things don't matter. How many non-straight characters are there, now that's much more important - in fact, if you feature too many it might bring the end of the western world or something.
Sometimes characters in my games have pronouns and I still play those games, but I'm always weirded out by it. Why do people need to talk about them and not use only their name?
Oh no, now I am using pronouns! The woke people have corrupted my mind!
sybilvane means sybilvane* uses pronouns. rational people such as sunbather and sybilvane would never use pronouns, lest those wokies defea.. wait..
I need REALISM in my sci-fi fantasy game!!!1
and by realism, they mean "Everyone is white and all women meet their standards of what is attractive", because of course, white men and supermodels are the vast majority of the human population in real life /s
Bruh, just....bruh
Any time sometime terrible happens, the worse people will try and claim it as a victory. Sony buying From Software is terrible, but not because of some imagined spector called DEI.
My games only include women and non-binary characters
