Very Woke Game Bloom & Rage did so poorly that the devs are doing big layoffs now.

>>713745989 (OP)
>game went so below radar even /v/ isn't talking about it
that's pretty sad OP maybe you should buy an ad

>Montreal
Should've joined America when you faggots had the chance.

>>713746119
All I know about it is this webm

>>713745989 (OP)
i need to see this short haired bitch's asshole

>>713745989 (OP)
damn she looks hot with short hair and makeup I'd enjoy ruining her

should've made your climbing game friendslop instead of single player

>>713745989 (OP)
Come on, C-Mak, is this really the most professional photo you have of yourself?

>>713751141
Let the man sip on his milk in peace

>>713751141
Probably

>>713746950
They fucked up with the voices. I can only imagine the budget they had when they got her voice actor.

>boring ass climbing game with no story failed
wow, who could have seen that coming?

>Aphelion
Oh man these are the ones making the nigger kween in space game I saw at Dorito Popes event. This is really sad.

>>713745989 (OP)
Make games we want to play and you won't go bankrupt.

>>713746950
hey, stop pòsting my wife

Oh no!

>>713745989 (OP)
How? Every male these days want to be a little lesbian. How did it fail?

>>713745989 (OP)
What's with all theses games coming out that I've never heard of until I see articles about them failing? This is like the third this month.

>>713752260
Because you did nothing, this is the result.

>>713751902
The MC is fat and theres sequences where they are all middle aged

Someone looked at this and thought this is what gamers want.

>>713752651
I do want that, in a Friday The 13th game.

>>713745989 (OP)
>games all flop
>EXCUSE ME WHY DID YOU LAY OFF THESE BRAVE STAFF OF GENDER?

>>713752801
Nope. Here's a gay visual novel instead.

>>713752926
Even worse is it isn't lewd or a daughter or sister sim. Not even tsundere sim.

>>713745989 (OP)
>all of these layoffs in an attempt to look profitable before the end of q2
Impressive

>>713751878
>please support our trash because we're not white! who cares if we're making games no one wants!?
>otherwise, only competent devs will be left!

>>713746950
this is swann btw

>>713751878
games were way better when there was only a dozen or so people listed in the credits

>>713753419
>otherwise, only competent devs will be left!

>>713746950
my bf looks like that

honestly i liked the game, specially tape 1, i liked the girls and the story but the lesbian stuff is 100% unnecesary and kills everything

>>713745989 (OP)
You tend to ign9re that the guys in charge of the woke did their job correctly.

>>713753637
What's the problem here?

>>713745989 (OP)
Arts like these not making a profit in year 2025 is wild.

>>713754661
she looks like a dwarf from a fantasy game

>>713745989 (OP)
dontshart's only good games were remember me and life is strange 1 and they've somehow coasted on that success for a decade without making another good game.

https://files.catbox.moe/oz6u63.webp

>>713745989 (OP)
I thought anons were wrong or just memeing when they said this year was the year of the flop, but holy shit its just been brutal out there for a game dev.

>>713755220
>she looks like a dwarf from a fantasy game
based.

>>713753637
Di-did she eat the other girl?

>>713745989 (OP)
>reasoning for the layoffs
Maybe three bombs in a row? Are leftists so detached from reality they think a company doesn't need to sell a product to stay in business?

>>713757334
they used to get tax funds from the cuck french canadian government and USAIDS but now all that funding gone. their next game is about some ugly sheboon again. another flop incoming

>>713757051
whole and vertically, like a bird.

>>713756468
Hot. Gonna go look for animated smut of these characters now.

>>713757569
good luck
i legit dont know where to find anything else

What's the point of making propaganda so shit that no one ever sees it?

>>713751878
how horrible! we need more transfolk making games even xhem forget a week after release, gaming is about inclusivity after all

>>713757730
>*angry semitic noises*

>>713752651
It's supposed to take place in 1995 and the characters look from today, fucking retards can't even look at photos or videos of the 90s, or people in the background in movies. I can't remember seeing any kids from that time wearing chokers, other than Mathilda from Leon The Professional. The same shit happened in the Sheldon series, that character Mackenna plays was wearing a choker and it looked even more out of place

>>713753637

>>713758019
Retard.

>>713752651
This shit is what happens when you think twitter is 100% of the world population

>>713758482
all the trannies moved to bluesky

>>713751878
Yes please

>>713758367
disgusting acne
why is this game so specifically for ugly tumblr femoids?
that ship has sailed around 2019, that demographic doesnt exist anymore

>>713758019
anon you are genuinely retarded, and do not remember the 90's at all
assumedly didnt live in it either

>>713751878
>>713753419
>>713753649
>>713757730
Kay Bell isn't associated with Dontnod.
Dontnod Montreal is headed by white men, and most of the staff are white. If you're going to dance on the news of Dontnod's failure, then understand that the lionshare of the blame for their failure, is due to white men, followed by white women, and then a scattering of minorities.

Also, one of the people who announced her being laid off, was good at her job. She was I think the "cinematic director", or some such. I forget the exact credit to her name. But basically, everyone loved the cinematics in the game, so for her to get laid off, it wasn't even an issue of incompetence.

>>713758019
Child hands typed your post. The only issue is there being fags.

>>713758713
>disgusting acne
No clue why jackass devs keep adding beauty flaws to their characters. Unless the girl is an outcast for it and tries to blow up the school like Calvin.

>>713758713
She's 16. Prime time for acne.

>>713758807
I don't care what race the developers are. You make shit games, you deserve to fail.

>>713757334
For the past ten years, they didn't need to make any money. Blackrock, inversters and governments funded all their shit. Now all that stuff is gone.

>>713758936
genuinely, kids with acne was so fucking rare when i was growing up.

>>713758713
>t-two more w-w-weeks *shits pants*

>>713759118
huh

>>713758925
>Unless the girl is an outcast for it
She's 16 years old. It makes sense to have acne. And the girls are outcasts in their own way. While Nora is highly social and outgoing, she still has an affinity for punk music and style that doesn't fit in with the normies of their little conservative hunting town. So she hangs out with a niche group of people. Autumn being her only real friend, before they encounter Swann and Kat and learn that what they have in common, is that they're all freaks in their own way.

Revenge of Pricefield

>>713746152
You guys are imploding and fighting Israel's wars why the fuck would we want to join your circus? Canada is bad enough

>>713753637
she isn't dirty looking like that in the game. this is some fanart in the skincrawl blemish style. she is cute in the game and while she is fat it's not mario proportions like this either

>>713759072
While full blown acne is somewhat rare. It's going to manifest during a child's hormonal years growing up. And regardless, most teens deal with frequent pimples, if not full blown acne.
You all knew someone who dealt with acne. If not multiple people.

>>713759017
Well I was responding to anons who were making it about race. If that's not you, then why are you replying to me?

>>713759418
>she still has an affinity for punk music and style that doesn't fit in with the normies of their little conservative hunting town.
should have been she had freak breakouts which caused the guys to chase the other girls. Punk rock wasn't outcast shit by the 90s.
>>713759559
>he thinks Canada is better

>>713757517
>their next game is about some ugly sheboon again
???

>>713759924
>>713751717

>>713759819
Because I need to win an argument and not being tied to the point of discussion gave me an edge.

>>713760084
not the anon you're arguing with but samefagging is really cringe and embarrassing

>>713758713
even monsters deserve love

>>713760221
Not the anon you are quoting but you are really cringe.

>>713760084

>>713760221
>>713760418
>Samefagging this hard.

>>713760457
>are you sure

>>713760565
>inb4 i-inspect element! photoshop! *shits pants*

>>713752651
I saw a review from someone who loves Dontnod and he said this game was one of the most boring nothinggames he'd ever played

>>713760615

>>713760565

>>713759017
This. They could be Africans in a mud hut. I just want some good games.

>>713760705
i like this image and im even saving it but you're still shitting your pants and handing the other guy you're arguing with a free win

>>713759904
>should have been she had freak breakouts which caused the guys to chase the other girls.
I fail to see how that's better writing. Sounds retarded. First of all, acne wasn't even that big of a deal when I was growing up. Even the most acned riddled face still got a boyfriend.

Secondly, she's not into guys like that. So she wouldn't care much if they ignored her.

I can't really speak much about punk music back then. But when I went to high school in the early 00s. And it was just post-Columbine. So anyone who was a little alt or quiet, was questioned as being a potential school shooter. We only had a few alt kids in my school. Most of the girls dressed in the Brittney Spears/Christina Agulera fashion. Bleached blonde, flares, big bedazzled belts, "pink" brand. And then there was like 1 goth girl who thought she was better than everyone else. She dated this one anti-social kid who dressed like Ed from EE&E. And we had 1 blue haired girl part of the anime club.

So, basically, at my school, being alt was an oddity. And I'm not even from a conservative town. I have to imagine it's worse there.

>>713760023
oh. So wait. I'm still a little confused. If they were using govenment aid to stay afloat as you claim, then why after losing aid would they take MORE risk? Wouldn't they take fewer risks without the aid?

>>713761186
because they are retarded leftists

>>713761261
Uhhhh.... That sounds made up to me. The idea you guys are pushing, is that they get money through alternative means, so they don't have to worry too much about actual sales. That part I'm willing to believe. But now you're saying that with their alternative funding cut, they're going to worry even less about sales. That part doesn't sound real to me. It sounds like you're just saying whatever paints them in the worse light. Even if it's inconsistent with your own premise.

>>713752651
>maket semi-premium entertainment product to demographics that don't play or can't afford them
they don't sell

how could the gaming industry DO THIS TO ME

>>713761186
>>713761529
Probably because that game was already too far into production to cancel when the government gibes started drying up.

>>713761667
That might be true.
But as someone who remembers the game that is ironically titled "Remember Me", they've always been the studio who wanted to push diversity, even before it was trendy. Even before they had the funds to do so. I remember them telling the story about how after Remember Me failed, they went around pitching Life is Strange to various publishers. And everyone wanted to change the main character from a girl to a boy, except for Square-Enix, who wasn't overly concerned about the prospect of a female protagonist, and gave them the greenlight.

So I do think it's in Dontnod's nature to double down on diversity after a failure. I just don't think it works like how the other anon is saying. As if losing funding is somehow the catalyst for them pushing for more diversity. I just think Dontnod does it because it's in their nature to do it. Either they will get funded or they won't. The funding won't make the difference.

>>713762252
Remember Me was funded off the back of a bunch of French cultural agencies and funds. Pretty sure it was the AFJV and CNC who bankrolled at least half of that budget.

>>713761556
Most people would enjoy the game if they gave it a chance. It has a lot of good things going for it. It's just been difficult to get people to actually give it a chance. It's genuinely not failing due to lack of quality, nor lack of demographics. It's failing due to lack of superficial appeal. Meaning that up-front, top level appeal. That part isn't pulling enough people in. But say hypothetically, people actually gave the game a chance, most would find that they enjoy it.

>>713758463
Show me real life photos nigger, not your favorite jew pet. In real life it was very rare for teens to wear chokers, if you search you only find actresses wearing them

Is it really just taboo for Western devs to make a game that just panders to just men rather than making it gay aswell?

>>713762731
kinda weird of them to make a portion of the game a full 60 seconds of making bedroom eyes with a 16 year old, to be honest. maybe they were pandering to the male gaze after all.

>>713762694
Shit, I'm fucking retarded, of course actresses wear them, it was a way to show they were like pets for some Hollywood kike, considering how it looks like a more delicate version of a dog collar. No wonder it always seemed off looking for me.

>>713762612
If "superficial appeal" is so critical to a titles success then it's anything but superficial.

>>713762842
It's meant to be a lesbian game which I think is how the West can make "male gaze" games anymore.

>>713758807
white or brown, they are still making shit games nobody wants to play

>>713762612
>superficial appeal
calling it superficial is reductive. if pic related was the fasted and most fuel efficient vehicle on the market, people still wouldn't adopt it en mass. we have some of the best eyes in the animal kingdom after birds. visual presentation and pattern recognition are extraordinarily important to the human experience.

>>713762607
I don't know how you knew this. But I'm looking into it now, and I think you're at least partially correct. I see they've been funded 600,000 in 2013. I'm not sure if that's before or after Remember me flopping. According to wikipedia, Remember Me was dropped by Sony in 2011, and then picked up by Capcom some time before its 2013 release. So it was partially funded by actual publishers. I'm not sure if it's "half" their budget. 600,000 doesn't sound like a whole lot of money to me.

I see they also got 200,000 from the CNC for their project "What if?" Which later became Life is Strange. Again, 200,000 doesn't sound like a lot to me, considering the scope of LiS1. I imagine Square-Enix put up a lot of money to see it through.

>>713763932
angel investors and grants/cultural funds usually wind up in the special thanks section of a games credits, always a good place to hit up mobygames and start googling names.

>>713762694
>>713763191
Retard.

>>713762612
ok tranny

>heh, nice porsche... bet you wish you weren't poor so you could afford a set of wheels like mine

>>713763232
I thought you wanted games to be good. Not merely be successful. I guess I was wrong to assume that about you.

>>713763336
False equivalence. The visuals of the game are not so ridiculous as a banana car. In fact, the visuals of the game were at one point highly appealing only 5 years ago, during the peak of Stranger Things hype. Remember the whole "RUNNING UP THE HILL" trend that had everyone in a choke hold only a few years ago? Well immediately after that, everyone was suddenly struck with fatigue over the stranger thing's notsalgia vapor wave vibe. Trends tend to shift like that. And then here comes Lost Records, releasing too late what *would* have been an appealing aesthetic only a few years ago.

>>713745989 (OP)
Never heard of it. Buy an ad, or better yet, stop giving any attention to subhuman devs & shit clickbait outlets.

>>713751878
Good. It looks like 5 white guys making games turned out great.

>>713745989 (OP)
Literalwho game?

>>713752651
Ohh this game. I saw my sister played this or something. I thought it looked cringe since you can see the lesbianism and there's that diversity hire character too. The main character is a fat girl too. It reeks of made by tumblr.

>>713765380
>Diversity hire character
Which one?

>>713765563
It's quite hard to point out which when all of them fits that criteria

>>713752651
That's the game? Haha, glad it failed.

>>713765794
Yeah, the one on the left is Armenian. With an estimated US population of 0.15–0.5%. Most of which are concentrated in the south west of the country. Not in the state this game takes place in.

The short one on the left is blonde. And Blondes only make up about 5.5% of the US population.

The fat one is a redhead. They only make up about 2-6% of the US population. I don't know what this number is so broad. But generally there are fewer redheads than blondes, so I'm going to assume that it's actually on the low end of 2%. That makes more sense from what I've seen. Hell, 2% might even be unrealistically high.

And then finally the one on the right is black. Blacks make up about 14.4% of the US population. The game takes place in Michigan, which has a 14.1% black population. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/MI/PST045223

So huh. I really have to wonder WHO is the diversity hire here? hmmmmm

>>713765093
>In fact, the visuals of the game were at one point highly appealing only 5 years ago, during the peak of Stranger Things hype.

By game journalists sure.

>Remember the whole "RUNNING UP THE HILL" trend that had everyone in a choke hold only a few years ago?

No.

>>713766301
Didn't someone say this takes place in the 90s? Check census numbers 30 years ago then.

>>713766308
>By game journalists sure.
Stranger Things is Netflix's most popular series. It's was one of the biggest events in the world when Season 4 released. Everyone watched it. It got glowing reviews by journalists and audiences alike.

>No.
Ah. So you were entirely detatched from the normie sphere.

>>713766530
Stranger things being popular and things looking like this game being marketable are not the same. >>713766530

>>713745989 (OP)
I didn't mind Jusant. It was a pretty chill game.

>>713766530
Why didn't Stranger Things normies by this game?

>>713766441
The black population hasn't changed much by percentage in a century. I'll have to go looking to get exact numbers. But I guarantee the change in black population won't be significant.
The information is probably in here somewhere: https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/1995/demographics/p23-189.pdf
But I can't find it quickly, because is so wordy.

>>713766823
Because like I said, shortly after the show released, and the memes died off, everyone was suddenly stricken by fatigue over that whole aesthetic of old 80s nostalgia / vaporwavy kind of thing. If you ask people about it today, they'll respond with disgust. As if they weren't lapping it up eagerly only a few years ago.

>>713766760
It literally is the same.

>>713767070
>>713766441
Found an easy to read table. This one says that in 1990, the black population in Michigan was 13.9%
https://www.iowadatacenter.org/datatables/UnitedStates/usstracehispanic1990.pdf
So in 35 years, there's been a 0.2% increase.

>>713751878
>be a white guy
>everyone hates you with a passion
As a brown guy, i feel bad for you guys.

i beat this game with my roommates and its so retarded, the cancer girls sisters boyfriend is shown as secretly nice with a fcked up back story in part 1 but then in part 2 hes immedietly back to being a jerk AND gets possessed because the cancer bitch is crazy making packs with demons and they kill him and nobody cares cuz hes white and male. theres so much insanely retarded shit

>>713758713
you cant fault a teenager for having bad acne, especially back in those days

>>713768094
It's fine, this ain't my first rodeo. The Internet already shows its hateboner enough for me being straight every June anyway

>>713745989 (OP)
>montreal
good
fuck canada

>>713745989 (OP)
>jusant
I didn't even know this game existed

>>713745989 (OP)
Why would I, a grown man, play a game about a bunch of girls growing up and coming to terms with themselves? I can't relate, I don't particularly care, and they're all underaged so any romantic tension would make one uncomfortable. Not us, of course, because we're a bunch of losers on a Colombian dry cleaning forum. But you get my point. This is very clearly not a game for males, it's for females. If anything, this should be a sign that males make up the vast majority of vidya gaems and that's the demographic they should be pandering to.

>>713746950
Wow..
>>713753637
...Never mind
I knew it was too based to be real, there has to be some tranny catch to it

>>713768094
Thanks man

>>713746950
Ahh, so it's an AGP game.
Fitting for a western game.

>>713758807
>white men, followed by white women, and then a scattering of minorities
And all of them are 100% woke. They can get fucked.

>>713745989 (OP)
noooooooooooo not my female dei dev slop! How could this happen? Women devs are so much better than white men! How is this happening?!

>>713752651
>We want the whale blue hair nose-ring audience

>>713753637

>>713757007
kek

>>713756468
source on this?

>>713751717
This game looks so stupid.
From that Microsoft games fest trailers or something this game immediately killed itself by showing off a niggress as the main character, and the entire game turns out to be just a walking simulator.

Then Clockwork Revolution and Dawnwalker showed off how a game trailer should be and completely smoked all of these DEIslops

>>713766301
Woah you went and research this slop? Good for you mate.

>>713753637
>when you watch 4:3 content in widescreen mode

>>713765093
So you think we shouldn't judge soulless FOTM trend chases by their financial successes? What should we judge them on, creativity? They clearly don't have much of that if they based the whole art direction on a single TV show

>>713766301
Did you just get laid off from this studio, troon? lmao

>>713746950
>>713753637
Reminder that 90% of yuri is tranny shit

>>713752651
I hate how every dude into lesbians these days is a faggot that thinks these are hot characters.
Just disgusting.

>>713770039
>>713770239
Well being a regular on /v/, I've encountered the topic of race and diversity a thousand times before. So I actually knew this information off hand. I just grabbed a link to show proof.

After the third dozen time someone tells you a black character is a "diversity hire" for merely existing, you eventually decide it's time to verify that claim.

>>713769695
World of Warhammer was jank as hell but I do have fond memories of it. Luv me goblin shaymin

>>713770169
The idea I was arguing against was whether or not there's a demographic for the game. You can use success as a measure. However, that measure alone isn't always adequate to make a *good* judgement. In this case, sales alone paints an incomplete picture.

>based the whole art direction on a single TV show
That's not what happened. The aesthetic was very broad. Hell, even 4chan was obsessed with the whole vaporwave thing for a while. It was like a decade long trend.

>What should we judge them on, creativity?
The narrative? It's a story game. People love story games in general. They would enjoy the story if they knew the story.

>>713768094
Could be worse. I think it is the right people that hate us. That makes it easy to not be bothered by it.

>>713752651
They had the key to success with Life is Strange

All they need to print millions of dollars is cute girls+ripping off Twin Peaks. That's it. Instead they do everything else, but in uggos, hags, fatties, etc. How did those French retards piss it all away for wokeness?

You'd think at some point they'd put money over ideology, but no, they'd rather the company collapse then do what makes money.

>>713772867
They're anti-capitalist. They never cared about making money.

>>713759418
Only a DEI retarded woman would write a story like that. Holy fuck cringe and stupid.

I want these people out of my games and executed unironically

>>713773438
The main writer is literally a white man. But ok.
Also, every type of person has written about a group of outcasts coming together. Men, women, whatever.
What a nonsense thing to say.

>>713773648
>man
do soi libtards count as men? they don't do the basic things a man is expected to do, like reproduce

>>713774676
Men can't be women. So yes, he's a man.

>>713746950
I still assert that she is the most beautiful character to ever be created in video game history until they ruined her by giving her a nasty wine aunt voice

>>713745989 (OP)
>Lost Records developer is laying off staff
>only mentions the games Jusant (never heard of it) and Banishers (never heard of it) sold poorly
Not gonna read the article. Is Lost Records mentioned as having sold poorly too? I don't doubt that though. Someone read the article for me. I can't be bothered.

>>713755220
FUCKING IMPROVED.

>>713754676
Honestly it's not very surprising to me, not even wokies want to play woke games. Wokies always try to creep into the more mainstream stuff and make it gay. But even bigger corpos eat shit when they bent their knees to them.

>>713777469
How lazy can someone get?

>>713745989 (OP)
Which one of their games is that pic from?

>>713778585
I don't care.

>>713778745
I'm assuming Lost Bloom since it's in the headline and apparently their most known game? (Isn't this the dev that made Life is Strange?)

>>713778868
I've seen most of bloom and rage. Didn't see her

>>713778950
Okay. I don't know. I've never played it. Just made a guess. Fucking shoot me then! I'm sorry! Sorry for just guessing!

>>713767236
lot of assuption with little data to back it. Nobody bought your woke trash game because it's woke trash, not because it suddenly became unhip. You have no marketshare because your market is fictional.

>>713745989 (OP)
Banishers was a fun game, but they really shouldn't have went with that ugly voodoo sheboon.

>>713758936
>>713768513
>>713759418
There is no need to represent human flaws in vidya, this game failing is proof that most of us don't want ugly things like acne in vidya

>>713762612
It's falling cause we arent willing to pay for Tumblr dogshit, don't make Tumblr dogshit thats the lesson here

>>713769695
keep those elves in their place

>don't nod get desperate (desperate) and return to their teenage lesbo roots
>people still don't buy their shit
they must be so confused

>>713781957
they made them all uggos

>>713745989 (OP)
Remember me was unironically their best game

>>713751717
It's so ridiculous. They keep making these games with protagonists that will never work, and they keep doubling down, even while their company is making massive layoffs and facing bankruptcy. How can you be so delusional? Just having a female mc is already bad for sales, but an african female mc is like the worst protagonist for sales engagement of them all, and they KEEP doing it. I dont know if its hubris that they think they can force it if they try, or they're so delusional they think it won't crash. We've known all this shit for decades, molyneux famously got into an argument with microsoft execs for not being allowed to just HAVE an african woman on the box of fable 2, let alone as the main character. But they keep doubling down, over and over again.

>>713758807
>Also, one of the people who announced her being laid off, was good at her job. She was I think the "cinematic director", or some such. I forget the exact credit to her name. But basically, everyone loved the cinematics in the game
Maybe her bosses should have thought of that so she wouldn't have to be laid off after failed business ventures. Its almost like, as a boss, you're responsible for your employees security and should take your job seriously and not play activist simulator with your employees lives.

>>713762612
if you wanted your lesbian mystery adventure to succeed, maybe you shouldn't have played california simulator. You chose activism over success, and now you got a great piece of software to show what an ally you are as you look for your next job after you company laid you off and will likely follow you out when they forclose, considering their upcoming game.

>>713745989 (OP)
Cute girl, could be a tomboy but in current year you just know she's going to be a turbodyke. I would not be surprised if my assumption were correct

>>713758019
depends where you live and the amount of parental supervision ofcourse, but kids in the 90s most definately wore that shit because it was seen as trendy and hot/adult
especially when they are in highschool

where i live and i think of girls fashion it was showing tummy and midriff t hough, but this is in a ravecentric european youthculture instead of american more grunge

>>713751448
He gives off the same vibes as Pumpkin Fright.

Serves them right for creating garbage with the cancer known as (((bisexual))) representation.

>>713761709
Those Smash Bros. have non-customizable Fire Emblem MCs that can end up with romance interests of either gender.

About GTA III:
>Claude arrives at Asuka Kasen's Condo in Newport and is welcomed by Asuka, who tells Claude that Maria is not there at the moment, but Asuka will tell her that Claude passed by.
>After Asuka says so, Maria shouts for help and asks her if she could let her go, as Maria needs to use the bathroom, implying that the two were engaging in BDSM activities.
https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Payday_For_Ray

>>713751878
Isn't that how doom was made.

>>713745989 (OP)
I know nothing about this game but the /v/ hivemind just told me it's Woke which means it is Propaganda of The Enemy so I will act outraged now to fit in.

>>713782181
>I dont know if its hubris that they think they can force it if they try, or they're so delusional they think it won't crash.
I'd say they're rotten to the core and even if they made heroic white male characters, they'd be upstaged by women, gay, and given lectures on racism, even in settings where it doesn't make sense like the wild west.

>>713782730

surely the black lesbian audience will turn out in record numbers to buy this game and save don't nod

>>713751878
Ugh! White males, yuck, eww, amirite girls? Yas qween!

Once you understand every one of these freaks, in every institution they've marched though, wants to destroy you, every one of their nonsensical decisions becomes sensible. No outcome is "bad" if it results in damage to a white dominated industry.

I WANT A KAT MODEL FOR VAM GODDAMMIT

>>713783138
wait a minute, thats the Emerald Keeper from Dark Souls 2
what is she doing here?

>>713758367
but you are a guy

>>713783250
SKATE SKATE
LEST

>>713745989 (OP)
Guess the game did not have the thing right wingers all love

Did I have a Mandela effect or something? Isn't Don't Nod the developer of Life is Strange? Which is way more massive than the random shit mentioned in the OP blurb and nobody even in this thread is talking about that?

>>713783941
>censorship good if it's things I don't like
Okay, bootlicker.

>>713745989 (OP)
>montreal
>it's Quebec AGAIN

>>713783232
based VaM user, even if meshed and his yes men are pricks.

>>713782572
>You chose activism over success
What activism is in the game?

>>713784472
NTA, Don't be obtuse. They already laced their design theories into everything they (and allies) make. Use critical thinking and abstract reasoning to deduct what familiar patterns are right in front of you. Some of us have judged it so, if you think otherwise then that's on you.

>>713784049
yes, the same devs

>>713784372
she looks like she has a penis

>>713784557
I have an idea of what he might say. I just want to hear him say it. I dislike arguing in vagueties and platitudes.
I want to know exactly what counts as "activism". Just give me the short list, and I'll address whatever you list.

>>713783421
a hearty chuckle

>>713784049
Nobody cares about your boomer fantasy of being teenage millennial girls, unc

>>713784684
He does, its a femboy. One of my many models, ranging from monster females to bitch males like so. https://x.com/ThaDWizzy999

>>713784901
Why are you a sodomite

>>713769367
I liked Blue Reflection

>>713784901
very nice. good stuff, anon
i too am a connoisseur of monster females

>>713784715
Same anon, I'd say desexualizing the characters in a straight male gaze way, social media posts surrounding it, the direction the devs went post original LiS, especially with the political messaging in 2. They were very verbose about anti-white west positions, especially concerning boarder policies.
"Life is Strange 2 features the US-Mexico border as a central element, reflecting real-world issues of immigration, racism, and border policies. The game's narrative directly confronts the political climate surrounding these issues, particularly during the Trump presidency".
For 3, "n summary, Life is Strange: True Colors incorporates LGBTQ+ concepts through its bisexual protagonist Alex Chen, and a diverse cast of LGBTQ+ characters, including Steph Gingrich. The game's narrative explores themes of identity and acceptance, offering positive and relatable representation that has resonated strongly within the queer gaming community".
Dontnod Entertainment is very clear in their activist stance, in their work and social activity.

>>713784986
I make fantasies...come to life. It is my joy...

>>713751878
But those are half the best videogames
And most of the other half is Japanese guy and his 20 Japanese guy friends.

>>713745989 (OP)
Are there really that many lesbians that they thought they can stay afloat by only making games for them?

>>713784901
i like the predator huntress, which seems to be the final version of the Domme huntress prototype? you should make a cute black boi getting plowed by one of 'em.
how long you been fucking around in VAM?

Literally never heard of it

>>713785132
>I'd say desexualizing the characters in a straight male gaze way
In Lost Records, you have Dylan. Who is dressed in a bikini top when you first encounter her. The other characters are all underage. So they aren't overtly sexualized.

Later in the game, you discover Nora's porno mag that she stole from her dad.(It's supposed to be a Playboy/Hustler style mag) It has a ripe ass on the cover, and Nora makes some lewd remarks about it. Sure, the female character is the mouthpiece, but it's still a moment that might have been written for boys. Just overt sexualization.

There are multiple instances to make the girls kiss. I know you probably don't think of that as a straight thing. But when I was growing up, having girls make out was very much for men's pleasure.

>social media posts surrounding it
I don't follow dontnod's social media posts. Could you find and link me to such posts?

>Everything to do with life is Strange 2
This doesn't related to Lost Records. LR itself expresses no opinion about boarders, immigration, or anything related to those topics.

>Life is Strange: True Colors incorporates LGBTQ+ concepts
Life is Strange 1 was already playing with LGBTQ+ concepts. The main character Max can either fall romantically for a boy or a girl. Chloe is clearly gay, and Rachel Amber is a little enigmatic, but the implications of bisexuality are there for her. Merely having gay and bisexual characters isn't in of itself activism.

>>713785432
The one I post is usually the latest version, I make several renditions to go back if I think I fucked up the modifications. I would make a Patreon but I'm in college and have little free time lol.
I've been with VaM since it nearly started, but I stopped supporting Meshed after Ashauryn banned me in a fit of rage, and Meshed did nothing about it. Years of support to be treated like that.

You know what they say, gamers are over, they don't have to be your audience. What's important is that the good guys wrote nice things about you while pirating your shit on youtube.

>>713785807
>You know what they say, gamers are over,
dontnod didn't say that.

>>713785743
1. Is your opinion and interpretation of that information, not the intent or M.O. of the developer. Dismissed.
2.No, if you haven't been following them, or the existing posts from them in the thread, start now on your own.
3. You didn't read my quote taken from a synopsis of the game, incorrect. Dismissed.
4. The argument wasn't about exploration of themes, but the M.O of the developer. The activism became far more extreme with every new piece of media from DontNod. As pointed out in my synopsis quotes. Dismissed.

>>713785894
Yeah, the people behind Life is Strange 2 didn't say or believe that.

>>713783941
>Grummz defends blacked tats
Figures

For me its
LiS1 > TC > DE > LR > Literal dogshit > LiS2

>>713785789
Not aware of any drama, sorry it happened though.
Personally, I keep wanting to fuck around in VAM, but I have a lack of commitment in a lot of things. I heard it's pretty damn jank, which also worries me. Good luck in college, fren

>>713745989 (OP)
>>713752651
>>713753637
Stop pandering to americans lmao they are NOT profitable

>>713752651

>>713786416
It doesn't take long, just download an existing scene and fuck around with it. There's YouTube videos if you want to get more in depth. It is very jank and a memory hog that works with a single core, because the Dev thinks short term only lmao. 2.0 is supposed to address this. Might try the demo if you get the chance, runs better.
Thanks! I'm in finance lmao.

>>713772867
Frogs are retards

>>713745989 (OP)
with game names like that it's really no wonder. it's like they went out of their way to sound as pretentious as possible

>>713772867
Life is Strange isn't theirs. It belongs to Square Enix.

>>713786772
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn). Harley standing on a giant clamshell, surrounded by the other characters, in a spoof.

Its a trademark of these types to be "quirky".

>>713746152
To make a game about giving money to Israel?

>>713786770
Could have been a cute alt/goth chick if they tried. Should have just made a dating game.

>>713785958
>Is your opinion and interpretation of that information
I'm interpreting that Dylan has nice titties? Or do you mean to suggest that Dontnod didn't intend to give Dylan nice titties? As a company that prides themselves on their art, and meticulously works every detail of their characters, I don't think it was an accident. They wanted Dylan to appear attractive, so they made her attractive. Here's a clip of Swann spying on Dylan and Corey from above, and imagining what they might say to each other: https://files.catbox.moe/r2ak9i.mp4
That clip only makes sense with the understanding that Dylan appears to be the stereotypical sexy bimbo type.

>2.No, if you haven't been following them, or the existing posts from them in the thread, start now on your own.
So you have no evidence then. There is no reason for me to believe dontnod made any social media posts that regard the male gaze issue. And nobody has posted any such posts in this thread either. In fact, nobody has posted anything from dontnod in this thread. So if you think you've read something from dontnod in this thread, then you are mistaken.

>3. You didn't read my quote taken from a synopsis of the game, incorrect.
I did read it. However you didn't source it. So I don't know where the quote came from. So I assumed you just wanted to point to the game featuring bisexuals. But you want me to note the fact that it's the synopsis of the game? A synopsis by whom? Who wrote it? I can't even find it on google. I'm trying various searches with quotes, and nothing is coming up. searching "besxual" on wiki gets zero results. On the steam page, it gets zero results, on dontnod's official webpage, it gets zero results.

So you think you can post some obscure synopsis, from a mystery source, and announce you win?

>but the M.O of the developer.
In order to prove an M.O., you have to prove there's a pattern. While the games do have patterns of diversity and gayness, only LiS2 was ever about activism.

>>713786050
Correct, they didn't say it. Whether they believe it or not, doesn't matter, because you as a potential consumer, should only really give a shit about the quality of the product. Not the purity of the creator's thoughts.

very based

>>713786862
jesse what the fuck are you talking about

>>713778868
You're a fucking coward. Afraid you'll get viruses for opening a known news article link while ironically posting from a cambodian basketweave booru which outsiders consider full of viruses and TROJANs?

>>713786921
>Should have just made a dating game.
It pretty much is one with how much focus the relationship system for the three girls gets
Which is why it's utterly bizarre that none of them end up with you at the end of the game no matter what you do

>>713787232
>spoiler
lol, not true. You fucked up.

>>713787232
Nora is getting a divorce though

>>713787380
Hi norafag, how nice of you to join us from /lisg/
Please remind me of where Swann is at the end of the game?

>>713787232
>>713787390
imagine if the character design WASN'T abysmal dogshit

>>713787565
Swann is just big boned pedoanon

>>713785743
ok but they're all ugly so it doesn't matter

>>713787002
1. A company with the social activity that I just pointed out to you. That is their interpretation of their works and what the entire thread is about.
2. Now you're intentionally being ignorant to save face, at least from what I'm reading. Here is a *quick* few things to get you started since research is beneath your effort parameters:
"DontNod is known for incorporating social activism themes and messages into their games, particularly in the Life is Strange series.
DontNod's games often address social activism themes:
Focus on Identity Politics and Social Justice: Games, especially Life is Strange, explore themes of race, gender, sexuality, and identity.
Social Critique: The games often comment on societal issues, sometimes from an outsider's perspective.
Examples: Life is Strange 2 explores themes like gun ownership and immigration.
LGBTQ+ Inclusion: DontNod has included LGBTQ+ characters and narratives. Tell Me Why features a playable transgender lead character, Tyler, with assistance from GLAAD to ensure authentic representation.
"Coming of Age" Theme: Characters in the games often learn about the realities of "systems" and how they affect one's identity.
However, the increased focus on social activism has led to some fan alienation. Some players feel the messaging is prioritized over storytelling."
Article with words from the dev team:https://www.gamesindustry.biz/dontnod-if-we-didnt-talk-about-politics-that-would-be-a-political-message

3. That was a synopsis of a collective of data online. You "source" it by actually researching the product in question, but so far you seem determined to be spoonfed every little aspect.

Activism is the M.O. of the developer, and not every aspect of activism is picket signs and social justice on its face. Much of it is also in design theory. Intentionally being obtuse and trying to force me to be on the defensive does not invite debate in good faith.
More:
https://youtu.be/3f2KPa_iz_0?si=om2pxj_1NUSgG6ix

>>713787565
Swann is so trash compared to Max
Worst part aside from the design (for obvious reasons) is her voice acting. Max had a great memeable voice, whereas Swann's annoying af. Her talking to her cat and saying geez-o every five seconds makes my ears bleed

>>713787774
>video game essay
>monotone sounding dude
>talking about woke/political games
>drawn cartoon logo of seething character
closed within seconds

>>713756468
>not lolicon bestiality
I sleep…

>>713745989 (OP)
>company's entire success is built on a game with experimenting lesbians having sex (everyone ignored the abusive shit from the abusive one)
>make DRUMF BAD game
>make ugly lesbians game

>>713753637
>swan
More like swangalica.

>>713787774
From their own website:
"Fostering empathy
We want to live in a more understanding world. That’s why we promote and support open mindedness, inclusivity, and diversity in everything we do."
https://dont-nod.com/en/about-us/

Before you do the typical handwave, understand that those key words are inner language buzzwords for progressive activism, well known and repeated. MY point stands.

>>713787478
Retard, the post credits scene doesn't count. If you romanced Autumn, you still get a special hug scene at the end. It's a more closer and intimate hug than the normal platonic one you get if you're only friends. Autumn doesn't kiss, because she's the more reserved character. She takes things slowly. But if you're paying attention, then you'll notice the greater closeness of the hug, and the way she walks away extra daintily, the way girls do when they're excited.

>>713758925
Flaws can accentuate beauty

>>713787874
That one just one of the things I posted, if the raw information doesn't suit you, go find your own sources. I'm not playing Alinsky with you.

>>713751448
Sơy overdose

>>713745989 (OP)
Jusant just kinda played itself while still being jank as fuck, not something I was in a rush to recommend, and Banishers looked like pure sloppa.
Their Life Is Strange adjacent stuff I haven't remotely looked at after the first but I don't exactly see a giant fanbase for that either.

>>713788058
>Retard, the post credits scene doesn't count.
We're done here

>>713782181
>How can you be so delusional
Wokeism is a secular religion, a cult if you will. For them to stop is akin to what throwing the Bible out would be for your grandma.

>>713751878
But...thats a white guy?

>>713787145
> we want the fat lesbian angsty teens crowd
> do they buy video games?
> video games?

Perfect game for Synthetic Man to stream.

>>713752651
Yes.

>>713745989 (OP)
>woke games are failing so bad they die before we even knew they existed
But...but... I want to laugh at them first.

>>713745989 (OP)
I liked it as I did all their previous games

>>713753637
Bet that pussy is extra juicy.

>>713787774
>3. That was a synopsis of a collective of data online.
ohhhhh.... I see now. Chat GPT. You went to fucking Chat GPT, copy and pasted the AI's synopsis, and you think that prove your point.

>1. A company with the social activity that I just pointed out to you. That is their interpretation of their works and what the entire thread is about.
You're slipping back into vaguities. What does this even mean? It reads like a hispanic butchering English. What social activism lead them into creating Dylan's visual design?

>Gameindustry link
Written in 2019, they give their opinions about Life is Strange 2. Once again, you're not proving and M.O. You're proving that 1 game got political.
Here's a quote from the article though
>"There have been some players who say they don't want politics in their games or they don't play a game to be reminded of some of the darkness around us or the issues people are facing. And I understand that. Sometimes you just want to play pure entertainment and not have to think about the world.
>"In video games now, there is space for a lot of different games, a lot of different topics, a lot of different ways of thinking. I think our game is in a spot where, yes, we talk about some subjects and it might not be just a fun game, but if you don't want to be in that state of mind, you can play another game."
Notice how he's not saying "you have to accept diversity" Or "you have to change". Or "we don't want you". He's saying that he understands how his work doesn't have the pure "for fun" appeal as other works, and it's ok for you to play other games. But he invites you to play his games, if you want to look at different topics.

>and not every aspect of activism is picket signs and social justice on its face
Themes and messages within a written work, is what enriches the work. Most stories are trying to tell you something that's beyond the surface level of the text. How well these themes are integrated, make the difference

>>713745989 (OP)
why do companies keep attacking straight white men yet still expect them to buy their products?

>>713752651
for once, i think the black girl is the cutest out of the bunch
2 and 3 are okay, and 1 just looks off. dont know if its the lighting or those massive fucking eyebrows with her eyeliner making it appear her eyes are way too slanted

>>713752651
I would still a game with these characters if it's a boomer shooter or a turn based tactics like JA2.
A game where teenage lesbians shoot cops in Heat (the movie) style shootouts. As long as there is no cringy dialogues and teenage drama. I don't know, it would be weird and unexpected experiment.

>>713788136
Swann is only taking a quick detour, she'll be back shortly. And when she gets back, she'll be happy to smash clams with whoever you rizzed up.

>>713745989 (OP)
I cannot comprehend the minds of woke faggots
I’m told anime is bad and should be banned because of big tiddies but here is the wokest fags ever making a teenager dating sim for mentally ill girls
I see this blatant double standard all the time and I’m beginning to think they just hate zipperheads

>>713751141
Professionalism is for fascists and my asshole dad

>>713746119
When it came out the tranny mods were trying to sell it as a pedo game and there were several threads about the game filled with more pedoposting than your average pragmata thread and they were defending the threads and banning you for calling it out.

>>713772867
You wrote it like Life is Strange is not woke. French were always woke fags, they invented postmodernism.

>>713745989 (OP)
Maybe the devs should've planned for the fact that only 0.01% of gamers are lesbians. But it doesn't matter because the game was probably funded with government grants and the intention was to virtue signal and impress game journos.

>>713751878
It's how it started and considering how much nostalgia bait there is these days...

It flew under the radar for me at first when it came out, then I asked about it here on /v/ once in some random thread and some anon told me it's a slow burn and he enjoyed it.

So I pirated it first, played through tape 1 before tape 2 was released and was so impressed with everything that I straight up bought the damn thing and played through tape 2 with glee. It was great, one of my all time favorites.

>>713752651
I don't know if that's what I want, because that image tells me nothing.
For all I know in the context of the game that is a perfect cast.
This is waht retards don't understand, context is important.
When "woke" game fails they do not because those characters can't inherently work in a game, but because they often don't fit.
If you are making a looter shooter power fantasy where I am a super human that destroys legion of enemies, why the fuck wouldn't I want to be a gigachad/super hot chick? Why would I want to be an obese homeless dressed like a clown (that isn't even treated as funny or absurd)?

>>713789151
I swear, this threads proves that biological females on 4chan aren't rare.

>>713789151
Im struggling to get through the first part, Im up to the part where they are looking for keys and its so fucking slow
Does it get better anon?

>>713789364
But anon I am a straight biological male with a girlfriend and will not identify as anything else

>>713789412
It does. I'd say you enjoy the small bits. The ramp up towards the later parts of the game pays off imo. Its really easy to form connections with the girls, that's what all the early parts are about. There is some great commentary as well on the tapes you can make

>>713789484
Fuck I'll try and finish it. Wish me luck
>>713789364
NTA but
>29 year old man and love all of the LIS series with the exception of LIS2
Not a poofta either

>>713789615
Good luck anon. I wish I could recapture the feeling of my first playthrough. Take your time, enjoy and go through it at your own pace.

>>713789412
Personally, I think they didn't go far enough into the thrill/horror territory. There are some supernatural elements here and there, but it's too sparse. It's like the lucky charms dilemma. Where there never seems to be enough marshmallows per bite. You wish you could just fill the bowl with more marshmallows.
Still, the whole key scene is the slowest part of the game. It does accelerate. And you will get a bunch opportunities to make choices that affect your relationships with the characters.

Damn, I've always wanted to play as pubescent Rosie O'Donnel. Are we still going to get DLC? Maybe a fast forward tape where the MC molests her own daughter into being a lesbian just like Rosie did?

>>713772867
>You'd think at some point they'd put money over ideology, but no, they'd rather the company collapse then do what makes money.
No, they're true believers. They believe it's the right thing to do to burn the company to the ground to groom kids (the target audience) into homosexuality. These guys >>713761186 and >>713761529 are entirely confused about what motivates people like this. Talk to people like this and make even a mild suggestion that doing something might harm their company and they'll go off about capitalism or whatever. They're playing straight from Lenin's "they'll sell us the rope we'll hang them with" playbook.

>>713765093
>>713762612
I'm kind of sympathetic to this because some games really do shine through a shitty initial presentation. Returnal is the archetype of this. But this isn't some superficial aesthetic misjudgement covering an otherwise good game. Then entire game *IS* that aesthetic misjudgement; there's nothing else going on. Pretend you can mod these characters, places, dialog into something entirely different. It *STILL* doesn't change the game. Also I'm really bewildered by this idea that Life is Strange or whatever was a huge hit. I work in media and have a family spanning all over the world and I've onlt ever heard of this show from one person. That sounds closer to a cult hit than actual broad appeal. Ditto with vapourwave or whatever. Just because Spotify mixes some stuff up into an identifiable genre doesn't make it an actual cultural thing. It's just marketing.

>>713788120
It had some good mechanics but they just didn't take advantage of them well, it's a shame.
If you want a better climbing game check out peaks of yore

>>713789287
Why get House M.D. quote with a face that obviously isn't House M.D. ?

>>713788724
"My opinion is fact, pilpul, handwave, and typical online prog diatribe."
I'm absolutely not wasting my time framing everything in your specific metric for validation. You address nothing and only narrow the requirements to meet a changing definition. I've seen this kind of debate tactic elsewhere, usually bReddit. If you believe this company innocuous, then that's all there is to say. I do not agree and won't waste time debating someone that has no intention of looking into the matter, only taking what I post and deconstructing it. Thread is gonna die anyway.

>>713762731
>is it really just taboo for Western devs to make a game that just panders to just men
So it seems, so it seems

>>713789876
Why do you so strongly proclaim to know what's below the surface of Lost Records, but then you also say you don't know anything about Life is Strange? Doesn't add up.

>Talk to people like this and make even a mild suggestion that doing something might harm their company and they'll go off about capitalism or whatever.
No.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-completely-spoilers-filled-interview-with-the-makers-of-life-is-strange/
>“It was a bit of a risk,” the game’s co-director at Paris-based studio Dontnod Entertainment, Michel Koch, tells me—and fronting the money for that risk was Square Enix, the huge publisher behind today’s Tomb Raider, Hitman, Final Fantasy and Deus Ex franchises. “It was something different, and we never really thought about audience or marketing when making it. We were not sure that it would work commercially. We knew we’d find some public, of course, but not a big appeal. So we’re really happy to have that. A big community has grown up around

They would recognize that what they're doing is risky, but still try to do it anyway, because it's the story they want to tell. But at the same time...
>“We didn’t actually get everything we wanted in that first episode,” says Michel’s fellow game director, Raoul Barbet, “but after episode two we changed a lot, and a lot of players gave us good feedback.
They will also listen to feedback, and change where they think it's appropriate to change.

>>713790986
You claimed Lost Record is a game filled with activism, because it was the studio's MO to fill their games with activism. But you didn't manage to prove that MO. You proved that LiS2, one game out of their many, had activism. And then for the others, you rely on me accepting your subjective interpretation of those games. However, when challenged to prove your interpretation of those other games is true, you provide further evidence for LiS2. Thus, your pattern is all of 1. And that's not a true pattern.

You also attempted to pass off an outsourced quote. Which was most likely AI generated.

You've simply failed to prove your claim.

>>713791061
I think you're confusing me with someone else.

You're evidence that you're pulling from is jsut the dev's own statements. What they say is clearly different from what they do. They're had a load of flops, they're doubling down, the company's fucked but at least there's glitter in the carpet now.

>>713745989 (OP)
WELL WHY DIDN'T YOU BUY IT YOU IRRESPONSIBLE CHUDCEL BIGOT????

>>713791432
>I think you're confusing me with someone else.
??? No?

>What they say is clearly different from what they do
What do you mean? Their words line up exactly with what they did. They took a risk with an unconventional games, with unconventional characters, and didn't regard much in the way of marketing, only expecting to capture a small audience.
Isn't that what they appear to be doing with all of their games?

>>713758807
It's important to not blame white people in cases like this and pretend is all thirdies or something.

I have anti-woke fatigue

>>713791678
The ongoing crash isn't nearly as violent and destructive as it needs to be.

>>713791885
>anti-woke fatigue
it'll never catch on, whiteoid

>>713787079
>just support anti-art activists
I'll take a page from your book and simply not do it.

>>713745989 (OP)
Pushing politics first into art is always stupid, this is why ultra woke stuff and daily wire attempt to making entertainment failed

>>713751878
This is just racism, she will never say the same if they were women or blacks

>>713791885
same, but at least you can tell through this thread alone that a lot of people are feeling the same way
the culture war is boring now that everyone knows it was only a way to get rightoids to die for israel

>>713791376
>>713791376
>Lost Record
https://www.reddit.com/r/LostRecordsGame/comments/1i5gmq5/lost_records_bloom_rage_discussion_about/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9kBmTttT54
https://gamerant.com/lost-records-bloom-rage-dont-nod-diversity/#:~:text=Don't%20Nod%20hasn't,a%20few%20players%20upon%20release.

You are an absolutely abysmal liar.
I'm proving my claim, originally about the M.O. of the entire company, and also, since you specified, for this game in particular.
You only handwave because you haven't offered an argument that says DontNod ARE NOT activists, because your strategy is to keep me on the defensive, as is typical of an ideologue. I really despise debating people like you, playing ignorant and demanding extraneous explanation instead of critically thinking. You never had any intent to learn here.

>>713791885
I have anti-anti-woke fatigue

>>713745989 (OP)
never even heard of these games

>>713792492
Its like a small handful of retards from bReddit and discord trying to "correct the record" even though the funding for this shit ended so Israel can put it into the war effort. "Woke" was never wanted, it was astroturfed to fuck with the Western institutions.

>>713758367
This kind of queer-exclusionary dialogue would never pass in most studios. When was the last time anyone here saw a western game where a woman expressed exclusive interest in men?

>>713792492
yeah, anti-woke was a movement entirely made to send gullible young men to israel

>>713751878
>games industry turning whiter
the return to form they didn't expect

>>713792703
>>713792843
Israel lives rent free in your heads
If Kamala had won or Elon hadn't bought twitter, you wouldn't have seen any change in wokeness, stop being low IQ retards.

>>713751878
>>713793147
he's right in a sense that western gaming industry will be just white guys and his discord buddies

the white guys in question will be castrated mentally ill trannies though

>>713758807
>french canadians, ultra wokies who are also responsible for a large amount of the problems with Ubisoft, are the problem
yes, we always knew that leftists were an issue

>>713758807
>Montreal
Why are you talking down to us? Everyone here is well-aware that the majority of wokeshit is caused by buckbroken white men and their white female overlords.

>>713745989 (OP)
I have not heard of this studio or any of their games before.
Looking it up, I don't care if they're "woke" or not. Looks boring.

>>713768094
Atleast they lust after us aswell

>>713745989 (OP)
It's normal for developers to shed jobs after a project. Sure, the game sucked ass and the company doesn't deserve to exist (imo) but this isn't out of the ordinary, never has been.

>>713794327
it's ordinary for these retards for all the wrong reasons

their investors must be seething

like, how the fuck are they still alive at this point?

>>713746950
New dialogue options showing up if you wait is honestly a pretty cool feature, though.

>>713794595
must've made a fortune off life is strange so people are willing to bank on them succeeding again

>>713794748
Basically this, they're throwing shit on a wall and hoping something will eventually stick like Tumblr is Strange. I don't think lighting will strike twice in this case, they don't know what people want.

>>713793147
Kek

>>713792396
>Reddit link
Some opinion piece by some rando.This doesn't support your argument in any way. I don't feel the need to respond to it.

>Youtube Link
I skimmed it. Didn't hear anything about dontnod acting as activists. But rather, random activists advocating for dontnod. Dontnod doesn't control the actions of random people. If random people want to utilize dontnod to push their agenda, that's not dontnod's fault.

>Gamerrant link
I'm reading the quotes from the developers, and they all say some variation of "we wanted diversity, in order to make the characters feel real." All of the quotes are about attempting to make the characters feel real. But they're not saying that they're doing it with any greater sociopolitical

> since you specified, for this game in particular.
The entire point of this argument is to determine whether Lost Records is filled with activism as the anon originally claimed it was.

>You only handwave because you haven't offered an argument that says DontNod ARE NOT activists
You want me to argue that something *isn't*? First you have to show me that there's at least evidence something *is*. Until you've shown me that something could possibly exist, I can't argue that it doesn't exist.

>>713793725
>>713793492
The people I replied to, were claiming that the staff wasn't white. I was just correcting them. You can read, can't you? Read the posts of the people I was replying to.

>>713753637
more like Swine

>>713795719
>But they're not saying that they're doing it with any greater sociopolitical
*They're not saying that they're doing it with any greater sociopolitical reason.

>>713769367
>romantic tension would make one uncomfortable
why?

>>713755220

>>713796028

>>713792492
this, you can hever have enough anti-woke

>>713758807
>Also, one of the people who announced her being laid off, was good at her job. She was I think the "cinematic director", or some such
>doesn't know even know the position this person held
>somehow did a great job that everyone loved
fucking kek

>>713768513
>especially back in those days
it's not set in the dark ages, anon.

>>713795719
Until you stop moving the goalposts and use abstract reasoning to reveal why I'm wrong with your own evidence, my point was made. You just keep handwaving every bit of evidence and not showing any of your own against my point. You've offered nothing that says I was wrong, only your own personal reasoning (none backed with anything beyond your internal logic). Activist game, by an activist dev. Simple as.

>>713793415
Right, there'll be a few, soon to be tranny, white guys making good games. And a bunch of unfinished Patreon scams. That's the future of Gaming.
Also gachas.

>>713794595
Tax payer money.

>>713797953
that's the future of western* gaming industry indeed

>>713752651
If it was an RPG and this was your party I’d be interested out of morbid curiosity if nothing else. But it sounds like it’s some kind of teenage lesbian simulator where you groom your friends. Kind of fucked up. I can see why it failed

>>713768094
>>everyone hates you with a passion
nah, just a very very vocal minority

>>713791885
it'll end when companies learn what gamers want

>>713745989 (OP)
It's still four times as successful as Concord.

>>713794537
I wonder who invests in these companies.

>>713799428
This came out 2 months ago? I've genuinely never heard of it.

>>713796731
Jesus, you guys are tiresome. Alright, let me pull it up. https://arch-img.b4k.dev/vg/1750908971979.jpg
Mary Pouliot. "Principle Cinematic Artist"
"film nerd with strong skills in cinematics, camera animation, camera editing, layout, direction of photography, cine department management, cinematic design and motion capture direction"

https://www.mobygames.com/game/237586/lost-records-bloom-rage/credits/windows/
DON'T NOD Montreal: Bloom & Rage Team - Dev Team: Cinematics
Principal Cinematic Artist: Mary Pouliot
Cinematic Artists: Mathieu Beaudelin, Johanna Bendemagh, Anaïs Benmansour, Ronan Coiffec, Alexis Ghnassia, Maxime Guémon, David-Arona Pierozzi

Basically, this bitch was in charge of directing cutscenes. In movie terms, she would be the cinematographer. It's a big role.
Being that it's a movie game, and everyone is satisfied with the cinematography of the movie, I think it's safe to say she was good at her job.

>>713797819
Again, it's not on me to prove that something isn't. It's on you to prove that something is.
You can't just say something exists and force others to argue against it. There needs to be evidence of the thing's existence.

>>713800248
There was evidence brought forth, you denied it moving the goalposts, I brought more, you denied it moving the goalposts. You provided no evidence as to why my evidence was not valid, only your own opinion and internal logic, thus my point stood on a foundation, whilst yours did not. You cannot prove me wrong, because you can't be bothered to argue your point in any way but pilpul.

>>713799428
this only says how terrible was concord.

>>713799090
>teenage lesbian simulator where you groom your friends
Recipe for success desu.
But not with those character designs, no.

>>713800035
>In movie terms, she would be the cinematographer. It's a big role.
>I think it's safe to say she was good at her job.
how is a movie game that flopped a good indicator that the person in charge of making the backbone of the game, did a good job? genuinely curious.

>>713800372
No, your evidence was bad.
You used what third parties say and believe, in order to suggest that dontnod believes and says those things.
If you claim that Paul can jump 2 feet, and then when I ask for proof, you post videos of Mary, Steve, and Brian jumping 2 feet, what does that say about Paul? Nothing. None of your evidence is valid.

>>713761556
It doesn't matter, DONTNOD will never go under despite repeatedly making games nobody actually plays.

>>713753637
More like penguin

>>713800636
Nobody criticized her work.
There has been criticism of the writing. There has been criticism of the character designs. Criticism of the subject matter. Of the overall visual design. But nobody has had said they dislike the way the scenes are shot.

>>713801307
>Nobody criticized her work.
really, anon? no one bought it either, which is an even more damning condemnation.

>>713801119
My evidence was completely valid, if you, again, used abstract reasoning and critical thinking. If a company has a VERY clear goal and mindset in their creative pool, anything that comes from that pool will be soaked in their ideals. All of my sources, including the dev website itself, support this concept. You handwaved that without thinking because you have no intend of a good faith argument. You'll never admit to a losing argument, and never post evidence to the contrary, as every progressive bRedditor does.

>>713799556
You'd be surprised. Do you have a 401k or ETF's in your IRA?

I think it would've sold more if the women were aliens or monsters

>>713801527
>really, anon?
Really

Literally nobody has cited the cinematopgraphy as the reason why they didn't buy it. Nobody was like "well, I WAS going to buy it, but the tracking shot here is really bad. I just can't support this."

>>713799556
>companies still using Metacritic as a metric
Gamergate should've drilled it into their heads that using an aggregate scoring system for video games is faulty and should not be used as a decider for companies to look at as anything objective.

>>713801850
>Literally nobody has cited the cinematopgraphy as the reason why they didn't buy it.
l2read
nobody even bothered to buy it, retard.

>>713801603
>If a company has a VERY clear goal and mindset in their creative pool, anything that comes from that pool will be soaked in their ideals
You just explained every work of art ever. If you're a godly man, then your work will be soaked in your spiritual ideals. If you're a nut about the military, then your work will be soaked in the military ideals. So forth and so on. Dontnod loves to craft stories featuring diversity and gayness, so obviously, their games will be soaked in diversity and gayness... But is that inherently activism? No. Merely expressing your interests through art, is not activism.

>All of my sources, including the dev website itself, support this concept.
You have not posted material from the official website. And if you insist that you did, then I have to insist that you re-link, or reiterate. Because I seriously have not seen it.

>>713745989 (OP)
>Shitnadians
and nothing of value was lost

>>713802125
First, that's false. People bought the game.
Secondly, my previous post was saying that among the people who didn't buy it, nobody has cited bad cinematography. Sop YOU l2read, dipshit.

>>713802442
>First, that's false. People bought the game.
lol

>>713802326
Then you've just made my point for me, and in a desperate attempt to hand waive it, failed to disprove my point entirely.
I literally did, look through my posts or consider your position moot. Don'tNod is a progressive company with progressive games, and creating progressive games is a form of activism.

>>713794740
That's what I thought too. I don't think I've seen it before

>>713802504
Yes? What's funny? Of course, it sold well under what they needed to sell. But it still sold. Getting exact numbers on it is impossible, unless dontnod releases them. However, Steamspy estimates it to be within the 100-200k range: https://steamspy.com/app/1902960

>>713802704
>sells like shit
>of course it sold like shit that's what's expected, but it still sold
enjoy those foreclosures.

>>713745989 (OP)
>Very Woke Game
I'm starting to think that most of /v/ only care about political discussions instead of video game quality. Just a hunch.

>>713802992
those can occasionally be intimately intertwined. if i had the option of buying a car that was the fastest, most fuel efficient, and cheapest all at the same time but it was covered in a contract-bound unremovable rainbow flag pattern paintjob, i wouldn't buy it. and i'd probably complain that they don't make a normal paintjob model while i was at it.

>>713802992
Concern trolling doesn't stop people form noticing, faggot.

Launching on subscription only worked for Rocket League and nothing else. You are haemorrhaging
potential sales with that shit

>>713802657
>Then you've just made my point for me
Nope. You say I move goalposts, but I've never changed. Look: >>713785743
>Life is Strange 1 was already playing with LGBTQ+ concepts. The main character Max can either fall romantically for a boy or a girl. Chloe is clearly gay, and Rachel Amber is a little enigmatic, but the implications of bisexuality are there for her. Merely having gay and bisexual characters isn't in of itself activism.

My argument has been consistent. That merely having gayness and diversity, is not inherently activism. You've never been able to get around that point. You're still stuck behind it. You've tried various angles, and all have failed.

>I literally did, look through my posts
Oh this post? >>713788019 I forgot about that one. You dumbass, you posted a bad quote. You should have posted this one: "We want our games to inspire change, however small; to explore the issues that matter to us and could resonate with our players, and to engage in a bigger conversation."
Wanting to inspire change, is actually activism. Shit... now I really AM making your points for you. You're so bad at this, I ended up losing the argument to myself.

Well, now that we've established that they do in fact hold activism as part of their core ideals. The question becomes, did they choose activism over success? For Lost Records, I would contend that they didn't. As what aspects of the game could be construed as activism, are mild at best, and gel into the overall narrative of the game. Like I said before: Including themes and messages is a common practice when creating art. How these themes are integrated makes the difference. I believe they did a fine job integrating their diverse tumblry stuff into a well crafted narrative that SUPPORTS those themes.

>>713746950
Keep in mind that this video is the POV of a fat lesbian.

>>713802856
??? What you're saying doesn't even follow the conversation. We were talking about whether or not an employee was good at her job. Now you're talking about the sales being bad. Like no duh the sales are bad. I can see that. What's that got to do with the cinematography of the game?

>>713803848
No brother you are a pedantic fanatic. I've been amicable this entire night while you simply hand waved my points without legitimate counter points, congratulating yourself as correct each time. You were never actually in a supported position, only positioning yourself as such, without any external factor affirming it. Your argument has fallen short of any consistency, and lacks any merit beyond what you yourself give it (no evidence backing it up).
This will simply be a glaring belief of this company that eventually kills it, and you will have to come to terms with that fact.

Dontnod has kept trying for years to capture the lightning in a bottle that was Life is Strange. It can't be done. It was a one hit wonder and they should just accept that and work in fast food instead

>>713804163
You say I'm a fanatic, but I literally just changed my mind when presented with adequate evidence. All of your evidence was bad. And then I clicked the link, and found the good evidence that you missed. So now my mind is changed.

Perhaps I changed a little bit too quickly for you to process. I do that some times. People often miss it, because I'm quick to adapt, while they're still arguing the old position.

And let me reiterate, it's actually impossible to argue that something isn't, until there is evidence that it is. This is just stone cold objective logic. You don't understand this concept, which is why you keep telling me that I had no evidence or support for my position. If you and I walk into an empty room, and then I suddenly announce, "there's an elephant in this room". What would you say? Probably something like "no there isn't". And then I go "Yes there is! There is, truly! Prove there isn't!" How do you prove there isn't an elephant in the room?

>>713804418
No they didn't. Every new game they make deviated from LiS1. They know what the secret formula is, and they deliberately avoid it.

>>713804736
Cripes give it a rest Jr. This is literally you right now. Such self infatuation.

>>713745989 (OP)
>never heard of any of these games
Holy marketing fail

>>713745989 (OP)
I don't know what these guys are doing. They had some good success early on with Remember Me, Life is Strange, and Vampyr. And then immediately after that success it's like they went "now how can we make our games giga woke?" and put out like 5 games that were DEI soapboxes and all failed. And now they're on the verge of closing down.

>>713805020
That's not me. I'm INTP.

And hey, that anon insisted like 4 or 5 times that I had to disprove his baseless claim. I think after so many times, I can inform him how logic works. He needs the help.

>>713805275
Their debut title, Remember Me, barely made its money back it got Capcom to drop them entirely.

>>713805275
>Ugh, I hate ugly character
>Please look at this disgusting 50 year old fat unkempt blobfish-faced man.
Oh the irony.

>>713777469
>Banishers (never heard of it) sold poorly
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden?
>ALL REVIEWS: Very Positive (4,765)
Do these retards want/need every game to make GTA numbers in sales?
It doesn't matter that you waste AAA money on developing and marketing if your game is AA in content and quality.

>>713805338
Then Squeenix heads their LIfe is Strange success but shits the bed with the sequel and the spinoff so they drop them as well. All the big hits DONTNOD has under its belt is from from AAA publishers. Vampyr wasn't really all that successful but Focus Home Interactive or whatever the fuck they call themselves is a French publisher and is never willing to drop them.

>>713805691
Then when they went to self-publishing, they got Bamco to help with the distribution for consoles. But then Bamco cancelled any distribution for their game (Twin Mirrors) in Japan. I don't know how DONTNOD has so many big Japanese company connections just so ready to help them but they always end up dropping them in the end.

>>713803610
This board creates threads/manufacturers outrage on the possibility of anything being "woke" and I'M concern trolling?

>>713806004
bamco has a reputation of being scummy so no surprise there

>>713806370
Woke is not so neologic anymore as to still be put in quotation marks.

>>713791885
Yeah I really wish this game succeeded too, it's really tiring when people don't buy these games and instead do nothing.

>>713791885
I have woke fatigue

>>713807062
What if I called sjws faggots and now call you faggots as well?

>>713807062
Don't let them make false equivalences like above me. Anyone old enough to Remember the GG and Tumblr eras remembers these pricks had every institution backing them and let EVERYONE know it. Never let them forget they're evil little pricks and they lost because nobody actually likes their progressive shit, and now the money has been taken away for the more urgent needs of their owners.

>>713807062
>Go on youtube
>See Secular Talk and Hasan rep the left
>Go on youtube
>See Heelvsbabyface and Asmongold rep the right
>Yet somehow it is the woke who are ugly

>>713807062
Actually it was more like this:
>Early 2010s
>Have a fairly diverse amount of characters(even if slightly too many generic bald white guys)
>SJW: "The industry is racist, sexist, and homophobic. We need to bitch and complain, until they do what we want"
>Gamer: "What? No. Look, we have all these diverse characters already. We don't need your forced diversity"
>SJW: "Ugh, typical white male. The industry will change, whether you want it to or not"

>Today
>SJW: "Behold! Average modern video game!"
>Gamer: "What the fuck did you do?! That's it! We're going on a witch hunt! All diversity must burn!"
>NPC: "Wait... I thought you just wanted to get rid of forced diversity. Why are you burning it *all* down? Half of this shit isn't even forced. Wait, stop! That's actually a pre-SJW standard you're burning!"
>Gamer: "FUCK YOU JEW PET. burn it all down!"

>>713807717
>these pricks had every institution backing them
they still do

>>713807717
We saw #Freestellarblade, you can't bleach your skin more fake cracker.

>>713785056
BR is clearly aimed at males, unlike this pile of garbage.
Japan knows how to do dykes that are attractive to men. The west does too (see pornhub) but its taboo to put that in mainstream media.

>>713752651
>that zero internal dialogue fluoride zombie stare

>>713808916
Life is strange did it successfully

>>713786182
>Censorship is cool!!!
Ok, chink

>>713752651
Would all of them

>>713746950
>no games by western studios will do this for hetero love stories
>oh, you're a man? DIE. Be Lonely and DIE DIE DIE

>>713753637
First of all, would (if she was older) Second, IMAGINE if she was a guy. People would be SCREACHING about "UNREALISTIC MALE FANTASY!!! REE!!!"

>>713764367
take me back...

>>713769367
>Why would I, a grown man, play a game about a bunch of girls growing up and coming to terms with themselves?
why would a grown woman? so this is for...teen girls? teen girls have 90s nostalgia? i dont remember wishing the ninja turtles would hang out in the 1950s, in fact i hated those 50s styled aliens!

I watched Dogfucker play this, probably one of the most borrringest DONT NOD games ever, which is saying something. The reveal that the chick has lukemia was so fucking lame and cringe like, wtf is this, The Lifetime channel? DONT NOD should fire their hack writers and maybe even some coders because of the glitches that keep poping up.

>>713751878

>>713786907
Id take giving money to jews over being overrun by jeets any day honestly.

>>713812356
funny meme but honestly, back in the day when video games were mostly male oriented and advertised to, the hot women were all bimbo looking fake tit having freaks. Laura was alright though

>>713752651
It's capitalizing on the Stranger Things vibe and as someone who also hates woke shit and got upset at their looks I have to say that it was a really good game and now I regret not having been more invested with them since the start

>>713752651
>this is what gamers want.
On the contrary, they know it's not what gamers want. That's why they do it. Unless... you think they do thinks to satisfy "gamers"? What's next? They totally care about making profits?

>>713745989 (OP)
crazy that there's barely any SFM

>>713745989 (OP)
i never even heard of this

>>713814503
i was happy for the 90s nostalgia a bit but it dint feel that authentic most of the time, probably cause it takes place in rural middle america

>>713745989 (OP)
Life is Strange already shit on straight white men none stop but they had to double down even more.
If they could just let their hatred for white men go and make a single game where white men are just as positivily depicted as everyone else maybe they wouldn't keep having flops.

>>713751878

>>713791885
it's the woke doing all the bullying, not the anti-woke
memes require truth and humor, and you have neither

>>713791885

>>713752651
I'm so sick of sanitised, theme park versions of the 80s and 90s, bros.

>>713815854
they gave a character that looks like a 25 year old male underwear model the personality and emotional arc of a 16 year old girl

>>713745989 (OP)
It's a shame that they went so far off the rails. Remember Me and the first Life Is Strange are good games. I've heard Vampyr was okay too, but I never tried it.

>>713816247
the 90s especially. Bevis and Butthead is a pretty good time capsule of the 90s.

>>713816436
>Remember Me and the first Life Is Strange are good games
N-no....they are...not.

At this point the anti-woke mob is way more annoying than the woke one

>>713746950
Damn she's so cute too bad she's stuck in this game.

>>713816810
they're both annoying. I just want boobs back in western games.

>>713816946
how old is she anon

>>713816602
I was making a statement, not soliciting opinions from retards.

>>713817137
Enough

>>713817197
>>713816436

>>713745989 (OP)
>Don't Nod
More like Don't Let The Door Hit You On Your Way Out

>>713817678
more like "Dont Nod off playing our boring games"

>>713816810
Kill yourself. Yeah, it's so bad for people to call out the tumblr faggots for their faggotry.

>>713762612
It would be successful if they let you choose a male protagonist

>>713745989 (OP)
I played Jusant
I enjoyed it as a climbing simulator but I couldn't have given less of a fuck about the plot
I played it on gamepass tho otherwise I probably wouldn't have touched it to begin with

>>713818770
>I played it on gamepass tho otherwise I probably wouldn't have touched it to begin with
This is really the target. Good Enough For Gamepass means outsized earnings for smaller projects, instead of having to fight for sales. MS subsidizes it, so devs' customers are actually Xbox curators. Play to their biases, keep the budgets modest and it's a living. DONTNOD is just missing that budgets part, they'd do alright working the slops mine otherwise.

>>713812461
Nobody tell this guy Trump approved 100k H1Bs plus their families.

>>713815854
Why does he walk like such a slut though?

>>713745989 (OP)
It literally blames their other games like Jusant and Banishers in the headline.

If anything it just asks the question why the fuck Dontnod keeps doing random shit instead of sticking in their Life is Strange lane.
Yeah it sucks Remember Me didn't go anywhere, I'm sure there's lots of people that wish they could be making action games or whatever but sometimes you just gotta be realistic about your prospects.

For the record I actually liked Jusant.

>>713807963
There is no "NPC" in this. There is only the audience, most of which were tolerant to that shit at first, but then had to learn that giving these people the tiny finger means they will rip your arm off and paint a alphabet flag on it every time. You know why main stream casuals played shit like Life is Strange, but all the new games are flopping? Because not only did they of course double-triple down on their bullshit, believing it's the main feature while removing every actual appeal, their ilk in the meantime gleefully ripped the arms off every niche and mainstream entertainment they got their ands on, causing oversaturation that ensured casuals would instantly disassociate with the existence of everything still trying to sell them on it. Diverse pseudo-progressive moralfaggotry was a trend and now it's a dead horse everyone wants to finally bury and move on, so that they can play regular video games again.

>>713817137
Legal in most of Europe.

>>713751878
These retards are so tone deaf and completely detached from reality

>>713745989 (OP)
Game would sold better if the story wad not shit. And if it was a horror game about ghost and demons. It also failed because they killed the best girl.

>dontnod going under because they didn't put the blue haired bitch in
>deck9 going under because they didn't put the blue haired bitch in
you reap what you sow

>>713804010
you are actually retarded, anon.

>>713807859
I dont think you could have cherry picked that any harder. What a disingenuous post.

>>713746950
kino

>>713823447
Both blue-haired bitches are unbearable though.

>>713767070
>The black population hasn't changed much by percentage in a century
thats what they want you to think

>>713791885
Better stop coming here then, faggot.

>>713751878
I voted for this.

>>713795719
>Going reddit link when you're reddit spacing.
Fucking moron, you don't belong here.

>>713745989 (OP)
Bloom & What now?

I have never heard of that shit

>>713787874
>>713788724
bro, he dommed you so hard, i'm starting to wonder if you have a humiliation kink.

>>713791376
>You claimed Lost Record is a game filled with activism
>because it was the studio's MO to fill their games with activism
>But you didn't manage to prove that MO

>>713817137
out of 10

>>713794537
>>713794595
they shouldn't have nodded to sweetbaby's suggestions

>>713794537
>>713794595
>constantly make games where decisions always have consequences
>surprised when their decisions turned out like this
if only they had a rewind time ability

>>713831767
>suggestions
demands more like it. they are the DEI mafia

>>713823447
That's right, the Price is always right!

Lost Genitals: rope amd ack

>>713823004
This, they should have killed off either the tranny or the nog instead

>>713745989 (OP)
I put the Banishers game into google, looked at the boxart for one second and knew why it lost them money. Is this some kind of big revelation the studios cannot wrap their heads around? You put a black woman front and center, what did you expect? And it's not their first rodeo either. They made Remember Me, a cool game with flawed but innovative combat system. I bet it would be more successful with a white guy on the cover.

>>713833674
It does not even look a woman, at first glance I thought it was a man kek

>>713745989 (OP)
What even is this thing lmao

>>713834078
Now imagine if he was on the front, and a hot blonde ghost was hugging him like a lover from behind, partially dissolving. But I guess Dontnod wanted to "tell their story." The name Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is also a retarded name, it sounds AI generated to me. It amazes me how these projects see the light of day.

>>713745989 (OP)
What a cutie

>>713811565
Same

>>713800035
>someone super important
>can't remember their job
still sad anon

>>713751878
The funny thing about this is that the white guy already makes diverse games. Half Life 2 was diverse (Alyx and her papa are Black, Barney is gay) GTA games are all diverse. Witcher 3 is relatively diverse etc etc etc

>>713769367
> I can't relate,
I am not a samurai, but I loved Ghost of Tsushima


I am not a soldier but I loved Battlefield 1 xD

>>713783941
So why did they remove it? Because of the sexual implications or because of the racial?

>>713817137
I fucked a girl that lookeda bit younger, probably about 14.
Legal in europe.

>>713745989 (OP)
If the game exceeded expectations they would have still probably lay off staff lmao

>>713751878
>about to be

I don't understand what industry these people think they are talking about.

How in the hell do these studios even get off the ground in the first place?

Who the fuck is funding Becky the fat ugly chick and her dozen equally fat and ugly friends, plus the handful of zero testosterone balding faggots who kiss the floor they walk on because they are THAT desperate for any female approval at all, so they can sit around and shit up social media all day before spending a sum total of 20 minutes working on complete sewage nobody on the planet would ever willingly play?

>>713746950
>>713753637
>get mad at so-called incels for liking 16yr old anime girls
>make a game where you play the pov of a girl making out with other 16yr old girls

>>713786330
Woman don't act like this. What troon drew this?

>>713752651
What are these soulless dolls?

>>713758713
Acne is so cute on girls though. It makes them look mysterious and edgy.

>>713836403
Racial and to a degree, sexsim with the "... male property" tattoo.
they have a ton of regular sexual shit allowed otherwise

>>713838087
Perhaps we are not so different

>>713751878
like the good old times?

>>713769527
Come again, chinkcel