Thread 717734185

Isn't this proof games can be woke and fun at the same time?

>>717734185 (OP)
I don't remember this being woke apart from some questionable skin colors

>>717734560
It's not woke?

>>717734560
It fell for the 'Black Athena' meme, which goes beyond skin colour but encompasses an entire fake and gay academic theory which tries to pin every advance made by ancient Greek civilisation to imports from foreign cultures. They hoped nobody would notice it, but playing Hades 2 has reminded me of it when Athena popped up.

>>717734560
This. The sequel is, though.

>>717737750
https://wayback-api.archive.org/save/https://kotaku.com/black-athena-how-hades-gets-its-gods-right-1845146132

>I love Hades. It’s a great roguelike, has a cleverly-crafted story, and is stuffed with beautiful art and design. But what I like most about it is its commitment to diversity among its characters.

>Hades’ pantheon of Greek gods is diverse. Athena is a dark-skinned Black woman. Dionysus is south Asian. Hermes is east Asian. Eurydice, my favorite, is a Black woman crowned with a beautiful afro made from the branches and canopy of a tree.

[...]

>Greg Kasavin, the creative director of Supergiant Games, told me that Hades’ diversity was the result of an epiphany during the game’s development.

>“We knew going into Hades that we wanted this to be the story of a big dysfunctional family set in the Underworld of Greek myth, told from the Underworld’s point of view,” he wrote in an email. “As we discussed and researched the Olympians from canon sources, something stood out that in retrospect was obvious: They’re called the Greek gods because they were worshiped in ancient Greece, not because they themselves are ethnically Greek.” In other words, they didn’t all have to be Greek, or even white-passing for that matter.

>“Zeus rules all the heavens, not just the airspace over Greece,” Kasavin wrote. “Poseidon rules all the sea and land. They sprang from the Titans, who sprang from primordial Chaos, the source of all creation. So it stands to reason that the gods represent all the people of the world, at least indirectly.”

>To say this statement shocked me with its simplicity, is an understatement. More like it smote my heart like a thunderbolt hurled from Zeus’ own hand. Gods, if that’s where you choose to invest your belief, are for everyone. It reminds me of the slogan I’ve seen Norse Pagans adopting to combat the homophobia and white supremacy that have sprung up around their religion. “It’s the All-Father, not the some-Father.”

>>717737827
Gay, luckily I didn't buy either of them.

>>717734560
>>717737827
>eurydice is black
stopped reading there

the thing about it is that its not even a problem in H1 if you ignore retarded journos
>pretty balanced set of characters, blatantly genuinely made around what they thought would look cooler and not anything else
>a lot of people have unique skin, athena has a skin of bronze rather than being black, eurydice is a fucking tree nigga, etc
Only hades 2 actually became retarded, i dont know what happened to supergiant
>actually painful character designs
>way less people with unique skin, way more characters with dark skin. Athena no longer looks like shes bronze and looks more like shes stereotypically black
>rate of relevant women is like 2.5x'd
>chaos looks less like an undefined space nigga and more like a woman
shit like that
even then i could get beyond that if hades 2 didnt play so much worse

>>717737978
>>chaos looks less like an undefined space nigga and more like a woman
I fucking hated this. Why did they fuck with Primordial Chaos?

>>717734185 (OP)
no proof was necessary that it's possible for a game to be woke and fun. we simply value our principles more than some cheap fun we can have playing a game that isn't made by people who hate us
Yeah hades is really fun, I played it before knowing it was pozzed. despite loving the game I still refuse to even pirate the sequel. all westoid drvs deserve to be brutally tortured.

>>717738071
i worded that first part like a fucking retard but surely you get what I'm trying to say

>>717734185 (OP)
They're both separate parts of the same game. I'll be having fun playing it then see the woke parts and go "yuck" then continue one. It's still a detriment

I think this guy singlehandedly made me religious again.

>>717738071
> we simply value our principles
this nigga cries about pedo trannies and then proceeds to jerk of in a loli thread

I think visual clutter is the bigger problem in Hades 2 also I hate revenant as a vow fuck that shit.

>>717734185 (OP)
Well i didnt play it because of the jewish propaganda aspect

>>717734185 (OP)
game is boring as fuck.
i wish i returned when i had the chance, but i forgot i owned it

>>717734560
>>717734185 (OP)
It's a mediocre game

>>717734185 (OP)
it has dogshit combat thoughbeit

>>717734185 (OP)
it was ok, but then they push it of balance with 2...
but im sure it will still sell well enough. i just hope they wont stick with it for their next game and go back to experimenting.

Any and all "-like" games are immediately SHIT. The only games that matter in that "genre" are Rogue and Angband. End of.