šJoker"Woke" games
MeursaultTo be fair, what the OOP is describing is ādiversity in the video game industryā, not āwoke gamesā, per se. While I doubt anyone here has objections to the former, I also doubt that anyone here is a fan of āDustbornā, as an example.
CethinI hate this kind of comment. A bad game doing poorly that happens to be āwokeā isnāt evidence that being āwokeā made it bad. For example, Dragon Age Origins is pretty āwokeā (especially for its time) but itās recognized as an amazing game by pretty much everyone. If you make a great game thatās written well, itās probably going to be received well. The issue is modern AAA gaming just makes mass audience slop that is devoid of passion and dictated by suits to chase trends. Being āwokeā doesnāt matter. Being good matters.
You are on the right track, but it did not āhappen to be wokeā, some people bring politics into things that should not and the higher ups just want to cash on modern trendsā¦ The only thing everyone should care about is making something good. I very much doubt that the people OP described had an agenda or were annoying and thought the only thing good about them were their gender or color or religionā¦ No! They were trying to be pioneers and make money š¤
I thought the hamfisted shit was what most meant when they talk about āwokeā.
KelsonVThey tell you they only mean the ham-fisted stuff to get āreasonableā people to agree with them, then they move the goalposts and start calling everything else woke, regardless of āham-fistedness,ā to get āreasonableā people to expand their definition of āwokeā in a pejorative sense and associate a wider range of media as being āwoke and therefore bad.ā Just like they did in past decades with āpolitical correctness.ā
I think it could just be that the hamfisted stuff is the most egregious and visible example so itās what most people mean and agree on as āwokeā