I’m generally with you but not in the case of Vanillaware games. They use the technique correctly. It isn’t a “development shortcut” it’s a technique that can be used poorly or well depending on implementation. Most indie/mobile games I see using it are awful to look at because the art style is generally cheap or…

In Alan Wake 1, Saga Anderson was White but in 2 she was race-swapped to being Black

It was a deliberate ratfuck orchestrated by pond scum fascist demagogues on the extreme right. You don’t have to play into their hands if you don’t want to. Continue to be proudly woke. :)

Everything from Black vikings, Black Cleopatra and Black Dwarves in LotR is just absurd

What? Are you serious? Kotaku certainly has it’s share of trash, but it’s one of the very few game websites that actually still does real journalism instead of just repeating the received company message.

Dude, get bent, alright. Lesbian characters don’t have to justify their existence to you, narratively or otherwise. Eff that effing noise.

You didn’t read the article because it explicitly says that Sweet Baby Inc. does NOT put any character in a game. They’re there already. They just fix up the dialogue and writing to make more sense.

“Black Dwarves in LotR is just absurd”

He’s been pushing a lot of center-right soft-libertarian, vaguely evangelical Christian bullshit in a bunch of threads so I think we can safely say he’s probably a cunt.

Stern really has matured over the years, and everyone seems to judge him still based on how he was in the 80s and 90s.  I mean i get first impressions and what not.  Also, good.  Liberals, progressives, anyone not part of the rightwing/white supremacy alliance that has formed needs to push back.  How is woke a dirty…

More importantly....why do 90% of all games star white dudes.  Im white, we arent 90% of the population in the US, where the majority of games protagonists are from.

Jedi Survivor doesn’t have a black female protagonist. You play as Cal Kestis who is a redheaded white dude. Redfall and Shadow Gambit have multiple playable characters and only one of them is a black woman. Saga is one of two protagonists in AW2, the other being a white guy.

Sorry to reply to you twice, but I meant to add this in.

“Also why did virtually every game dev in 2023 decide to make their main character a Black woman?”

Also why did virtually every game dev in 2023 decide to make their main character a Black woman?

critics insist that SBI is intentionally putting DEI elements into their story and SBI pretty much admits to it

Why are you asking “why is this person gay” in a videogame? It doesn’t need to have anything to do with the fucking plot; there are gay people in real life, sometimes that’s just a person.

ah shit.  Is this the evil goateed Dr. Strange?

No, what SBI said is that companies come to them for an extra polish, as well as consultation for their already existing characters to see if they read properly (this even includes a finnish company like Remedy checking that their white male american character consistently comes across as intended)

dr strange this is no time to be in the kotaku comment section the avengers need you to open a portal