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Even GameMill are bad as they are basically today's LJN where they contract developers into making bad video games. A developer said the guys were rushed by GameMill to make the King Kong game in a year.
It's pure sweetness especially when they call us racists and bigots. They deserve to lose their jobs if they are going to criticize us for hating their woke crap.
Idk even know why companies listen to them. They're not good long term customers(not that they buy anything) because their mental illness gives them high rates of self deletion
Sweet Baby really showing what is "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" When they sense that those junk thinking have the power to destory dissident live and even kill someone life. They enjoy it feel superior. Now they are mind dictator. Junk game ingredient.
I'm Hispanic. Used to swing big sticks around pretending I was cloud fighting off the baddies. Didn't bother me that cloud didn't look like me, I never even thought about it. The thought "I can't be cloud, I'm brown" never crossed my mind.
I’m a woman, south east asian descent but was such a huge final fantasy fan. I didn’t care if Cloud was white, blonde and a man. I still ran around with a stick pretending to BE Cloud as a wee lass. 💀
Barrett isn’t an awesome character just because he’s black. He’s an awesome character because he’s a dad, has flaws and character development, and he has a fucking gatling gun for a hand.
Simon in the Dungeons and Dragons movie wasn’t cool because he was Black. He was cool because he had a character arc. He had insecurities stemming from his family legacy that he had to overcome.
I mean I've seen tons of our side screaming "I'm gonna boycott" and "canceled my pre order" over the addition of fabric to the 16 yr old Tifa model like perverts so... I feel like everything is over blown on all sides. But I do agree with most of what your saying.
@@IamKiener This. People pushing for 16 year old Tifa's cleavage to be exposed is just... wrong. And the excuse they always give is like those into Lolicon: "BuT iT iSnT rEaL". And yes, I looked it up, Lolicon is defined even in Japan as ACTUAL underaged girls being sexualized in anime.
They're not rioting because they're perverts that just wanna stare at boobs, they are mad because they paid for product only for said product to be tampered with and changed without reason, notice and without thinking about the consumer. @@IamKiener
@@CommanderRedEXE finaly another reasonably minded person. I've been saying this as well. It's gross. I'm the farthest thing from woke and I find it disturbing to say the least. It's wild how many people have attacked me for not being a pervert and speaking out against this nonesense.
I became a gamer in the mid 80's. Never once has gender, race or even species been a consideration in the games I played or purchased. The entire concept that this mentality even exists is ludicrous.
Right? We played anything that stood still long enough. An several games we didn't even see the protagonist - not to mention the ones we were aliens, spirits, robots...
I'm a gamer since the 90's. I never cared for it. If they do the character justice, and have a good plot with character development. I don't care which colors the character has.
It's because having diversity and inclusion in a product makes it valid for ESG investments from big institutional investors. I find it ridiculous that the environmental guidelines, like reducing pollution, which is undeniably a target worth aiming for, is thrown together in the same pot as forcing racial diversity in video games.
No the traitors among us will be exposed stand vast brothers we can do this. Sweetbaby has declared war against you your beliefs and your very existence.
Jesus Christ, the replies are hilarious. You realize companies can make games, and you have a different belief system than you, right? Sound exactly like the people you despise so much.
Gamer's need to unite and Vote MAGA. I didn't get into politics until I was 30, so I understand too many even college-age gamers can be idiots that only see one aspect of this issue...that will still decry Donald Trump because the Mainstream Media decrees it. Young naive gamers need to get a GRIP on the true political atmosphere of the West and VOTE Politically and Capitalistically.
@@tomalphonso What's puzzling Sweet Baby and Black Girl Gamers involvement in Forspoken. The dialogue and behaviors of Frey are many of the things black women often say are negative and racist stereotypes that hurt black women. The founder of Sweet Baby is also a black woman are they inadvertently admitting the stereotype is accurate? Wouldn't that go against everything these wokies claim they stand for?
A game that wasn't about representation, Final Fantasy 7: has a Proud Black Father, a Furry, a Vampire, a Female Martial Artist, a Female Ninja, a Female Planetary Prophet and a Male Soldier who was subjected to bio-engineering experiments by a greedy planet killing company. The whole game was representation AND pro-environmentalism done well. Yet, a game that was all about representation Forspoken: had a character that was a racist caricature of a New York black girl: Poor, Criminal, Gang banger. And then in the game, they force you to value money over a pet cat's life. In the other world, she was hyper-racist in a world not her own. Games MADE for representation fail, again and again, at doing what they were intended for: Fair and diverse representations.
But they censored it all the same in various ways.. and sweet baby was involved with its development for 1 and 2. So this explains why there was so much politically correct garbage in the first game and why Tifa was the only one out of the cast that got a woke overhaul.
That's not what they really want tho. They really want to erase all white characters and add pretty much every other race with a side of homosexuality.
was forspoken really about representation? first time i've heard that... feels like you're just kinda making stuff up in your head to justify it's not capitalism trying to market towards none white people now they have money like they've always marketed to white people.
the heroes are straight up terrorists... have you ever realised that? doesn't that kinda turn the og game into like supporting extremism?@@Jack_InnaBox
11:47 - This resonates with me. I'm a (light skinned) black guy in my 40s. I'm mistaken for Hispanic on occasion. As a kid, I was: He-Man - blonde buff barbarian. Megaman - a Japanese robot Tygra - a freakin' Thudercat Link - a blonde-hair, blue-eyed elf Cecil Harvey - a silver-haired knight/Paladin Batman/Spiderman - since I would stealth my way around the house when I wanted to and climb up on anything. Sonic - a speedy blue hedgehog (since I could actually run substantially quicker than anyone at school or in the neighborhood) Goku - since I got my hands on some weighted wrist/leg sets and was training; I'd go Super Saiyan one of those days for sure. The list goes on. Growing up, I didn't give a second thought to the color of a character's skin or even if they were human. If I liked a character enough, my imagination let me become them in my mind. It was fun and I think it helped me to really enjoy the characters and their stories more. These people that are strangely hellbent on inserting themselves and beliefs completely into fictional characters and stories (then getting mad when they get rejected) need to find something else to do with their time and lives. Basing a character and story completely around some identity-related concept is boring. I don't live and define my life primarily identifying myself as a light skinned black man... so a game, movie, etc touting a light skinned black man as XYZ is neither here nor there as something to attract me to said game, movie, etc.
every kid did this,(or at least should have imo) it's part of being a kid, but sadly the left doesn't want kids to retain their innocents they wanna force their twisted ideology onto children, when i was a kid, after watching new episode of star wars: the clone wars i HAD to play with my Light Sabers , and try to act or in some chases completely make up my own star wars like scenes. and when plug my xbox 360 in and play lego star wars or the force unleashed i was fully immersed into the world, to me i was star killer.
Yes, we can become who we want to be in our imagination. It doesn't matter if we look like them or not. I feel like these whiners lack the imagination and couldn't picture out that "representation" in games or any other media doesn't really matter as long as you connect with it in a deeper level.
People need to know that curator is not the a "search mod", just a basic feature which can help to choose what to buy. Following a curator is no magic. :D
Nope. Can't remember a time they weren't just sponsored advertising. It just so happens the sponsors are now telling them to say pandering is good instead of simply shilling the games.
@@dony2852 90s Game Informer was the shit. They couldn't call PS1 and N64 graphics bad so they purely had to go by how ganeplay was, were freely able to rat on even the biggest companies for mistakes, and generally were just gamers making a magazine.
This isn't a problem with gaming journalists .... it's an academic and societal problem with the pedagogy of ALL journalists. It's a problem that we've allowed ALL journalism to be financially incentivized on per click ad revenue -- the field has become an unwinnable popularity contest. No one is trained in investigative journalism ... journalistic integrity as an idea is a joke now... young people are trained in social critical theory and activism. it's just labeled 'journalism' and they think they're one in the same. Just like there is no such (valid) thing as 'activist science' .... there is no 'activist journalism' .... that's just propaganda Journalism today is just cherry-picking situations out of the ether and warping contexts so that you have occasion to proselytize for your own subjective sense of morality or cause.
Representation was already employed in the original FF7, so if you support this video, you support representation. Like the other guy said, its the forced representation with financial intent that is evil. These people manipulate good intentions for selfish gains, that is objectively evil, and we should check on that. We should NOT go on a holy crusade though... Because then were back to having to pick between two shit sandwiches.
@@PakiBlinders Why? As a Christian Conservative-a demographic horribly underrepresented in video games-I would like to know why representation in of itself is, in your own words, "fucking great".
I mean, all rebirth did was add fabric to 16 year old Tifa's chest to cover it slightly more. Fabric is visible in the PS1 version during the same flashback.
Its about their Director i think just like how Yoko Taro and Hideo Kojima stick with their game plan no matter what happens to the Studio or Publisher that is how Yoko Taro no making another game for now and that is why Hideo Kojima leave capcom and making their own studio
Never cared about representation and most of my entertainment comes from Japan, Korea, and China. I am not expecting or thinking about why there are no or not enough black people in them. I am more worried about if the MC is going to get strong enough to save his mother from an eternal sleep risking his life against monsters from another world. Or why doesn't the other adventurers see that goblins are the most dangerous kind of monster against the Kingdom. Or cheering on the MC to get in shape and get revenge on the bullies of his school. Too much to worry about. Don't have time to worry about representation and don't care.
Make sweet baby the bud light of gaming, there's already a PC extension that warns you if SB was involved in your game so you don't waste your time or money.
I'm currently 46hrs into Rebirth and they didn't really censor anything nor is anything woke. The game has blown me away, and everyone should give it a shot.
@@bobbyosborne2375 129hrs in and it's a strong GOTY candidate. No idea what else could rival it this year. Once you finish the game, there's some awesome fanservice unlocked.
I'm currently in the middle of deciphering the puzzle. Clearly the desperate need to be "represented" is a massive disconnect from normal empathy where they can't understand anything that isn't themselves. The part I'm snagged on is that these same people claim to be demigods in the art of empathy, so what is it they're actually feeling when they describe being empathetic? What definition did they corrupt for this one?
@@Menorahdude yep, I would have to agree. The representation, is a cover for censoring stuff you like, as a bonus it spreads the message. AFAICT, they really get off on causing pain, and destroying your stuff
It is fake empathy. To be empathetic you need to actually care about and consider other people's feelings. What these people actually do is care about how they present themselves to the people on their "side". And then they can circle jerk each other with "oh, I added representation into this franchise!" but the people who they should be considering and caring for (their target audience) don't get a good product, because the "product" is always second to the "message". "Representation" is just a way to seem like they are empathetic (which they probably actually believe so it is delusion) while also getting praised for the excellent work they do.
I often wonder if the people were to conform for the sake of bigotry, how far would this all go? Like lets say everyone said their pronouns and even youtubers open up with pronouns, then what? Would pronouns be enough? No. Methinks they will just keep adding more, act butthurt, but enjoying the power they are given.
Oh absolutely. We know this because of what happened in the philm indwstry. That's the wanted end result. Too bad the wanted end results leads to massive €conomic depreciation.
The true endgame is simply to not have white people exist anymore. That has always been the ultimate goal of which all of this nonsense boils down to. But until that point happens, it'll literally never be enough, no matter how many back-bending concessions are made.
I really can't decide whether the biggest problem is a failure of communication or a failure of imagination. I think we might be living in a time of BOTH. Not to be a doomsayer... but we really are doomed aren't we? Please keep doing what you're doing Endymion, your sober commentary may depress me, but your clever turn of phrase often emits a chuckle as the tears fall. MANY more game execs need to find your channel.
Both ff7 and berserk came out in 1997 and they both are known for their big ass swords. No other thing besides bleach has come out with a iconic character with a huge sword at least to my knowledge anyway.
What makes FF7 so good imo is how relatable the cast is once you get a look behind the facade they put up on first meeting them. Take the magic and weapons away, and they are all people who life beat down one way or another, and you’re likely to have felt something similar to them at some point in your life.
Technically, the 'Yakuza' series was always 'Like a Dragon' in Japan. With the 7th(8th) game, they merely sync'd up the branding between East and West.
As a blk man.. I agree blk representaion is a choice... As is buying games not of my particular culture. And it has never been a problem... Side note I do find it annoying when they just slap some brown on an obvious Japanese person... 😂
About the plane tickets to Wakanda. To put things into perceptive the cost guard got many calls asking them to save the people on Gilligan's Island when it became a show.
Told you all this shit would happen. We have a buchered story, butchered character designs and a normal sized rpg story being sold at 70-80 a pop and it aint gonna be all wrapped up in a single game. You know that they reduced her chest size after removing the censor from the initial reveal right?
The original game was three disks. The remake was going to be three parts. One per disk. They've expanded upon what was in each disk quite a bit. Y'all being hyper-critical over some stupid shit just like the wokies. Next you'll say extra fabric on underaged Tifa's chest is wrong too, smh.
@@CommanderRedEXE the game was three disks with the exception of FF7 Remake not being disk one, or even a full 25% of disk one.. it was Midgar, an extended stay in the first area of the game. It was even its tagline "Return to Midgar". Rebirth is attempting to merge disk 1 and events from remake together with the third crappy entry attempting to merge everything else in from disk 2, 3 and concluding the Remake time travel story. Its a Cluster DUCK. You cannot even deny that lmao.
True, they are being drive to it because most investors are making investment choices based on ESG scores. The incentive to invest in higher DEI and ESG scores is killing a lot of companies that don't want anything to do with it. They need the money from investors to do anything, so they have to bend the knee.
As a gay latino man myself I DESPISE woke bs in my games. I want GOOOD WELL MADE GAMES! I dont want to be pandered to it’s fucking insulting ! Make a good game and write good story with nuanced character development. I’m not going to like a game more just because the main character has darker skin tone or is some woke PoS. If anything these days I’ll probably avoid it because I’m gonna assume it’s a woke garbage game
so true, these agendas are doing the opposite of what they are setting out to do, I have never once in the past cared about someone's race or sexuality, but these days when I see it, I just assume its a red flag for woke agendas and i avoid. So now we have moved from a point of place where I couldn't care less about seeing strong women, black people, diversity etc, to now i see it as a sign to not buy and avoid an agenda being shoved down my throat as I pay for it.
3:08 Seriously? They think the protag was why Forspoken failed? You could have changed the protag to be exactly what they think the "racist" fans wanted and it still wouldn't have sold. A game isn't good or bad based on the race of the main character. That isn't a factor when judging how fun a game is.
The race of Frey wouldn't have mattered one bit if that's the only change that was done. Her character was shit, her banter with cuff was awful and the story was terrible. The combat and movement were the only fun things about it. It was only after I changed the dialogue the japanese that I could get through Frey speaking.
You don't know! It can still work! I'm not going grey, I'm going Super Saiyan slowly because I've been stuck training at this lousy 1.0 x gravity for the last 30 years!
Hot take. People that want have a problem with seeing white people in media…are insecure. Boom. Stereotypes exist for a reason. If you hate the stereotype your culture has and wish to change it by forcing others to artificially change it by ESG portrayal in media, forcing cultural diversity, and want to force quotas, it means you are afraid of your own skin color and the heritage it holds/doesn’t hold. AkA, insecurity. I’m Mexican btw. All races have bad things. More specifically all races have a history or heritage that carries baggage. Because it’s not about race. It’s about the fact that we are human and imperfect, and no race category can climb above that fact.
Whenever someone blames racism or misoginy for a media failure, i immediately lose all respect i have for that person. The gaming community needs organic representation of black people, not representation at all cost and just for the sake of it.
I hate it for anyone who would lose their livelihood, especially those caught in the cross fire of this culture war, however it's undeniable that some of the best games ever released came from small indie developers, full of heart and passion for their project. Absolute bangers from teams 20 people or less, maybe these companies failing and the people losing their jobs will be enough to rattle the fools at the top who continue to crawl in bed with these ridiculous DEI companies.
Sounds like yall are using Sweet Baby to draw attention away from Sony over censoring FF7 again. Sweet Baby didn't have involvement in FF7 Rebirth other than by proxy.
Can’t believe they wanted a minor to have less revealing clothing! So woke of them. It’s a great game, and do what you want with your money, and maybe don’t try and shame people for enjoying something you don’t. Doing the same thing the people you despise do
@@RichyDojo in rebirth she is wearing the black tank top under her shirt so they updated the original remake to match her outfit in rebirth, that’s it. They didn’t reduce her breast size or anything like that, they actually made her breast bigger in rebirth compared to remake.
It was pointless censorship. That's the problem. Tifa didn't need an undershirt and her flashback outfit didn't need to be censored. I'm not going to defend that with you guys.
Remember the CRYSIS trilogy? The protagonist was called "Prophet" and he was super badass, not cuz he was black, but because he wore the crysis battlesuit and kicked some serious Aliens ass, the graphics was also top notch for its days (2013) much better than suicide squad. I am afraid we have to go back instead of forwards
I detest the term "brown people." What on earth does that even mean? Up to now, no one's managed to give me a proper explanation. It's such a peculiar term because it seems like nobody's quite sure who it's supposed to encompass. Is it just anyone who's not black or white? If that's the case, do Chinese, Japanese, etc., get lumped into the "brown" category? Really? And what about white Argentinians or white Latin-Americans-are they "brown" just because they're from countries not deemed "Western"? There are people in the Middle East with blonde hair, blue eyes, and white skin (let's not forget, that's where white people originate from). Are they "brown" too? Like, seriously, who the heck does this term actually refer to? I find the term as nonsensical as "African-American," if not more so.
It's a play off Color law/black christian codes. Even black's law dictionary defines black/white as a social status, not a race. Example, if you look up "white freeman", it'll say that it is in no way the "caucasian" race, but apploes to citizens who have been granted sovereignty from their own nation, and it'll list countries from Africa/Europe/Asia ect, that gives their citizens sovereignty. Which reminds me, back in the early 2010s, there was a man from africa who was pissed because his passport called him white lmao. He didn't get it, clearly. P.S. The term "African-American" didn't exist till 1985, suggested by reverend Jackson. Before that, they were using the term "Afro-American", but they didn't like that either, they would say stuff like "I dont even have an afro..." lmao
@@Statuslock Hmm, I'm not quite clear on what you're getting at, but perhaps you've misunderstood my original comment. First off, I'm not a leftist nor do I share any beliefs with them. I believe in the concept of race. I think races are a spectrum since it's not clear where one ends and another begins, but it's easy for anyone to observe that people of different races are different, and there's plenty of evidence to back that up as well. Whites and blacks are very distinct groups of people visually, and it's not only about skin colour. A black albino still has black facial features, and the same goes for a white person with an extreme tan. I don't understand why some people think that race is only about skin colour when that's evidently nonsense. I wasn't making a statement about the concept of race per se; my statement concerns the use of words. It makes no sense to me to lump billions of very different-looking people into one category that doesn't describe them well. Having observed the people who use the phrase "brown people", they often apply it to billions of people who aren't of brown skin. In the same manner, I've seen Americans in a very thoughtless way refer to, say, Chinese people in China as "minorities", even though a moment's analysis of that phrase would lead anyone with any sense to conclude that the Chinese in China aren't a minority and using a term that applies to the American context in another context is nonsensical. It seems that a lot of what I've said can be boiled down to a lot of people using terminology without thinking about it and what they're saying. I could delve into my issue with the term "African-American", but this comment is long enough already. However, my issue lies in the same vein of meanings and using incorrect words.
@@Statuslock Oh! I forgot to add. I also detest the term "Caucasian" for similar reasons. Most people in the Caucus region aren't white. Using that term to refer to white people is nonsensical. "African-American" bothers me for the same reason. Not everyone in Africa is black and black Americans are certainly not African. Thoughtlessness everywhere!
I love when leftest argue "you hate women creatives" and i get to point at full meta alchemist then they go "you hate women acting" and i get to point at aliens lol
Some people are always looking for something to bitch and cry about, some excuse to claim they're a victim so the world owes them something, some reason to hate on others and try to silence/oppress them under guise of equality and social justice.
Crazy you didn't mention the best ff with female leads ffx-2 with Yuna, Paine, Rikku. I still remember the concert intro fucking amazing. I got the urge to play it now.
I will wait for ff7 rebirth to come out on the pc. I still have to finish ff7 remake then then the other part then the crisis core remake. I play with cheats and mods. I went all out with an all white build with a gigabyte aero oc 4090/ 7800x3d/ 64 gifs of ddr5 ram in the white phanteks nv7 case. The pc is a beast and I make sure to clean it monthly. I am currently playing gran blue relink with cheats and mods.
The person working on the next Mass Effect Storyline is a woman, and her works is amazing! These people who think it is just going to be white men know nothing about about people with great skills.
TL;DR - Video games and fantasy are video games and FANTASY. The audiences they reach have absolutely nothing to do with skin color or cultural background and they never have. Your game/story either sucks or it doesn't. Period.
No one can explain what was on my mind better than you did sir. I have a huge collection of video-games, mostly older from the age of the SNES, and up to the 64. I am hispanic, and many of my games do not have any heroes, sidekicks, or even npc's who are hispanic. And even if no game of mine did, I would not have it any other way. People need to stop adding their 2 cents about games being better with their race, gender, religion, or whatever other bs they wanna add in about their lifestyle no one cares about. When I play games, I play to forget about all that garbage being shoved in my face. These games need to be launched with everything the developers originally had in mind, without having some idiot tell them to add in more of this race, or less attractive females like the ones out there complaining, or adding censors for fruity pebbles if the game was meant to violent, or graphic, or anything adult themed to begin with. Don't get me wrong, I support diversity, But not over quality when it comes to video-games. It's one thing to fight to be accepted when you are different, and another trying to force others to be like you or live the way you do.
TL;DR Black Girl Gamers: People don't like characters for the stories they experience and what they stand for in their struggle, obviously. People just want to see characters that look like them having the egotrip of kicking ass, especially the ass of everyone else who isn't just like them! Therefore, I present a character with a dark skin tone that surely will be a bigger hit than anyone ever made before! Literally Everyone Else: Um, we don't really care what a character looks like, just what they- Black Girl Gamers: OBJECTION! YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY A BIGOT! AND IF YOU DONT AGREE, THEN THAT MAKES YOU A RACIST! I'm still struggling to understand why companies felt the need to reject their tried and true sales models and replace them with consulting firms in the first place. I mean, anyone can bullshit that they're a stand in for whatever skin color, but only writers and story tellers can write and tell stories. And on top of that, plugging issues from our world into a fantasy world that doesn't have our problems makes the characters representing those issues completely out of place and the story bad. Imagine if Chip N Dale's Rescue Rangers were the main characters of a DBZ story. It wouldn't make since. Now imagine those same characters spending most of their screen time preaching about rodent empowerment while trying to bite at Vageta's ankles. The audience would assume anything but the 4 if em getting stepped on makes no sense in context of the expected story. So when the consulting firm that put them in the story in the first place cries, "That's Rodentist!" it just makes the firm seem the bigot and racist for even demanding everyone agree with them in the first place. Eff that noise.
Final Fantasy 16 is a great example of Diversity. It had an openly gay man as a big part of the Game's story and nobody screamed "woke" and the reason? He's a fleshed out, well written character with flaws and emotions. His sexuality is only one part of the entire package of who he is. Nobody is mad about "Diversity" we are mad about FORCED Diversity
I'm so glad didn't "go woke" but I also really hate the changes they made and all the meta multiverse crap that has no place in FFVII and fact death means nothing in a game that's supposed to be about death and loss and mistakes being made and growing from them and none of that is in their "new vision" of FFVII
As a black man, Frey's crass dialogue, annoying personality, and unlikable opinions are what many brothas have to put up with. From relatives, girls in the neighborhood and female peers at school. I don't wanna have to put up with that in my videogames too. I'm glad that the consulting company Black Girls Gamers wrote her dialogue. Because it reveals something they won't admit. If you say black women act and speak like Frey you hear ''not all'' or ''that's a negative racist stereotype.'' Why would a group of black women write dialogue that portrays the negative stereotypes? If say white writers did it, it would be considered racist. Black women did it, and the people that didn't like it are being called racist.
Sweet Baby Pink will be out of business in less than 10 years. Their name is an Albatross Around the Neck of the Gaming Industry, now. That's a GOOD THING!!
FF7 and FF8 are the best, still from 27+ years ago. I'm sick of them ruining our games. I like My generations games kept original, especially in the story. If we PlayStation fans can't have our PlayStation games the way we like it, then Nintendo they should no longer be able to have and Mario over and over again, and Sega should no longer be able to have Sonic. After this were going to focus on getting rid of the gaming world completely unless they keep our remakes original storyline and plot. The word woke is too obsolete, it was used in the 1930s era, not in the 1990s, we didn't use words like this as it is not modern times.
Dont really need to explain yourself or anything else to racists whose name (black girl gamers) shows you all that you need to know about how obsessed they are with skin color, nor will explaining it to them make them less racist in their world views in the future. Some people are simply obsessed with skin color.
You can see a lot of ESG on the npcs of both remake and rebirth, even more so with Rebirth, where sadly it seems most towns are filled with drug addicts.
When companies prove over and over they cant handle their own products, they should stfu about others. SB's games are trashfires filled with woke vomit.
It’s Japanese characters with two black characters, 2 white characters and some talking animals, how much more diverse can you get. Want diversity, create your own IPs.
Great video! One correction about One Piece though. Luffy is ethnically Latino, so as a Latino fan myself, I thought that was an awesome bonus. But I will admit, even if he was Japanese like most anime characters, it wouldn't change the quality of the story for me at all, which at the end of the day is just another lesson that no matter what the character is, the story should first and foremost take precedence.
People who only have hammers see every problem as a nail. If you are looking for a problem you can probably find a connection in a big fantasy game. They're comparing a new title to one with a decades long fanbase already established? That's what you call a false dichotomy. Also, games require good gameplay, writing, graphics, and characters...if even one of these is terrible it can tank a whole game having nothing to do with anything else. Stop being assholes. Also- calling racism when your whole company is racist by default is a shit move. Stop it.
The bottom line is simple , make a fun game that everyone can enjoy and it will do well . BG3 , HD 2 , Palworld , Enshrouded , Last Epoch , Pacific drive . What's the common thread all these games have ? THEY'RE FUN TO PLAY !!!! At least according to the reviews I've read and the abundance of sales they've done .
(3:43) Had no idea another 1 of those "consulting" firms Black Girl Gamers (intersectionality 100%) sabotaged Forspoken. It's a shame because the world and particle effects look decent but the protagonist's running mouth was the main turn off. this firm should be added to the Steam curator.
I’m an Arab from the Middle East and I’m so in love with ff7, it’s my childhood game, Midgar is like my hometown, there’s 0 representation for me in ff7 (or in any game for that matter lol) but I don’t need it because it’s the game world and story that I fell in love with
never heard of forspoken. shocking how woke culture is completely screwing everything. someone always needs something to complain about, they just cant be happy gaming and enjoying the story devs create for us
It's pretty clear that you should never try to please people who never play your game or really care at all. They probably care about people who want to listen to their voice or just want to ruin everything just because some people enjoy good entertainment and wonderful worlds to explore in video games.
I dont know what these people think, empowering consumers? If we gamers dont buy the game you wont even exist. The only reason of gaming studios to exist is for our entertainment only.
Wonder if Square Enix can give Cloud can date with Male characters then canonically be in relationship with Tifa or Aerith? Remember Assassin's Creed Odyssey? The game gives your character a choice to be what orientation you like but the DLC Legacy of the First Blade ends with MC being straight
I worked for a few of these game companies in the mid 90s in the SF Bay Area, including Sony when the PS1 launched. The game industry, even back then, was heavily staffed with people that you’d now call “woke” Sorry to pull the curtain back. These people have always been there, they’re just more and more empowered the last 10 years. No idea about Japan, but my guess is that most of the westerners that have gone to Japan to work in the games biz over there, are also woke af.
Black guy here once i tried to power up in my room by yelling so loud that my brother and sister came in the room to see what wrong with me. when they saw me they roasted me for years afterwards.LMAO I completely stand with you on this. Skin color doesnt matter ESPECIALLY when its comes to cool stuff like Anime and Video games
When politics and identity politics are more important the game deflopment. 1 it doesnt matter what color protagonist is if it's forced diversity it will ruin the game becouse game focuses more on that skin color not the game. 2 every one who demands diversity in games do not even play video games they just want to push they ideology to others.
It's never enough you can't appease these people fellas.
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I wouldn't know since I've never tried.
Woke need to be illegal
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Sweet Baby Inc. Being attached to anything in the gaming industry is a sign of immediate death in game sales
I will never buy anything they touch
@@karndorbad6536I try my best not to.
Even GameMill are bad as they are basically today's LJN where they contract developers into making bad video games. A developer said the guys were rushed by GameMill to make the King Kong game in a year.
the worst part, most Industry NOT rejecting what they want. Accept it without doubt, thinking it will make a huge profit.
Instant blacklist for me. Consulting company such as Sweet Baby Inc is both a sham and a scam.
These woke journalists losing their jobs is pure sweetness. Absolute joy
I generally don't champion ppl lose their jobs, but the woke weirdos? I GLADLY make an exception for them!
They cheer on when people they don't like get fired. Turnabout is fair play.
Made they should learn to code
SKIP WOKE ACTIVISTS.
It's pure sweetness especially when they call us racists and bigots. They deserve to lose their jobs if they are going to criticize us for hating their woke crap.
98% FF fans love the game care about the characters.
2% shames females and the age of the characters.
Game company: "Let's listen to the 2%."
It's them DEI/ESG corporate points who they really listen to.
No way in hell there's as much as 2% of them.
Honestly it's probably more like 99.9% vs .1%
💯%
Idk even know why companies listen to them. They're not good long term customers(not that they buy anything) because their mental illness gives them high rates of self deletion
Sweet baby == death of originality, creativity, financial gains, employee's, employers, and art.
Why then such organisation has so much influence? Do we really live in dystopia?
Yes
Sweet baby == feminist frequency + critical racist theory
Sweet Baby == people trying hard to make their useless sociology degrees work
Sweet Baby really showing what is "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
When they sense that those junk thinking have the power to destory dissident live and even kill someone life. They enjoy it feel superior. Now they are mind dictator. Junk game ingredient.
I'm Hispanic. Used to swing big sticks around pretending I was cloud fighting off the baddies. Didn't bother me that cloud didn't look like me, I never even thought about it. The thought "I can't be cloud, I'm brown" never crossed my mind.
As a kid I never really even thought about skin color, it was all either "cool dude" or "uncool dude" to me.
Dudes from all allround the world when they see Kratos: "Yeah i want to be like that dude for real!"
I’m a woman, south east asian descent but was such a huge final fantasy fan. I didn’t care if Cloud was white, blonde and a man. I still ran around with a stick pretending to BE Cloud as a wee lass. 💀
Don’t cross your mind bc you’re strong in who you are. You respect the character given. What we’re dealing with is weakness becoming the norm
@@Jokoko2828 Yep, Same here!
Barrett isn’t an awesome character just because he’s black. He’s an awesome character because he’s a dad, has flaws and character development, and he has a fucking gatling gun for a hand.
Simon in the Dungeons and Dragons movie wasn’t cool because he was Black. He was cool because he had a character arc. He had insecurities stemming from his family legacy that he had to overcome.
No he's an awesome character simply.... because he's an awesome character. It never needs to be explained.
also his name is the original name for the first model of gatling guns from the 19th century
@@yagamijubei28 That explains why he has a Gatling gun in place of his hand.
@@zildog Don’t lie now. Having a gatling gun for a hand is pretty awesome.
It isn't about them having representation, it is about them having supremacy.
Fuck them and their representation. Games and movies have no place for this woke bullshit. IT'S ALL MAKE BELIEVE.
Agreed. I would take it one step further and say that 'representati0n' doesn't matter. Talent matters.
“Woke” ideology is racist.
"Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good" -- Archbishop Charles J Chaput
Indeed.
Fans: Enjoying the game, story and their characters because of their personality.
Woke: Angry about the game they didn't even buy or play.
They can’t buy games cause they don’t have jobs because something something patriarchy
I mean I've seen tons of our side screaming "I'm gonna boycott" and "canceled my pre order" over the addition of fabric to the 16 yr old Tifa model like perverts so... I feel like everything is over blown on all sides. But I do agree with most of what your saying.
@@IamKiener This. People pushing for 16 year old Tifa's cleavage to be exposed is just... wrong. And the excuse they always give is like those into Lolicon: "BuT iT iSnT rEaL".
And yes, I looked it up, Lolicon is defined even in Japan as ACTUAL underaged girls being sexualized in anime.
They're not rioting because they're perverts that just wanna stare at boobs, they are mad because they paid for product only for said product to be tampered with and changed without reason, notice and without thinking about the consumer. @@IamKiener
@@CommanderRedEXE finaly another reasonably minded person. I've been saying this as well. It's gross. I'm the farthest thing from woke and I find it disturbing to say the least. It's wild how many people have attacked me for not being a pervert and speaking out against this nonesense.
I became a gamer in the mid 80's. Never once has gender, race or even species been a consideration in the games I played or purchased. The entire concept that this mentality even exists is ludicrous.
Right? We played anything that stood still long enough. An several games we didn't even see the protagonist - not to mention the ones we were aliens, spirits, robots...
I'm a gamer since the 90's. I never cared for it. If they do the character justice, and have a good plot with character development. I don't care which colors the character has.
You don't care about the color but there is still racism in our real live...
@@la_engineer so what?
It's because having diversity and inclusion in a product makes it valid for ESG investments from big institutional investors.
I find it ridiculous that the environmental guidelines, like reducing pollution, which is undeniably a target worth aiming for, is thrown together in the same pot as forcing racial diversity in video games.
We don’t need “Black representation in gaming.” What we need are good games.
Im surprised they didnt retcon Barret's back story to be about slavery.
@@AmorFati777X Whyv would they? That’s not the basis for his back story. Only an incompetent liberal leftist would modify it to that.
If this is enough to make journalists have a meltdown, then Christ I can't imagine what they will say about Stellar Blade
Definitely they gonna cry🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's gonna be woke journalgeddon 😂😂😂
I know what my wallet's going to say about Stellar Blade. 😆
HUGE AMMOUNT OF COPE AND TEARS
Stellar blade is going to be GOOD lol
Gamers need to unite and kick out wokeness from our games.
Good luck with that! They tolerate woke games like GOW: Ragnarok as well as Baldur's Gate 3! I think gamers have been compromised...
No the traitors among us will be exposed stand vast brothers we can do this. Sweetbaby has declared war against you your beliefs and your very existence.
Jesus Christ, the replies are hilarious. You realize companies can make games, and you have a different belief system than you, right? Sound exactly like the people you despise so much.
Gamer's need to unite and Vote MAGA. I didn't get into politics until I was 30, so I understand too many even college-age gamers can be idiots that only see one aspect of this issue...that will still decry Donald Trump because the Mainstream Media decrees it. Young naive gamers need to get a GRIP on the true political atmosphere of the West and VOTE Politically and Capitalistically.
And Women.
If I find out that Sweet Baby Inc. is involved in anything, I refuse to buy it. I’m done letting this nonsense slide.
I now look at the list of Sweet Baby's clients.
They have a website that shows all the games they were a part of.
Imagine having to pay a consultation group to make sure your product isn't sexist or racist. The world is insane
@@tomalphonso What's puzzling Sweet Baby and Black Girl Gamers involvement in Forspoken. The dialogue and behaviors of Frey are many of the things black women often say are negative and racist stereotypes that hurt black women. The founder of Sweet Baby is also a black woman are they inadvertently admitting the stereotype is accurate? Wouldn't that go against everything these wokies claim they stand for?
Agreed!
A game that wasn't about representation, Final Fantasy 7: has a Proud Black Father, a Furry, a Vampire, a Female Martial Artist, a Female Ninja, a Female Planetary Prophet and a Male Soldier who was subjected to bio-engineering experiments by a greedy planet killing company. The whole game was representation AND pro-environmentalism done well. Yet, a game that was all about representation Forspoken: had a character that was a racist caricature of a New York black girl: Poor, Criminal, Gang banger. And then in the game, they force you to value money over a pet cat's life. In the other world, she was hyper-racist in a world not her own. Games MADE for representation fail, again and again, at doing what they were intended for: Fair and diverse representations.
But they censored it all the same in various ways.. and sweet baby was involved with its development for 1 and 2. So this explains why there was so much politically correct garbage in the first game and why Tifa was the only one out of the cast that got a woke overhaul.
That's not what they really want tho. They really want to erase all white characters and add pretty much every other race with a side of homosexuality.
Where did you value money over the cat?
You get the cat first and lose the money. iirc.
was forspoken really about representation? first time i've heard that... feels like you're just kinda making stuff up in your head to justify it's not capitalism trying to market towards none white people now they have money like they've always marketed to white people.
the heroes are straight up terrorists... have you ever realised that? doesn't that kinda turn the og game into like supporting extremism?@@Jack_InnaBox
11:47 - This resonates with me.
I'm a (light skinned) black guy in my 40s. I'm mistaken for Hispanic on occasion.
As a kid, I was:
He-Man - blonde buff barbarian.
Megaman - a Japanese robot
Tygra - a freakin' Thudercat
Link - a blonde-hair, blue-eyed elf
Cecil Harvey - a silver-haired knight/Paladin
Batman/Spiderman - since I would stealth my way around the house when I wanted to and climb up on anything.
Sonic - a speedy blue hedgehog (since I could actually run substantially quicker than anyone at school or in the neighborhood)
Goku - since I got my hands on some weighted wrist/leg sets and was training; I'd go Super Saiyan one of those days for sure.
The list goes on.
Growing up, I didn't give a second thought to the color of a character's skin or even if they were human. If I liked a character enough, my imagination let me become them in my mind. It was fun and I think it helped me to really enjoy the characters and their stories more. These people that are strangely hellbent on inserting themselves and beliefs completely into fictional characters and stories (then getting mad when they get rejected) need to find something else to do with their time and lives. Basing a character and story completely around some identity-related concept is boring. I don't live and define my life primarily identifying myself as a light skinned black man... so a game, movie, etc touting a light skinned black man as XYZ is neither here nor there as something to attract me to said game, movie, etc.
every kid did this,(or at least should have imo) it's part of being a kid, but sadly the left doesn't want kids to retain their innocents they wanna force their twisted ideology onto children, when i was a kid, after watching new episode of star wars: the clone wars i HAD to play with my Light Sabers , and try to act or in some chases completely make up my own star wars like scenes. and when plug my xbox 360 in and play lego star wars or the force unleashed i was fully immersed into the world, to me i was star killer.
Yes, we can become who we want to be in our imagination. It doesn't matter if we look like them or not. I feel like these whiners lack the imagination and couldn't picture out that "representation" in games or any other media doesn't really matter as long as you connect with it in a deeper level.
Remember Sweet Baby is an automatic dealbreaker folks!
Hear, hear! 👏 Amen to that!
Yep, if a company hires them, I won't buy their game. I'm done with their nonsense.
Full and automatic blacklist. I will never buy or play anything they are involved with.
How do I do that?
Shout out to the Steam Curator for the new feat that filters out woke garbage in video games. He's a freaking G. Respect.🗣️📢💯📈⬆️
People need to know that curator is not the a "search mod", just a basic feature which can help to choose what to buy.
Following a curator is no magic. :D
JUST MAKING HOT 🔥 GARBAGE ALOT ENTERTAINMENT 🗑🗑🗑🗑📈🗑🗑🗑🗑
How do I look for that curator?
@@tabaflip Store -> your store -> Steam curators
Sounds like The Critical Drinker of gaming. Who is this curator and how can I follow him?
Remember when gaming journalists asked if the game was entertaining enough?
Remember when they actually played the games before starting to give their opinions?
Nope. Can't remember a time they weren't just sponsored advertising. It just so happens the sponsors are now telling them to say pandering is good instead of simply shilling the games.
Activists and activism sucks.
@@dony2852 90s Game Informer was the shit. They couldn't call PS1 and N64 graphics bad so they purely had to go by how ganeplay was, were freely able to rat on even the biggest companies for mistakes, and generally were just gamers making a magazine.
This isn't a problem with gaming journalists .... it's an academic and societal problem with the pedagogy of ALL journalists. It's a problem that we've allowed ALL journalism to be financially incentivized on per click ad revenue -- the field has become an unwinnable popularity contest. No one is trained in investigative journalism ... journalistic integrity as an idea is a joke now... young people are trained in social critical theory and activism. it's just labeled 'journalism' and they think they're one in the same. Just like there is no such (valid) thing as 'activist science' .... there is no 'activist journalism' .... that's just propaganda
Journalism today is just cherry-picking situations out of the ether and warping contexts so that you have occasion to proselytize for your own subjective sense of morality or cause.
Exactly! FFXVI’s world is based on the historical accuracy of the regions of the world in our Human History.
History is racist. Accuracy is racist.
@@MenorahdudeIs that an attempt at dry condescending humor?
I am yet to hear a single good argument why representation is inherently good.
Representation is fucking great. Forced representation on the other hand has brought us here...
@@PakiBlinders _Representation is fucking great._
Again, not an argument. What is so great about it? Why is it supposedly good?
Representation was already employed in the original FF7, so if you support this video, you support representation. Like the other guy said, its the forced representation with financial intent that is evil. These people manipulate good intentions for selfish gains, that is objectively evil, and we should check on that. We should NOT go on a holy crusade though... Because then were back to having to pick between two shit sandwiches.
@@PakiBlinders Why?
As a Christian Conservative-a demographic horribly underrepresented in video games-I would like to know why representation in of itself is, in your own words, "fucking great".
I have one
If they don’t the FIB can’t use it as a back door to watch what you say
Come on think about the poor poor FIB 😢
Sweet Baby Inc has done ONE thing right. It sahows us to never support whoever they're working with and what they're working on.
They got laid off cause they’re wokist, get rekted.
As for Rebirth, after what they did to the remake (4 years later!) I don’t trust them on Rebirth.
I'm curious about the remake, but I'm gonna play the original first once I finish FF4, 5, and 6.
@@LunarSpiral1127 yeah fair enough I’m cool with that
Woke culture was cancelled for being anti - quality.
I mean, all rebirth did was add fabric to 16 year old Tifa's chest to cover it slightly more. Fabric is visible in the PS1 version during the same flashback.
@@CommanderRedEXEI mean, it was fine for 4 years but it's not anymore?
Square needs to hold the line and not bend the knee to these woke journos. It will kill the remake series dead in its tracks
Sorry but Harvestella was a very woke game of theirs. They've already bent the knee. All we can hope is they do a 180.
Unfortunately, a square is made of 4 bends.
God willing, this is them testing the waters of public sentiment before opting to keep or ditch ESG for good.
Its about their Director i think
just like how Yoko Taro and Hideo Kojima stick with their game plan
no matter what happens to the Studio or Publisher
that is how Yoko Taro no making another game for now
and that is why Hideo Kojima leave capcom and making their own studio
@@SheaSyzHideo Kojima was in KONAMI, not CAPCOM. lol
I’m 40 and I still try turning into a Super Saiyan.. was even my soccer goal celebration lol
All you need is to feel tingling in your back. Then boom. SUPA SAIA-JIN!
haha glad to know im not the only one 😅
Never cared about representation and most of my entertainment comes from Japan, Korea, and China. I am not expecting or thinking about why there are no or not enough black people in them. I am more worried about if the MC is going to get strong enough to save his mother from an eternal sleep risking his life against monsters from another world. Or why doesn't the other adventurers see that goblins are the most dangerous kind of monster against the Kingdom. Or cheering on the MC to get in shape and get revenge on the bullies of his school. Too much to worry about. Don't have time to worry about representation and don't care.
Sweet baby inc. Should make games about ancient South Africa, a RPG Tribes.
Having a Sweet Baby tag is like having an LJN rainbow on your box in the 90's. The kiss of death.
Super underrated analogy 😂😂😂
Make sweet baby the bud light of gaming, there's already a PC extension that warns you if SB was involved in your game so you don't waste your time or money.
AWESOME! Less GOOOOOOO!
What's the name of it
What is a "PC extension"?
A curator name sweet baby inc detected will warn you if sweetbaby was involved.
I need the name of the extension
"People hate black characters in games"
Meanwhile, everyone got hype for Idris Elba in Cyberpunk.
Eddy Gordo for Tekken 8, although not as true a statement, but many people believe that out of ignorance lol
Where's the outcry that Forspoken didn't have enough Japanese representation in it?
Exactly. They complain about diversity but if they made an all black game they wouldn't think twice about representation.
I'm currently 46hrs into Rebirth and they didn't really censor anything nor is anything woke. The game has blown me away, and everyone should give it a shot.
I've had a blast with it so far.
@@bobbyosborne2375 129hrs in and it's a strong GOTY candidate. No idea what else could rival it this year. Once you finish the game, there's some awesome fanservice unlocked.
I'm currently in the middle of deciphering the puzzle. Clearly the desperate need to be "represented" is a massive disconnect from normal empathy where they can't understand anything that isn't themselves. The part I'm snagged on is that these same people claim to be demigods in the art of empathy, so what is it they're actually feeling when they describe being empathetic? What definition did they corrupt for this one?
They don't care about any of that, it's all about control.
@@Menorahdude yep, I would have to agree.
The representation, is a cover for censoring stuff you like,
as a bonus it spreads the message.
AFAICT, they really get off on causing pain, and destroying your stuff
It is fake empathy. To be empathetic you need to actually care about and consider other people's feelings. What these people actually do is care about how they present themselves to the people on their "side". And then they can circle jerk each other with "oh, I added representation into this franchise!" but the people who they should be considering and caring for (their target audience) don't get a good product, because the "product" is always second to the "message". "Representation" is just a way to seem like they are empathetic (which they probably actually believe so it is delusion) while also getting praised for the excellent work they do.
I often wonder if the people were to conform for the sake of bigotry, how far would this all go? Like lets say everyone said their pronouns and even youtubers open up with pronouns, then what? Would pronouns be enough? No. Methinks they will just keep adding more, act butthurt, but enjoying the power they are given.
Oh absolutely. We know this because of what happened in the philm indwstry. That's the wanted end result.
Too bad the wanted end results leads to massive €conomic depreciation.
This is *EXACTLY* why people are told not to apologize to the woke mob. They get their power when you bend the knee.
The true endgame is simply to not have white people exist anymore. That has always been the ultimate goal of which all of this nonsense boils down to. But until that point happens, it'll literally never be enough, no matter how many back-bending concessions are made.
They won't stop until everything is LITERALLY a wasteland.
They don't want people to conform
They want people to reject them so they can be angry and fight against something
I am black and I’m wearing an anime shirt right now, and I also have anime stickers all over my car. Lol
I really can't decide whether the biggest problem is a failure of communication or a failure of imagination. I think we might be living in a time of BOTH. Not to be a doomsayer... but we really are doomed aren't we?
Please keep doing what you're doing Endymion, your sober commentary may depress me, but your clever turn of phrase often emits a chuckle as the tears fall. MANY more game execs need to find your channel.
Both ff7 and berserk came out in 1997 and they both are known for their big ass swords. No other thing besides bleach has come out with a iconic character with a huge sword at least to my knowledge anyway.
Make Tifa's Mommy Milkers Great Again
What makes FF7 so good imo is how relatable the cast is once you get a look behind the facade they put up on first meeting them.
Take the magic and weapons away, and they are all people who life beat down one way or another, and you’re likely to have felt something similar to them at some point in your life.
Technically, the 'Yakuza' series was always 'Like a Dragon' in Japan. With the 7th(8th) game, they merely sync'd up the branding between East and West.
As a blk man.. I agree blk representaion is a choice... As is buying games not of my particular culture. And it has never been a problem... Side note I do find it annoying when they just slap some brown on an obvious Japanese person... 😂
I was in Shibuya Tokyo 2/29. A short Sephiroth ad took over 4-5 giant building screens for 10 seconds. Was pretty cool.
About the plane tickets to Wakanda. To put things into perceptive the cost guard got many calls asking them to save the people on Gilligan's Island when it became a show.
Told you all this shit would happen. We have a buchered story, butchered character designs and a normal sized rpg story being sold at 70-80 a pop and it aint gonna be all wrapped up in a single game. You know that they reduced her chest size after removing the censor from the initial reveal right?
What a tragedy
@@henrytownshend6441 totally, i agree.
The original game was three disks. The remake was going to be three parts. One per disk. They've expanded upon what was in each disk quite a bit.
Y'all being hyper-critical over some stupid shit just like the wokies.
Next you'll say extra fabric on underaged Tifa's chest is wrong too, smh.
Did they just reduce her breast size today? I played last night and they were definitely not reduced.
@@CommanderRedEXE the game was three disks with the exception of FF7 Remake not being disk one, or even a full 25% of disk one.. it was Midgar, an extended stay in the first area of the game. It was even its tagline "Return to Midgar". Rebirth is attempting to merge disk 1 and events from remake together with the third crappy entry attempting to merge everything else in from disk 2, 3 and concluding the Remake time travel story. Its a Cluster DUCK. You cannot even deny that lmao.
Fans and customers are the most important in earning money and love. Never insult them nor lie about them.
True, they are being drive to it because most investors are making investment choices based on ESG scores.
The incentive to invest in higher DEI and ESG scores is killing a lot of companies that don't want anything to do with it. They need the money from investors to do anything, so they have to bend the knee.
As a gay latino man myself I DESPISE woke bs in my games. I want GOOOD WELL MADE GAMES! I dont want to be pandered to it’s fucking insulting ! Make a good game and write good story with nuanced character development. I’m not going to like a game more just because the main character has darker skin tone or is some woke PoS. If anything these days I’ll probably avoid it because I’m gonna assume it’s a woke garbage game
Hey stop being bigoted towards yourself or I will be super offended on your behalf!
so true, these agendas are doing the opposite of what they are setting out to do, I have never once in the past cared about someone's race or sexuality, but these days when I see it, I just assume its a red flag for woke agendas and i avoid. So now we have moved from a point of place where I couldn't care less about seeing strong women, black people, diversity etc, to now i see it as a sign to not buy and avoid an agenda being shoved down my throat as I pay for it.
Endy!
Collab video with Cyael.
You two will CONQUER.
3:08 Seriously? They think the protag was why Forspoken failed? You could have changed the protag to be exactly what they think the "racist" fans wanted and it still wouldn't have sold. A game isn't good or bad based on the race of the main character. That isn't a factor when judging how fun a game is.
The race of Frey wouldn't have mattered one bit if that's the only change that was done. Her character was shit, her banter with cuff was awful and the story was terrible. The combat and movement were the only fun things about it. It was only after I changed the dialogue the japanese that I could get through Frey speaking.
Love the new Sweet Baby detector on Steam!
Thanks for apreading the word about the Steam curator. Cant wait to get hhome and join it.
Hopefully it blows up!
Dunno what they're mad at. The bad guy is white, with the whitest hair ever........
Maybe it's the size of his sword.
Not me being a Hispanic man absolutely obsessed with naruto 🫡😅
You don't know! It can still work! I'm not going grey, I'm going Super Saiyan slowly because I've been stuck training at this lousy 1.0 x gravity for the last 30 years!
Hot take. People that want have a problem with seeing white people in media…are insecure.
Boom. Stereotypes exist for a reason. If you hate the stereotype your culture has and wish to change it by forcing others to artificially change it by ESG portrayal in media, forcing cultural diversity, and want to force quotas, it means you are afraid of your own skin color and the heritage it holds/doesn’t hold. AkA, insecurity.
I’m Mexican btw. All races have bad things. More specifically all races have a history or heritage that carries baggage. Because it’s not about race. It’s about the fact that we are human and imperfect, and no race category can climb above that fact.
True wisdom
If these people didnt represent game journalists, they would be seen as a tiny lunatic fringe to be completely ignored.
Whenever someone blames racism or misoginy for a media failure, i immediately lose all respect i have for that person. The gaming community needs organic representation of black people, not representation at all cost and just for the sake of it.
I will never buy any game which has Sweet Baby Inc attached to it.
I hate it for anyone who would lose their livelihood, especially those caught in the cross fire of this culture war, however it's undeniable that some of the best games ever released came from small indie developers, full of heart and passion for their project. Absolute bangers from teams 20 people or less, maybe these companies failing and the people losing their jobs will be enough to rattle the fools at the top who continue to crawl in bed with these ridiculous DEI companies.
Sounds like yall are using Sweet Baby to draw attention away from Sony over censoring FF7 again. Sweet Baby didn't have involvement in FF7 Rebirth other than by proxy.
Can’t believe they wanted a minor to have less revealing clothing! So woke of them.
It’s a great game, and do what you want with your money, and maybe don’t try and shame people for enjoying something you don’t. Doing the same thing the people you despise do
A black tank top added to the original remake in a 10 second clip of Tifa “ohh noo soo much censoring” 😂😂😂
@@gilbertoarellano8525 Honestly its the fact they had to spend time to do it in the first place.
@@RichyDojo in rebirth she is wearing the black tank top under her shirt so they updated the original remake to match her outfit in rebirth, that’s it. They didn’t reduce her breast size or anything like that, they actually made her breast bigger in rebirth compared to remake.
It was pointless censorship. That's the problem. Tifa didn't need an undershirt and her flashback outfit didn't need to be censored. I'm not going to defend that with you guys.
This is blackmail, pure and simple. "Give us money so we can ruin your game, or we will try to ruin your reputation, publicly." Scummy people.
Remember the CRYSIS trilogy? The protagonist was called "Prophet" and he was super badass, not cuz he was black, but because he wore the crysis battlesuit and kicked some serious Aliens ass, the graphics was also top notch for its days (2013) much better than suicide squad. I am afraid we have to go back instead of forwards
I'm 40 and still try going super saiyan 😅
I detest the term "brown people." What on earth does that even mean? Up to now, no one's managed to give me a proper explanation. It's such a peculiar term because it seems like nobody's quite sure who it's supposed to encompass. Is it just anyone who's not black or white? If that's the case, do Chinese, Japanese, etc., get lumped into the "brown" category? Really? And what about white Argentinians or white Latin-Americans-are they "brown" just because they're from countries not deemed "Western"? There are people in the Middle East with blonde hair, blue eyes, and white skin (let's not forget, that's where white people originate from). Are they "brown" too? Like, seriously, who the heck does this term actually refer to? I find the term as nonsensical as "African-American," if not more so.
It's a play off Color law/black christian codes. Even black's law dictionary defines black/white as a social status, not a race. Example, if you look up "white freeman", it'll say that it is in no way the "caucasian" race, but apploes to citizens who have been granted sovereignty from their own nation, and it'll list countries from Africa/Europe/Asia ect, that gives their citizens sovereignty. Which reminds me, back in the early 2010s, there was a man from africa who was pissed because his passport called him white lmao. He didn't get it, clearly.
P.S. The term "African-American" didn't exist till 1985, suggested by reverend Jackson. Before that, they were using the term "Afro-American", but they didn't like that either, they would say stuff like "I dont even have an afro..." lmao
My apologies, let me be more clear. The term "brown people" exists to expand on the illusion of "black/white" people being a race.
@@Statuslock Hmm, I'm not quite clear on what you're getting at, but perhaps you've misunderstood my original comment.
First off, I'm not a leftist nor do I share any beliefs with them. I believe in the concept of race. I think races are a spectrum since it's not clear where one ends and another begins, but it's easy for anyone to observe that people of different races are different, and there's plenty of evidence to back that up as well. Whites and blacks are very distinct groups of people visually, and it's not only about skin colour. A black albino still has black facial features, and the same goes for a white person with an extreme tan. I don't understand why some people think that race is only about skin colour when that's evidently nonsense.
I wasn't making a statement about the concept of race per se; my statement concerns the use of words. It makes no sense to me to lump billions of very different-looking people into one category that doesn't describe them well. Having observed the people who use the phrase "brown people", they often apply it to billions of people who aren't of brown skin. In the same manner, I've seen Americans in a very thoughtless way refer to, say, Chinese people in China as "minorities", even though a moment's analysis of that phrase would lead anyone with any sense to conclude that the Chinese in China aren't a minority and using a term that applies to the American context in another context is nonsensical.
It seems that a lot of what I've said can be boiled down to a lot of people using terminology without thinking about it and what they're saying. I could delve into my issue with the term "African-American", but this comment is long enough already. However, my issue lies in the same vein of meanings and using incorrect words.
@@Statuslock Oh! I forgot to add. I also detest the term "Caucasian" for similar reasons. Most people in the Caucus region aren't white. Using that term to refer to white people is nonsensical. "African-American" bothers me for the same reason. Not everyone in Africa is black and black Americans are certainly not African. Thoughtlessness everywhere!
I love when leftest argue "you hate women creatives" and i get to point at full meta alchemist then they go "you hate women acting" and i get to point at aliens lol
Some people are always looking for something to bitch and cry about, some excuse to claim they're a victim so the world owes them something, some reason to hate on others and try to silence/oppress them under guise of equality and social justice.
Crazy you didn't mention the best ff with female leads ffx-2 with Yuna, Paine, Rikku. I still remember the concert intro fucking amazing. I got the urge to play it now.
Where do you find you thumbnail art? I need them for artistic purposes.
I will wait for ff7 rebirth to come out on the pc. I still have to finish ff7 remake then then the other part then the crisis core remake. I play with cheats and mods. I went all out with an all white build with a gigabyte aero oc 4090/ 7800x3d/ 64 gifs of ddr5 ram in the white phanteks nv7 case. The pc is a beast and I make sure to clean it monthly. I am currently playing gran blue relink with cheats and mods.
The person working on the next Mass Effect Storyline is a woman, and her works is amazing! These people who think it is just going to be white men know nothing about about people with great skills.
TL;DR - Video games and fantasy are video games and FANTASY. The audiences they reach have absolutely nothing to do with skin color or cultural background and they never have. Your game/story either sucks or it doesn't. Period.
You mentioning yoko shimumura was awesome! I still bump her Super Mario RPG Soundtrack. Shes been an awesome videogame composer for a long time.
FFVII on psx was a masterpiece.
The remake a box of filth
No one can explain what was on my mind better than you did sir. I have a huge collection of video-games, mostly older from the age of the SNES, and up to the 64. I am hispanic, and many of my games do not have any heroes, sidekicks, or even npc's who are hispanic. And even if no game of mine did, I would not have it any other way. People need to stop adding their 2 cents about games being better with their race, gender, religion, or whatever other bs they wanna add in about their lifestyle no one cares about. When I play games, I play to forget about all that garbage being shoved in my face. These games need to be launched with everything the developers originally had in mind, without having some idiot tell them to add in more of this race, or less attractive females like the ones out there complaining, or adding censors for fruity pebbles if the game was meant to violent, or graphic, or anything adult themed to begin with. Don't get me wrong, I support diversity, But not over quality when it comes to video-games. It's one thing to fight to be accepted when you are different, and another trying to force others to be like you or live the way you do.
TL;DR
Black Girl Gamers: People don't like characters for the stories they experience and what they stand for in their struggle, obviously. People just want to see characters that look like them having the egotrip of kicking ass, especially the ass of everyone else who isn't just like them! Therefore, I present a character with a dark skin tone that surely will be a bigger hit than anyone ever made before!
Literally Everyone Else: Um, we don't really care what a character looks like, just what they-
Black Girl Gamers: OBJECTION! YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY A BIGOT! AND IF YOU DONT AGREE, THEN THAT MAKES YOU A RACIST!
I'm still struggling to understand why companies felt the need to reject their tried and true sales models and replace them with consulting firms in the first place. I mean, anyone can bullshit that they're a stand in for whatever skin color, but only writers and story tellers can write and tell stories.
And on top of that, plugging issues from our world into a fantasy world that doesn't have our problems makes the characters representing those issues completely out of place and the story bad. Imagine if Chip N Dale's Rescue Rangers were the main characters of a DBZ story. It wouldn't make since. Now imagine those same characters spending most of their screen time preaching about rodent empowerment while trying to bite at Vageta's ankles. The audience would assume anything but the 4 if em getting stepped on makes no sense in context of the expected story. So when the consulting firm that put them in the story in the first place cries, "That's Rodentist!" it just makes the firm seem the bigot and racist for even demanding everyone agree with them in the first place. Eff that noise.
Final Fantasy 16 is a great example of Diversity. It had an openly gay man as a big part of the Game's story and nobody screamed "woke" and the reason? He's a fleshed out, well written character with flaws and emotions. His sexuality is only one part of the entire package of who he is. Nobody is mad about "Diversity" we are mad about FORCED Diversity
I'm so glad didn't "go woke" but I also really hate the changes they made and all the meta multiverse crap that has no place in FFVII and fact death means nothing in a game that's supposed to be about death and loss and mistakes being made and growing from them and none of that is in their "new vision" of FFVII
As a black man, Frey's crass dialogue, annoying personality, and unlikable opinions are what many brothas have to put up with. From relatives, girls in the neighborhood and female peers at school. I don't wanna have to put up with that in my videogames too. I'm glad that the consulting company Black Girls Gamers wrote her dialogue. Because it reveals something they won't admit. If you say black women act and speak like Frey you hear ''not all'' or ''that's a negative racist stereotype.'' Why would a group of black women write dialogue that portrays the negative stereotypes? If say white writers did it, it would be considered racist. Black women did it, and the people that didn't like it are being called racist.
As a black man let me tell fellow black people….if you want black representation so bad, make games yourselves! This woke crap is out of comtrol
Sweet Baby Pink will be out of business in less than 10 years. Their name is an Albatross Around the Neck of the Gaming Industry, now.
That's a GOOD THING!!
FF7 and FF8 are the best, still from 27+ years ago. I'm sick of them ruining our games. I like My generations games kept original, especially in the story. If we PlayStation fans can't have our PlayStation games the way we like it, then Nintendo they should no longer be able to have and Mario over and over again, and Sega should no longer be able to have Sonic.
After this were going to focus on getting rid of the gaming world completely unless they keep our remakes original storyline and plot.
The word woke is too obsolete, it was used in the 1930s era, not in the 1990s, we didn't use words like this as it is not modern times.
Dont really need to explain yourself or anything else to racists whose name (black girl gamers) shows you all that you need to know about how obsessed they are with skin color, nor will explaining it to them make them less racist in their world views in the future. Some people are simply obsessed with skin color.
You can see a lot of ESG on the npcs of both remake and rebirth, even more so with Rebirth, where sadly it seems most towns are filled with drug addicts.
When companies prove over and over they cant handle their own products, they should stfu about others. SB's games are trashfires filled with woke vomit.
It’s Japanese characters with two black characters, 2 white characters and some talking animals, how much more diverse can you get. Want diversity, create your own IPs.
Great video! One correction about One Piece though. Luffy is ethnically Latino, so as a Latino fan myself, I thought that was an awesome bonus. But I will admit, even if he was Japanese like most anime characters, it wouldn't change the quality of the story for me at all, which at the end of the day is just another lesson that no matter what the character is, the story should first and foremost take precedence.
People who only have hammers see every problem as a nail. If you are looking for a problem you can probably find a connection in a big fantasy game.
They're comparing a new title to one with a decades long fanbase already established? That's what you call a false dichotomy. Also, games require good gameplay, writing, graphics, and characters...if even one of these is terrible it can tank a whole game having nothing to do with anything else. Stop being assholes.
Also- calling racism when your whole company is racist by default is a shit move. Stop it.
The bottom line is simple , make a fun game that everyone can enjoy and it will do well . BG3 , HD 2 , Palworld , Enshrouded , Last Epoch , Pacific drive . What's the common thread all these games have ? THEY'RE FUN TO PLAY !!!! At least according to the reviews I've read and the abundance of sales they've done .
Awesome content. It's sad that there's a need for such content, but great job articulating what the overwhelming majority of gamers are thinking.
(3:43) Had no idea another 1 of those "consulting" firms Black Girl Gamers (intersectionality 100%) sabotaged Forspoken.
It's a shame because the world and particle effects look decent but the protagonist's running mouth was the main turn off.
this firm should be added to the Steam curator.
I’m an Arab from the Middle East and I’m so in love with ff7, it’s my childhood game, Midgar is like my hometown, there’s 0 representation for me in ff7 (or in any game for that matter lol) but I don’t need it because it’s the game world and story that I fell in love with
never heard of forspoken. shocking how woke culture is completely screwing everything. someone always needs something to complain about, they just cant be happy gaming and enjoying the story devs create for us
Lets not forget the Hero's Journey is near universal
Or the Fool's Journey like the Persona games, just beat Persona 3 Reload
If forespoken didn't have a nonsensical story, it wouldn't matter what race the main char is.
It's pretty clear that you should never try to please people who never play your game or really care at all. They probably care about people who want to listen to their voice or just want to ruin everything just because some people enjoy good entertainment and wonderful worlds to explore in video games.
I dont know what these people think, empowering consumers? If we gamers dont buy the game you wont even exist. The only reason of gaming studios to exist is for our entertainment only.
Not Everyone gives 2 Sh*TS about DIVERSITY in FANTASY!!! We Do Not Care!! 😒
Wonder if Square Enix can give Cloud can date with Male characters then canonically be in relationship with Tifa or Aerith?
Remember Assassin's Creed Odyssey?
The game gives your character a choice to be what orientation you like but the DLC Legacy of the First Blade ends with MC being straight
I worked for a few of these game companies in the mid 90s in the SF Bay Area, including Sony when the PS1 launched.
The game industry, even back then, was heavily staffed with people that you’d now call “woke”
Sorry to pull the curtain back. These people have always been there, they’re just more and more empowered the last 10 years.
No idea about Japan, but my guess is that most of the westerners that have gone to Japan to work in the games biz over there, are also woke af.
Black guy here once i tried to power up in my room by yelling so loud that my brother and sister came in the room to see what wrong with me. when they saw me they roasted me for years afterwards.LMAO I completely stand with you on this. Skin color doesnt matter ESPECIALLY when its comes to cool stuff like Anime and Video games
When politics and identity politics are more important the game deflopment.
1 it doesnt matter what color protagonist is if it's forced diversity it will ruin the game becouse game focuses more on that skin color not the game.
2 every one who demands diversity in games do not even play video games they just want to push they ideology to others.