The minute I saw lex luthor of all people praise Wonder Woman of all people in suicide squad for going against "toxic masculinity" when lex would never say that and she is the only character in the game that's treated with respect while the male characters on her team are all disrespected who comes from an Amazonian world thats dominated by women who hate men It helped me realize that its not toxic masculinity we should be worried about, its toxic femenitity
When I saw that, It was clear to me that it was the woke directors & writiers echoing their thoughts on how they feel bout men. No way in hell would Lex Luthor would praise wonder woman & look up to her.
In Amazon lore they were cannibals. even in wonder woman lore they would enslave m3n or delete them. In real amazon lor they would kidnap and SA men then eat or enslave them. Just saying lol
I remember there was a Korean guy streaming a play through of TLOU 2 who goes by Crank. When he got to the part where they killed Joel, he uninstalled the game, grabbed a pair of scissors, and cut the disc up.
The world's turned weak since mid 2010s. Since we let these gay people run our world. Force their views on us, while refusing ours. What kind of world is this?
We haven't had a man kiss a woman in a videogame… it feels like it was Cyberpunk the last time. Since then it's all been toothless, edgeless witless men, men no longer win women over, they either just are (Kratos) or the story is open for any character to be part of the mafia.
@@Mangoeplanter There are no western games where men somehow manage to get into relationships with women. Where there is this relationship the character aspires to and get into.
The whole gay stuff is funny because most woke developers make gay dudes look and act feminine as hell in their games like bruh ¿do they not think there are gay dudes that look and act masculine ?
They're doing the same just like all those old TV shows that only have 1 type of gay person. It's crazy how rarely you see masculine gay guys in the media I'd argue that the liberal white women hate ALL masculine men whether they're straight or gay
@@sacredpower7530that's because masculine gay men are too busy living their lives and not making a big deal about being gay for there to be a decent example.
It’s just stereotypes my preference are masculine gay dudes but I just hate that they can’t make gay dudes non stereotypical whether feminine or masculine
now thats a diss Steven Seagal beating up people after he runs in a gay way thinking he can teach that one mma fighter how to kick lol is still more masculine then any modern day games male protagonists
They are just going to kill the gaming industry. And when they lose money and their pockets are hurting, they will have no choice but to learn the hard way.
Not until Gamers actually get some principles and some self-restraint. Too many of you keep buying the next new game because you have zero self-restraint! I havent bought an ubisoft game since Division in 2014.. Activision since mw3 on os3.. EA since Dragon Age Inquisiion.. Blizzard since Diablo 3.. I stopped buying from companies that hate me
@@KingKnowledge245 and yet here we are two decades later with Call of Duty still breaking records and all the Madden games in 2K Games and all the Assassin's Creed games that are released every year still selling by the Millions... Its easy to boycot new IPs from unknown developers, particularly when all of social media is dog piling.. If more Gamers were actually doing that, the industry would be changing! And it's not
@jmmywyf4lyf That is because there are more people that are ok with the mediocre garbage that we are getting. There are more of those brain-dead casuals than there are people with critical thinking skills that can see the fckery that is going on in the gaming industry.
What urks me about Apex Legends is how they introduce characters who are Bi, Gay, Trans, Lesbian etc, when it does not matter since it is a battle royal game and not a story driven game where you can date and/or make love to said characters, like The Mass Effect Series or Dragon Age inquisition.
In my opinion games like Baldur's Gate, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Fallout, Skyrim etc. where you can date your followers should allow you to date whoever you want without restrictions of their sexuality. You are the player and should be able to do whatever you want that's possible in the game. The point could be made that a character is written as strictly straight or gay and that's a pretty good point which is entirely up to the devs.
Frankly, even in story driven games, I'd just as soon not be inundated with freak propaganda. At least if there are OTHER types of freaks in games, like Shooty McFace or whatever his name was in Borderlands 2, where he's just a dude that REALLY BADLY wants you to unalive him in the face, I know it's not designed to propagandize, it's there for entertainment value or to add to the story. If there's even a single alphabet freak being represented remotely positively in a game, I know for a fact that providing entertainment value has nothing to do with it. It's exclusively done to promote an ideology. So yeah, doesn't matter what type of game it's in, I'd rather just not see it. Or if it IS going to be there, the devs should at least be mocking it. Didn't used to care at all, but after being subjected to so much of the propaganda for so many years, I have absolutely zero patience for it anymore. If a game's going to promote those freakshows in any capacity, then it's not getting my money or my playtime. Simple as that.
@@Sin_Alder You know that in Borderlands 2, the gays weren't usually the butt of the joke right? If anything, Borderlands 2 was one of the first games to hop on the "gay representation" hype train. Axton was originally going to be straight, but a bug made play testers think he was bisexual so they made it part of his character. I agree with you in a general sense. Whatever merit the argument for pushing their representation in media may have originally had, it's all gone now, and they're now massively *overrepresented.* That being said, you picked a *horrible* game to hold up as a positive example according to your standards.
Apex has a story and people love it and you know what people like even more? when the characters in the story have personality and character development. and if your main problem with apex is that it has "gay" characters then that says more about you then the game. and lets be honest apex has plenty of "masculine" characters like Gibraltar, whats more masculine them a guy that just want to save peoples lives and look out for his comrads?
Hi, J! I've been watching your channel for a while and this is my first time commenting. Sharing my two cents from a black women's perspective and is also an artist and gamer, I wholeheartily agree that masculinity has been striped from the gaming industry. I, too, find it beyond frustrating and sickening at what gaming has turned into today. I miss time in gaming where men characters were real men. Not all emasculated, feminine and frail to uplift women that take on the masculine roles. My heart goes out to the devs with sense are silenced and in fear due to these so called "woMEN" devs.
@@jtheconcept4143 Indeed, it is. That's the positive in this chaos. These corrupt companies being exposed then a reset where new, aspiring creatives bring back the creativity in gaming. Entertainment as a whole. These "devs" are already threatened and clutching their pearls because they see the sales just like we do. We, the consumers, are showing better than we can tell them with our hard earn money. They can only have so much money before their toxic empire fail and fall. I believe they'll likely try to bite back harder before giving up entirely.
People love to say "toy cars are not just for boys" or "boys can play with barbies too," so why can't the opposite be true? There might be a myriad more women who started playing videogames because they enjoy the macho guys 😂 I wouldn't find that far-fetched at least. Killing masculine badassery out of gaming isn't a net positive for anyone.
@@Meta9871 It's not positive at all. Women like me are suffering, too. I've been playing video games since I was little and have played many games with badass male leads. That is appealing to me. Along with sexy, badass women. Today, there's none of that. It's been reversed and executed toxically. All I play is older games. It's all we have.
My cousin is a game designer and when I told I her I wanted to be a game developer she told me to stay independent, never join any studios because I would hate the work environment. Now I see what she meant.
13:47 We have to keep BRIDGE in mind before we grasp any form of hope for the future of any company! They might not be getting rid of it, but instead integrating it into the company like it's built into the DNA of the company, but keeping it hush hush to the public or it's consumers. Always keep your guard up no matter what!
That's even funnier is they nerfed him the fuck to the ground. You'll think they'll buff him up because of diversity but they didn't. Because they didn't really care about diversity just box ticking
I’m loving these videos. Feel like I’ve been screaming into the void for years about this. It’s great to see I’m not alone, I just hope things are changing enough that our tech overlords don’t crush the outreach. They can’t stop it forever.
Look at that ubisoft photo. Sbi lady is lurking. Creepy. The people responsible for the good story telling at rockstar are gone. Just like the other companies. The people who made them great are gone. They are just corp activist factories.
I miss arena shooters unreal tournament99 is badass it had blood and guts insults, men and women wearing cool armor a badass gothic sci-fi theme, banger music a crazy amount of maps to play on. No dlcs there’s absolutely no way that a modern game could offer that much content these days no matter how rich they are. I’m glad Bethesda brought back quake and doom
The Developer that made that post on Reddit posted a full blown nude of itself 😭😭😭 can't even see the idiocy without running into more idiocy. then they wonder why we don't take these progressive developers seriously 💀
I agree with you on the maculinity part, but i just want to add one thing, they do aknowledge masculinity in 1 way, when they want to add the word "toxic" in front of it
3:14 That is so true! Anytime I've seen someone try and stir something online with the fanbases like with G4 or gaming journalists. It's like a stealth archer build in Skyrim, it ends up going to back to the same architype doing it
While there are still some modern examples of true masculinity in gaming (like Jin Sakai from Ghost of Tsushima) it definitely isn't so prevalent anymore, and male characters feel definitely weak at best, and completely emasculated at worst...
Even a lot of so called 1990s throwback FPS games have you playing as boring strong female characters. Not a single masculine protagonist like: Duke Nukem, Caleb, Lo Wang, etc.
Jin Sakai could be considered as the right way to be progressive. At the beginning of the game, he and the other samurai are all nearly wiped out. Their samurai code is presented to be too rigid and stubborn to survive the current threat. Jin slowly picks up skills that are more underhanded and unpredictable compared to what the enemy is expecting. Slowly shaking off the excess restriction from the samurai code while keeping the core values and teachings. The things Jin learns adds to his knowledge and ability to counter the invading enemy who never cared about the majority of rules if it didn't benefit them.
My brother in Christmas, you need to learn the acronym: AWFL. Affluent White Female Liberal As in, "What made modern entertainment awful? AWFLs." Do some searches. You'll find that we've been talking about this phenomenon for YEARS under that term on the DL.
Gaming is a male hobby. Sure, women are allowed to participate, but they should be respectful of our space. That would be like if I tried turning knitting club into a Warhammer 40k gaming group.
Gaming was never a "male-only hobby". Women have always played games. How should women "be respectful of your space"? What does that even mean? Are they threatening your masculinity?
@yashjoseph3544 I think he explained it pretty well in the knitting example he gave. Get out of your emotions, men don't enter into women dominated environments and try to take it over for the sake of "inclusivity" and then complain when no one likes the outcome.
Fucking eh man, couldn't agree more with the both of you I'm fucking 37years old and Gears of war was my fucking jam in the day cooperative split screen with homies and beer all day.
As the years keep going, entertainment as a whole keeps dwindling. I pretty much refuse to play any game that's basically gonna lecture you or pretend to be some CW drama. I like story and I like games that do have stories. But, what I've seen from at least the Western gaming, they tend to detour too much from what's important. Meanwhile, I'm playing Stellar Blade, TFD, ZZZ, and Palworld just wanting to get to the end of their games uncovering the plot.
im gay and honestly im sick of all these woke/lgbtqhdtv+ characters. and regarding your question - for me it's not appealing (the black character from Apex Legends, he is called Seer), I guess it's preference etc, some gay dudes may find it appealing, but for me personally - hell nah, I'd rather have/play a normal, manly man instead of playing that character. there's another character which I like and is more my preferred type - Fuse, but OF COURSE they had to make him pansexual.
I'm gay, and yeah, characters like Duke Nukem are more attractive to me than the feminine guys they put in games now. Most gay guys like masculine men, the woke ones will lie and say they don't like masculinity, but they do. They're all obsessing over Hugh Jackman's shirtless scenes in Deadpool & Wolverine for the last month. One of the most popular male characters among gay gamers is Chris Redfield, particularly the way he looked in Resident Evil 5.
I'd say FF16 has some pretty good Masculine characters in it. Hell believe it or not one if the best well written characters in FF16 is a gay character named Dion. He's pretty solid
The sad reality is there plenty of games that have LGBT in them that are overly saturated in it. BG3 had LGBT stuff but they didn’t saturate the game with propaganda. If you wanted to have a gay character you had the option but they didn’t make that the whole point of the game. Dragon Age Inquisition had gay characters, but that was the over arching theme. LAST OF US 1, Mass Effect 1, Fall out 4 like you can add stuff to games if you want, but you need balance you can’t make the entire promis of the game Queer, Gay, Trans, Strong manly women, weak feminine men.
15:31 I think you are 100% right. if it was in another environment, the game would have gotten a niche success but the culture war allowed it to get a lot more.
11:00 i am glad you said it. i noticed that for a very long time and i am glad people notice it too. jeans pants in the 90s were lose enough to be comfortable. somehow today all jeans are so tight it feels like it's squeezing the life out of the legs. cheapening the materials i guess? fashion today is just lazy, same as movies and games.
@@Segaton fuck i forgot about da speakeasies there a invasive species and b4 tht it was da club house when we was kids they always run to the highest power
Unfortunately, Rockstar has none of the original people now. I think there's 1 left maybe and he's soft. The rest quit due to these exact reasons. And sweet baby inc is involved in gta 6. They're already crying about getting review bombed.
@@memecoffee6287 indie games are too risky, too luck dependent. Good that it’s there, no company would want to rely on a 95% failure rate for business.
As thankful as I am for Eastern entertainment. I'm extremely concerned about this company releated to Black Rock, called Black Stone who purchased the largest E Manga website in Japan. What long term effects will it have and will it bring about the same awful ideological change that is currently plaguing the West to Japan?
@@sacredpower7530 it’s nothing to worry about it now after what happened days ago. The moment the BOJ raised the interest rate to 25 points and reverse it back in 24hrs. The only reason what the people have experienced for all this time is 0% interest. Free Japanese yen, convert into dollars, and push all this nonsense unto japan and the world. Blackrock and/or Vanguard wouldn’t be this powerful without Japan and it’s free money. This will end if Japan raise its interest rate or BRICS. Other than that, again don’t worry. It’ll end.
@@MasterOssy True,Indie Games sometimes do tend to add more experimental and obscure mechanics which would not make its way into a mainstream game that needs to earn like 400 M to be sustainable. I mentioned it because it seems to be the best way to make pre 2020s style games in the west where Gameplay was favored over the story and Male charecters are allowed to act like masculine action heros.
With how Nintendo is dominating the current gaming industry and games like Stellar Blade, it's no wonder Xbox is dying. Then again, it's all entirely Xbox's fault.
I swear, once the weirdos who's screaming"Toxic Masculinity" is problematic back 6 years ago somehow managed to end masculinity on media in generals. Every single person that feature in SJW compilations somehow wins in real life.
Just found a couple of your vids, including this one and im loving your content. Now, i just subbed to your channel. Oh and yes, abby is a terribly written character that no one wanted lol
13:30 - Well, companies are getting rid of the departments/positions, not the policy. If you read Microsoft's statement about it and other companies which have followed-suit, they make it plain their continued commitment to Inclusion and Equity; this isn't a win, it's a loss in disguise... That's the point of Sheryl Daija's "bridge": They agree that pandering and HR aren't cutting it, and that people are catching wise, so the idea is to get rid of the obvious offenders and instead integrate DIE into the workplace culture wholesale top-to-bottom (janitor-to-CEO). You won't need a Chief Diversity Officer when everyone is the Chief Diversity Officer...
20:01 It is better for you. Around this time, people with enough clout were gaslighting everyone into thinking nothing was changing. The game's (questionable) quality got more attention instead.
Game developers deserve to go bankrupt if they can't make a decent game that gamers actually want to play, they hate us so let them go bankrupt, so we don't have to see this kind of crap game any more
It's a battle of attrition. They'll keep pushing this until their opposition runs out of resources to fight back or "grows up and moves on" so the newer gens who are still young and innocent, grow up with their products. With backing from govt and big name corpos and banks. Oh my gawd, these people are textbook definition groomers!
I just don’t get it how can someone look at this and say yeah let’s publish this it’s a bunch of out of touch people struggling to figure out what gamers find cool and hip these days
@shodan2002 the out of touch people should have gotten degrees in law if they wanted to change society. This is just being absolutely petty. That woman's sole grudge for doing all of this was because she was mad that until after the 60s, most literature came from white educated men. As if she expected the world to have worked the way she wanted it to before she was even born! And she wants to destroy all of that. Petty. She's the real baby!
Anyone else notice it’s impossible for the masculine characters of the ip’s to every game to have a son that leads the next game cause it seem they all end up with daughters🤔 Edit: I have a lot game I regret spending money on I’m done listening to these payed reviews they be 🧢.
Actually, the last games I bought were hentai games. Well I bought RE5 recently, goated game. But for new games, they were mostly hentai games. One in particular being Apostle Rebellion from Kamichichi, and also the first Apostle, and even that is old.
Masculinity in gaming is never dead, we've been through with so many gaming legends. solid snake from metal gear, sam Fisher, kratos from god of war, cloud from final fantasy 7 or any other final fantasy characters, master chief, from halo, nathan drake, Arkham batman justice for him especially, alex Mercer from prototype, dante from dmc and also dante's inferno, altiar, ezio, conner, haythem, Edward, from ac, aiden and jordi from watch dogs, CJ FROM GTA, RYU HAYABUSA from ninja gaiden, duke nukem, leon and chris from resident evil, starkiller from force unleashed, caim from drakengard, the hunter from bloodborne, the bearer of curses, ashen one, chosen of undead from dark souls, sekiro, tarnished from elden ring, pointman from F.E.A.R. Travis touchdown, marcus from gears of war, kyo and iori from kof, william and hideyoshi from nioh, regardless of what they trying to do its not stopping us from gaming.
You make a good point but those characters are characters of the past. Most of those male masculine characters you listed would not exist today or if they were they would be changed because the industry views them as toxic masculinity characters. Traditional masculinity in present day media is being fizzled out every day more and more. Thanks for your donation though 🙏
I've been playing COR Escape From Butcher Bay/Dark Athena on PC in 4k. I unlocked some content and it was a picture of the dev team Starbreeze. All men 😆 just like i remember. It's only until you get to Dark Athena that female in-game characters exist 😆 And we all know it was EFBB that was the gem 😆
So F true! Especially on a contract you are forced to do what they want you can't say anything as a straight man! they wanted me to do a gay animation i refused and said no i had a idea and they tossed my idea in the garbage
I loved the gameplay of Apex Legends but after i came to know about the DEI shiet my heart just broke. I was ignorant and happy but after knowing I just can't.
I am a J The Concept fan, yes!
You absolutely nailed it with your criticism of Assassins Creed shadows
@@andypantsgamingI like how you speak my guy! Respect 💪
And congrats on 1.8 million views and counting!
@@jtheconcept4143 Was just making another 3000 view video like any other day...
The starfield one, I watched that one too 😎👌
And I’m a fan of both of y’all thanks for speaking facts 👍
The minute I saw lex luthor of all people praise Wonder Woman of all people in suicide squad for going against "toxic masculinity" when lex would never say that and she is the only character in the game that's treated with respect while the male characters on her team are all disrespected who comes from an Amazonian world thats dominated by women who hate men It helped me realize that its not toxic masculinity we should be worried about, its toxic femenitity
The fart cloud the people who write that get so high on is incredible. If self awareness was a skill, these guys maxed it.
When I saw that, It was clear to me that it was the woke directors & writiers echoing their thoughts on how they feel bout men. No way in hell would Lex Luthor would praise wonder woman & look up to her.
Yep, dead ass. I was like this Lex Luthor is a gay ass, lame ass version. Lex Luthor would never say that
Lex Luthor, the most narcissistic character in DC fiction praising someone else? They took the word "Suicide" literally lol
In Amazon lore they were cannibals. even in wonder woman lore they would enslave m3n or delete them. In real amazon lor they would kidnap and SA men then eat or enslave them. Just saying lol
I remember there was a Korean guy streaming a play through of TLOU 2 who goes by Crank.
When he got to the part where they killed Joel, he uninstalled the game, grabbed a pair of scissors, and cut the disc up.
Legendary moment.
The appropriate reaction
I can’t imagine having such a fragile grasp on my emotions that I’d act like a child and throw a tantrum because a character I liked dies in a story.
@@ItsSVO The same people responsible for killing off Joel also get upset if you refer to someone by their biological sex.
Joel got ambushed like a dumbass.
Karens done took over the industry 😢
Like a plague lol
@@jtheconcept4143I lost it when the dev said he hated gamers 🤦🏽♂️
@@wilser2312 When they'll go bankrupt, maybe they will be enlightened.
Nah we can still fight back, FOR THE BROTHERHOOD. *thinks of assassin creed*
The world's turned weak since mid 2010s. Since we let these gay people run our world. Force their views on us, while refusing ours. What kind of world is this?
Look at Spider-Man 2018 vs. Spiderman 2. Its like within 5 years there has been a complete takeover.
We haven't had a man kiss a woman in a videogame… it feels like it was Cyberpunk the last time. Since then it's all been toothless, edgeless witless men, men no longer win women over, they either just are (Kratos) or the story is open for any character to be part of the mafia.
This is so true smh
So let me get it straight if theres a game where the dude doesn't get a woman, or it isnt about a dude then it means its bad?
I think uncharted had a kiss scene
@@ZeroCalamityYT Which Uncharted?
@@Mangoeplanter There are no western games where men somehow manage to get into relationships with women. Where there is this relationship the character aspires to and get into.
The whole gay stuff is funny because most woke developers make gay dudes look and act feminine as hell in their games like bruh ¿do they not think there are gay dudes that look and act masculine ?
Ofc not....these smurfs think it's only girly men that's gay and manly women that's gay 😂
No they don't at least in my opinion, these hypocrites can't even write a story to save their lives. Let alone a decent one about masculine gay men.
They're doing the same just like all those old TV shows that only have 1 type of gay person.
It's crazy how rarely you see masculine gay guys in the media
I'd argue that the liberal white women hate ALL masculine men whether they're straight or gay
@@sacredpower7530that's because masculine gay men are too busy living their lives and not making a big deal about being gay for there to be a decent example.
It’s just stereotypes my preference are masculine gay dudes but I just hate that they can’t make gay dudes non stereotypical whether feminine or masculine
After watching this video. You earned my sub. 100%. How I feel about gaming industry right now.
If Steven Seagal can beat up your video game protagonist, you need a new fucking protagonist.
I'm pretty sure any Steven Seagal charecter is more masculine then all male charecters done by woke developers
now thats a diss Steven Seagal beating up people after he runs in a gay way thinking he can teach that one mma fighter how to kick lol is still more masculine then any modern day games male protagonists
Steven Seagal could be a good Sumo wrestler.
Also notice how the token black person is nerdy all the time with glasses
They are just going to kill the gaming industry. And when they lose money and their pockets are hurting, they will have no choice but to learn the hard way.
After culture is gone, they will implement communism. All according to plan.
Not until Gamers actually get some principles and some self-restraint. Too many of you keep buying the next new game because you have zero self-restraint! I havent bought an ubisoft game since Division in 2014.. Activision since mw3 on os3.. EA since Dragon Age Inquisiion.. Blizzard since Diablo 3.. I stopped buying from companies that hate me
@jmmywyf4lyf yeah I am pretty sure gamers have been doing that. Which is why lots of games have tanked recently.
@@KingKnowledge245 and yet here we are two decades later with Call of Duty still breaking records and all the Madden games in 2K Games and all the Assassin's Creed games that are released every year still selling by the Millions... Its easy to boycot new IPs from unknown developers, particularly when all of social media is dog piling..
If more Gamers were actually doing that, the industry would be changing! And it's not
@jmmywyf4lyf That is because there are more people that are ok with the mediocre garbage that we are getting. There are more of those brain-dead casuals than there are people with critical thinking skills that can see the fckery that is going on in the gaming industry.
I saw 3 Kamalas and a Zuckerberg in the first pic.😅
What urks me about Apex Legends is how they introduce characters who are Bi, Gay, Trans, Lesbian etc, when it does not matter since it is a battle royal game and not a story driven game where you can date and/or make love to said characters, like The Mass Effect Series or Dragon Age inquisition.
In my opinion games like Baldur's Gate, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Fallout, Skyrim etc. where you can date your followers should allow you to date whoever you want without restrictions of their sexuality. You are the player and should be able to do whatever you want that's possible in the game. The point could be made that a character is written as strictly straight or gay and that's a pretty good point which is entirely up to the devs.
Frankly, even in story driven games, I'd just as soon not be inundated with freak propaganda. At least if there are OTHER types of freaks in games, like Shooty McFace or whatever his name was in Borderlands 2, where he's just a dude that REALLY BADLY wants you to unalive him in the face, I know it's not designed to propagandize, it's there for entertainment value or to add to the story. If there's even a single alphabet freak being represented remotely positively in a game, I know for a fact that providing entertainment value has nothing to do with it. It's exclusively done to promote an ideology.
So yeah, doesn't matter what type of game it's in, I'd rather just not see it. Or if it IS going to be there, the devs should at least be mocking it.
Didn't used to care at all, but after being subjected to so much of the propaganda for so many years, I have absolutely zero patience for it anymore. If a game's going to promote those freakshows in any capacity, then it's not getting my money or my playtime. Simple as that.
@@Sin_Alder You know that in Borderlands 2, the gays weren't usually the butt of the joke right? If anything, Borderlands 2 was one of the first games to hop on the "gay representation" hype train. Axton was originally going to be straight, but a bug made play testers think he was bisexual so they made it part of his character.
I agree with you in a general sense. Whatever merit the argument for pushing their representation in media may have originally had, it's all gone now, and they're now massively *overrepresented.* That being said, you picked a *horrible* game to hold up as a positive example according to your standards.
Apex has a story and people love it and you know what people like even more? when the characters in the story have personality and character development. and if your main problem with apex is that it has "gay" characters then that says more about you then the game. and lets be honest apex has plenty of "masculine" characters like Gibraltar, whats more masculine them a guy that just want to save peoples lives and look out for his comrads?
@@VincentTehla People HATE Apex. You know which game had a great story and characters? Titanfall.
Hi, J! I've been watching your channel for a while and this is my first time commenting. Sharing my two cents from a black women's perspective and is also an artist and gamer, I wholeheartily agree that masculinity has been striped from the gaming industry. I, too, find it beyond frustrating and sickening at what gaming has turned into today. I miss time in gaming where men characters were real men. Not all emasculated, feminine and frail to uplift women that take on the masculine roles. My heart goes out to the devs with sense are silenced and in fear due to these so called "woMEN" devs.
It’s straight madness all around smh. But the shift back is gonna happen sooner than later. People are waking up now and they know it.
@@jtheconcept4143 Indeed, it is. That's the positive in this chaos. These corrupt companies being exposed then a reset where new, aspiring creatives bring back the creativity in gaming. Entertainment as a whole. These "devs" are already threatened and clutching their pearls because they see the sales just like we do. We, the consumers, are showing better than we can tell them with our hard earn money. They can only have so much money before their toxic empire fail and fall. I believe they'll likely try to bite back harder before giving up entirely.
People love to say "toy cars are not just for boys" or "boys can play with barbies too," so why can't the opposite be true? There might be a myriad more women who started playing videogames because they enjoy the macho guys 😂 I wouldn't find that far-fetched at least. Killing masculine badassery out of gaming isn't a net positive for anyone.
@@Meta9871 It's not positive at all. Women like me are suffering, too. I've been playing video games since I was little and have played many games with badass male leads. That is appealing to me. Along with sexy, badass women. Today, there's none of that. It's been reversed and executed toxically. All I play is older games. It's all we have.
@@SerenitiKarma Amen. Never wanted to jailbreak a PS2 as much as I do now. I might just get all the classics on a 2TB hard drive and never look back.
My cousin is a game designer and when I told I her I wanted to be a game developer she told me to stay independent, never join any studios because I would hate the work environment. Now I see what she meant.
That’s activists definition of “masculinity”. A skinny shredded 6ft gay dude with rainbow hair.
Sounds about right 🤔
@@jtheconcept4143 yeh no matter the ethnicity or skin color. As long as the guy has these traits, they’ll love it.
@@Elichamilionlol. Not if they white. Even feminine white gays aren’t woke anymore. Let alone anyone else
That's gay
“I’m sorry but for 10000 years it’s only been men fighting”-I’m not sorry for that. I’m glad we had/have men to protect us.
13:47 We have to keep BRIDGE in mind before we grasp any form of hope for the future of any company! They might not be getting rid of it, but instead integrating it into the company like it's built into the DNA of the company, but keeping it hush hush to the public or it's consumers. Always keep your guard up no matter what!
6:29 Seer (from Apex Legends) is ironically the least picked character in the game 😂
That's even funnier is they nerfed him the fuck to the ground. You'll think they'll buff him up because of diversity but they didn't. Because they didn't really care about diversity just box ticking
I freaking love J bro no diddy he be going in on them 😂😂😂
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Nobody ever stole my lunch money. My older brother stole it before I even left the home.
Use a money protection cat.
Another video RUclips put in jail for 2 days lol.
You cant criticise certain things on left wing websites ... 90% of my comments is removed instantly.
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I’m loving these videos. Feel like I’ve been screaming into the void for years about this. It’s great to see I’m not alone, I just hope things are changing enough that our tech overlords don’t crush the outreach. They can’t stop it forever.
Look at that ubisoft photo. Sbi lady is lurking.
Creepy.
The people responsible for the good story telling at rockstar are gone.
Just like the other companies. The people who made them great are gone. They are just corp activist factories.
Is masculinity dead in gaming? I think we all know the answer to that lol 😂
Yes it is dead but these cup cakes refuse to admit it.
Nah we still have dudes like Terry bogard and my boi sonic for example so i don't think so.
@@wildsword6856 sonic? And Terry from an obscure fighting game ? Both made in the 90s?
@Goosewitdajuice317 yes sonic he still around and Terry bogard is making his comeback in the fatal fury game have you been living under a rock?
I miss arena shooters unreal tournament99 is badass it had blood and guts insults, men and women wearing cool armor a badass gothic sci-fi theme, banger music a crazy amount of maps to play on.
No dlcs there’s absolutely no way that a modern game could offer that much content these days no matter how rich they are. I’m glad Bethesda brought back quake and doom
I love rainbows but im not gay, give us back the rainbow too
They managed to make a beautiful part of nature into something cringe
Rainbow used to be a happy reminder and a sight for sore eyes after a rain, but now it's been tarnished by foul peoples
The Developer that made that post on Reddit posted a full blown nude of itself 😭😭😭 can't even see the idiocy without running into more idiocy. then they wonder why we don't take these progressive developers seriously 💀
lol he posted a nude pic on Reddit lmao 🤣! These guys are retartedly weird smh 😂
It's like they hate money.
Woke people actually hate money, they want to eliminate monetary system.
I agree with you on the maculinity part, but i just want to add one thing, they do aknowledge masculinity in 1 way, when they want to add the word "toxic" in front of it
Toxic masculinity? Well, i guess we can acknowledge their *over abundance* of toxic feminity.
I saw something like that on Reddit as well. The assumption that if you're a man, you're a grapist.
Speaking facts how delusional are the developers of these new games not seeing the bigger picture
3:14 That is so true! Anytime I've seen someone try and stir something online with the fanbases like with G4 or gaming journalists. It's like a stealth archer build in Skyrim, it ends up going to back to the same architype doing it
While there are still some modern examples of true masculinity in gaming (like Jin Sakai from Ghost of Tsushima) it definitely isn't so prevalent anymore, and male characters feel definitely weak at best, and completely emasculated at worst...
Even a lot of so called 1990s throwback FPS games have you playing as boring strong female characters. Not a single masculine protagonist like: Duke Nukem, Caleb, Lo Wang, etc.
@@Gruntvc Oh Lo Wang thats a throwback.
Jin Sakai could be considered as the right way to be progressive. At the beginning of the game, he and the other samurai are all nearly wiped out. Their samurai code is presented to be too rigid and stubborn to survive the current threat. Jin slowly picks up skills that are more underhanded and unpredictable compared to what the enemy is expecting.
Slowly shaking off the excess restriction from the samurai code while keeping the core values and teachings. The things Jin learns adds to his knowledge and ability to counter the invading enemy who never cared about the majority of rules if it didn't benefit them.
And then they’re getting rid of Jin Sakai for another character…
u ever watch cyael, he calling this bs out too
I haven’t, but will look him up 👌
I love that bro, no homo
Not just Cyael, but also FritangaPlays too as well.
Both men are also fighting the good fight.
My brother in Christmas, you need to learn the acronym: AWFL.
Affluent
White
Female
Liberal
As in, "What made modern entertainment awful? AWFLs."
Do some searches. You'll find that we've been talking about this phenomenon for YEARS under that term on the DL.
Bro you can just say white liberal bitch its not that serious 😂 these niggas think they snowden or some shit haha
The younger Karen. She weaponizes her victimhood to defeat sound logic.
You could put a u in that for uninteresting then it would really be awful
masculine with a cyber crop top
I'm glad that we're being bold not sugarcoating it saying it.
I love the the reaction dude, great work with this I hope we can expose more of these stuff that's currently destroying the gaming industry..
People mocked "Get woke, go broke" but here we are.
Gaming is a male hobby. Sure, women are allowed to participate, but they should be respectful of our space. That would be like if I tried turning knitting club into a Warhammer 40k gaming group.
"WE MUST KNIT FOR THE EMPEROR!"
@@PhthaloGreenskin YARN, for the Throw Pillows!
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Gaming was never a "male-only hobby". Women have always played games. How should women "be respectful of your space"? What does that even mean? Are they threatening your masculinity?
@yashjoseph3544 I think he explained it pretty well in the knitting example he gave. Get out of your emotions, men don't enter into women dominated environments and try to take it over for the sake of "inclusivity" and then complain when no one likes the outcome.
Bro, new sub. Your content is fire!
Fucking eh man, couldn't agree more with the both of you I'm fucking 37years old and Gears of war was my fucking jam in the day cooperative split screen with homies and beer all day.
As the years keep going, entertainment as a whole keeps dwindling.
I pretty much refuse to play any game that's basically gonna lecture you or pretend to be some CW drama.
I like story and I like games that do have stories. But, what I've seen from at least the Western gaming, they tend to detour too much from what's important.
Meanwhile, I'm playing Stellar Blade, TFD, ZZZ, and Palworld just wanting to get to the end of their games uncovering the plot.
Man you dont mince words. I love it!
I've been watching every reaction i can to this video and you sir have been added to the cool guy list.
im gay and honestly im sick of all these woke/lgbtqhdtv+ characters. and regarding your question - for me it's not appealing (the black character from Apex Legends, he is called Seer), I guess it's preference etc, some gay dudes may find it appealing, but for me personally - hell nah, I'd rather have/play a normal, manly man instead of playing that character. there's another character which I like and is more my preferred type - Fuse, but OF COURSE they had to make him pansexual.
Shout out to RockStar games for holding the line.
@@youtuberuser0109 Don't you dare utter such words
Their dev cycles are so fucking long it's hiding the dei inclusion. GTA 6 will be the biggest disappointment of the generation
I'm gay, and yeah, characters like Duke Nukem are more attractive to me than the feminine guys they put in games now. Most gay guys like masculine men, the woke ones will lie and say they don't like masculinity, but they do. They're all obsessing over Hugh Jackman's shirtless scenes in Deadpool & Wolverine for the last month.
One of the most popular male characters among gay gamers is Chris Redfield, particularly the way he looked in Resident Evil 5.
Gears 1-3 is also my favorite series ever I hated 4 and never played 5
Omg as a kid of the 90's i love you phrasing and use of turn of phrase that ibam used to ❤
I'd say FF16 has some pretty good Masculine characters in it. Hell believe it or not one if the best well written characters in FF16 is a gay character named Dion. He's pretty solid
This reminds of how cruchyroll funded a “anime” and promoted it was diverse because creators was women or aka lesbian women with different Color hairs
10:36 that Alyssa Mercante chick has the Weird Ghosts tattoo on her shoulder lol
Holy shit it looks just like it 😮
The sad reality is there plenty of games that have LGBT in them that are overly saturated in it. BG3 had LGBT stuff but they didn’t saturate the game with propaganda. If you wanted to have a gay character you had the option but they didn’t make that the whole point of the game. Dragon Age Inquisition had gay characters, but that was the over arching theme. LAST OF US 1, Mass Effect 1, Fall out 4 like you can add stuff to games if you want, but you need balance you can’t make the entire promis of the game Queer, Gay, Trans, Strong manly women, weak feminine men.
Your channel was suggested to me after seeing his video, both of you rock!
Awesome! Thank you!
You can’t have good games when most of your staff are people that hate them
Just subscribed to a channel, finally someone keeping it real …good shit
15:31 I think you are 100% right. if it was in another environment, the game would have gotten a niche success but the culture war allowed it to get a lot more.
Only "new" games I bought were either remakes or Ports of games that been out for years but are new to PC or Steam lol.
I stopped playing the division 2 because of all the lgbtq stuff, it was just too much
11:00 i am glad you said it. i noticed that for a very long time and i am glad people notice it too. jeans pants in the 90s were lose enough to be comfortable. somehow today all jeans are so tight it feels like it's squeezing the life out of the legs. cheapening the materials i guess? fashion today is just lazy, same as movies and games.
Woman killed it
from speakeasies to gyms.. to gaming. 🤨
@@Segaton fuck i forgot about da speakeasies there a invasive species and b4 tht it was da club house when we was kids they always run to the highest power
Look at the announcer dude in the fight hub for Street Fighter 6. Shit's crazy bruh
Unfortunately, Rockstar has none of the original people now. I think there's 1 left maybe and he's soft. The rest quit due to these exact reasons. And sweet baby inc is involved in gta 6. They're already crying about getting review bombed.
Its cool J, first descendant let me play Ajax. A true man's MYAUM!
And Kyle’s 3 million damage dealing ass before the patch 😢 lol.
Thats really shite that YT hit your video with the limited monetization, but I'm honestly not surprised tbh mate. 😔
I’m not either to be honest 🤷🏿♂️. I just gotta find a way to work around it
black myth wukong is going to be stellar performing game beating others for sure. especially concord.
No, masculinity isn’t dead. It just moved to Asia. Particularly Korea and China.
That and to indie games like Mullet Mad Jack and Fallen Aces
@@memecoffee6287 indie games are too risky, too luck dependent. Good that it’s there, no company would want to rely on a 95% failure rate for business.
As thankful as I am for Eastern entertainment. I'm extremely concerned about this company releated to Black Rock, called Black Stone who purchased the largest E Manga website in Japan. What long term effects will it have and will it bring about the same awful ideological change that is currently plaguing the West to Japan?
@@sacredpower7530 it’s nothing to worry about it now after what happened days ago. The moment the BOJ raised the interest rate to 25 points and reverse it back in 24hrs. The only reason what the people have experienced for all this time is 0% interest. Free Japanese yen, convert into dollars, and push all this nonsense unto japan and the world. Blackrock and/or Vanguard wouldn’t be this powerful without Japan and it’s free money. This will end if Japan raise its interest rate or BRICS. Other than that, again don’t worry. It’ll end.
@@MasterOssy True,Indie Games sometimes do tend to add more experimental and obscure mechanics which would not make its way into a mainstream game that needs to earn like 400 M to be sustainable.
I mentioned it because it seems to be the best way to make pre 2020s style games in the west where Gameplay was favored over the story and Male charecters are allowed to act like masculine action heros.
With how Nintendo is dominating the current gaming industry and games like Stellar Blade, it's no wonder Xbox is dying. Then again, it's all entirely Xbox's fault.
I swear, once the weirdos who's screaming"Toxic Masculinity" is problematic back 6 years ago somehow managed to end masculinity on media in generals.
Every single person that feature in SJW compilations somehow wins in real life.
The First Descendant has more masculine characters than entire western games now.
I have been saying this for years. I just don't have a channel and do videos.
Edit: You have a new sub, my man!
Seeing what gears become now hurts my favorite game as a kid aswell as saints row and I can’t leave out mortal kombat
😂 I haven't heard anyone say the word
"skank" in a long time. Hilarious commentary that is absolutely true.
Just found a couple of your vids, including this one and im loving your content. Now, i just subbed to your channel. Oh and yes, abby is a terribly written character that no one wanted lol
13:30 - Well, companies are getting rid of the departments/positions, not the policy. If you read Microsoft's statement about it and other companies which have followed-suit, they make it plain their continued commitment to Inclusion and Equity; this isn't a win, it's a loss in disguise...
That's the point of Sheryl Daija's "bridge": They agree that pandering and HR aren't cutting it, and that people are catching wise, so the idea is to get rid of the obvious offenders and instead integrate DIE into the workplace culture wholesale top-to-bottom (janitor-to-CEO). You won't need a Chief Diversity Officer when everyone is the Chief Diversity Officer...
Yes the final form of this DEI nightmare, "bridge" is definitely worth researching about. It's also all the more reason to stay ever vigilant.
I started playing gears 4 because it was on Xbox game pass as soon as they tried to make me play as kate, I quit and uninstalled
I actually just saw 5 RUclips videos with the actual same title or something very similar “who’s killing masculinity in games?” wtf?
20:01 It is better for you. Around this time, people with enough clout were gaslighting everyone into thinking nothing was changing. The game's (questionable) quality got more attention instead.
Game developers deserve to go bankrupt if they can't make a decent game that gamers actually want to play, they hate us so let them go bankrupt, so we don't have to see this kind of crap game any more
I like both of y’all. Great video bro
20:10 WolfEpstein young blood
These guys PREACHING
No wonder halo sucks now 100% women they probably never even played a halo game before.
Respect to you, bro.
You earned my sub, my guy. See you in the feed brother 👍
The next woke gay game to fail will be concord, maybe at some point they will understand that nobody wants to play their crap.
It's a battle of attrition. They'll keep pushing this until their opposition runs out of resources to fight back or "grows up and moves on" so the newer gens who are still young and innocent, grow up with their products. With backing from govt and big name corpos and banks.
Oh my gawd, these people are textbook definition groomers!
I just don’t get it how can someone look at this and say yeah let’s publish this it’s a bunch of out of touch people struggling to figure out what gamers find cool and hip these days
@shodan2002 the out of touch people should have gotten degrees in law if they wanted to change society. This is just being absolutely petty.
That woman's sole grudge for doing all of this was because she was mad that until after the 60s, most literature came from white educated men. As if she expected the world to have worked the way she wanted it to before she was even born!
And she wants to destroy all of that.
Petty. She's the real baby!
Didn't even last a week lol
At 2:38 in the upper left corner looks like Kim Belair from Sweet Baby Inc.
When I was in highschool we had Augustus Cole Train, now we have Seer. Lol smh.
Anyone else notice it’s impossible for the masculine characters of the ip’s to every game to have a son that leads the next game cause it seem they all end up with daughters🤔
Edit: I have a lot game I regret spending money on I’m done listening to these payed reviews they be 🧢.
Actually, the last games I bought were hentai games. Well I bought RE5 recently, goated game. But for new games, they were mostly hentai games. One in particular being Apostle Rebellion from Kamichichi, and also the first Apostle, and even that is old.
Bit late to the party, I just discovered this/your channel but goddamn do I love your talk about nerds and the little annoying nerd, hahaha
Masculinity in gaming is never dead, we've been through with so many gaming legends.
solid snake from metal gear, sam Fisher, kratos from god of war, cloud from final fantasy 7 or any other final fantasy characters, master chief, from halo, nathan drake, Arkham batman justice for him especially, alex Mercer from prototype, dante from dmc and also dante's inferno, altiar, ezio, conner, haythem, Edward, from ac, aiden and jordi from watch dogs, CJ FROM GTA, RYU HAYABUSA from ninja gaiden, duke nukem, leon and chris from resident evil, starkiller from force unleashed, caim from drakengard, the hunter from bloodborne, the bearer of curses, ashen one, chosen of undead from dark souls, sekiro, tarnished from elden ring, pointman from F.E.A.R.
Travis touchdown, marcus from gears of war, kyo and iori from kof, william and hideyoshi from nioh, regardless of what they trying to do its not stopping us from gaming.
It is funny, but Cloud and Sephorith in new FF 7 gay asf😂
And GAME have success lmao
@@Александр911-х6л nah its all about cloud and tifa for me thats canon lol
You make a good point but those characters are characters of the past. Most of those male masculine characters you listed would not exist today or if they were they would be changed because the industry views them as toxic masculinity characters. Traditional masculinity in present day media is being fizzled out every day more and more. Thanks for your donation though 🙏
@@jtheconcept4143 i feel like remastered games are the closest things to remembering the good ol days
I've been playing COR Escape From Butcher Bay/Dark Athena on PC in 4k. I unlocked some content and it was a picture of the dev team Starbreeze. All men 😆 just like i remember. It's only until you get to Dark Athena that female in-game characters exist 😆 And we all know it was EFBB that was the gem 😆
Yeah def a chad, one of us, you get a sub today.
So F true! Especially on a contract you are forced to do what they want you can't say anything as a straight man! they wanted me to do a gay animation i refused and said no i had a idea and they tossed my idea in the garbage
I loved the gameplay of Apex Legends but after i came to know about the DEI shiet my heart just broke. I was ignorant and happy but after knowing I just can't.
Bro, I'm watching your video because of this video. Wow.
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Much respect 🙏🙏💪💪 New Sub
DEI is not really going away, they are repackaging it into Bridge which will be more internal to studios which could be worse
29:40 helldivers brother come dive for democracy