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Did she do the most damage to the video game industry?
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>>725822863
Now she is the only hope we have left.
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>>725822882
Kino
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that is a symptom
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>>725822863
Not really. Nobody even remembers who she is. She was just capitalizing on a general idea that people wanted to like video games, but they didn't have the sort of themes and messages they wanted. Now that indie games are big, people are just making the sort of games they want to be playing and nobody really cares anymore.
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The OG damsel in distress.
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>>725822882
How?
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>>725822863
literally who?
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Probably the Gamergate chick. I honestly think we're still seeing real world ramifications of that thing.
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>>725822863
Despite being a grifter, she was correct about the damsel trope being overused in vidya at that point. I never found rescuing a girl the MC barely knows to be a compelling motive for a vidya plot. The only time I’m fine with it is either when the MC has a very strong attachment to the girl already (i.e they’re a friend, family member or gf), or if they’re paid to rescue the girl as part of their job.

Zoe Quinn did worse damage to the industry anyway. She was the catalyst for Gamergate, not Anita.
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>>725823716
>damsel trope being overused
No, it wasn't
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>>725822863
You should marry yourself
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>>725822863
Jowly
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>>725822863
I want a threesome with her and Zoe Quinn.
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>>725822863
I want to do lethal damage to her womb if you know what I mean
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>>725823768
It was in the 80s and 90s. Though it admittedly started to fade out in the 2000s as vidya stories became more complex.

“Save the girl” was a go to plot point for a lot of older games.
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>>725823716
>I never found rescuing a girl the MC barely knows to be a compelling motive for a vidya plot.

Because they're video games. They don't NEED a compelling plot. Damsel in distress is a perfectly fine trope to give you a good enough reason to move the character from one area to another and beat the game. You don't need a complicated reason for it.
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>>725822863
For her to do any damage she had to have had people that agreed with her. Therefore the blame was with a lot of people in the industry that facilitated her platform to begin with. Most of the old studio veterans you admire were the ones that supported her in all likelihood. The blame is above her, anyone could have told her to get lost.
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>>725822863
You did by putting the spot light on her. She'd be a nobody with 10 views on youtube if not for you.
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>>725824163
>>725824163
>>725824163
the perfect response
also, reminder that by the end of gamergate anita admitted that she wasn't actually a gamer and didn't care about games, only using games to pass on her message
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>>725824282
I'm sure she did no such thing at all.
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>>725822863
Unironically her and Zoe
If those two didn't exist, the world would be a different place
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>>725824163
So then why that reason?
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>>725824376
Why are you all blaming women for what you did? They didn't force you to throw massive tantrums.
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>>725824195
Of If I'm not being clear I'll say it more bluntly that the issue in the industry was always in the industry prior to Anita Sarkeesian ever being there. It just took her being vocal for you to realise that most of the people who worked in the industry were always garbage. It's like how people played dumb about Tim Schafer (he was an asshole before gamer gate) but then the moment he got vocally in support of Quin then everyone noticed that he was a preachy asshole and always spoke in a politically charged manner on most issues.
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>>725824076
In point and click adventure games it was already fading during 90's. Way more female protagonists or deutragonists, stories more focused on saving the world or solving a mystery. Too bad this genre practically died in early 00's and got reborn as the Telltale style visual novel abominations.
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>>725824491
Meant for >>725824384
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>>725822863
In hindsight, nope. Try to solve nothing, achieve nothing.
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>>725822863
>Did she do the most damage to the video game industry?
>announces she's gonna make a video
>gamers have a absolute meltdown
>end up making it all more popular than it would ever have been if they had just chuckled and moved on
>clusterfuck leads directly to gamergate
>bunch of idiots whining about a table with no legs
>lays groundwork for griftube
No, "gamers" did that.
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>>725822863
SKG will be the biggest damage done to the video game industry if it goes through.
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>>725824491
What tantrum am I throwing?
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>>725824579
The irony is /v/irgins call her a "grifter" even though she actually delivered on all her promises, but they'll turn around and gobble the balls of any one of a handful of youtube weirdoes regurgitating their own talking points back at them on a daily basis
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>>725824617
t. Piratesoftware
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>>725824617
unironically good.
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>>725824695
If you don't see how Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn relate to massive gamer tantrums, maybe you should lurk a bit more
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>>725824739
Why are you ok with game devs losing their jobs, anon?
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>>725824617
Based SKG going to shut these hag simps up.
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>>725824807
because they're shit at their jobs?
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>>725824163
True, but rescuing a damsel isn’t the only simple motive you can use for games where the story is an afterthought. Just stopping the bad guy because they’re fucking shit up is an even simpler motive, but that also works. The girl is completely unnecessary unless she’s important to the plot. Plus female characters are more fun when they’re actually doing things rather than just standing there waiting to be rescued.


>>725824195
Most vidya devs were always somewhere of the left wing side of the vidya spectrum since back in the day, traditional conservatives were the people trying to get games censored and regulated. The problem is that despite being moderate left, they shared a cause with the radical left in freeing vidya from conservative censorship, so when they finally “won”, they were scared to be called racist, sexist or a homophobe for promoting more moderate views because they did fundamentally dislike racism, sexism and homophobia anyway.

Woke gained influence in the 2010s because many on the centre-left were too cowardly to draw a line in the sand out of fear that people would get the wrong idea and accuse them of being a Fascist. What we’re seeing now is the moderates finally saying “enough is enough” and putting their foot down a little. Woke only had power because no one in the mainstream stood up to it for years.
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>>725824617
>Tiny indie developers that can somehow afford invasive always online games as a live service style development
These 'people' don't even know what they are arguing for or against anymore.
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>>725822863
It was inevitable. Pic related is an older screenshot but it still gets the point across. There are thousands of those DEI consultancy firms working with market research companies and presenting their data to big studios. Anita was only one of thousands..
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>>725824831
You do realise that SKG will hurt indies more than massive corporations, right?
Those corps have the resources and money to keep supporting a game, while Indies are fucked.
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>>725824807
Go cry to China and Saudi about it.
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>>725824928
and? the vidya industry is in need of a massive crash.
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>>725823812
Honestly based. The MGOTW should do more of this.
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>>725824738
All you're fucking doing is proving Pirate Software right. This is no longer a consumer rights movement, it's just a harassment campaign.
We're not fucking kiwifarms, we're better than this.
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>>725824928
Indies don't need to support most games because they are single player offline experience
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It was gamergate's reaction to chicks like this that ruined everything
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>>725824880
>they did fundamentally dislike racism, sexism and homophobia anyway, BUT
If they really did there wouldn't have been an issue
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>>725822882
kys
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>>725823828
Have some self respect anon.
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>>725824983
Welcome to 4chan, learn to handle the disappointment
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>>725824983
You lost, thor
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>>725823812
>did not get married
>wedding-themed birthday
>>You should marry yourself
Retard
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>>725824928
Why would indies be making games that rely upon external servers being live in order to play their game? How would they be developing said game without the ability to provide a server kit or relevant API etc for people to host their own servers in the event of a shutdown? If these things are avoidable why can they not just sell their game under a subscription service that gets around the regulations SKG is asking for?
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>>725822863
Why are they trying so hard to turn SKG into Gamergate 2.0? I don't fucking get it.
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>>725825036
Feminism is the biggest wedge issue in politics. Men just *really* hate women s much it's unreal. Even the ones who consider themselves liberal.
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>>725824807
Same reason I'm fine with artists starting to lose theirs: Fucking hate them
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>>725825196
Same, I'm so fucking happy for AI, even though I don't personally use it.
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>>725824928
Not my problem
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>>725824880
>What we’re seeing now is the moderates finally saying “enough is enough”
Are we? Maybe when it comes to important irl stuff like not defunding the police or whatever. But as far as games go, they're more censored and toned down than ever, which even if you say it's petty is what I care about. Seven or eight years ago people were broadly opposed to that whereas now they just tell you to accept it.
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>>725824972
>>725825131
Neither of these replies addresses that your taxpayer money went to Anita shit. Good goyim moment.
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>>725825182
Because the corporations it threatens understand that identify politics is one of the few tools that works to break up movements. However because that hand has been played so much only absolute midwits and NPCs still fall prey to its use.
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>>725825095
I do. I want these 2 demonic whores to destroy my dick.
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>>725825259
>as far as games go, they're more censored and toned down than ever
That's because conservatives are in charge now. When will you people learn they've always been ten times worse?
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>>725825265
It's incredibly funny seeing the left, who calls themselves anticapitalist and anti establishment fall for every single one of their tricks time and time again.
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>>725825264
K and my tax dollars are funding troon genital mutilations and wars. Your point is?
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>>725822863
would
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>>725825264
Shit, I can get fedbucks to throw a birthday party?
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>>725825343
You are retarded
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>>725825360
My brother in Christ this is *you* falling for it
The wedge is not that women and minorities exist it's that you hate them
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>>725822863
Why is there still so much woke in the video game industry? Trump is in power, he needs to do something about it.
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>>725824983
Idiot.
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>>725825468
He aint doing shit but protecting his pedo buddies
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>>725825407
Enjoy another decade of censorship then
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>>725825265
This. Bringing up GG in 2025 only encourages Saudis to buy more game companies.
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>>725825494
Trump is innocent
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>>725825360
It is indeed, though not really surprising given their lack of critical thinking ability and that they parse all information through a consensus mentality.
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>>725825453
They did a fine job making me hate them though
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>>725825184
Back in the 90s and 2000s moderate feminism was able to exist without controversy and was quite mainstream. It was really only the radfems that were mocked.

Nowadays, you can’t even have a female protagonist in a game who isn’t weeb coombait without someone screaming that it’s woke. Feminism as a whole has been reduced to a laughingstock these days, which wasn’t helped by a lot of younger feminists forcing out the old school feminists for not being “progressive” enough— a classic case of the revolution devouring its own.
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>>725825363
>funding troons
Where?
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>>725825468
The woke madness took hold on his first term.
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>>725825343
You guys can't be serious. I don't agree with anything tradcon types say either, but it hasn't been conservatives primarily responsible for censoring vidya for over fifteen years at this point.

By and large, gaming companies today watch what kind of content they put out because they're afraid to be seen as racist, sexist, et cetera and cause a stir, and they're more tame than they used to be because progressives have successfully pushed for more things to be considered -ist or -phobic.

You can be a leftist and oppose censorship if you want but you can't honestly deny the call is coming from inside the house at this point.
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>>725825519
Innocent of ever having missed a single Epstein party with underage girls, that is
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>>725825264
My taxes are already being abused for shit I care more about.
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>>725825557
>Doesn't know that state-sponsored genital mutilations *exist*
Loltard
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>>725822882

I never thought I'd end up agreeing with her wholeheartedly, but here we are.

Guess that's just gaming nowadays
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>>725825541
They being the corporations, yes
>only absolute midwits and NPCs still fall prey to its use
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>>725822863
#stopkillinggames is arguably worse for the video game industry
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>>725824438
Plenty of games have different reasons for doing things. In Kirby's Dreamland, King Dedede stole all the food. In Donkey Kong Country, King K. Rool stole Donkey Kongs bananas. Simple storytelling where a bad guy kidnapped someone/stole something is perfectly fine for what the game needs and there's no reason to ask questions about it because it's not important.
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>>725825556
Why do conservatives always act like only the left has agency? They made themselves acceptable to me, they made me hate them, they're making me do this
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>>725825603
That's Hunter Biden you're talking about, not Trump
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>>725825512
Genuinely based Saudi Princes. I would rather gaming be owned by private interests rather than corporate interests so that there is at least the possibility that they ignore bullshit and just get what they want made. Even if we differ fundamentally on a societal or religious level etc at least I would know the game was made with a passion and vision in mind or at least wasn't formed by some conformity checklist. I'd prefer that to the shit being dribbled out by corporate yes men employing idiots with useless degrees coded by pajeets and used to virtue signal whatever the latest trend is.
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>>725825592
>it hasn't been conservatives primarily responsible for censoring vidya for over fifteen years at this point
Games were literally cancelled due to the "political climate". And if you're going to move the goalposts and say that's not censorship, then the left was never guilty of censorship either.

Rightoids are out there burning books for having sexual content, you think they'll leave your games alone?
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>>725825764
Saudi Princes aren’t that different from corporations. Who do you think invests in the corporations?
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>>725822863
No. She was a grifter but at the end of the day the things that did the most damage to the video games industry were investors catching whiff of big money and chasing trends in an industry they have no real interest or idea of.

And it won't get better until companies decide to stop this and focus on putting players first instead pure profit driven design.
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>>725825764
Saudis are strictly governed by Sharia Law.
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>>725825697
>Plenty of games have different reasons for doing things
So then you're saying we don't need to use this one? It sounds like you just don't want people to ask questions because it makes you uncomfortable.
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>>725825887
Why do conservatives hate Sharia law? It's perfectly aligned with their beliefs.
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>>725825630
Circumcision makes you dependable on healthcare?
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>>725826013
If it's botched, yeah.
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>>725825942
Because that would imply they know what Sharia Law actually is or have any interest in learning about other cultures, they only know that Sharia Law is foreign and therefore the enemy.
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>>725825834
Always with the ignoring the past with you people
>well so and so is doing it now!
And? It doesn't change who was doing it then. The past matters as much as the present when it comes to movements and information
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>>725825764
I kinda get you, anon. At least when a Saudi prince bankrolls something, it’s because he personally wants it to exist, not because a boardroom of crusty marketing execs ran a numbers simulation and decided the optimal market fit for "diverse gritty shooter #47." That said, let’s not pretend they're patrons of the arts or some based anti-woke saviors-they’re just flexing their wallets in different arenas and you can bet your ass they’d censor the entire industry to align with whatever moral code they're vibing with this week. It's trading corporatism for monarchy, not exactly a net gain lmao.
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>>725826092
>ignoring the past
Bruh you're ignoring most of my post lol
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>>725826184
And you arr ignoring his because you want to focus on sides
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Anita was right
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>>725826150
Yeah you get me, and I agree they aren't some paragons that will save gaming. But in the end I still consider it to be a better possibility than the soulless corporations we have now.
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>>725826229
Cool projection, pointless to argue with
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>>725826070
Sucks to suck. Go die to COVID 2 I guess.
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>>725825885
Games are getting better despite what some people think.

I think some people here are too young to remember how dire the 7th gen was. Barring some rare exceptions, unless your game was a heavily scripted CoD style shooter, or an Arkham Asylum clone, then your game wasn’t getting made. Entire studios were killed because publishers were chasing the CoD audience and unrealistic sales targets. Entire genres like the JRPG or stealth games were on their death bed because of this. At least nowadays, we’re getting a greater variety of games from both east and west, and AAA western devs are at least TRYING to go back to their roots. 2009-2012 was the dark age of vidya.
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>>725824282
That should have always been obvious to everyone
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>>725826304
Most of those genres are still dead.........
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>>725826303
Not my problem lmao
t. Pureblood
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>>725822882
Take a walk on a chinese bridge.
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>>725825834
If that's happening I oppose it but again, this is like the first time conservatives have been able to do this in over a decade. I dunno what you want me to say--I already hate it when conservatives do this and tell them so, I'm not gonna vote for them, but I'm not gonna pretend progressives aren't just as bad. Even today when old content is released again it's often censored, and progressives always find excuses for it.

If you want people to stop associating progressives with censorship then, I dunno, you need to start boosting the "proship" members of your coalition and telling people to shut the fuck up when they whine about loli or panty shots being diddy ahh blud shit. You need to start arguing that even if a work does contain offensive elements it's important to preserve it in its original form and that people are strong enough to handle it. I mean wouldn't people in favour of artistic expression agree it would be fucking dumb to start taking out the homophobic or misogynistic lyrics from old hip-hop albums? Same shit applies.
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>>725826304
>AAA western devs are at least TRYING to go back to their roots
I don't think I can bring up anything other than GTA VI if a normalfag asks me what the current AAA hype is.
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>>725822863
As someone who doesn't reflexively hate women it was interesting to me just how much Anita's haters lied about her. Just about every single thing was taken out of context, sometimes to mean the exact opposite of what she was saying, and even completely fabricated quotes were floating around this board for years afterwards. Surely you wouldn't have to do that if she were actually wrong?
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>>725825557
A dozen or so different NGOs using money laundered from various sources. USAID was but one head of the hydra. You seem quite ignorant of how the neoliberal western order works, it mostly works in the background through private entities and backroom deals, not through direct government action.
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>>725825360
Its bc true leftism unironically would have them living in a forest without the comforts of their overpriced coffee latte shops because everything is practically capitalism.
Their 'Anti-establishment' is merely walking outside and waving signs (purchased online on mass from Amazon) doing literally nothing inside the designated square box 300 yards away from the building like good little npcs.
consider the fact that a bunch of fags at the capital building with 1/100th of the numbers of the 'no purpose' march had more impact and lasting power.
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>>725826446
Progressives don't take advice from people who parrot braindead conservative talking points about feminism. If you want influence, you have to demonstrate some good faith and show that your concerns come from a genuine place.
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>>725826349
JRPGs made a massive comeback from 2017 onwards due to Persona 5 and Nier Automata, and we’re now at the point where Expedition 33 (a western JRPG style game) was a massive mainstream success and a serious GOTY contender. As for stealth, Nu-Hitman was extremely successful and one I the best stealth games in years, and there’s a bunch of indie stealth games too.

The industry might not be perfect atm, but it’s in a far healthier place now than in the 7th gen where it was “make a CoD clone that sells a gorillion copies or we close your studio”.
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>>725823828
Quinn looks better here then she did in that n00d photoshoot
>>725825557
I'm Drumpf's America not dying from illness is something available to you if you where born into an economically secure family. Also lmao at all the chuds who support someone who thinks they are losers.
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>>725826513
How can a field like that exist for long without being outsourced to pajeets like every other fields?
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>>725825468
It unironically works in his favor with some vestiges still being around. Fags will still use those as examples of how woke is still around and still needs to be combatted.
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>>725826304
Define better. Western AAA and pseudo-Western (i.e. Euro) AAA are nothing but garbage and sequels, reboots, or rehashes of existing IPs by an large. Japanese AAA has been infected with the California mind virus and has gone to shit as well on top of being coded by pajeets. At this point only AA and Indie are of any real creative value, and they aren't really part of the 'Gaming' market in regards to corporations and the sort of super money that is being talked about when it comes to discussions on gaming development.
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>>725826304
JRPGs weren't on their death bed whereas many games incorporated stealth mechanics to the point of diminishing interest in specialised stealth games because almost every game had stealth mechanics or stealth segments. Why play Splinter Cell when you could play Asscreed, Tomb Raider or Bamham?

7th Gen having lots of Brown and Bloom CoDlikes is true but literally nobody remembers those beyond standouts like SpecOPs The Line which went out of its way to deconstruct military shooter naratives.

Those CoDlikes and AssCreed clones were all following trends and chasing money just like many modern games are only now the trend has changed from Battle Royale to Hero Shooters and Over the Shoulder Movie games to now Live Service Slop and Whacky Cross Promotional nonsense. We haven't escaped from the horrors of the 7th gen brown and bloom slop, it just changed tactics to better suit the times.
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Trying to point to "da ebil far-right fascists" is a deflection. The zeitgeist is still overwhelmingly leftist and progressive despite incremental shifts rightward and you know it, and that's what these companies go off of. Trump has been a lame duck who has consistently failed to deliver on a single thing he promised, so a blue wave in the midterms is all but guaranteed. And when the exact same censorship patterns continue as normal despite the "ebil righoids" no longer having any power (that they never use properly anyway), I will be there to hand you your very own "fell for it again" awards. Or maybe not, because "fell for it" implies you actually believed any of it to begin with. The rot is within the industry itself.
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>>725826494
She did do some questionable things (mainly lying about how much of a gamer she actually was and also not completing her video series for years), however, she didn’t do anything near as heinous as what Zoe Quinn did apart from defend her. Zoe Quinn cheating on her bf to promote her game and then using her journo buddies to cover it up really opened the floodgates. It was arguably ground zero of the 2010s culture war.
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>>725822863
No, because woke garbage will come and go
Game as a service retardation is here to stay
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>>725822863
Man I miss the days when /v/ lived rent-free in the heads of the SJWs. Now it's the other way around.
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>>725823672
She's the Feminist Frequency cunt
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>>725826847
While trend chasing never stopped, the success of games like Dark Souls really killed some of the worst tropes of the 7th gen slop games.

Things like quest markers, a lack of boss fights, an autistic obsession with “realism”, heavily scripted sections that only let you do exactly what the game tells you are now actively frowned upon despite them being seen as essential features of most AAA games back then.
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Stupid bitch.
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>>725825343
>That's because conservatives are in charge now
Where? What have they censored?
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>>725824076
Name the games. The only notable one in the 90s was just Mario. In Zelda you had the breaking expectations of sheikh being in Zelda. In ff7 you had the female cast basically tard wrangling everyone else.
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>>725824928
Ah yes, all those indie live service games. And it really isn't a problem if they develop the game with it in mind, so it's all bullshit on your part
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>>725822863
Yeah she did. No one likes ugly female protagonists in games. Nobody
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Probably the single biggest thing contributing to "woke" in the industry is the recruiting base of college graduates being nothing but progtards since American colleges are progtard assembly lines. And Trump and his admin are doing absolutely nothing to address this, he could defund the colleges, but instead he's stated he's going to import another 6 gorillion chinks for them for "business", betraying two campaign positions at the same time. This is never going to be addressed by anyone inside the American political system, it's just clear at this point. The root of the issue goes back to 60s civil rights legislation and those are treated as more sacred to Our Democracy™ than the Constitution itself. "Woke" is just part of the western political order at this point, a feature, not a bug.
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>>725827332
We still have debates over "Yellow Paint", not every game needs or is designed around boss fights yet still feel the need to include them like the recent 343 Halo games, many modern games are preferring cancerous realism over maintaining a proper visual style with games boasting about how detailed and realistic the graphics are like we've seen with Horizon Zero Dawn or how greater western media still thinks of Live Action as inherently superior to Animation despite the many many pieces of evidence that show the contrary and we still get press X to awesome games like GoW Ragnarok or Modern Asscreeds.

It's just that now the general consumer more aware of slop
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>>725827332
There is a somewhat reasonable mentality behind trend chasing. But gaming developers and publishers doing to such a degree in the stupidest ways that it largely defeats the point. The general idea is that you can take market share by doing what is in demand but better. They forget the latter part of that or erroneously believe that whatever they do is inherently better with zero qualification against actual market demand or research into how viable making such products are or how likely they will be to win over consumer interest. And they they will also tack on stupid shit no one wants like always-online, live service, micro transactions, etc because that is just how they demand business be done.
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she's irrelevant
her handler on the other hand
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i checked 8ch the other day and they're still fucking talking about gamergate
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>>725827639
Because we also got another gamer gate moment with kabrutus last year as well.
It's like never ending
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>>725827557
>60s civil rights legislation and those are treated as more sacred to Our Democracy™ than the Constitution itself
Kill yourself Kirkshill; your Constitution failed in the first place, it's not the civil rights legislation that's to blame its the intense dumbing down of the American people over the years and the commodification of your politics thats to blame. Your leaders spend more time grandstanding that actually talking about issues and policies and your people are completely okay with that because - LOOK AN UNAMERICAN LEFTIST TRANNY NIGGER IMMIGRANT WHO WANTS TO DESTROY YOU!
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>>725825468
A mixture of ESG funding, the corporate obsession with endlessly broadening the player base even when it isn't feasible, and the presence of true believers on the dev teams who will radiate their, ironically, toxic bullshit
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>>725827639
Well gaming urinalists bring it up any time a group of more than 2 people says something they don't agree with. So it has stayed in the public consciousness more often than is actually relevant.
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>>725827934
GG really mindbroke journalists because of how badly it exposed their nepotism. It’s like how progressives can’t stop talking about Trump.

They can’t get over that one time they lost because their ego can’t accept that losing was even a possibility.
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>>725827820
>its the intense dumbing down of the American people over the years
I'm sure opening the floodgates to a billion sub-90 IQ third-worlders with Hart-Cellar helped a lot with that.
>Kirkshill
Lol.
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>>725828121
That's right Kirkshill, let's Make America Great Again! Let's Go Brandon!
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>>725822863
>get 120k to make video game reviews and talk about feminism
>copy paste most of your text from wikipedia
>steal gaming footage from streamers
>get called out on it
>play the victim card and suffer no consequences
>bank the money and get one of those high paying fake jobs at AAA company

Being a woman is so hard guys
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>>725827639
that's actually a reach, it's just a blogposting thread with a theme of being about gamergate
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>>725828063
It was arguably even larger than that in the end. It woke a lot of otherwise unengaged people up to how corrupt and malleable the mainstream media was. It would have been one thing for gaming journalists to be exposed as corporate shills and media approved mouth pieces, but somehow the whole situation seeped into actual mainstream new and media like with SVU. This is without even touching on the Darpa connections and other shit that was dug up. All they had to do was not have the entirety of the gaming websites all push the same narrative immediately at once and they probably could have gotten away with it all to a significant degree.
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>>725826304
7th gen still managed to put out a ton of games that would never be made today. The whole Infamous vs Prototype debate would never occur in 2025, because these somewhat original games are too big a risk for the bloated corpse that is the AAA industry. Shooters that were near identical to each other were a problem in the 7th gen, but there were also plenty of them that did original shit and didn't aim to get literal all gamers to play their game. Market research, fear of any risk and a complete aversion to innovation or unconventional design, is what is killing AAA games today. Indie is where you have to go to find anything that's actually interesting, because AAA aims to make literal billions of dollars with every product, so all their games become cookie-cutter shit.

Corporate cunts are a plight
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>>725823828
Get me Mike Adriano on the phone! We just found the next Swallowed scene!!!
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>>725822863
Please, she is a footnote on a excerpt. The most she's "done" to the industry as a whole has been an overly vocal and whiny brat who thinks she has some clout when there is zero evidence to support that delusion.

She didn't matter before, during, or after GG, doesn't matter now, and won't matter in the future. She's grasped onto the tiniest little shred of a coat-tail, crying that The Man won't let her grab onto more of it, when it's her own failings that's brought her to nothingness.
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shit thread
now post some anita pics
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>>725828425
Does she even still do anything related to games, or is she past pretending like she ever cared about games at all?
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>>725822863
>>725828425
She does the most damage to my erection industry, that's for sure
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>>725828425
Whats her feet smell like hmm?
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>>725828481
>>725828523
>deleting posts
y*kes
this isn't facebook
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>>725828624
I do what I want
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>>725828647
sure
*calls the cops*
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>>725828425
Probably would. But it would be a hate fuck that involves constant verbal denial of the Armenian genocide.
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>>725822863
She and Zoe only made gamers stronger.
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What is the argument for someone who hates women but is also straight
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>>725828701
oh fugg :DDDD
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>>725828251
The thing is that the AA market was mostly dead in the 7th gen, and indies were nowhere near as prevalent as they were today. In the last 5-8 years, we’ve seen a massive resurgence in AA, mid-budget games simply because AAA games are becoming too expensive to make, and we now have the tech to make PS2-PS3 era games much easier as an amateur.

I’m convinced that if GTA VI somehow bombs or if Rockstar is otherwise severely affected by delays and union strikes, it could crash the whole AAA portion of the industry. The degree to which AAA budgets have inflated simply isn’t sustainable, and we’re already starting to see cracks with all these big AAA games flopping lately.
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>>725828747
You only see women as objects, to satisfy your sexual needs.
That's what a chad would also do
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>>725822863
I parroted you guys like a retard back then but last year I finally checked what she had to say and her takes were incredibly mild
Nothing she says is outraging
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>>725828747
That’s just garden variety misogyny. Basically, they see women as sex dolls and nothing else. They believe women should be treated as property rather than people.
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>>725822863
Nope, it was the weak men that put her in place and allowed it. She was the useful idiot.
She should suffer forever more though
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>>725823828
Reminder that Zoe Quinn preferred bullying Alec Holowka into committing suicide instead of using the information she had to have him arrested and trialed, and she got completely away with it. I don't know what dirt this goblin has to bend things in her favor, but it has to be something big.
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>>725828761
everyone talks about the AI but not the gaming bubble
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>>725828761
>The thing is that the AA market was mostly dead in the 7th gen
What do you mean? That's when the industry started transitioning into what we have today. 7th gen was more profitable than any gen before it, because more and more people started to play games. I think 7th gen was also the height of the console wars. Skyrim was a landmark release in gaming, because it was bought by people who had never come close to playing any RPG. PC gaming was being shafted at the time, though
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>>725828861
So that means they could only possibly feel love towards nobody or a man ...? Doesn't that contradict straightness?
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>>725828761
>>725828983
>The thing is that the AA market was mostly dead in the 7th gen
Disregard my post. I though you wrote AAA
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>>725822882
Huh? What are you talking about? Didn't she end her grift and fuck off?
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>>725828851
>video games make you sexists
>if you complain abut censorship it comes from a place of objectification

yup nothing bad at all
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>>725824076
>“Save the girl” was a go to plot point for a lot of older games.
Good.
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>>725827131
blame the usual suspects that allowed for it to get this bad, this site is nothing but bot farm engagement for cross media posters to get pennies from
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>>725828983
AA games are mid-market games. You know, the kind of niche games that aren’t super mainstream or that high budget, but are more expensive to make than indies.

In the past, these were the kind of games you’d find in bargain bins or the bottom of shelves in gaming stores. The PS2 had a huge amount of these games. Rule of Rose, just to name one example.
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>>725824076
I really don't get why this is a problem though.
Getting rescued by a chad is a woman's wet dream
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>>725822882
She still won’t sleep with you
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>>725824702
There was a game that was actually released? This is literally the first I've heard of this.
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>>725828861
Aka how men truly feel about women with without the rails of society and coddling them for a chance of a crumb of box
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>>725825238
>>725825196
>I will follow anything to hurt my enemies even if it may lead to problems for me
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>>725829081
This mentality is all over the place in the industry now, and is increasingly used as justification by platform holders to censor. Like the entire reason Vita-style ecchi "touching minigames" are banned from Japanese games now is based on the reasoning that they depict sexual harassment and objectification and contribute to rape culture.
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>>725824491
Woke gaming lost
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>>725829212
A sex fantasy is different than reality. You can control a sex fantasy.

No one actively wants their liberties taken from them if they can help it.
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>>725822863
She didn't cause the 20+ year mechanical stagnation of video games
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>>725822863
She did a lot of damage to my cock
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Love how now that literally everyone sees how shit the left’s policies are all they have left in political arguments is “conservatives are dumb!”
Left never actually had any plan for the governing part of government. All they’ e got is forcing social policy on everyone who disagrees. It’s just a whiny tantrum movement with no real answers other than “something has to change” and that only works on losers and children.
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>>725823812
This is so pathetic that it's almost sad. Do you think she's aware of how embarrassing it is, and everyone just played along?
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>>725829440
I wonder how much of that has to do with the fact that Japan is trying to address its public groping problem, so its trying to be seen to be doing something.
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>>725829762
Video games are fiction though, so it's fine
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>>725823716
I'm inclined to accidentally agree with her by accident on that, games don't need stupid fucking romance "stories", or if they're going to bother to have a "fleshed out" story it should at least try to be good
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>>725829808
That is actually a pretty good point. Whatever damage she did was independent to innovation plateauing.
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>>725829869
Very little, it started with Sony in 2018 who explicitly gave western feminist reasons.
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>>725829812
Both sides are shit for different reasons. Reactionaries on both sides can only deconstruct and tear things down. They can’t build something to replace the old system once it’s destroyed because they don’t think that far ahead.

If far-right reactionaries got in power, they would also just do nothing but blame the left and minorities for everything rather than do anything productive.
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>>725828425
Imagine the smell
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>>725830068
I can guarantee you you would see an almost immediate improvement to all sectors of society if every single non-white was removed from the US.
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>>725822863
No. Troonsters attempt to do the most damage to the videogame industry. I mean they have successfully killed Ubisoft. Not even EA with their track record managed to kill as many games and brands as troonsters did. Troonsters do the same amount of damage outside of videogames too. It's a virus and a stain on humanity all around. We just need to reopen mental homes and pack it full with those who belongs into it. Simple solution. And it worked for millenia until the late 20th century.
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>>725827639
Did they post niggerdicks in their faggy general again?
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>>725830242
By the way you're posting, you'll be one of the first to be sent to one of those mental homes.
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>>725830163
Even if that were true, it wouldn’t be possible because it would quickly get caught up in the semantics of trying to define what constitutes “whiteness”, plus it’s be impossible to do from a resource perspective.

There has never been a single successful reactionary state in modern history. Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the USSR all collapsed under their own weight with time.
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>>725827017
Zoe Quinn also did not actually do that
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>>725822882
>Now she is the only hope we have left.
I wish she came back to finish what she started, i.e. completely cratering the western games industry so china/korea dominates forever.
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>>725830445
that is not for assblasted sexual degenerates to decide. There are objective metrics. Silent majority will celebrate reopening of the mental homes and packing it full with lunatics, delusional people, etc.
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>>725829808
It must have been a coincidence then that gaming became shit after 2010 when woke took off
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>>725830503
Her impact on the industry was minimal. Investors, outsourcing and bad hires are what damaged the western industry.
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>>725822863
she did nothing wrong and /v/ was retarded to shift from raiding her for laughs to believing they were engaged in a real political cause
chanology 2.0
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>>725830462
Whites are trivial to define. People of exclusively or primarily European extraction, primarily Western Europe. The idea that it would be impossible to achieve mass deportations with 21st century resources when Germany (supposedly) moved similar numbers with mid-20th century resources is laughable, plus Operation Wetback as well. Where there's a will, there's a way.
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>>725830694
>Her impact on the industry was minimal.
Huh? Games are gayer than ever nowadays, what's this cope? Gaytors lost.
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>>725830584
unfortunately we live in a woke world. life's unfair.
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>>725822863
I want to doggy style her till I fire a massive load deep inside
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>>725822863
The #StopKillingGames movement is doing more damage to the video game industry.
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>>725831063
You are still at it? You can stop now. No one believes your bullshit
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>>725822863
is she still single? if so that's pretty sad
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>>725831195
How is it bullshit?
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>>725831209
who wants to date a debbie downer? i mean just look at /v/
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>>725830875
we factually don't. It is but an illusion. A bubble. And it might seem like that to people inside of that bubble. But china, india, muslims, hardocre christians are not woke. And these people (esp. combined) are still the vast majority of the population.
You could have a white straight males with triple digit IQ's and full time jobs on your side, but they pissed me off too. Libertarians too. More than they have pissed everybody else off by the way. Because you hate white straight men with high iq. I will never side you on any issue anymore, I'd rather larp as a hardcore prude christian IRL. Because there is nothing to be gained from the collaboration with degenerates. They're double digit IQ ego driven narcissistic attention whoring cattle.
TL;DR: Woke are very few, but loud. Woke are a pet project. And woke ability to speak out comes to an end, because nobody listens anymore. They shouldn't have listened in the first place.
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>>725831209
The Wedding themed birthday Party should tell you everything
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>>725822863
She got us Trump.
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>>725831367
Twice
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>>725823716
She left out Samus and Lara in her shitty argument. That bitch it's just a grifter.
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>>725831348
>But china, india, muslims
They become "woke" when they come over because they're anti-white by default and so gravitate to the anti-white side as well as the one that promises them gibs.
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>>725831360
Doesn’t she have a bf?

She did at the peak of her fame anyway.
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>>725830584
>that is not for assblasted sexual degenerates to decide
But enough about 4chan
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>>725822882
Genuinely, what is this post talking about? I thought she was done with her grift.
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>>725831597
>delusional retard
yeah, yeah. keep being delusional.
>>725831685
stop projecting and go kill some more major greedy AAA dev stuios and publishers, you faggots. kek.
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>>725831597
The problem is that some types just don't get that there isn't a based diverse coalition out there. He's the type that will side with a middle eastern, multiracial proto-commie cult and stand in your way/attack you while you're trying to defend yourself.
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>>725830694
>Her impact on the industry was minimal.
She opened the floodgates to all sorts of grifters, from DIE to racial grifters because all sorts of shysters saw game devs are a bunch of cuckolds who lurve to get told what to do. She basically was proof of concept of how to gaffle and bamboozle the whole games industry.

>Investors, outsourcing and bad hires are what damaged the western industry
Investors don't have time to look at what's happening, they just see that grifter youtube channels get views and idiots like to pretend they don't like hot characters in games because they like the unearned feel of superioriority to the "coomers", so the investors push for more because they think they're gonna make bank from this new "modern audience" which never existed. It was a bubble pumped up by a gaggle of hipster fuckwits on social media and in games "journalism".
Outsourcing has been happening for longer than you've been alive, your whole society is based on paying desperate people less so your corporates can have yachts full of whores and coke.
"Bad hires" were entirely supported by the grift industry enabled by sarkesian, who blew the gates open.

Reminder that she and other feminists like her tried the same shit with both film and music before, but only in the thristy AF games industry did a 4.5/10 with 1 ton of makeup manage to get a ton of idiots to *respectfully nod* while creating the mid 2010's feminist grifting job which then evolved into DEI grifting, cratering profits across the whole of the games industry in the process. Do you have any fucking idea how much money was lost in these 15 years of feminist and DEI grifting? Concord was just 400 million dollars, but how many other projects which could have made bank got cancelled because frumpy unfuckable women seethe at society for not getting male attention? How many games gotten neutered in these 15 years and as a result audiences have permanently left for competitor's products?
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>>725822882
Based accelerationism chad
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>>725826494
The woman who did declare a NPC in a red light district to be a "hypersexualized background decoration" of a sexist industry is mad that she's being taken out of context? That's really funny.
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>>725823828
Spoil this shit, anon, normal people might get BPD by just looking at it
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>>725825453
You leftypol faggots really don't realize how much you stand out huh?
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The western games industry was completely wiping the floor with the japanese during the late 00s and early 2010s. But we can't have any nice things, especially if the target audience is men. Good job "fixing" it.
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>>725828851
Many such cases
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>>725829081
She did not actually say those things
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>>725829314
Maybe because you just made that up.
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>>725828851
She's saying that sexy women itself is objectification, she even goes as far as trying to frame it as borderline abusive. Check this video out for example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZPSrwedvsg

She's completely fucking mental and it's clear that you HAVEN'T actually watched her videos.
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>>725829812
This is blatant projection
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>>725825036
This. Gamergate did achieve the opposite effect.
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>>725832480
Oh no I'm well aware that I'm the only sensible person here
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>>725825942
>Why do conservatives hate Sharia law?
Saudis and Jared Kushner own EA.
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>>725832959
What did it achieve? With what money? What organization? Who was affected? Anything in the real world and not contained within your pea sized skull?
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>>725831348
>we factually don't. It is but an illusion. A bubble. And it might seem like that to people inside of that bubble.
Why would i care that muslims are stoning gays when businesses use them to promote products and influence culture around me?
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>>725832237
What's the context for that quote Anon
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>>725822863
It's funny that the GamerGate era is almost quaint compared to what we have now. Fucking miserable.
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>>725822863
No, the gaming audience did.
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>>725824491
Why is Square Enix cleaning house?
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>>725833094
Matters as much as why the NPC looked the way it did.
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>>725824617
Stop fucking ferrets, Jason
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>>725824617
>Start killing developers
don't mind if I do
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>>725833153
By not buying their shitty woke slop?



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