Let's Sperg Games worth playing despite woke reputation?

[Joe Dough 68]

My bid: Sable. It's on the Sweet Baby Inc. shitlist, but I only noticed that it might have ties after I saw it on the list.

I noped out of that game basically the moment I got to talk with the npc's. Wasn't looking for it under the floorboards either, the text was just written in this "Tumblr-esque" style that it pulled me out of it right there and then, thank goodness for a demo.
Small sampler:

Edit: should've read the post to the end, basically as he said, the writing sucks.

 

[Johnny Dipp]

dwarf fortress has to be my favorite single player game of all time but its lead devs went turbo SJW and are now planning to remove the options for players to go on total elf death and etc. i'd recommend playing the last classic version, it should be in a few lunix package managers as the most up to date one (unless they update that too)

One time I set up a minimalist embark. I had 1 chicken and 1 rooster. Plan was to breed them for meat and eggs but no matter what I tried the eggs would not fertilise.
Turns out both the chicken and the rooster were gay. The devs coded gay chickens. Gay. Chickens.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Nigger fatigue is valid.

Late on this, but the thing that put me off Deathloop, and something that applies to "nigger fatigue" in general isn't that the characters have dark skin. It's that it's always the same bullshit archtype. The frizzy hair unsufferable girlboss etc.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Late on this, but the thing that put me off Deathloop, and something that applies to "nigger fatigue" in general isn't that the characters have dark skin. It's that it's always the same bullshit archtype. The frizzy hair unsufferable girlboss etc.

Yeah, they're always unrelatable and shitty people you don't want to see or hear, with zero depth. But even if that wasn't the case (which it never was in the past), I don't need a disproportionate amount of them all the times, in everything, always and forever.

 

[demicolon]

Almost 10 years old, but Undertale. If you're looking for an example of "games as art" this is the best example I played. It uses videogames as a medium to tell a story instead as a crutch, neither is it an interactive novel like Planescape: Torment or a walking simulator like the Last of Us. Honestly I've never noticed any woke themes in Undertale until I discovered the online fandom, which is full of I believe genuinely mentally ill people who told me I'm an evil person for enjoying the genocide route. I like genocide route because I don't have to deal with Alphys' bullshit and I like bullet hell gameplay.

 

[Need for Sped]

Not sure if it was mentioned, but definitely Hardspace: Shipbreaker. The story and characters are absolute woke trash (Muh unionization), but the gameplay is ridiculously addictive. Taking ships apart never stops being incredibly satisfying.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Almost 10 years old, but Undertale. If you're looking for an example of "games as art" this is the best example I played.

how

Something like Journey is a lot closer to "art" than quirky woke pixelshit.

 

[demicolon]

@SSj_Ness
It uses videogame as a medium to its full potential, similar to how Buster Keaton used film to its full potential instead of aping theater like his contemporaries. It means that statistics, interface, hit points, gameplay and all other videogame tropes play part in the story instead of being treated as obstacle on the way to true "art" like the interactive movies (see Last of Us) tend to. My favourite part is W.D.Gaster who talks in Windings font and you have to search through the game files to get most of his story, since he's only vaguely referenced in-game as a scientist who broke free from the game itself.
Granted, I've had the priviledge to play Undertale unspoiled. I've also played through Chrono Trigger unspoiled so stumbling upon the Kingdom of Zeal for the first time resonated with me differently than with people who heard about it first from some youtube retrospective. Playing Undertale gave me an impression that the author cared a lot about crafting a living, breathing world filled with relatable characters, not just to shove some wokeshit into it and call it a day.

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dwarf fortress has to be my favorite single player game of all time but its lead devs went turbo SJW and are now planning to remove the options for players to go on total elf death and etc. i'd recommend playing the last classic version, it should be in a few lunix package managers as the most up to date one (unless they update that too)

Tarn and Zach Adams went woke? Care to elaborate?

 

[Blue Miaplacidus]

God of War Ragnarok is not worth playing. The first GoW game I played was the 2018 PC port. I really enjoyed it, I was excited to play GoW Ragnarok because of it, until Sweet Baby INC discussion was boosted here. I found out that they were involved with Ragnarok and it ruined all of my excitement. Previously I wanted to pre-order it because 2018 was one of the better games I played in the last several years. I was going to ignore it entirely but I saw it was released to PC recently so I pirated it.

Fuck, it's terrible. Even ignoring making the mother of Fenrir and wife of loki a black teen, and Aunt Jemima running around stealing animal souls. It's garbage, everyone has bizarre modern American accents, the dialogue is absolutely bizarre. It feels like a Disney show. People have coloured hair, there's a dwarf with a comical stereotypical southern retard accent, and norse gods have all been pussified. The pacing is god awful and worst of all it's fucking boring. With 2018 I couldn't wait to finish my work every day so I could get back in the game and play more. With Ragnarok I loathed starting it up, and I finally quit maybe 30% through. I was finding myself wanting to skip every cutscene in Atreus sections and constantly pausing to tell my friends how shitty the game was. I couldn't do it, I deleted it. What a disappointment.

ETA: Oh it's also very buggy and combat feels noticeably worse than 2018. The camera constantly gets stuck against walls so you can't see enemies or your character. Enemies get stuck walking in place in random areas, especially if you're fighting on multiple planes. Scripted sections with NPCs become broken or buggy if you wander too far off the path. 2018 combat was simpler, but much more satisfying and hard fights on hard difficulty were challenging.

 

[Aquinas 2]

Metal Gear Survive is genuinely fun, bite me

 

[#1 Hot Sauce of Kiwi Farm]

Ostranauts Aside from the pronouns in character creation it has just the right amount of detail and autism I am looking for in a space game. I'd recommend it and if you don't feel like giving the dev money you can always try it.

 

[Scream Aim Fire]

Any Action or Shooter games you guys recommend? Like one of the CoD games, or Far Cry, or Watch Dogs, etc.?

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

Metal Gear Survive is genuinely fun, bite me

I don't think there's a woke reputation to that game at all, it's just a dogshit game reputation.

God of War Ragnarok is not worth playing. The first GoW game I played was the 2018 PC port. I really enjoyed it, I was excited to play GoW Ragnarok because of it, until Sweet Baby INC discussion was boosted here.

Thankyou for the anti-reccomendation. I also liked the first nu God of War game.

Probably already said but I recommend against the second Horizon game, even if you liked the first one, as I did. The story just gets too stupid and full of modern American writing tropes that weren't there in the previous game. Aloy became an ugly unlikable cunt and I'm worried they'll retcon that into the HZD remake.

 

[Aquinas 2]

I don't think there's a woke reputation to that game at all, it's just a dogshit game reputation.

Shut up, you are a literal DEI Poster

 

[Kid Named Rocket]

Terraria is technically going to have some woke shit once 1.4.5 comes out (Red is replacing the gender selection with Type A/Type B stuff, plus there's apparently a third gender type going to be added too). Also, the Gender Change Potion has been in the game for a while, if you want to count that.
But even so, Terraria is still one of the best, most fun videogames ever made. Peak music, beautiful mix of pixel artstyle and modern graphical effects, enjoyable exploration, a shitton of content. In short summary:

 

[Judge Dredd]

Vampire Survivors.

I just got it on Steam sale, and I'm hooked. I'm told Jim Sterling wrote some of the monster bios where he made them trans. No idea if that's true because reading bios is not the point of that game. It also holds up as actually fun. Not just the YouTuber flavour of the month. Even if it falls off, I got my £3 out of it, so I'm fine recommending it.

 

[BoomerSperg1922]

Yeah I think it's not so much woke as it is crowded by weirdos, hence said weirdos rallying around the druid/bearsex guy during the testing phase.

Normally I'd agree, but as someone who has played loads of larian games (divinity, divinity, divinity, divinity divinity, and divinity dating sim) the third act has obvious woke shit forced into it completely out of place. Everyone is gay, and suddenly 90% of the population is brown.

Act 1 and 2 are fine though. Anyone saying the companions are woke has never played a previous larian game. 'Annoying faggot' is where sven's character-depth writing talent begins and ends and the companions all encapsulate this quite well.

 

[Cucktry Roads]

Vampire Survivors.

I just got it on Steam sale, and I'm hooked. I'm told Jim Sterling wrote some of the monster bios where he made them trans. No idea if that's true because reading bios is not the point of that game. It also holds up as actually fun. Not just the YouTuber flavour of the month. Even if it falls off, I got my £3 out of it, so I'm fine recommending it.

Vampire Survivors is baby's first Risk of Rain 2. Play that instead, as RoR2 has actual challenge.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Terraria is technically going to have some woke shit once 1.4.5 comes out (Red is replacing the gender selection with Type A/Type B stuff, plus there's apparently a third gender type going to be added too).

All I can do is sigh... I liked Terraria, was addicted to it for a short while. How insufferable.

 

[Aquinas 2]

All I can do is sigh... I liked Terraria, was addicted to it for a short while. How insufferable.

god you're like that fat retard who shat is pants over starshit