KF Guide to Woke Games

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Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection: None/Medium
The actual games themselves are perfectly fine, but the Medium rating comes exclusively from this disclaimer:
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Speaks itself, really.
 
Here's another recent game that I played the shit out of: Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. I'm going to rate it as very Mildly Woke at worst.

Corporations are pretty unambiguously the bad guys, while the Rubicon Liberation Front rebels are good guys fighting to free their planet, though they're also morally grey to a degree. Your character is a highly-augmented mech pilot employed by a contractor with shady goals that often pressure you to stab your current employers in the back or commit atrocities, but the story deviates significantly depending on the actions you take. This is pretty typical Japanese sci-fi writing (little different from the likes of Ghost in the Shell, Gundam, or Final Fantasy VII, and those have been around forever), so I'm not going to say this story is influenced by Western wokery.

The biggest thing with the game (along with all other AC games) is that nobody is ever shown in the flesh. You only ever interact with other people through their mechs or over the radio. This means that it's practically impossible to determine a character's race, just their sex and age. This includes your character, Subject 621, who is never referred to with any pronouns and never speaks. Whether or not you consider this "woke" or just a way to make it easier for the player to cast themselves in the role of the protagonist without changing the script is up to you.

The only thing in the game I would consider "woke" is that the leader of the Rubicon Liberation Front is in a gay relationship with his second-in-command, but this only gets brought up in flavor text when you're about to fight his second-in-command in the optional Arena Mode. This fact is never brought up in the story mode when you interact with these characters.
 
Pocket Card Jockey for the Switch, replaced boy/girl from 3D'S version , with color of jockeys clothes (blue/pink)
 
Deadwaste said:
you'd be surprised at the tolerance i have for a lot of the stuff here. im convinced most people here will act like snowflakes at mild shit and be put off from a game just for that, no matter how minor.
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Nah, I just use this to check which game to pirate and which I should buy, lol.
 
Mojo Thief said:
The only thing in the game I would consider "woke" is that the leader of the Rubicon Liberation Front is in a gay relationship with his second-in-command, but this only gets brought up in flavor text when you're about to fight his second-in-command in the optional Arena Mode. This fact is never brought up in the story mode when you interact with these characters.
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I wonder if that's something localizers embellished. Doubly so if it's the same dipshits who did Elden Ring - loads of dialogue and descriptions were botched and I'm fairly certain the body type nonsense was their fault too.
 
Resunoit said:
Well I’m talking about XVI, not XIV. And honestly, I wouldn’t call a game woke just because of its playerbase. Catgirls and bunny girls are just Japanese shit. FFXIV itself is a very non-woke game. Except maybe stormblood. You MIGHT be able to make a point for that.
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I would rate XIV between None/Mild. From what I know, most beast races are genderless like the pixies in Shadowbringers as the pixies are born from the tears of dead children. And the whole Kate backlash as the English localizer. But at least XIV is not completely woke like modern Blizzard did with World of Warcraft. Now World of Warcraft on the other hand has gone woke between Medium/Heavy.

XVI I would give it a Mild. You see the homo dragoon with another dude in a far distance for a second. Other than that it's a fun game, and the LGBTQ+ community are still ungrateful little shit-sexuals.

Now if you want REALLY HEAVY woke games, check out Validate, Gone Home, and 2064: Read Only Memories.
 
Kiwi Andy said:
It's not super obvious stuff, more subliminal like Alan Wake 2. Lots of literal girl bosses (like child Jonah) where the game needs to tell you multiple times how she is in charge and the best and the leader. The first male leader you meet in the game (search party dude) is a nigger. Lots of brown people now sprinkled all over the world where that wasn't the case in BOTW. Oh boy the people of Lurelin village surely like to fuck everything that moves.
Race/tribe now translated as "people", queen Sonia also brown. The key art of the game and the robe of the goat dude has literal pizzagate swirls and triangles. There is more stuff but I rest my case. There is at least still the benefit of the doubt but since I am so sensitive for this shit now, it is very distracting. Fuck DEI for ruining my illusion of disbelief forever.
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Quoting myself here about Zelda TOTK... KF, am I going completely schizo with this? Give me your opinion on the gay Zelda game pls.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
@RobotGentleman I'm sure the diversity/identity politics of Hardspace is cancer, but is being pro-union automatically verboten? The premise of Hardspace sounds like a dramatized version of a real-life company town.
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I played through it, and @RobotGentleman is right in that the most prominent side character is a black socialist lesbian. However, the leader of your team is an incredibly nice and down-to-earth white Southern good-ol'-boy, and while the rest of your team is SBI-approved diversity, shipbreaking is fundamentally blue-collar work and if you've worked in a blue-collar environment you'll know there's either going to be a lot of white guys or minorities. What I don't understand is how he interpreted Hal as a Trump voter - Hal is supposed to be the exaggeration of every idiotic middle manager you've ever had, as he's someone who started off where you are, got into management by kissing asses, and then turns around and treats the people he's managing like absolute shit because he's afraid of getting canned. His politics never come up besides him being a stooge for upper management to root out unionization.

Yes, he's a fat, ugly white guy, but he could have been any other race or even a woman and his role would not change. Him being an abusive moron is what pushes the crew to unionize, much like in real life. Also, when the crew does finally unionize, they (aside from the aforementioned black socialist dyke) realize that the union is not all sunshine and rainbows. They still work the same ridiculous hours, and while they may no longer be indebted to the company, they now lost part of their meager salaries to union dues.

Also, the sinister, sociopathic owner of the shipbreaking firm you work for is a black woman. Writing a "girlboss kween" as the ruthless head of a megacorporation that practically enslaves its workforce through insane debt isn't terribly woke.

I'd honestly rate the game a Medium at worst, and it's only really because of the aforementioned black socialist dyke and her annoying diatribes in between missions.
 
Does anyone have anything on Dragon's Dogma II yet? I'm thinking about grabbing the game myself, but I'm hesitant; I heard that it's got a ton of microtransaction shit shoved in, but nothing much on the wokeness of the game. So... is DDII woke or not?
 
Scream Aim Fire said:
Does anyone have anything on Dragon's Dogma II yet? I'm thinking about grabbing the game myself, but I'm hesitant; I heard that it's got a ton of microtransaction shit shoved in, but nothing much on the wokeness of the game. So... is DDII woke or not?
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In some ways, yes. There's the downright expected "Body Type A/B" stuff, and when you look for Pawns in the Rift, you can no longer look for specifically "Male" or "female" pawns, but "Masculine" and "Feminine". A few black NPCs, here and there, including one of the more prominent quest givers for the main story, but the first game also had black characters. I haven't found them yet, but the thong from the first game was apparently toned down to being a boring old bikini, one of several in the game. Others may have more to add.
 
Mojo Thief said:
Here's another recent game that I played the shit out of: Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. I'm going to rate it as very Mildly Woke at worst.

Corporations are pretty unambiguously the bad guys, while the Rubicon Liberation Front rebels are good guys fighting to free their planet, though they're also morally grey to a degree. Your character is a highly-augmented mech pilot employed by a contractor with shady goals that often pressure you to stab your current employers in the back or commit atrocities, but the story deviates significantly depending on the actions you take. This is pretty typical Japanese sci-fi writing (little different from the likes of Ghost in the Shell, Gundam, or Final Fantasy VII, and those have been around forever), so I'm not going to say this story is influenced by Western wokery.

The biggest thing with the game (along with all other AC games) is that nobody is ever shown in the flesh. You only ever interact with other people through their mechs or over the radio. This means that it's practically impossible to determine a character's race, just their sex and age. This includes your character, Subject 621, who is never referred to with any pronouns and never speaks. Whether or not you consider this "woke" or just a way to make it easier for the player to cast themselves in the role of the protagonist without changing the script is up to you.

The only thing in the game I would consider "woke" is that the leader of the Rubicon Liberation Front is in a gay relationship with his second-in-command, but this only gets brought up in flavor text when you're about to fight his second-in-command in the optional Arena Mode. This fact is never brought up in the story mode when you interact with these characters.
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I would disagree as far as even teetering on mild if only for these reasons, but I chalk that up to mostly outside interpretation. The thing to keep in mind about Armored Core VI is that while the Liberation Front vs Corpo framework is present; the game at no point tells you directly what to believe or who you should be rooting for. Nobody makes a case to you as to why their particular brand of philosophy - if any at all - comes up, they only state what they're about and react rather consistently in whatever path along the story happens to align you to their goals or pits you against them.

And EVERYBODY'S a fucking self-interested asshole even at their nicest. If you're going by the history of the series as a whole, this is the natural conclusion to a universe where humanity has spiraled along a path of endlessly nuking itself to near extinction at a pretty hilarious rate, only for the Corporations to pick up the pieces and restore some semblance of stability. Even more than that, it's a setting where humanity has effectively dehumanized itself through heavy cyber-augmentation that's been building as far back as Master of the Arena, which is why 621 is basically a near vegetable attack dog fused to his cockpit and your mercenary status goes as far as your battle efficiency and what generation of half-meat freak you're lucky enough to be. It's that very specially crafted brand of fiction where anyone who would try to give it shit for lacking the state-approved amount of faggotry is too retarded to actually recognize how miserably pointless and miniscule such a thing is compared to the weight of everything else going on.
 
All the following games are fully woke free: Warhammer 40k Dawn of War 1 2 even 3, Space Marine, Mechanicus, Battlesector, Battlefleet Gothic 1 and 2.

Rogue Trader the RPG: Mild, it has the bodytype shit, and 3 optional bisexual romance options, those all being undesirables like a criminal and 2 eldars. Noticably less pozzed than Pathfinder Kingmaker and Wrath of Rigteous. And your hetero chud Inquisition buddy can make them dissapear for you.

Mass effect 1,2,3 is medium on the pozzed scale. No bodytypes, but plenty of gay and semi furry alien romances. Andromeda is very pozzed, avoid, avoid!

Kotor 1,2 and TOR the mmo: Mildly pozzed with Kotor 1 having the ability to be lesbian with a furry. I never noticed in game.
The mmo I don't recall having a bodytype, but does add optional playersexual romances, though the characters don't come across as flaming faggots, as they still have to work with a normal setup. They also added a hilariously ugly stubble for women, that I think not a single player ever used, but I haven't played in some time so if they added bodytype shit I don't know, but a year ago they had just a male/female symbol. These entries are still less pozzed than the Mass Effect series.

Unless you read up guides, you can safely ignore the furry, and the mmo marks any romance with FLIRT tag so you won't run into Obi-Gale's magic Force trick unaware, and they won't initiate romance on their own.

For Chuddy Buddies, the 40k titles are safe. For the less concerned farmer, the ME/SW titles are fine too.
 
Nioh 1 and 2: None. I swear I remember Nioh 2 being one of the first games with "Body type" but I remembered wrong. Nioh 1 doesn't have chargen. The non-Japanese characters are all actual historical figures that make sense in the setting, which are William Adams and Yasuke aka Oda's Nobunigga. Ok actually Edward Kelley doesn't make sense but he's in there because he's a goth boi who stole William Adams' spirit waifu so William travelled half the world to get her back. Also they turned Minamoto-no-Raikou into a woman but he's the second most popular samurai in history who gets genderbent in media, behind Uesugi Kenshin, not to mention that the games aren't historically accurate anyway.

Wo Long Fallen Dynasty: None. I honestly don't know if I should put it in Mild because it's the only game which doesn't use Sex, Gender or Body type... it uses "Figure." Yeah... what do you guys think? The Story is just Three Kingdoms era China with demons.

Rise of the Ronin I can't in good conscience rate because I haven't played it yet, however it's at least Mild due to "Body type" bullshit in chargen.
 
Unicorn Overlord is safely in the None category. There are no gays, and even if you do the "romance" quest with males it's more hetero trust than buttsex, compared to the lines if you do it with females. (this might not be correct in the codex section but who reads that?).
No gender bullshit, everyone is talked on his/her own merits and no crying about gender prejudice.
No niggers, you have spanish tan faction. And delicious chocolate elves. While there is a furry faction, only one character is somewhat coom-bait and it's not as sexual as with human/elves women
 
Say is Activelo still collecting evidence? Cause its been a while since the list was updated.
 
Alright, I got an example, albeit an fan-based one.
Ganbare Goemon 3 (Original, and original Translation): None
It's a game made in 1994 Japan, what else would you fucking think? Has a tranny NPC, but it was presented as a embarassing thing (newhalf is not good slang) and even the original translation is accurate....but of course, this is the modern internet so the original translator gotten offense to it and left because boo hoo words made me cry, and so....
Ganbare Goemon 3 (Current Translation): Medium?
I'm actually unsure about it as literally only the original translation is shown online, but I know it was changed to be more friendly.
 
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