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Marxian economics—specifically the framework of oppressor and oppressed—applied to social categories such as gender, race, and sexuality + Critical Theory from the Frankfurt School.
These have always been present in history, both in fact and fiction. Greeks vs Persians, Amazonians, China vs Western world (think Opium Wars and Boxer revolution), etc… These issues have always been there, this isn’t something new to the modern world and there are stories that have been around just as long with these same subjects.
This sudden overcompensation of swapping the gender, sexuality or race of characters in movies and games, under the guise of “celebrating diversity,” often feels less like a meaningful or thoughtful inclusion and more like a superficial, performative gesture. This trend is widespread and politically charged, driven not by genuine artistic intent but by a desire to align with current cultural trends.
Or it matches the more modern world. Today, more people can travel and move to different countries. More and more places have more and more people of different backgrounds, race, gender, sexuality that are in the public view. To not put these people in is to not understand today’s world and the people in it. Go outside and really look around, see how many people now don’t look like you, don’t dress like you and/or don’t act like you. Also, keep in mind where the games you are comparing them to are made, and understand what the developers see in their day to day life because that is more in line with what they’d know.
My position isn’t rooted in a denial of history but in the belief that games, music, and films are creative, self-contained domains to be enjoyed on their own merits—not as platforms for political messaging.
The issue here is that every time I see someone complaining that a game is “woke” is when suddenly there are gay people, or people of colour, or women not looking like a hooters waitress in the game. And the reality here is that this isn’t being woke, it’s that the game is being based on reality. Gay people exist, always have, so do people of colour, and women of all types and men too. The people that make it political are the people that don’t want to see the real world and the people in it.
Now, I don’t know what you feel is “woke” and I’m not saying this is directed at you, but just because there are people that don’t fit some preconceived mold, and they are included in a game, doesn’t make it magically political.
A recorder, like in Super Mario 3?
2·2 months agoMaybe used to 30 seconds being average?
MMO means Massively Multiplayer Online. Does this not describe CoD?
11·2 months agoYou could “replace me with a flow chart” because you aren’t reading what I’m saying and are randomly responding with whatever you feel like at the moment. Too bad none of your responses have anything to do with what I’ve said, but again, that requires basic reading comprehension.
To continue to prove you lack basic reading comprehension, I present your latest “post”.
If they had a Captcha, you’d never be able to post again. You clearly lack basic reading comprehension. Just look at every post you’ve made, they are full of a jabbering mess of word salads. They have no point, no logic. Half of them are you trying to argue with someone who clearly isn’t me, and I’ve pointed this out to you multiple times but still here you are trying.
The Captcha would ask you what letter are in the image and you’d go on a rant in the box claiming who knows what and how it must be against you all while trying to make up new insults that you are parroting from who knows where.
Lobby queuing for has always been a thing in MMOs.
Yep, you’ve devolved back into cut and paste. How boring.
Back to the cut and paste answers I see, we’ve talked about this. I’m not the others, you can stop cut and pasting the same comments you give them to me. Seriously, stop talking like a fox news article and more like a real person.
What makes a MMO different from a live service? Both have characters, levels, character progression exp based on killing enemies and doing X actions/quests, and have new content added as time goes on.
From how I see it, it’s just a different name to just avoid being called a MMO.
MMO still requiring a monthly fee in 2024 is ridiculous.
May I point you to Call of Duty on consoles? They are Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) that needs a monthly subscription (Xbox Live, which owns Cal of Duty, or PS Plus).
Online gaming has more people paying for an online subscription today than ever before (Nintendo Online included). While the companies being paid for it have changed, monthly online gaming subscriptions are here to stay and have only gotten larger.
I can’t think for myself? You write like your entire “education” was from Truth Social during bathroom breaks.
Maybe you should go outside and see the real world.
I don’t know… Wait till the end of this one