Dustborn - The Latest and Biggest DEI Flop to Date that No One Asked for!

[Big Brown Schlub]

You know what's weird? This game is supposedly for the ultra woke alphabet people, right? Surely there are more than 100 of them playing games on steam? Why isn't this game doing better?

I have a crack theory. Maybe the "woke left" doesn't like this game because its actually so on the nose woke because it's making fun of the woke sjws? and they obviously don't like to be made to look like buffoons so they're not playing the game either.

Nah it's more that the wokies just don't play games period.

 

[Deus Exica]

You know what's weird? This game is supposedly for the ultra woke alphabet people, right? Surely there are more than 100 of them playing games on steam? Why isn't this game doing better?

Ultra woke liberals who love to post on Twitter about how much they love niggers and strong girlbosses don't actually play games. They like to watch tiktok edits of woke games and love to ratio gamers on Twitter, but sit down and actually buy/play one of these abominations? Nah.

Any game that is woke but successful is almost always successful in spite of the faggotry, not because of it. Baldur's Gate 3 for instance, despite all the homosexual shit and a diverse smattering of melanin throughout all of The Sword Coast, is a game where you are still allowed to play a white male with blue eyes, and the two most popular love interests are a goth chick and a lovable muscle girl. The troons are tucked away in dark corners of the map and you can kill them.

Games where the diversity and equity are front and center ALWAYS fail because the core audience can't ignore it like they do for games they actually want to play.

and they obviously don't like to be made to look like buffoons so they're not playing the game either.

It's also that what woke people actually like is getting to take something Chuds enjoy and fucking it up. This is a new IP, so there isn't anyone to smugly annoy on Twitter about it being full of niggers and pronoun people.

Maybe she should try getting a job.

J.C. there's a bomb on the bus!

 

[Pepe Cortisona]

J.C. there's a bomb on the bus!

It's called Dustborn!

 

[Hermiöne Granger]

Ragnar Tørnquist's obsession with Donald Trump - Interviews about why he decided to make his "very angry, very political" game Dustborn set in the USA.

As soon as Ragnar Tørnquist finishes the game they are working on now, he goes on a political attack. - We are working on a game, which will be a very angry, political game.

What are you willing to march against?

• We discussed it today, actually. How we feel powerless. We are working on a game, which will be a very angry, political game. Unfortunately, I read the news from the moment I wake up and get angrier and angrier as the day goes on. I would go on a demonstration train for human rights. For social justice. Because everything I feel is under attack, from Trump, from the right, from the Republicans.

Oh, tell me more about that game!

• I hope we can make it. The game that will be our voice. We will shout out to the world. Games are usually not that political, but we want to mix entertainment with politics.

When will it come?

• The goal is to have it out in 2020, before the next presidential election, and make a difference.

Source

Emily: Making Draugen in a short development cycle, working on it for a year and then getting it out, is that something you’d like to do regularly? A new game a year?

Ragnar: Yeah. We do, and our next game—we’ve started work on it already—that’s the game I decided, when Trump was elected, that we had to make, because as game developers, what can we do in this world? I feel like we’re not doing anything to contribute positively to the world we’re living in. So our next game is an adventure but with some action elements, that’s very us not staying in our box and saying 'fuck it,' we’re going to rise up and we’re going to try to resist a little bit and make a game that, even if it makes ten people change their minds when election day comes around, great. So it’s set in our version of America, ten years into the future, and we’re excited about that.

Emily: Do you have any concerns or thoughts about being non-Americans making a game like that?

Ragnar: I think that’s a good thing, because we have an outside perspective on it. And it’s not like—maybe people in America think that because we’re from the outside we don’t really understand what’s going on—

Emily: You probably see it better than we do!

Ragnar: I wake up and look at Twitter every morning, and I read the Washington Post every morning, and it’s all that concerns me, because everything that happens [in the U.S.] affects us so much. Politics in Norway is quite boring, in a good way. But Brexit and U.S. politics, that’s what we get fed every day. And this game is not really about the real people in American politics, it’s more about the emotions of it and the feelings of it. Of course we’re going to get that criticism, of course there’s going to be a lot of people yelling at us. Fine. We’re not afraid of that; we’re used to being yelled at. If you go on the Steam page for Dreamfall Chapters, most of the threads there now are about the politics of Dreamfall Chapters, how the game is Marxist propaganda and stuff like that. Which is ridiculous, because it actually turns out the Marxists are terrorists in that game! But it means people are sort of—they see a single criticism of right-wing politics and they take it as leftist propaganda.

Emily: It’s a small group of vocal people.

Ragnar: It is a small group, and it’s not even Americans for the most part. There are a lot of progressive people as well, but it’s that sort of conservative gaming audience, which is tiny, but it’s vocal.

Emily: Do you try to avoid controversy with those people?

Ragnar: Oh no. No, I dive right in. And you see that on the Draugen Steam threads as well: oh, don’t support Red Thread Games, because as a company they’ve dared to speak out, and companies should never speak out, companies should be neutral. No, fuck no. We’re independent. Who cares? We can put those beliefs into our games; we’re not afraid to stand for something. Look at TV, look at Handmaid’s Tale. That doesn’t have a message? Of course it has a message. And that’s made by a huge corporation. So why are games supposed to be apolitical, why are games supposed to be never about something? ‘Keep your opinions and politics out of my games?’ It makes me so furious.

Emily: And if you don’t want to play that game, don’t play that game.

Ragnar: Don’t play that game! But even that is sort of like, no, do play the game, and feel free to disagree, but don’t tell us that we can’t have a message, that we can’t have a personal story. But you know, that said, we’re not [making] a game that’s setting out to preach a political message, we’re trying to just present the point of view and to also present different points of view, and let the players figure it out for themselves. But of course we have our beliefs. That’s going to color everything we do.

Emily: It’s refreshing to hear you say that.

Source

 

[The Doom Slayer]

Ragnar Tørnquist's obsession with Donald Trump - Interviews about why he decided to make his "very angry, very political" game Dustborn set in the USA.

Fucking brainrotted faggot, enjoy your failed game lmao

 

[Asian tech support]

Fucking brainrotted faggot, enjoy your failed game lmao

If he wasn't this much of a deranged lunatic, I might buy the satire angle, but he's so assmad over something that doesn't affect his rotten fish slurping ass that it must be genuine.

 

[just Reading a post]

If he wasn't this much of a deranged lunatic, I might buy the satire angle, but he's so assmad over something that doesn't affect his rotten fish slurping ass that it must be genuine.

He made a game that is something /pol/ would make to satire the woke left. Are we certain he is not pulling a double bluff here and secretly supports Trump. Because this was a hoot to laugh at.
Someone has to make that TRIGGERED prompt thing a .gif.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Nah it's more that the wokies just don't play games period.

All the games that the "woke"/female crowd plays is "cozy" games like Stardew Valley, The Sims, or Animal Crossing.

I can't tell what game Dustborn is even supposed to be. Is it a visual novel with JRPG elements? Is it a point-and-click adventure game with combat? Is it just a "movie game" with the occasional quick time event and limited dialogue options?

 

[Ferrari Lamborghini]

I went to the credits because I just assumed a "game" about 4 extremely ugly they/thems with revitiligo hoping to "escape" America must be made by shitlib Canadians and I know a few in industry.

It's all very European names. How.

Because european countries (the western ones at least) are just american colonies at this point. The average 20-year-old italian/brit/spaniard/etc. today knows more about american culture and history than he does his own country's.

It's why when gender ideology came to germany, which doesn't have two synonyms for "gender" that could be used to do the "gender =/= sex" meme, they literally just adopted the english word "gender" and just pronounce it like a german would who doesn't know english. (Like "garlic.") Or why european countries with a black population of about 0.1% were having BLM riots.

Global homogenization is real and happening.

 

[Baraadmirer]

This game fares poorly even when compared to other Red Thread Games releases (which I find hilarious for culturally appropriating the concept of the red string of fate in Eastern cultures like China and Japan ( About | Archive )).

Draugen is estimated to have sold 34.2k copies with a gross revenue of $424.9k for a short game around the ballpark of 3–4 hours ( Gamalytic | Archive ). It had an all-time peak of 240 players at its time of release 5 years ago ( SteamDB ). Dreamfall Chapters is estimated to have sold 171.4k copies with a gross revenue of $2.2m ( Gamalytic | Archive ) and estimated to be about 22 hours long for the main story ( HowLongToBeat ). Its all-time peak was 1,711 players ( SteamDB ).

 

[Insuficiencia renal]

There is a section where there are "voices" that say meanie things such as "We should do your own research" and "The pizza is a front". Apparently the source of the super powers in this universe is the fact people spread fake news, which caused a "wave" of something that infected people giving them the ability to alter reality with their voices.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

whats with these goddamn europeans publicly embarrassing themselves by trying to add the gayest type of politics known by man in their games, IDENTITY POLITICS

these fucking sissies should have no say about goes on in the other side of the pond, because most of their opinions are just taken straight from mid to late 2010's lefty US viewpoints

Euros have inherent superiority complex with the USA, they must always be more left and socialist than the (supposedly) capitalist USA, and if they can actively lecture Americans all the better. It's how those countries had BLM riots despite not having niggers.

Of course add to it the fact that those countries would rather talk about the USA than their own decaying countries. Having a game with muzzies stab white natives won't fare well in Britain. Maybe a simulator where you have backlogged health system and need to decide how many cancer patients need to wait a year for treatment.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Euros have inherent superiority complex with the USA, they must always be more left and socialist than the (supposedly) capitalist USA, and if they can actively lecture Americans all the better. It's how those countries had BLM riots despite not having niggers.

Of course add to it the fact that those countries would rather talk about the USA than their own decaying countries. Having a game with muzzies stab white natives won't fare well in Britain. Maybe a simulator where you have backlogged health system and need to decide how many cancer patients need to wait a year for treatment.

Who has the worst superiority complex with the US, EU or Canada? Leafland is also in the same decaying state, with immigration overloading the already flawed public healthcare system, to the point that euthanasia is being used as a tool to lift some of that burden, but people still need to wait years for treatment in Leafland, and people are even dying while waiting for care in the ER. They are also hellbent on killing off their golden goose by putting numerous roadblocks to using their natural resources, while trying to build EV factories, in a country where the cold will make those EVs have not even half of its stated battery range.

 

[moocow]

rotten fish slurping

Don't you dare besmirch the classic rite of passage that is the Surströmming Challenge:

(SFW, but there's vomit, because of course there is ... it's fucking Surströmming )

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

This game looks like something out of South Park. Are we sure that Trey Parker and Matt Stone aren't oracles?

 

[Asian tech support]

Don't you dare besmirch the classic rite of passage that is the Surströmming Challenge:

(SFW, but there's vomit, because of course there is ... it's fucking Surströmming )

Not linking the Cobes video. Shameful.

Yours is pretty funny too. The guy tearing off the lampshade really sells the immediate need to vomit.

edit: jewtube version is age restricted so have a local copy

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

They really thought using "newborn" and "new porn" in the same rhyming scheme was a good idea

I see the devs were fans of A Serbian Film.

 

[iceteayo]

its gonna be revealed in a couple years all these kind of random ass woke games were tax write offs like how Cartoon Network had a string of horrible cartoons in the early 2010s

 

[Pepe Cortisona]

Someone has to make that TRIGGERED prompt thing a .gif.

I tried:


And I made this edit as an added bonus:

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Who has the worst superiority complex with the US, EU or Canada? Leafland is also in the same decaying state, with immigration overloading the already flawed public healthcare system, to the point that euthanasia is being used as a tool to lift some of that burden, but people still need to wait years for treatment in Leafland, and people are even dying while waiting for care in the ER. They are also hellbent on killing off their golden goose by putting numerous roadblocks to using their natural resources, while trying to build EV factories, in a country where the cold will make those EVs have not even half of its stated battery range.

The UK has the worse due to history, no question asked. Worse in multitude than both EU ans Canada combined. They are actively burning their history to own the USA.