I mean I agree it was a quality post but do note the carve out for Varva, my disagreement with both of you guys is why I posted. The gay option looks like background radiation in any other game but Varva is saying "Here is my explicitly historical epic with mad trad vibes." I still want to see where the die fall, since I found the KC:1 experience to be well below background radiation levels but regardless he is still a public relations retarded and I don't trust that he can truly hold Embracer at bay (especially not now). He isn't as based as he seems to think and I have basically put the game into 'wait for sale' status pending news over this.
We're all waiting for the other shoe to drop, but like you said, with how Vavra has reacted it's pointless to try and argue in good faith that anything woke(actually woke, unlike the nonsense being argued right now) inserted into the game wasn't done on purpose to lower the quality of the experience. KCD1 prided itself on zero, none, no wokery and 100% authentic European medieval simulator. KCD2 is not going to be that, and the franchise has been tainted by both "radioactive elements" as you say, and the retardation that revolves around the game due to controversy. Thing is that this is Gamma radiation, the kind where even itsy bitsy amount of it could give you cancer, and I don't think either KCD2 or KCD as a franchise will ever recover. Ask yourself if inclusion of Masa or the gay sex scene was necessary, and if not, why is it there? This is an expensive, long process, pretty much everyone involved has to sign off on it, pay for the labor, waste development time...and for what, if nobody wanted it? You should ask yourself this question instead of asking "Well, why do people have a problem with it if it's ONLY xyz". Critical thinking and even admission that the game you like is tainted even if you already decided you will buy no matter what is what separates a fan from a blind fanboy like Mack who will just cope and seethe.
As for the Cyberpunk comparison, I really don't see why people even bother. It's a game set in California, what were you expecting? Then, of course, it's in the name, it's a CYBERPUNK setting. Poz and society degenerating is the entire point of the game. Does that make it bad? Of course not, you can be as "woke" in a setting like this as you can, the game is awful for different reasons and no, I don't buy that it is "fixed" with the 2.0 update.
See, this is why this kind of purity test is retarded, it doesn't take into the account the context of why concepts or ideas are added, you just have a list of "bad things" that you screech and shit yourself over if you see them. This is why people who overfocus on the anti-woke stuff don't play game, no game aside from maybe Tetris will ever pass their retarded purity test and even then, I doubt their zoomie brains could even digest Tetris since it won't give them an an instant dopamine rush like Subway Surfer would. I mean, we have people in this thread going how Joshua Fucking Graham is "woke", this is what I believe kids call "brainrot".
In what way, shape or form is New Vegas propaganda? It doesn’t really want you to believe in anything, as I clearly outlined in the original post. If you disagree then provide arguments.
It’s also THE lolbert game, the NV community is quite politically diverse. Also if 'proof is in the results' then let it be known that the woketards had to get rid of Avellone and most people who worked on NV when they were capturing obsidian to skinwalk like every other studio. This of course wouldn’t be necessary if Obsidian was already woke. In fact they have provided us with a perfect specimen of what a woke new vegas would’ve looked like in the form of the outer worlds.
What the anti-woke, low IQ cattle doesn't realize is that people want choices in an RPG, choice on who to side with and decisions that make sense for as many different builds as possible. It's in the name, you're not playing as yourself, you're "roleplaying". Ceasar's Legion might be "based", but I usually never side with them because my characters simply gravitate towards House or NCR more. What if I am a female character, am I not allowed to side with NCR all of a sudden as a combat character because women in the military are "cringe" or "woke"? See, the anti-woke doesn't see an RPG as people who actually play them do, they see it as a checklist of things that aren't supposed to be there, and they want to censor or take out the content so it can pass their little purity test. This would result in the exact same playthru for every single character, no different than how SJWs want you to play their games one way and one way only. They simply don't comprehend that you can put in a gay NPC, like Arcade or Veronica, where that doesn't mean anything: It's not done to undermine any other aspect of the game, it is not about sending a message, it is not there to check a DEI checkbox as that didn't exist in the form we know it as today when it was made. They were made gay to enhance worldbuilding and characters, especially in the case of Veronica where being a lesbian is core of her identity within the Brotherhood, but that's a no-no in their world. I already said as much, but they really are no different than SJWs(toxic retards), just replace "white men" or "cisgender" or what have you with something else, anti-woke are just as retarded about putting that in or replacing it with something else they want. Two sides of the same coin, neither plays or understand video games. I wouldn't want any of the "based" people currently misunderstanding the very concepts of Fallout to ever make a game, it would probably be shit. There is a reason not a lot of anti-woke games are made, because they would fail just as hard as the far-left games would, difference is that the latter actually accomplish things and managed to worm their way into the industry. As they blatantly misunderstand how games work and don't care what people want to see in games, rather they just put retarded shit that passes their own purity test, they fail. Every time, and if the shoe was on the other foot, it would fail as well. We're not dealing with common sense "I just want less wokery!" people, we're dealing with retards who want the same thing as wokies, they just want their own particular flavor of bland garbage in the media. Just imagine a world where the fundamental concept behind Joshua Graham was changed because he is "cringe and woke", and instead he was turned into some generic "giga chad" hitler like figure that mindlessly kills the White Legs without any background nuance final game's Joshua has because it is the based thing to do. Would that ruin Honest Hearts and what it had going for it? I would say yes, since arguably he is the main character of the DLC, not you or Daniel or even the tribes.
Synthetic Man reminds me of a poor man's Griffin Gaming. Griffin Gaming knows how to commentate and create content beyond talking over game footage. Synthetic Man's voice is grating to listen to, especially when he just bitches about "woke" content.
It's the opposite for me, Griffin is a diet version of Synth. He does a better job of actually reviewing the games, but not explaining why he thinks they are woke or whatever.
