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Judge Dredd said:
Lords of the Fallen 2.0 Update is out. Supposedly the game has been basically completely overhauled since the original release.

A big element as it relates to this thread is the walking back of DEI. Specifically allowing "more attractive and more feminine female body options" being promoted in the trailer. I've yet to see the actual character creation options.

People are expecting push back, but I've not seen any yet.
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Completely overhauled is a stretch. They cleaned up a lot of the rough edges (the game looks, runs, and plays significantly better) but a bunch of the issues holding the game back are still present.

A couple of months ago the usual suspects went after the studio after they removed "body type" from the character creator which (I think) culminated with director or someone forward facing at the studio getting banned from the reddit. It ultimately failed to accomplish shit as the devs stuck to their guns and told the wokescolds to pound sand. With the 2.0 patch, they've improved the female characters such that they're no longer brick shaped bulldykes but it's not like they added a booty ass slider or anything like that. It's workable but that's about it. Update is good tho. The studio didn't have to touch the game after the lukewarm reception it received but they put a ton of work into the post launch product. I'm wishing them the best in whatever their next project is.
 
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Niche Gamer: Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii says political correctness has made western games ‘terrible’ (archive)
https://lp.p.pia.jp/article/essay/48171/415859/index.html (archive)
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That translation's a little scuffed at the end there because it was machine translated. I retranslated some of it with a couple additional sections.

Oshii: The reason Trump is treated like a hero by some despite having such a bad reputation, isn't particularly because they like his policies or whatever. That's right, it's political correctness. He overturned political correctness, that's why he's a hero.
Political corrected started from the idea of giving legitimacy to the socially weak. That itself isn't wrong. In a mature society, that would be a natural responsibility. The problem is, from that starting point it at some point turned the socially weak into the strong.
They're given priority in getting into schools, priority in getting hired. What’s more, the companies that advised this charged ridiculous amounts in consulting fees. They've demanded fees in the hundreds of millions from game companies.
This has direct relation to my job, and I hold a strong disgust towards the idea of bringing political correctness into the world of games and anime. After all, everyone who plays games wants beauties and cute girls. The same goes for myself as well. Why do we have to put uggos in there!?
It's formed atop admiration at its base! If you reject admiration, then entertainment loses its base reason for existing as entertainment. Because you'll be getting told that it's discriminatory to say beautiful or ugly. Western games are truly horrible with this, because of political correctness.

Original Japanese text taken from the Twitter repost. (Archive)
 
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Asian tech support said:
Completely overhauled is a stretch. They cleaned up a lot of the rough edges (the game looks, runs, and plays significantly better) but a bunch of the issues holding the game back are still present.
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Yes, I have played since and it's been tightened up and made easier in spots.

Though I'm interested in knowing if Balders Gate 3 had a similar "unwoke" patch. As BG3, Lords of the Fallen, and to a lesser degree Nikke and Elden Ring, are being held up as "anomalies" or "impossible" games and gamers should expect less. Expect more Veilguard, not BG3. BG3 had the DnD license and therefor was a success. I don't have the sources as this mostly comes from slop drama channels like Asmongold, Legendary Drops, Hero Hei, and Rev, and people hate it when I post their videos.
 
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Judge Dredd said:
Though I'm interested in knowing if Balders Gate 3 had a similar "unwoke" patch.
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It had the opposite I believe. It used to just be 'body type 1 and 2' (male and female) like you see typically, but then it subsequently added 'identity' in a patch (male, female, non-binary). It was still in early access during this time.

I also wouldn't expect more Veilguard. They pretty much fired every writer who worked on that game if I recall. If a game is good, it will sell well in spite of political messaging. If it's not good, you've not only stoked a political shitstorm online surrounding your game for no reason, but the people 'defending' it are only doing so out of political obligation and will move on after a while, leaving behind the only people still passionate enough about the game to discuss it online (those who hate it). You saw it with Starfield, where early online discourse was dominated by "Fucking pronouns!" and after that became old hat, all that was worth talking about was how shit the game was.
 
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TrainWreckWatcher said:
I'll admit I was wrong. Lords of the Fallen actually committed.
Its nice to see a dev learning. I hope they keep at it.
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I only remember the first game being a Dark Souls rip off that was very aggressively mediocre. I wasn't even aware they made a sequel. Not surprised it went woke really with the general atmosphere of modern western game development but it's at least something they walked back on it and stood their ground.

Hell I might even give it a try now. You gota reward those companies that stand up against the Proggies.
 
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Sweeter and Savoury said:
I only remember the first game being a Dark Souls rip off that was very aggressively mediocre
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I got all the achievements in that game so I feel qualified to say it wasn't just mediocre, it was total fucking shit. On NG+ the final boss has an attack that is impossible to dodge and one shots your character no matter how over-levelled you are, so the only way to beat it is by glitching the game so he goes idle.

Most of the other bosses were dogshit too, but that was more dependant on your build. I remember the shield boss that spawns ads being a nightmare because he has a tiny window of vulnerability and you need to be right next to him to actually do damage because you can't move fast enough to get to him otherwise.
 
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Sweeter and Savoury said:
I only remember the first game being a Dark Souls rip off that was very aggressively mediocre. I wasn't even aware they made a sequel. Not surprised it went woke really with the general atmosphere of modern western game development but it's at least something they walked back on it and stood their ground.
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It's less a sequel and more the publisher or whoever mandating the IP be reused a la Arkane's Prey or the upcoming Marathon disaster. Outside a handful of names and setting elements being reused, the games don't really have anything in common.
Sweeter and Savoury said:
Hell I might even give it a try now. You gota reward those companies that stand up against the Proggies.
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I think it's worth the $20 especially if you're already receptive to off brand soulslikes. There is an absolutely retarded NG+ mechanic where less of the game's equivalent of bonfires are available, forcing the player to make use of the temporary "bonfire" mechanic, but it's optional and there are a load of other modifiers that can be enabled immediately after starting a new game or entering NG+ such as random loot, increased enemy density, randomized enemies, semi-permadeath, turning all healing into bloodborne style rally healing, and more that I can't recall.
 
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TrainWreckWatcher said:
I'll admit I was wrong. Lords of the Fallen actually committed.
Its nice to see a dev learning. I hope they keep at it.
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Then you got Andy Cortez and Nick Calandra complaining about Lords of the Fallen over Male / Female instead of Body Type.
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Karl Jobst's Asian Wife said:
So SBI is just astroturfed bullshit nobody wanted, probably funded by a Canadian version of USAID.

It's a good reminder that as bad as it is in the US, it's even more woke in Canada.
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The govt that conquered injun lands and pushed all the injun useless kids into shitty schools where they get beaten by sexy nuns with metal rulers (unlike us who got the privilege of wooden rulers) gave it self a national holiday only for govt employees. The purest essence of woke exists in Canada.

Glass it all.
 
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The govt that conquered injun lands and pushed all the injun useless kids into shitty schools where they get beaten by sexy nuns with metal rulers (unlike us who got the privilege of wooden rulers) gave it self a national holiday only for govt employees. The purest essence of woke exists in Canada.

Glass it all.
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They do that "we acknowledge the First Nations as the rightful owners of this land" bullshit all the time too, something that doesn't seem to happen here in the US (we just give them casinos).
 
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