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

[Pepe Cortisona]

Y'know, that's something I always found weird; what's up with certain moron devs wanting to push for characters with vitiligo? That's like, a thing from 2015 Tumblr. Why are they doing this NOW? Were they Tumblr users at some point? It feels like a weird fetish.

I don't know, it's not like people with vitiligo are a racial minority.

Because those teenager tumblrites never grew up past that phase, and are now on game dev positions as character designers.

 

[Karl Jobst's Asian Wife]

Vitiligo is a "safe" ugly. They're not going to put in stuff like those African kids with facial tumors or a burn victim (burn victims look nothing like Hanako).

If anything the quartet main characters of Dustborn should look like an Andy Ngo antifa mugshot lineup (including that famous burn victim antifa protestor guy).

 

[Whore of Babylon 69]

Vitiligo is a "safe" ugly. They're not going to put in stuff like those African kids with facial tumors or a burn victim (burn victims look nothing like Hanako).

Checks out with how these hypocrites operate. Every character in the game still looks conveniently attractive, including the black guy with dwarfism.

They probably tried to do that with the amputee Asian lady, but the first thing they do when she enters the story is to call her a GILF in her Boderlands-like intro, which I find demeaning and gross, and it also goes against what these people preach since it's sexualizing her.

The devs don't have the balls to put someone who looks like Adam Pearson.

 

[Whore of Babylon 69]

Inactive thread, but I'll paste here something I realized while talking about Dustborn in another thread:

Hunger Games is like 1984 next to Dustborn. Hell, most teenage dystopia novels are like 1984 next to Dustborn. It tries to pull a "DEEP" commentary on dystopias and fascism, and approaches them like children's books approach potty training, which showed how disconnected the main retard behind the game, some guy called Ragnar Tornquist, was from the rest of the world.

It just makes me laugh with how serious it wants to be taken, because my parents are from one of two generations who lived during the dictatorial period of my country, lasting from 64 up until the 80's, and they told me horror stories about people disappearing for hours after receiving a visit from the police, and turning up battered and bruised or on the verge of dying. Sometimes people never returned home for days, or at all, and their families never got any closure on their disappearances. And when I got to high school, history teachers didn't hold back on teaching about the Dictatorship, going on detail about how they tortured people by hanging them upside down and electrocuting them in their intimate body parts, sometimes going full medieval and impaling them.

The devs of this game would shit their pants if they heard what my parents told me.

 

[The handsome tard]

You know, at least A night in the Woods and Goodbye Volcano High had some redeeming features

the former is nice and colorful with good music

the latter is mercifully short when watching a playthrough at double the speed and skipping the pointless DnD parts.

Dustborn is special tho, it is a game that is just so shamelessly annoying and boring that I cant bring myself to watch a full playthrough of it. Im not kidding, our main cast is so unbearably annoying that my only sane course of action is go watch something else, like porn, or asmr, or asmr porn. I know a few bits and pieces of the lore and characters through osmosis but those bits are enough to make me conclude that, well, "I fucking hate everyone in this."

A night in the woods and GBVH's characters somehow didnt erupt this level of disgust in me, just annoyance, Dustborn's characters were actually able to make me wish they'd all die. Which is very rare to do and only reserved for very special characters written by the most spiteful shameless mfs in this cursed industry.

The game was a flop, maybe not a financial drain given that the taxpayer paid for this (you aint ever getting that money back, suckas). I can only hope the devs fade into obscurity because for narcissists like them, that might as well be the worst thing that could happen.

Dustborn will be remembered but not for the reasons they wanted...Even normies are fucking done with these games, or at least this blantantly political (games like B.G 3 and KCD2 are enjoyed despite being woke but at least they have other things to keep normies engaged)

But I'm also fucking curious about the man of the hour, Ragnar Tornquist, and I really wanna know more about how his mind ticks. All his Wikipedia page says is that he's a huge fanboy of Joss Whedon and Neil Gaiman, which makes a lot of sense cuz it seems like all of those modern retarded hack writers like to take inspiration from Neckbeard Supreme Whedon. Does make me wonder how they feel about their idol being a total creep behind the scenes of their favorite retarded quippy show about a blonde bimbo and vampires.

Josh Whedon and its consequences have been a disaster for the entertainment industry.

I unironically wish that The Avengers had been a flop so they wouldnt be motivated in following in his dumb ass style.

We've got kids unironically acting like the pricks in this game are "cool" and "totally relatable" because it gives them an outlet for all the shit they've dealt with. The type of crap you see in Dustborn might be over-the-top, but... it's a pretty good look at what kids are really taught in schools and even universities.

To related what I said at the top, I think a reason why the characters legit get on my nerves is because at least ANITW and GBVH had characters that were either exaggerated as perfect to fit some sort of woke fantasy dystopia or were ultimately harmless. I knew people like Mae and they were annoying, sure but, again, harmless. I dont know people like GBVH's Fang and crew because they are so exaggerated that I know they dont really exist outside of the mind of the devs.

Dustborn's characters tho? They are arrogant, narcissistic, irresponsible, pretentious, apathetic and very very sociopathically manipulative. And you know what? I MET PEOPLE LIKE THAT IN REAL LIFE! I DEAL WITH THEM ALMOST DAILY! AND DUSTBORN HAS THEM WITH X-MEN LIKE SUPER POWERS! And our lead is argurably the worst one as she literally can fuck with people's minds and doesnt seem to have a bit of hesitation in abusing them, a lot of times for extremely petty reasons and she refuses to accept the blame on anything.

So basically nearly everyone is a variation of THIS lovely character



They want this monster to be your relatable lovable lead that you are rotting for? Say whatever you want about The Boys but at least they do make it clear you arent suppose to be rotting for Homelander and the Seven, their sociopathic behavior is portrayed as vile. You are suppose to LIKE the Dustborn crew.

A disturbingly high number of writers these days all seem to be into writing awful people and have the story portray them as either as the good guys or at least "justified" because of the reasons you might expect from woke creatives. It reveals more about them than the characters honestly.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Dustborn is still getting updated, even though no one cares about the game, with version 1.14 out now.

They also have a roadmap for future game updates.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

Damn, that's some nice Norway gov money.

 

[Fagnacious D]

Dustborn is still getting updated, even though no one cares about the game, with version 1.14 out now.

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They also have a roadmap for future game updates.

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Ah yes, the only operating system with less players than linux, OSX.

I am sure all of those mac gamers will be pleased. Wonderful use of time and resources.

Yeah. Nice.
According to "Return Youtube Dislike" all of the songs except "Good Ways to Cry" have more thumbs down than thumbs up. Infact, it appears that most have between 2 to 10 times as many dislikes as likes.

 

[moocow]

I am sure all of those mac gamers will be pleased. Wonderful use of time and resources.

I'm sure the devs are all mac fags (all the Javascript-era hipster dev crowd are mac fags), so that's probably why they bothered with this. "After a year of trying I finally got this fucking mac to build the game and run it locally!"

 

[Whore of Babylon 69]

I occasionally check on my favorite digital punching bag to see if they're still powering through. So far these bastards have hiked the damn price of the game in Brazil, going from around 70 reais to over 100, like it's a AAA game. It baffles me to no end how they thought they could pass this fucking game as "indie" while being funded with taxpayer money.

Man, look at that Steam engagement on their big announcement from June 6:

I'm wondering how many of those likes were from bot accounts. For comparison, this is how many likes and comments Look Outside got:

And that's a much smaller game with a smaller budget, that got recently shadow-dropped.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Ah yes, the only operating system with less players than linux, OSX.

I am sure all of those mac gamers will be pleased. Wonderful use of time and resources.

The 0.23% percent that is MAC users can now experience THE NEWBORN NEW PORN game now.

 

[Hermiöne Granger]

Guys the game dont suck and Japan liked it...

Meanwhile in Japan.

 

[p1138]

Guys the game dont suck and Japan liked it...

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Meanwhile in Japan.
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But that Konami_GS post isn't saying anything about it. It's for a crappy deluxe edition with a couple of enamel pins, and even when the game launched in Japan back in August 2024 it never hit the top 30 in Famitsu even as a new game. And no one ever said fucking Famitsu was the one valid review publisher either. Japanese reviews are just as bad as English reviews.

 

[Hermiöne Granger]

Heres more from this guy

Days later when the 70% off wasnt enough to sell the game

 

[The handsome tard]

Heres more from this guy

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Days later when the 70% off wasnt enough to sell the game

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Game was a flop, accept it, Fagnar.

The Bigoted Trolls have won. Not hecking wholesome 100 but it is what it is

 

[Scream Aim Fire]

Game was a flop, accept it, Fagnar.

The Bigoted Trolls have won. Not hecking wholesome 100 but it is what it is

The fact that the call people that don't want to be replaced by lunatic foreigners "bigoted trolls" shows just how out-of-touch these loons are. Anyone remember the lyrics to that one Dustborn song, which openly states that they're here to kill/replace white people?

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

It's not like if there was no politics the game would have done any better, probably even worse, though it's pretty amazing achievement in failure.

 

[GetToTheChoppa]

I'm probably late and gay with this, but when i first heard that Fagnar, the same fellow behind The Longest Journey (1999) and Dreamfall (2006) made this abomination of a game i was quite shocked lol.

While not perfect games by any measure, they were considered cult classics in the adventure game genre and broke new ground with good story telling and presentation at the time of release.

Like quite a number of his contemporaries who released some decent hits in the late 90s to early 00s, he too has unfortunately fallen to the disease of TDS and libtardism. Many such cases, sad!

 

[The handsome tard]

The fact that the call people that don't want to be replaced by lunatic foreigners "bigoted trolls" shows just how out-of-touch these loons are. Anyone remember the lyrics to that one Dustborn song, which openly states that they're here to kill/replace white people?

I think out of touch is really the good faith argument for these people and they have ran out of that with me so what they actually are amounts to guilt/self loathing induced self racial hatred.

They hate themselves and by hating white people, working towards their replacement and extermination, believing that they'll "set things right" and thus they'll finally not hate themselves.

Its maliciousness coupled with mental illness disguised as activism. They are pathetic AND dangerous

I'm probably late and gay with this, but when i first heard that Fagnar, the same fellow behind The Longest Journey (1999) and Dreamfall (2006) made this abomination of a game i was quite shocked lol.

While not perfect games by any measure, they were considered cult classics in the adventure game genre and broke new ground with good story telling and presentation at the time of release.

Like quite a number of his contemporaries who released some decent hits in the late 90s to early 00s, he too has unfortunately fallen to the disease of TDS and libtardism. Many such cases, sad!

Dont pity them, they'd push you under a bus if they could get something from it.

 

[elrond hubbard]

The fact that the call people that don't want to be replaced by lunatic foreigners "bigoted trolls" shows just how out-of-touch these loons are. Anyone remember the lyrics to that one Dustborn song, which openly states that they're here to kill/replace white people?

the one where they rhyme newborn with porn?