Yea sorry morrowind is the cutoff. Also they WERE good as publishers. Picking up Arkane was genius but they've been on a losing streak for like 3 games now, Tango was great but they got cut because starfield led to heavy cuts and that really only leaves ID, Doom Eternal is great but thats about it so far, I'm excited for Dark Ages.
It's the exact opposite commercial-wise. From the outside looking in, Bethesda was mid-tier at best until Oblivion put them on the AAA map, and Skyrim elevated them to Godlike status in terms of video game makers. Prior to that, they couldn't come up to Square Enix's kneecaps, and they were one of many CRPG/DnD-RPG companies that barely made a blip, no matter how much critical acclaim they garnered. Final Fantasy was eating their lunch until Skyrim showed the world the extent of what a WRPG can do, and Skyrim impressed the world so much, they kept buying its re-releases. The Japanese, known for being traditional and not being so open to outside ideas when it comes to game design, started taking notes and started copying the Skyrim formula.
We can all pretend that Morrowind and the games before it were better, but at the end of the day, money talks. You don't see an endless horde wanting to re-buy Morrowind, Arena, or Battlespire over and over again, but you do see that with Skyrim. You can call it a piece of shit all you like, but it's the piece that the people love to spend money on, over and over again. Even on consoles like the Switch where modding is impossible.
That's a retarded libertarian take. Homophobia is an absurd notion in and of itself, acknowledging the gay agenda (a part of Wokeism) in media is not absurd.
Then say goodbye to a lot of RPGs from the 90s and the 2000s which had things like gay relationships. Because LGBT has been in video games long before people started dreading the word "woke".
"it's just a trans flag and pronouns, sweaty"
There's games with neither that have been accused of being woke. Last I checked, Metal Gear has neither, and some still accused it of being woke.
No they're not. Not being woke isn't the opposite of woke, a game would actively need to be based in that case. I highly doubt Marvel Ricvls in particular is even free of any and all woke shit to begin with.
I'm pretty sure what's considered "based" differs from person to person. Some would consider Marvel Rivals to be based just because it's not afraid of women with T&A.
Not really. The games might be bad, but they have content woke people hate. The two aren't mutually exclusive. Especially since "woke right" is a thing now.
The "woke right" even existing goes to show that the Right is arrogant enough to forget why people rushed to their side to be against the woke left. They think that just because they do it for religion/nationalism/anti-feminism, that their attempts at control and censorship would be welcomed.
Homophobia claims come from the 90s where it was fairly common for "family values" politicians and pundits to be outed as gay, in the same way many male feminists get outed as sex pests.
That's why it's always hilarious to me when the Right acts like they've got the high ground. They act all moral and righteous, then behind closed doors, they do everything they accuse the Left of doing. That's how the Right lost moral authority in the 2000s. Too many reports of right-leaning politicians and religious figures being degenerates tarnished their reputation among the populace, giving the Left an easy way in, allowing them to dominate culture up until the mid-2010s and the start of Gamergate.
Who is the arbiter of what exactly is woke and not woke, though?
The problem is, there is none. Anyone can call anything woke or based. Some people might say Mass Effect 1 is woke because the good options are all about tolerance, and they have gay sex for lesbians in the game, while some might say it's based because it's a game unafraid to show some cheesecake. Ultima 8 using pentagrams and demonic iconography would be considered based by the secular right and people who hate the religious, while the religious right would consider it tryhard edgelord cringe.
