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She's here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOUgfZWlZXQ
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Bloody Pom posted:Star Control 2 (re-released in February as Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters) is getting an official sequel, by the original devs: I swore I was done backing video games, but I will make an exception for this.
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Another maker of cozy/socially progressive games exposed as a toxic workplace https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1776252235351015735
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Man, that was such a bummer for me to read.
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the French *shakes head*
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Apr 5, 2024 17:10
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It keeps happening.
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Maybe I missed it in the very long article, but did all the Nazi stuff end up in the shipped game or was it eventually taken out?
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haveblue posted:Maybe I missed it in the very long article, but did all the Nazi stuff end up in the shipped game or was it eventually taken out? They’re saying that appeared in an as-yet unannounced LiS game.
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It's an emotionally broken tech industry run by weirdos contacting a lot of money controlled by psychopaths. Of course it keeps happening.
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fez_machine posted:Another maker of cozy/socially progressive games exposed as a toxic workplace There is one thing about this article I find odd. quote:“Even in our press guides from Square Enix, all the way up until [review copies were out], we were not to say anything about Alex’s sexuality, period, at all. And then they did the advance copies, and all of these reviews came out saying how amazing it was to finally see an explicitly bi protagonist, and after that, Square was like, just kidding, Alex is absolutely, canonically, 100% bisexual Which, unless they're talking about different press guides, isn't true. I actually went back and checked my press guide for LiS:TC and it includes this: quote:Romance – Remember that you can romance either Steph, or Ryan – or nobody! Your choices throughout the game which is the opposite of "Never mention bisexual." The rest is horrible poo poo that is too common, I just found that one bit odd. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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haveblue posted:Maybe I missed it in the very long article, but did all the Nazi stuff end up in the shipped game or was it eventually taken out? It was taken out.
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frankly can't think of a better person to lead the narrative design on your queer-focused game series than a cis white dude who thinks that women expressing primal human emotions like anger is verboten
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Remember, no bisexual
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Jay Rust posted:the French Deck Nine is an American company, you’re confusing them with the original LiS developer DontNod
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France is good
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Apr 5, 2024 17:28
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Jay Rust posted:the French Deck Nine is based in Colorado e:f,b
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I'm sorry, france, and the french. I should've known this would never happen in france, birthplace of simone de beauvoir.
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Apr 5, 2024 17:31
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I have somehow never noticed Life is Strange was worked on by two different developers.
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Electric Phantasm posted:I have somehow never noticed Life is Strange was worked on by two different developers. LiS is owned by Square and DontNod sold all the rights away in exchange for letting them publish the first game to begin with. They were hired back later for LiS2 but otherwise seem to have become an independent developer nowadays
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homeless snail posted:seafloor shrine is literally just gran soren. you meet the guy at the bottom of the everfall and come up into the castle and the layout is identical. in postgame its even more obvious because all the shops line up and even the riftstone is in the rubble of the old pawns guild. there are a few other places on the map that also at least evoke locations in gransys like ancient battleground and bluemoon tower it's been like four years since I played DD1 so it went over my head!!! bluemoon tower did make me think of the big tower out of the way in the first game but I figured it was more similarity than direct allusion
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ImpAtom posted:There is one thing about this article I find odd. i mean the whole thing reeks of poo poo like that  how can bad people have worked on this? we won GAMES FOR IMPACT
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im sure the squeenix guy said some weird poo poo but im also sure theyre exaggerating so they can feel like theyre the oppressed noble guys
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fez_machine posted:Another maker of cozy/socially progressive games exposed as a toxic workplace Note that this is not the developer of the original Life is Strange 1 and 2, which is Dontnod, but specifically the True Colors devs
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Games for Impact... does that go to the best game with a message, or just the best message? Thx
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games for genshin impact
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honestly the way these devs talk about this poo poo kinda makes me sick lolquote:“I worry that True Colors and Before the Storm are important to the queer community, and I just worry people will think they can’t play these anymore,” life is strange before the storm is not important to the queer community
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Dontnod also has its own share of issues, according to this recent union report: https://www.stjv.fr/en/2024/02/dont-nod-ascension-or-free-fall/.
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its cool also how that article is like 'square enix london said some weird poo poo and also one of the lead devs was a sex monster' and every response ive seen is 'can you believe how bad square enix is'
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ErrEff posted:Dontnod also has its own share of issues, according to this recent union report: https://www.stjv.fr/en/2024/02/dont-nod-ascension-or-free-fall/. It was kinda funny listening to podcasters going over that news story and going "50% of workers disapprove of their company's strategy and 30% would discourage others from applying there... honestly compared to American developers those numbers are really low"
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Endorph posted:honestly the way these devs talk about this poo poo kinda makes me sick lol Nothing outside the original Life is Strange feels like it even got noticed by anyone.
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Endorph posted:honestly the way these devs talk about this poo poo kinda makes me sick lol Well i mean, what ARE the games that are important to the queer community? Tetris obviously. Super Mario World and Super Mario 64 have to be up there, the latter especially, for their innovation at the very least. It's really amazing to me, and the queer community i'm sure, how nintendo basically nailed 3D platforming controls on their first try.
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Jay Rust posted:Well i mean, what ARE the games that are important to the queer community? Hearts of Iron 4 and I'm not even joking.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:It was kinda funny listening to podcasters going over that news story and going "50% of workers disapprove of their company's strategy and 30% would discourage others from applying there... honestly compared to American developers those numbers are really low" TBF, that is because US industry is a problem.
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Jay Rust posted:Well i mean, what ARE the games that are important to the queer community? Fallout New Vegas
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Jay Rust posted:Well i mean, what ARE the games that are important to the queer community?
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but yeah idk, obvs i feel bad for the devs if they were getting creeped on but the weird like... self-important a lot of western single a devs have because they made a bad game with a gay in it is kind of infuriating. they really think theyre like, the first people to ever do it when theres been equivalent games for 20+ years.
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Endorph posted:but yeah idk, obvs i feel bad for the devs if they were getting creeped on but the weird like... self-important a lot of western single a devs have because they made a bad game with a gay in it is kind of infuriating. they really think theyre like, the first people to ever do it when theres been equivalent games for 20+ years. Oh yeah? Well name three other games with gay people in them and I bet those devs will probably not even have heard of them
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Gaius Marius posted:France is good
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RBA Starblade posted:Oh yeah? Well name three other games with gay people in them and I bet those devs will probably not even have heard of them
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