@chriss_m: That's why I support Stellar Blade's devs. I mainly support Stellar Blade from a gamer politics point of view. Because it's going through the same thing Elden Ring went through.
As in, it's a game that's trying to be fun, interesting, and kind of different while being familiar. And is getting bashed, protested, and pushed by people with no taste in media, or corporations that want to keep shipping out the same horse crap with no change. I still remember when game devs were bashing Elden Ring for having a bad UI. Even though the devs who brought it up made some of the worse UIs in media in general (And the Cherry on top. Was that the dude who started the post makes the worst Modern UI updates).
But this is worse than the Elden Ring hate. Because you would think a land filled with people who love supporting women would support this game for having a badass female main lead. But instead, they're tearing it apart like a dog does to a throw pillow.
(Though it's nowhere near as bad as the Blauder's Gate III hate. Which was so pathetic it made me embarrassed to even be a student trying to be a game dev.)
Oh absolutely. There’s a hideous groupthink within gaming culture via a lot of developers and of course the sycophantic gaming bloggers. They feel like their hold on the culture is threatened whenever anything is released that does not conform to the grey homogeneity they envisage for the future of gaming. People are sick of it.
The time to complain about this was when your game was banned not when another wasn’t.
Thank God for Stellar Blade. This is what happens when you have a strong personality, really an auteur, at the head of a studio. Confident, unrepentant in their vision and gamers love it. Amazing that these big companies still try and appease these silly little online mobs that want art by committee and faceless suits.
When I saw Stellar Blade was using its anti-censorship position as a marketing element I realised we’ve finally turned a corner. The mob will still have their indie game developers and their western corporations, but the rest of us will get to enjoy the auteur developers. And that’s good enough.
@chriss_m: I'd think the real satisfaction would come from accomplishing things in the game, rather than eventually getting used to an unintuitive and convoluted control scheme.
I waited to play the game before responding.
There’s nothing unintuitive or convoluted about its control scheme.It’s actually quite generic. It just has a learning curve, and mastering a learning curve is indeed satisfying. My original comment stands.
They’re still adding that anti-JK Rowling propaganda.
Worth mentioning then, since the article invites discussion about JK Rowling’s stance, that she has very clearly laid out her position on transgender issues, which can in no way be described as ‘anti-trans’. In fact, the tweet in which she describes her views in detail is one of the most liked tweets on Twitter *ever*.
Furthermore, Rowling believes in the immutability of sex. This is described as gender critical. It is a belief system which has been challenged in court and found not only to be lawful, but in fact protected by the Equality Act. Views which are hateful cannot be protected by the Equality Act. British, and therefore European law, finds that her views are therefore NOT anti-trans as this article erroneously claims.
Finally, Rowling has been particularly vocal about her concerns about puberty blockers being given to children. A view which has been vindicated by the Cass Report. An independent, objective 4 year clinical review of gender care for children, which did indeed find serious concerns about gender treatment and no evidence to support the prescribing of puberty blockers for children. This has led to the banning of this practice in England and Wales and in wider Europe.
‘ Combat and controls have a significant learning…’
Why is ‘You need to actually develop and learn this’ considered a bad thing? I think most gamers would agree that the joy of gaming is learning, developing and mastering. That’s why it’s called a game.
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