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The Boomer Shooter Revival (hexbear.net)
 

the boomer shooter revival genre that the Doom Reboot saga started actually has a good amount of female protagonists.

In fact, it may be the only modern game genre where i can safely say the gender split is roughly half and half with games like Selaco, Ion Fury, Forgive me Father, Hedon, Nightmare Reaper, Project Warlock 1 and 2, Rise Of The Triad, Supplice, Zortch, Ghostware, Beyond Sunset, Viscerafest, The Citadel, Sprawl

There are genuinely so many boomer shooter female protagonist and you know what, and i say this with full confidence as i am very active within boomer shooter communities and follow boomer shooter youtubers like Civvie11 and GmanLives: NOBODY CARES.

Which is a hilarious fact in and of itself since the boomer shooter genre, more than any other videogame genre is DOMINATED by a male audience. And yet they do not care.

Selaco is one of the most beloved and best selling games of that entire genre and it stars a female protagonist that kicks all sorts of ass. And yet not a single outcry of "muh woke" from the community,

don't know if it's cos the boomer shooter genre has mostly grown and prospered in the indie scene so there's less toxicity there or the fact that the devs of these games themselves are openly progressive or if the fanbase of these games is just naturally older therefore they don't have the time nor patience to engage in culture wars but whatever it is, it's a nice thing to see

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My Thoughts on Sorry,We're Closed (hexbear.net)
 

is a pretty solid Horror game from the Demo I played but, it commits ONE fatal flaw that a lot of games do have

having Aim and throw/shoot/attack being the left and right Mouse keys

It's quite hard to press both mouse keys on a laptop trackpad but, it still is a pretty good Horror game and I will DEFINITLEY be buying the full game when I get the chance to

Friendly reminder: Don't take the culture war in gaming too seriously. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Most bigbudget AAA games need to sell literally millions to break even, FF16 failed to meet expectations after selling millions and Spider-man 2 needed to sell 8M to break even.

even if we double and triple the numbers of chuds that are actually lost customers, its such a small fraction of the market, and lets not forget if the game comes out and is good, how many people will actually boycott a game and not just come up with somehing dumb like "its woke but done well" like they do with literally so many other games? there's very few people who actually will, on prinpcle not buy game bc a female lead is bald for example

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Friendly reminder: Don't take the culture war in gaming too seriously. (hexbear.net)
 

Some tweets from piratenation and asmon about the bald protag in intergalatic got, lets say 20k-40k likes on Twitter. Which is a lot for the platform. Lets say that it was 50K though, lets ignore how many of those are bots Let's ignore how many of those wouldn't be interested in the game anyway Let's ignore how many might follow them without even being gamers really but just bc they are part of the culture war BS let's ignore that even on twitter they got ratioed by a tweet that got 300K likes

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On this date Exactly 20 years ago on December 15, 2004, EA Ruined Football games forever with their 300 Million dollar exclusivity deal with the NFL (hexbear.net)
 

after this, Games like NFL 2K, NFL Gameday, NFL Fever, NFL QB club and NFL Blitz could no longer exist, only Madden.

A quote form on Old Forum website when this news broke 20 years ago:

"5 more years of Glorified Roster Updates

EA is the biggest cancer to the Industry, they put out mediocre games and nobody says anything bad about them because they have the reviewers paid off

not to mention the numerous ways they find to spit in the face of people who buy form them"

It's pretty damn accurate, even 20 years later . both EA and their games have gotten worse over the last 20 years

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It's funny how they complain about the lack of photorealism while at the same time calling photorealism "woke" (hexbear.net)
 

Which is it? Do the Gooners want photorealistic graphics or not?

Because when you go photorealistic you get realistic humans. People don't look the way do in SFM porn or Hentai

You have to pick and choose, if you want more stylized looks (Because apparently, More Stylized= "Not Woke") then don't complain about graphical stagnation.