@LittleTom@ChristiJunior I mean if your whole identity is pop culture you can't stray too far from the Current Year line. As annoying as "politics only" spergs are, what Current Year consoomerism does to you is worse. Imagine having no life aspirations beyond wanting slightly less shitty Star Wars and MCU sequels.
Just remember how many were "Skeptics" before GG and went to the next grift when Atheism (only against Christianity and whacko meme cults though) wasn't trendy anymore.
@ChristiJunior@RehnSturm256@LittleTom The entire indie scene is an incestuous cesspool where most games are mediocre, cheap, and indistinguishable, so that's the one area where game journos and "influencers" can bandwagon you into profitability. Gamergate shone a light on this and that's why they reacted so hysterically. If the indie bandwagon grift were ruined and games succeeded or failed based on customer response, that might open up the creative space to people with unapproved political opinions. There's so many categories that are set up to reward faggot shit like Celeste while quality Nintendo games get shoved into the "Family Game" ghetto.
@LittleTom That's not even it - Anthony Burch was EXTREMELY notorious during GamerGate for being a SJW turbo-cuck. Claiming that an Anthony Burch game is not Woke is basically like claiming that Zoe Quinn and Brianna Wu/John Flynt don't make Woke games.
And that's not even getting into the kind of company Soyny has turned into, and the record of previous PlayStation exclusives.
@ChristiJunior@LittleTom finding out what kind of sick cretin he (Burch) is, I don't even think GoW deserves to be critically analyzed. Screw that trash. Although now I know why the game's cutscenes and acting are paced and shot like it's a movie, or worse, like a sitcom.
Those fags really are just trying to push their failed Hollywood-pandering fan writing & libshit art school directing into gaming, to make themselves feel like they are making "high" (as per Hollywood definition) art.
>4 hour supercut >11 hour commentary featuring a tranny and LITERAL pedo zoophile all this to kvetch over a sperg not liking God of Soy? LMAO efaptrannies what will you come up with next.
That's why games like Cruelty Squad don't get promoted while shitty clique games get promoted. No really. It's most likely because that game was way too outsider for any indie clique to possibly have made.
Cruelty Squad for a long ass time was missing on the official GoDot site despite being the biggest game using the engine, probably because of how "abrasive" it is compared to most "safe" indie games. Once the godot guys realized that it's probably the biggest game hands down using their engine, they finally added it to the site: https://godotengine.org/showcase/cruelty-squad
The trick is if you want to release an indie game you can't market it through the usual channels. It has to gain traction on imageboards, fedi, etc, the less mainstream places first.
The other thing I remember from the GG era with regards to indie games was the flop of Sunset.
Long story short, some artfag game studio named Tale of Tales made this game called Sunset and it was a colossal flop. It got shilled by gaming sites, but the truth is gamers and the public at large don't care about some "art game" or "walking simulator". It ticked off all the ESG score and art grant boxes, but the truth is artfags think modern art is the turd shit nobody cares about at your local art gallery instead of premium sprite art, games with a good art direction, or old school arcade cab art/backglass art/box art. So it was a shitty game about some black indentured servant or some shit in a shithole country and who cares about it anyway because it didn't even sell 5,000 copies or something and the studio had a rage fueled blog post whining at their audience.
They also can't make good games because their influences and life experiences suck, and the same goes with game influences. Unless you're making a VN the game has to be playable, and with VNs you'd better make sure to give it good art/music/story so that people give a shit. Then people will think wow this game has a great soundtrack until they look up the wikipedia page and find out it's from a porn game 😂