The community manager for Bend, the developer behind games such as Syphon Filter and Uncharted: Golden Abyss, has apologised to the studio's Days Gone fans.
  • a lil bee 🐝@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 days ago

    This is the second time I’ve seen right wing talking points associated with this game and it’s so pathetic to try and use that to cover over your middling review scores. I mean, you run a business. If you’re not going to self-reflect on why your product didn’t do as well as you thought, not sure you’re being honest with yourself on why your product failed. That same thinking would have been present in the design and development process, preventing their product from ever getting any better. One of those reasons companies even pay lip service to DEI: it genuinely brings fresh perspectives and refines your art and product.

    Anyway, I even liked this game. It’s honestly pretty fun and the zombie hordes are relatively unique for the genre. The main character isn’t some right-wing asshole and even comes off as pretty empathetic and kind, if I remember correctly. It just came out at a time of open world oversaturation and played into almost every trope of the time. I think if it came out today, (and they managed to not show their ass online) it would do a lot better. As usual, the right-wing malding is weird on top of being gross and unnecessary.

    • Blizzard@lemmy.zipEnglish
      122·
      2 days ago

      Here’s the context from the linked article under that “woke reviewers” sentence:

      And a follow-up:

      “if a reviewer objects to a character because of identity politics, I call that woke…”

      I kind of agree with him. I initially didn’t want to play the game because of all the bugs people were posting on reddit and because of reviews saying the game is average and pointing out some dialogs that were supposed to be bad or cringe.

      Played it later when it came to PS+ and the game was amazing! The bugs had been fixed by then, and the dialogs were actually very good. The supposed bad dialogs from reviews were taken out of context to look bad.

      • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I never read any reviews for this game and played it when I got a PS5 and it was one of the included games in the PS+ catalogue. The dialogue was easily the worst part about the game, lol. Well, either the dialogue, or the “missions” that were entirely “go to this spot on the map and talk to an NPC”. Gameplay and overall the story was pretty great, though.