I just played half an hour of it and then stopped and ordered a physical copy of the game to have "the full experience" and support what i like, maybe it's a late night whiskey decision but i can't see it going wrong. I usually don't like horror themed games but this is somehow different. Looks great, love the setting and i'm intrigued by where the story is going. Just wonder why aren't people talking about it?

A huge stereotype which I find harmful to the image we have is that we’re seen as just people who hate women in video games. No, that isn’t true.

In fact, I WANT women to have their own games. Like, I like the fact that women can play games like Candy Crush and Animal Crossing, because it means that they have something they can enjoy. What is NOT okay is when companies decide to appeal to a minority just so they can check some boxes.

Take Rainbow Six Siege, a game played primarily by males, now is adding a disabled person in a wheelchair. If you appeal to a minority, then more often than not you are GOING to lose people.

I wish games like Life is Strange exist, I wish games like Candy Crush exist, because at least then, women have games they can play which don’t take a shit on pre-existing franchises.

Tl;dr: Don’t use franchises which are mainly liked by men to push your agenda.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/22/nintendo-shares-rise-after-valueact-builds-1point1-billion-stake.html

Apparently, they want to work from their home https://x.com/GameSpot/status/1857083612639678498

On a personal note

4 months ago, i was hitting an absolute low point morale-wise. The culture war stuff was dragging me down, at work and professionally. I went to one of the last (known to me) places - this forum to broadcast a signal, looking to connect with other game devs who were equally fed up.

I have to say, the last months did not disappoint. I made my own Discord community and also joined the “It’s based” community (formerly/still known as “JamCast”) and was amazed - hundreds of gamedevs in one place, all trying to make culture better. The main feature of the community is a quarterly game jam - I joined right into their last one, so i didn’t have the chance to participate, but promised myself i would get into the next one, and so i did.

In the meantime, i also came on as a moderator. Lots of interesting things were cooking in the background, including building out a more substantive presence on Twitter/X, which is helping exposing the community, getting picked up by the non-woke YT gaming crowd, and reaching out to guest judges for the game jam.

The Based Jam Community

The server has been growing steadily, with each fresh stupid news (UbiShit Troubles, Wokot/vs. Redot Engine Situation etc) bringing in new people.

There are definitely more Indies than secret agents from large companies in that scene - maybe AA/AAA game dev is really too lost already, but i’m still holding out for those secret agents at the larger game studios.

The Jam itself was a blast and success. Compared to the previous jam, there were many more participants and entries, with many cool projects and guest finalist judges Ian Crossland (Timcast) and AndyPants (YT). Check out the show here if you’re interested, and the games on the second link.

Award Show

https://www.itsbased.com

Finalists

https://itch.io/jam/cast-fall-24/results

What’s next? Future jams and building culture

Where will it go from here? I’m pretty happy that i found a little - but growing - corner of sanity that is specifically geared toward game dev. My preconception that the current games industry is beyond salvaging is cementing; the escape route for most nonwoke devs will be through the indie tunnels. This thing is still small, but much larger than i had anticipated - and growing constantly. we’ll have to build from the ground up again, making games, building culture, and watch the current industry crumble and become fertilizer for the new generation of devs.

If you’re a game dev who wants to expand his network, come and join us. We’re going to host another jam soon. We also have a very active and growing Discord community of around 500.

https://itch.io/jam/its-based-jam-winter-2025

The numbers aren't looking good so far. SBI, race swap and cultural gate keeping stuff. But I've to say, the game kinda looks pretty, music is also good and the character doesn't sound very obnoxious, so far. It has a little "Southern Gods" vibe to it, which is one of my favorites novels. Even though the novel was dark and lovecraftian, this game will probably have a modern audience spin. Who knows.

Setting aside the numbers and SBI involvement, what are your thoughts after watching the trailer? Will it be good in gameplay and story?

I'm not from that part of the world and have very little knowledge of the old cultures and folklore. I do enjoy the stories and am actually interested to see how this game does on its own merits.

so i would like to discuss this serie.

tbh, i gave it up somewhere before the end of season 2. people say its bashing both sides of the political spectrum, but it became to much PC for me, and tbf the toxic 'strong women' was nail biting irritating.

i have seen a few hits on the other side let me say, but for the rest, it's nonstop hitting and beating down on MEN with a specific collour of skin, and political motivations.

also, what is going on with fathers in this show? why is every father besides MM just plain trash, or useless?! wich is pissing me off.

the best part for me was when this woke supe Annie (with lame af powers), had for some reason a feminist tirade on the Butcher calling him a biggot, that made me giggle tho because of how bad and out of place it was.

season 1 was good! very good!

but what do you guys think? is it still worth to watch it at where i am? does it get more enjoyable maybe, and does it ever shut up about any politically related?! because somethimes i just want to watch something without being blasted by ANY politics in my face you know!

So, browsing DAV on Metacritic, I've read things like "stop deleting my review" in many negative reviews. I wrote one myself and published it. The day after it was gone. I wrote it again (and copypasted it on a .txt), and after a while it also got deleted. Copypasted it back, deleted again AND now it gives me an error every time I try to post a review (no matter for which game and if it's positive).

Any way to expose this censorship? Any atual action we could take?

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/fed9159c5d118c3debc612c4f99180b63d4098ac

Eurogamer really did a clickbait

Every since I saw that scene from Veilguard ... and then recovered from cringing so hard my spine cracked ... I've equated the phrase with any release of any kind of in-your-face, they-should-have-known-better wokeness.

It doesn't matter what it is. Basically anything done specifically for 'the modern audience' which everyone else can see from jump is going to turn out to be a total dumpster fire. As soon as I hear about it, my first thought is "Oh, they did a barv".

Lemme break it down for you, Dragon Quest, more importantly Dragon Quest III is a very Important and Iconic Game in the JRPG landscape. 3 in particular has legendary status, it was THE game that pioneered the genre to JRPG genre to begin with. Hell Dragon Quest 3 was so impactful in Japan that Manga Duo: Riku Sanjo and Koji Inoda made a manga loosely based on Dragon Quest 3.

The Name of Said Manga is "Dragon Quest Dai" and to everyone who don't know what or how influential this manga is, Dai was in Weekly shonen Jump and was fighting against Behemoths like Dragon Ball, Jojo, Yu Yu Hakusho and other Iconic Shonen from 1989 to 1996.

And while yes the dragon Quest Name did draw attention, ultimately its was an original IP that had Yuji Horii's blessing. And Dragon Quest Dai in particular is one of the best selling Manga of all time, and is the only Manga that has the name "Dragon Quest" that is not only well known and Iconic, but also the best selling and one of the pillars shonen. Without Dragon Quest 3 there is NO Dragon Quest Dai.

With that tangent aside, Dragon Quest 3 is a legendary and an Iconic game in JRPG sub-culture, it help influence the genre and other creators that went onto to become legends themselves. When a remake of THE JRPG was announced I expected people to be on their knees and glazing the hell out of Square Enix, I expected the old heads to be jumping for joy that their childhood was back, hell I was expecting Dragon Quest Fandom as a whole (I'm speaking worldwide) would be excited for this remake of III....

So answer me this one single question.... WHERE. THE. FUCK. IS. THE. HYPE!????

There's a day and a half until the game comes out, (comes out tomorrow at 11PM for some people) and yet where is the hype? Where's the fanfare? Where's the celebrations!?? I know for a fact that at one point everyone was excited for the Remake of 3, Its an Iconic and legendary IP so I figured that at the very least the old-heads would excited.... But even the oldies don't care!!!

And I think I know the reason why.... The Censorship.

Thats right everyone, it seems that not only Japan, but everyone has decided NOT to buy this remake because of the censorship. The Censorship on its own is bad enough, but to censor Dragon Quest 3 AFTER Akira Toriyama passed away was the last nail in the coffin. Even fucking Japan don't care about the upcoming Remake of 3, which is insane since Romancing SaGa 2 Remake was top 5 in Japan on steam. And DQ3R is not even in the top 100, and that game has more "weight" than RS2R.

Remember how I talk about how Romancing SaGa 2 Uncensored, the thing is DQ3R and RS2R are handled by the SAME company. And RS2R at the rate its going not just in Japan but overseas is looking to be a critical Success. DQ3R on the other hand is looking to be a flop if the pre-order sales are anything to go by... And the Pre-Order Sales for RS2R was high, hell the remake of Star Ocean 2 had high pre-order sales and square was STILL salty that THEY didn't get the credit. And now they have a chance to get said recognition and they've pissed off the consumer.

And I don't blame SE for the censorship, I blame the weirdos in the west for breathing down their necks and telling them to censor or you won't be able to sell it. Even IF DQ3R got a T rating it probably wouldn't be enough. Which is insane how RS2R is uncensored as hell and is actually spicier than the OG art.

SaGa may be "Niche" but what the hell even is or isn't niche anymore? Something can sell 2 million copies and win awards and still be called niche, so the term doesn't mean much to me.

The Launch Trailer for DQ3 has ONLY 40K views.... thats REALLY REALLY bad... This is an legendary JPRG and only 40K views? And like dislike ratio is 4-1, and the fact the dislikes are even that high for a Dragon Quest Game is very damning...

I wholeheartedly believe that the censorship, this disrespctect to Toriyama, the disrespect to Japanese Culture are key factors why no one's been talking about DQ3R, the game launches TOMORROW and not a soul gives a fuck. Go back to the late 80's and people lost their shit over Dragon Quest 3, people skipped work and school for this game, it got so bad that a law was created so that Dragon Quest isn't released on week-days (Thursday is a weekday so maybe the law became lenient), flash forward to 2024 and that same energy people had towards III is LONG gone.

If there was no censorship whatsoever, and DQ3 is releasing tomorrow/Thursday I promise you we'd be seeing the 2nd coming of what happened in Japan when the game first released back in the 80's.

I'm sorry for going on and on, but I felt like this needed to be discussed since NO ONE's Talking about a legendary JRPG coming in less that 30 hours! Are the consumers voting with their wallet? Or do the consumers just don't have the money for it? (The same people who bought Metaphor have already bought RS2R.... Just saying...)

Do you guys think with trump being president we can expect to see games to stop censoring as more woke workers get fired or do you think it will still take a long time for censoring to end