Opinion: The Woke Videogame Spreadsheet

[@seraseely6570]

When you make being unhappy your whole entire personality...

[@matheusalves5160]

Fallout: New Vegas have LIGHT social commentary??? Is that some kind of joke? Fallout is, and has always been, deeply political, how New Vegas, a game when you are exposed to the grit, dirty of pretty much every political ideology present in the Mojave, out of all of them is just moderately political?

[@Undercover_Femboy]

How I see it, it's not about games not having politics. It's about having politics that they like. Everything has a little bit of politics. Since fallout new Vegas allows you to do whatever, it must be fine with them or something

[@VayaKahvi]

You wanna have a real laugh, that list only lightly pings BioShock for being wokke, though does put BioShock Infinite in the "Not Recommended" category.

[@theobell2002]

It's only "moderately political" because it allows me to be a fascist. /s

[@xBINARYGODx]

@@Undercover_Femboy no, I mean, you are correct, but there are game now that give you choice and they still whine so long as the "wrong" choices are present, and NV only gets a pass because its old and the internet already convinced everyone it was great, so you cannot win hearts and minds whining about it. But if a NV2 was exactly as political and in the same ways? they would whine about it - well, they would unless it sell bigly. Notice they have mostly nothing to day about BG3?

[@matunusdonnerhammer3423]

1) The right really doesn't know much about the ancient Greeks. 2) Of all the games in the world, I didn't think there would be wrestling game on a list of woke games.

[@GaryTurbo]

People forgot that not only Fallout had LGBT themes since the first two games but the entire franchise was created by a gay man

[@aaronlaughter6471]

God Tim Cain is so awesome, just a genuinely great person.

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

⁠Tim Cain has a great KZbin channel where he explains game design and shares stories. He posts vlogs almost daily (sometimes more than once a day) @CainOnGames.

[@shfhsvomvolakis2318]

Thanks woke game detectot. Thanks to you i add all games in the not recommended in my Add to your wishlist. I found so much games i dont know they exist. Thanks so much

[@knellycornnan5132]

While I mostly agree with the video, the bear in the woods was a bad example. Everyone should be scared about there a bear somewhere out there and deterred from going near it. I'd say its more like going into a store looking for hamburgers, but knowing there is salads somewhere in the store so noping out.

[@solblackguy]

If it were more accurate, the spreadsheet is ironically one of the best search engines to find cool diverse games

[@franklinbadge1215]

I guess Plato was woke because he too believed that Achilles and Patroclus were lovers. This interpretation is almost as old as the Iliad itself.

[@daytimesky]

Was looking to see if there were any videos of people making fun of this list (I just learned about this hilarious list today), and I found yours. It was pretty entertaining!

[@eightydaze]

Thank you for the watch, buddy!

[@daytimesky]

@@eightydaze You noticed! Yeah, I looked at what other videos you have and it looks like you touch on interesting subjects. I'll get around to watching them later! Whenever I encounter someone who makes good content but is totally obscure, it feels like a real shame, but maybe it means they have a lot of room to grow and be discovered!

[@knellycornnan5132]

This list is fun though. It provides some interesting points of discussion to critique and talk about.

[@seraseely6570]

If Banjo-Kazooie were released today, these tiny-membered losers would decry it as "Woke" because there's a female character who speaks her mind and a literal WITCH in it!

[@boxylemons7961]

Not to mention left 4 dead and 2 has survivors that are respectively: Elderly (Bill) Black (Louis, Coach, Rochelle) Women (Zoey, Also Rochelle)

[@TheRevan1337]

Earned a subscriber. Keep being real.

[@The482075]

Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 has two women slaying zombies. Also has multiple non white zombie slayers. At least be consistent with tagging things as "woke".

[@aleksandarnikolic4544]

I bet you enjoy playing all these titles with your girlfriends boyfriend.

[@CrimsonUmbrella]

I did, thank you. ❤

[@eightydaze]

"Titles" lmao, real game reviewer over here.

[@HM-rz8nv]

ugghhh, youtube is being difficult, my initial comment is failing to show up when i switch to another account. Anyways great commentary.

[@pitfiend-d7j]

This is an extremely useful list. Thank you.

[@DaltaZon-mk6ux]

Yeah, guys, games are doing great. The woke games are selling great. Stop worrying so much, guys. Come on, guys. What stocks? What studio closures? What delays? What abysmal sales? Those are just concepts that the chuds made up. Mass layoffs? What even IS a layoff? Come on, guys. Games like Concord and Dustborn just did extremely poorly because theres too much saturation in a specific genre. In fact, there's just too many games in general! The gaming market is oversaturated with games! Oh, also, those games just weren't that good. It's just a coincidence that the devs that foster woke beliefs make games that severely underperform consistently. But that's okay guys, cuz that means the gaming industry is doing fantastic right now. In fact, what even IS a game? Come on, guys.

[@eightydaze]

Two of the top 5 selling games from 2023 are on the "not recommended" list. The other three aren't listed. Grand theft auto 5 is "slightly woke". Top three selling game of all time.

[@DaltaZon-mk6ux]

@@eightydaze Oh yeah the list that no one has heard of or paid attention to. It's legit! So don't worry! Gaming is going great! Ignore all the failing markers, guys!

[@eightydaze]

You paid attention to it, and to my response. You're trying to use its points to say that "Woke" games cause failures, when empirically that doesn't seem to be the case.

[@DaltaZon-mk6ux]

@@eightydaze I found out about it though you, buddy. No one else. Even till now. Lol. Yeah, guys, the wokeness IN the game isn't causing the games to fail. It's just a coincidence that all the major failures that have resulted in absolute catastrophic sales, abysmal player numbers, plummeting stocks, studio closures, and mass layoffs were those made or made with the explicit direction of people of a certain variety of ideological persuasion. Those games were all just poorly made games, guys. But don't pay attention to how the same type of people make all those games. Come on, guys! It's all just a coincidence.

[@eightydaze]

Would I be able to make ANY predictions about a studio or games success based off of anything you're saying? If I see a game or studio employ "Woke" or "DEI" strategies, should I expect that game or studio to fail more times than not?