r/KotakuInAction • u/AgitatedFly1182 • 5d ago
EASY MODE ENTHUSIAST I don’t even know what to say to this.
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u/Remarkable-Ask2288 5d ago
Ma’am please stop. Go see a shrink. Preferably not your usual one
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u/StarskyNHutch862 5d ago
Getting rid of gatekeeping destroyed video games.
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u/Therenomoreusername 5d ago
Gatekeeping is necessary for game development to stick true and make sense with the core niche fanbase - the unseen targeted demographic that play and understand the game origins, who put the most time cares, efforts, knowledges and merits into it.
Not the mainstream pretentious drama tourists or idpol useful idiots that scream the loudest and spent 24/7 on social medias with zero attention span, never engage the game enough meaningfully, yet is purposefully dishonest about it.
ANYONE can play the games if they’re interested. HOWEVER, the game original creative and technical development aspects must be gate-kept by the dedicated community who have the merits, similar wants and its knowledges to branch out innovative; not be emotionally blackmailed and shamed into superficial clout-chasing conformity, destroying any sense of quality control, competency, trust, dedications, and long-term building.
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u/ZeElessarTelcontar 5d ago
Hot take: "gatekeeping" is the biggest lie manufactured by the media. No nerd jedi mind tricked anyone from enjoying video games, NONE. These were the mean bitches who kept themselves out cuz video games were for "unattractive basement losers". Now it's a mainstream hobby, and they want it for themselves.
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u/TheSnesLord 5d ago edited 5d ago
100%
And they now have the gall to say that "women have been kept out of the hobby", which is false. It is one of the major lies of the video games industry.
Like you say, the reason on why there wasn't many women in the hobby was always due to women not being interested in it. They were never kept out of it.
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u/Notmydirtyalt 5d ago
The hobby was always a meritocracy and those with merit within it were derided as having no value that a woman would seek.
Of course with hindsight they found that so long as a participant showed merit they were always welcome which is why we get Vin Diesel playing D&D and Henry Cavill playing 40K. Oh and many of those men without merit went on to become wealth following the dotcom boom.
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u/Cmdrdredd 5d ago
The sad part is that there were definitely some women who liked the hobby, they were just treated as “unmarrable” and maybe even outcast more than the guys were in some circles.
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u/Cmdrdredd 5d ago
Absolutely true. It was seen as something only guys who looked like they belong in Revenge of the Nerds could enjoy and understand. I can’t pinpoint exactly why that group who outcast gamers before suddenly wanted to push their way in.
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u/Cinj216 5d ago
Because for all her talk of nerd subculture she belongs to bully subculture. Now that high school is over and cunts like her can't bully nerds face to face, they push their way into nerd spaces so they can continue the behavior that gets their rocks off not to mention it's an easy target for their cultural revisionism.
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u/Cmdrdredd 5d ago
Maybe, but I can at least tell them to fuck off and watch them get mad about it lol
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u/Zomunieo 5d ago
The release of World of Warcraft is probably the moment gaming went mainstream. The top game franchises are some of the most valuable media franchises, period. That signalled to grifters that money, power and cultural influence could be had.
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u/Cmdrdredd 5d ago
Could be, also I just thought about the whole streaming culture. Now you can quit your job and just make videos full time. Lots of people tried to go that route with varying success. I think maybe that could have been part of the shift. Those girls who wouldn’t pay gamers any mind before suddenly want to show them their ass on camera as long as they are paying $20 for it and now what used to be dirty is suddenly “empowering and independent”
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u/Godz_Bane 5d ago
Nah, WoW was well known as a nerd game. South park made fun of it that way. Its was a subscription based PC game though which limited its appeal greatly.
Mainstream gaming was Cod, Halo, Gears in the 360 era.
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u/justiceavenger2 4d ago
Exactly. There has never been any type of law or magic force field stopping anymore from buying a video game, buying a comic, watching a movie, or doing anything else. Mostly men play video games and read comic books because those appeal to men. Just like there is nothing stopping me from buying a Barbie Doll and a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey, but I know I am not going to enjoy those 2 things if I buy them.
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u/CortezDeLaNoche 5d ago
It's ok. We're making a comeback.
It's like a virus, and we finally got the vaccine. Now that we know what these people look and sound like, we'll NEVER give them access to our media again once we get rid of them.And companies will listen to real gamers. It only worked before because they thought it would make money. Now they know better.
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u/lycanthrope90 5d ago
Problem is they’ve even infected the companies. But on the bright side it creates a gap in the market that will allow new companies to compete and we can gatekeep the fuck out of those ones lol.
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u/insidiarii 5d ago
Viruses mutate
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u/stryph42 5d ago
Oh Christ, I don't even want to imagine what MUTANT Mercante looks like
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u/insidiarii 5d ago edited 5d ago
Jokes aside, we have already seen the mutation happen. 20 years ago in the pre-zoomer era it was people like Jack Thompson and the "Video games cause violence" crowd trying to ruin video games. Back then censorship of the arts was entirely a right-wing phenomenon and the left was seen as counterculture and defender of artistic expression and integrity.
Well, we all know how that turned out. But the point is it would have been close to impossible to predict "video games cause fascism" if you grew up recognizing "video games cause violence" as THE template. And this will hold true for all future mutations as well.
Also, happy cake day.
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u/stryph42 5d ago
I think I might still have a "Jack Thompson causes violence" shirt somewhere.
At least he actually believed his own hype though. Most of these dumbfucks now are just in it for career advancement or internet goodboy points.
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u/TheSnesLord 5d ago
It was impossible to gatekeep a decade ago and it is still impossible to gatekeep now.
Gynocentrism and White Knighting will always prevent gatekeeping.
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u/ozy31 5d ago
Mental illness. How does her tweet have one million views?
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u/argoncrystals 5d ago
views are not the important metric for a tweet
it's about the ratio of views to interactions, especially with such a low view:like ratio on this tweet
it's silently telling how many have viewed this opinion without agreeing
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u/Godz_Bane 5d ago
Look at the likes, only 1500. The views are all bots or people making fun of her.
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u/Technical-Belt-5719 5d ago
Honestly, we shouldn't be doing even this much. People like her should be left to scream into the empty void, nothing responding to her.
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u/Green-Ad7694 5d ago
She's making conclusions and seeing correlations in things that are not related at all. Most gamers don't give af about politics, except when it comes to crazy people shoving their beliefs down their throat in their games. Shes just a troll at this stage.
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u/arselkorv 5d ago
Its what they always do, they attack gamers, gamers get angry and defend themselves, then they say gamers are evil for defending themselves.
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u/stryph42 5d ago
Women attack gamers. Gamers return fire. GAMERS ARE ALL MISOGYNISTS WHO ATTACK WOMEN!
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u/Leisure_suit_guy 5d ago
Shes just a troll at this stage.
It's no coincidence that she was fired; how unhinged you have to be in order to become a liability for... Kotaku itself?
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u/TheNittanyLionKing 5d ago
I lean more conservative/Libertarian, and I don't like Soulslike games. I don't hate them. They're just not for me. Politics really has nothing to do with it, but she sees politics in everything.
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u/Leisure_suit_guy 5d ago
I'm far left and I love Soulsgames (not soulslikes, I mean the actual soulsgames), but I certainly do not like them for political reasons.
I would be pretty miserable if I watched everything through the lens of politics, and not only that, but it would be most likely completely wrong in my readings, by missing the cultural context in which the Soulsgames were made, i.e. Japan.
For example, when I was a teen I believed that all American heavy metal bands tended left wing, because where I'm from rebels are (well, were at the time) exclusively left wing, but I was completely wrong.
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u/Bossman1086 4d ago
It's crazy how some people can't enjoy something if it doesn't actively reaffirm their worldview. I'm a libertarian and I enjoyed Bioshock - which was a critique of objectivism. I listen to bands that I know the members are people I would vehemently disagree with on politics. I've watched plenty of movies that go against my real worldview. All perfectly fine because the world doesn't fucking revolve around me.
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u/featherless_fiend 5d ago edited 5d ago
Basically her nemesis asmongold is living rent free in her head. He praises every soulslike he sees, and shits all over every other western game during gameshow trailer showcases. He even admittedly calls it souls-slop because there's so many.
There was also that drama a while back where it seemed like a lot of journos refused to play Black Myth: Wukong based on bullshit they invented to smear the company. And I don't think it even was a soulslike but all the journos decided it was, which gave them the excuse they needed to not play it.
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u/SamuraiGoblin 5d ago
"I desperately need to stay relevant, so I will say anything that will get me attention."
Don't give her that attention.
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u/Lurker_osservatore 5d ago
Blah blah blah, facists, blah blah blah, alt right, blah blah blah fascism...
What do you want to answer to this?
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u/Leisure_suit_guy 5d ago
I think: "did you forget to take your meds today?" would be the only appropriate answer.
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u/katsuya_kaiba 5d ago
Say nothing, it's just her baiting.
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u/JustOneAmongMany Knitta, please! 5d ago
Exactly this. Ignore her and let her get back to waiting tables.
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u/ComfyKorok 5d ago
I just don’t get it. Why do so many people who absolutely loathe this hobby and its participants try to become a significant part of it? I’ve never seen this with another hobby except maybe comic books.
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u/Izzyrion_the_wise 5d ago
“I like games where I can challenge myself to continuously get better.”
”You fascist!!!”
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u/AgitatedFly1182 5d ago
Even normal Reddit is clowning on her so fucking hard for this. r/soulslikes
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u/Repulsive-Owl-9466 5d ago
Cringe as fuck
Sounds like a 14 year trying to explain how the world really works
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u/Cmdrdredd 5d ago
I dunno about that, there are a lot of borderline communists here on Reddit who claim Elden ring is the best game ever and they worship Lies of P. According to this, it’s impossible for a game or genre to just be popular. Everything has to be because of a political identity or social group.
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u/BootlegFunko 5d ago
That's Gramsci's manual: 'Turn the private into public and social spheres into political battlegrounds'. That's also we get so many "x has always been progressive" too
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u/lyra833 GET THE BOARD OUT, I GOT BINGO! 5d ago
Woke more correct than mainstream: Dark Souls just ignored the previous 6 years of dumbing-down games and thus reified gaming as an implicitly reactionary medium right at the moment they were ready to pitch it to wider audiences as a progressive art form.
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u/joshino14 5d ago
I hate when people randomly use “pseudo-intellectual” as an adjunct in a statement when they’re trying to make it sound more insightful than it actually is. Ironically making it the literal definition of pseudo-intellectual.
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u/BrookieDragon 5d ago
I find these people the same as those that like to open a thesaurus and put in as many random nonsensical words as they can into their writing to seem smart.
She tries hard to come off as important, thoughtful, and informed...when in reality she's spouting dumb bullshit about perceived problems to align with her politics.
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u/Snow-Crash-42 5d ago
She sounds almost like that deranged Alex Minassian when he was talking to the detective about normies, incels, chads and stacys.
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u/MrEfrom818 5d ago
People like Alyssa Mercante and people like Alex Minassian are really just on opposite sides of the same mentally ill coin. The only thing more nuts is how someone like her was allowed to rise to prominence.
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u/unnecessaryCamelCase 5d ago
Why even pay attention to such a thing? It’s not like anyone important said this.
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u/YetAnotherCommenter 5d ago
She's not wrong that there's a difference between CoD Bros and actual nerds/real gamers/etc.
Not to mention in her words she's basically confessing that the Red Pill is right - women classify men into an hierarchy based on who tickles their bits, and this hierarchy favors jock over nerd.
But I've never seen *any* evidence of an ideological connection between Soulslikes and the political right.
At most, there's a (not unreasonable) case that the kind of person who likes Soulslikes is also more prone to be into unorthodox intellectual esoterica (which all gets classified as "right wing" because all "right wing" means is "unpopular with university professors").
But this tendency - "people with weird cultural tastes also are more likely to have weird ideas" - predates the Soulslike genre.
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u/lyra833 GET THE BOARD OUT, I GOT BINGO! 5d ago
But I've never seen any evidence of an ideological connection between Soulslikes and the political right.
I have, mostly because the central themes of Dark Souls are about prolonging a doomed Age of Fire and the gameplay backs this up by being insanely agonistic.
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u/joydivisionucunt 5d ago
More than anything, I think she's just ragebaiting people and thinks calling CoD players "alphas" will anger soulslike players, because of them being called uncool or a loser is like, the worst thing you could ever be.
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u/YetAnotherCommenter 5d ago
I think she's just ragebaiting people and thinks calling CoD players "alphas" will anger soulslike players, because of them being called uncool or a loser is like, the worst thing you could ever be.
Some people never mature beyond high school, unfortunately. Mercante is a clear case of someone so stunted.
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u/joydivisionucunt 5d ago
Yeah, I honestly think the reason why a lot of people like that latched onto gaming/nerd culture because they thought they could be the cool ones for once.
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u/Blkwinz 5d ago
I haven't seen any evidence but she elaborates on this via her hatred of the 'git gud' phrase. Basically the games are meant to be a meritocratic struggle with enough difficulty to simply filter people. In this sense it is "exclusionary" and lionizes personal effort.
This isn't about any particular lore in Dark Souls itself, as she does say "SoulsLIKES" so anyone trying to say "well this character in elden ring is ..." is missing the point, the lore doesn't matter, it's about the genre itself and how it punishes mediocrity. Left wing people fundamentally do not like any problem where the solution is "improve yourself without help" whereas for right wing people that is sort of a trying to fit a square peg into every hole type of thing, but in this case it actually is the right answer so they would enjoy the experience
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u/YetAnotherCommenter 5d ago
Basically the games are meant to be a meritocratic struggle with enough difficulty to simply filter people. In this sense it is "exclusionary" and lionizes personal effort.
I guess, but that mentality is hardly unique to the right. Classical Marxism was very much an ideology of justice (as they saw it), an ideology demanding work and effort. Vladimir Lenin said "he who does not work shall not eat" - hardly a tender-minded welfare-statist or highly inclusive and compassion-driven attitude.
As for fascism and Nazism and other forms of racial collectivism, they're also misfits with the idea of meritocracy and individual effort, since they don't care about the individual or what the individual can do but mere biology as the determinant of value.
And let us be honest - the contemporary left has its citadels in academia, which is a very competitive culture that demands individual effort and striving. Yes, identitarianism within this culture has weakened meritocracy, but it has also become a method of competition, where people will leverage their identity to throw others under the bus in order to advance in the hierarchy. Not to mention, the well-documented intellectual elitism of the progressive left makes it clear that they in fact believe some people are better than others and some people deserve to rule over others. Their egalitarianism is so hollow its a joke.
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u/Blkwinz 5d ago
Vladimir Lenin said "he who does not work shall not eat"
Well he took that from the Bible and said it because there was a famine so he couldn't afford to do the lofty social welfare state thing. Every time the relief systems are overwhelmed it goes from "the state will take care of everyone, we're a land of plenty" to "no parasites allowed"
racial collectivism
As a policy for a nation, has more to do with desire for a shared culture and heritage than a "determinant of value" - a "racial collectivist" could recognize the merit and value of someone from another race, and say "we should hire that guy to work for us REMOTELY" or form some sort of international alliance with regards to another people.
I think even now if you ask the twitter "nazis" about Japan they would almost all agree that Japan and her people are pretty cool. I mean Hitler himself, honorary aryans and all that.
they in fact believe some people are better than others and some people deserve to rule over others.
Naturally, this is the progressive stack. But even if it has "competition" it still has no relation at all to merit. There may be a "perfect" straight white guy, but he still has the original sin and it cannot be erased. He will never be forgiven and those above him in the stack will always be preferred.
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u/TheAngryXennial 5d ago
So stupid smh social media was a mistake really wish we could go back to the old internet
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u/A_Cup_of_Ramen 5d ago
Copeposting from someone who couldn't/wouldn't git gud.
Guitar Hero players used to give the advice "suck less". Souls fans are nicer.
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u/Differentnameo 5d ago
Lol. Somebody as deranged as Mercunte trying to tell people what is and isn't acceptable and normal. And how, thanks to her advanced psychological acumen, she's able to deduce a definitive link between gaming and violence when so many actual psychologists and studies have failed utterly in doing so.
This trollop from OnlyFans telling people anything about normalicy is beyond laughable and well into the realm of the totally absurd.
Which reminds me, how come we don't have a whole lot more farmers and pet store owners and architects? I mean, Sim City, MineCraft, and Farmville were huge games. People spent buckets of actual money on them, and millions of man hours. So how come if games cause behaviors there's no surge in professions those games promoted?
Oh, maybe because the idea of games causing behaviors is something only the feeblewitted believe, and what con men (and women, as can be seen here) want to get others to believe.
Go home Mercunte. Work on drafting a concession letter to the dude sueing you. I hope into the dark ages.
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u/creamygarlicdip 5d ago
She just doesn't know how to stop, does she? You think you'd have some self reflection after you lose your job over your nonsense
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u/pbaagui1 5d ago
I REALLY want to see this mfs reaction to Ghosts and Goblins
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u/StanklegScrubgod 5d ago
Easy. A tool of the cishet white patriarchy because the knight is rescuing the princess. Or something like that.
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u/Akidd196 5d ago
EVERY PIECE OF LORE, DIALOGUE AND STORY HAS TO BE BUILT AROUND PROGRESSIVE/IDENTITY POLITICS IN ALL MEDIA OR YOU’RE A NAZI. Nothing else should exist in these people’s minds. They’re fucking broken.
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u/Kotzillax 5d ago
This is what happens to the human brain when its owner gets downgraded from part-time trolling to total irrelevance: classic withdrawal symptoms from missing dopamine hits.
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u/ValidAvailable 5d ago
What, the Participation Trophy crowd doesn't like something that you have to work at and fail a lot along the way to be good at? Imagine that.
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u/Streak244 5d ago
Dumb attention seeking BPD bitch being a dumb attention seeking BPD bitch.
News at 11.
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u/ape_of_god 5d ago
Health & fitness is right wing. BJJ is right wing. Soulslikes are right wing. Are these people implying that being right wing is… good?
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u/CrackedThumbs 5d ago
Don’t say anything. It’s Mercante. She an attention-seeking narcissist who isn’t even employed as a games “journalist” anymore.
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u/White-Heart 5d ago
Alyssa and her bullshit never cease to impress me. How can someone say something so false with such boldness?
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u/Excalitoria 4d ago
I didn’t even read the accounts name until after the tweet itself. Mercante’s name read like the punchline to whatever the hell the rest of that was.
I wonder what camp the Stardew Valley and Infinity Nikki fans fall in? Are they part of the alpha jock FPS gamers or the beta “git gud” Souls players? 🤔😂 Alyssa isn’t gonna convince people that she actually engages with games when she puts out takes like this.
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u/Eworc 4d ago
"Don't at me". I fucking hate how people give the most hateful and/or stupid take in a public space and then think they can just say that to not have to be called out on their garbage take.
She clearly has no passion for games or anything related, so can she please just fuck off and spread her bile on something other than gaming tyvm.
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u/Homerbola92 5d ago
Probably she's right when it comes to the ideology division in dark souls (among other games). On the other hand I'm pretty sure leftists are the main consumers of those indie short and easy games that you can literally play with one hand and while watching a stream. Journalist of videogames' safe to play.
In the end it could also be a men vs women thing, since women have a left bias and men have a right one.
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u/TotallyKindlyTho 5d ago
This laughable sleciment of a non-human was in gamescom. Fucking idiot was walking about her eyes looking down. How is she coming online ballsy and all?
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u/Selphea 5d ago edited 5d ago
Amazing. Every word of what she said was wrong.
Is there a "proliferation of Soulslikes"? Like, by playership and revenue Soulslikes are pretty far down, after Roblox/Minecraft (sandbox), Shooters (A ginormous genre spanning Fortnite/Marvel Rivals/CoD/Counterstrike etc), MOBAs, Open World RPGs (Genshin/WuWa/Cyberpunk 2077). Sports games... even on Steamcharts Elden Ring is just barely scraping into the top 50 right now. Where is this proliferation she's talking about?
And "two dominant male groups" like wha? Never mind that Love and Deepspace is a top grossing game and definitely doesn't have a dominant male audience.
"git gud Souls players" where? I swear if you ask a Soulslike community how to beat a boss, you get tips on how to beat the boss, not "git gud".
"Fascist ideologies" how even? Aren't Soulslikes are usually too dystopian for anything resembling politics to surface? Even in Code Vein and AI Limit you beat up the authoritarian figures. The only time I heard gaming promoted fascist ideologies, it was because some US senator cited an ADL report claiming Pepe the Frog is fascist.
I am too mind blown that someone can string together such a livid mess of hallucinations to even be mad.
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u/Accomplished-Ask1617 5d ago
Is she... is she legitimately regarded? Soulslike is an oversaturated genre for sure but... right wing? What in the world?
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u/le-churchx 5d ago
Everything is a phobic or an ism, that way you dont have to think and you think YOU'LL run the camps.
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u/Proof_Jaguar8492 5d ago
I wish people would stop giving this vile thing the attention it so desperately craves.
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u/SerTortuga 5d ago
"The games journalist will lie, the games journalist will make excuses. She will use words she doesn't really know." - Rev. Fr. Uncle Ruckus, no relation. Paraphrased.
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u/Adventurous_Mix_5030 5d ago
Stop giving these people attention, it's what they are looking for. Let them rot in their ever shrinking echo chambers and forget about them.
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u/BhryaenDagger 5d ago
It’s far more notable for how poorly conceived are the ideological tendencies of a Mercante type than as a meaningful approach to gamer culture ideology. I’ve never known shooter gamers to consider single-player gamers “beta” or Souls players to think of CoD 11yr olds as “alpha jocks”- or either being fascists- but misconceiving of gamer tendencies that way is, however, definitively how the Mercante feminist mind works.
“Well, they’re men, so therefore they’re nationalists and fascists, and therefore the Souls gamers are the fasc- wait, no, no, the CoD players are the fascists. Yeah, that’s the ticket. That’ll be $3000 for my professional fasci- I mean, feminist analysis.”
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u/MutenRoshi21 5d ago
Fits in their worldview that its all anime and japans fault then. Or else everyone would ofc watch/play the slop they make.... and not just old stuff.
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u/Fujitaru 5d ago
I don't know where she gets off on calling the soulsborne community beta. If anything, the 'git gud' gang are plagued by toxic masculinity. Unless she means they're beta for having masochistic tendencies.
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u/No-Ad2907 5d ago
All gamers are nerds.
A nerd is a nerd. Do not categorize us. There are gamers who likes to read books. Gamers who love science or math. That is what is good about gaming. YOU CAN DO EVERYTHING. Yet some people are not happy about gaming due to their failure to adapt to a highly adaptable thing which is gaming.
I play CoD, I play Souls-like games, I play Harvest Moon, I play GTA, I play Sim City and Skylines, I play Skyrim, I play Super Mario Kart, I play Tekken, I play Tetris, I play NBA 2K, I play mobile games, console games, PC games. We might have our preferences but we can play anything we want.
Tying game genres to your thinking is.... how do I say this nicely without offending anyone... ITS STUPID. Are you saying me playing GTA makes me think like a criminal, because I know there are tons of studies that already thrown that idea under the bus because it is irrelevant. I almost play all genres of games on most consoles. She must hate me a lot. Hahahahaha.
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u/Terot 5d ago
Whats funny is most Soulslikes arnt even really...hard. they're punishingnif you're careless. But take Darksouls as an example. You have a dodge a parry and a block. Use one of those to mitigate damage and counter attack. And yeah its gonna hurt if you fuck up, but you dont have a huge amount of options in most fights as a casual player. Mitigate and counter attack
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u/FastenedCarrot 5d ago
Sounds like a metaphor for the idea that minorities and women should just struggle through and not address the underlying systems of white supremacist misogyny to me /s
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u/Significant-Ad-7182 5d ago
Soulslike games have less of a chance of being woke then most other game types.
On the other hand stuff like CoD or Battlefield has female soldier skins, lgbtq characters or pride flag weapon skins etc.
Personally I'm tired of seeing new soulslike games every two years as well as new battleroyals and broken Unreal Engine slop.
Give us more stuff like Dark Messiah and Thief.
Classic western action rpgs that are not open world but has more attention to detail.
Fuk it Imma go play Dark Messiah again because I never delete it from the pc.
Oh also whoever the person that made the tweet is a braindead idiot that's gotten too used to smelling their own farts.
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u/Major-Dyel6090 5d ago
Even if there is an “increase in right wing ideologies in nerd subcultures,” correlated with the proliferation of soulslikes, there are a dozen other trends: Pixel art as a stylistic choice, the rise of extraction shooters, the CRPG renaissance, the rise of cozy games, plenty of other things going on simultaneously that all have the same correlation.
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u/SammaulPosion 5d ago
I will agree with one thing every game that tries to be Souls like it's dog shit. Only lies of pis a good Souls like
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u/DinosaurAlert 5d ago
This was the person reviewing video games "for us".
People still point and jeer at these groups and "gamergate" - but how can anyone look at this person and think "Yes, this is a completely rational take."
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u/FixeLL69 5d ago
Is this the same woman who made a review of Elden Ring SotE turning everything into her and her mental issues? Jesus
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u/blackest-Knight 5d ago
Why are we still giving these people attention and publicity ?
Just ignore it. It's irrelevant and no one is going to be influenced by it.
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u/Key_Cellist_5937 5d ago
I mean she’s not 100% wrong . A lot of the gaming “no easy mode” purists have a tendency to lean center right because they believe merit is important and you should earn your win .
But she takes it a step too far and views everything through politics which leads to dumb takes like this .
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u/MechwolfMachina 5d ago
Alyssa Mercante is really just a mouthpiece for “you, guy, are a nazi” and “but you, other guy, aren’t a nazi, you’re a fascist” Okay Karen girlfailure.
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u/Therenomoreusername 5d ago edited 5d ago
This is why the phrase “Art is Political” is a fallacy and is an emotionally-charged rhetoric that pigeonholed complexity in how human language and understanding work for surface-level politically-charged narcissism.
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u/Specific_Bass_5869 5d ago
I don’t even know what to say to this.
Just say the obvious: these people are mentally ill ideologically brainwashed cretins that must be institutionalized if we ever want to get our normal world back.
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u/Revolver15 5d ago
Sekiro not giving them a easy mode really broke these people.