Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

It's what they were going to do, when it got to us. It was simply an inferior game that took too long to make and died in the crib. It would have been smothered to death, but never even got the chance.

It's easy to get conned into reading misinfo about it.

Sounds familiar?

Lolno. Mihoyo changed their underwear design for their gacha character after release, only because Chinese government doesn't like inappropriate clothing designs. So many female character's underwear were changed into shorts inside their skirts.

And they deleted lesbian kiss scene in their honkai impact manga. Again, because the government doesn't like it.

Loooooooool if you think Chinese never censor anything in games. It's just so wrong. You obviously never cared enough about Chinese game industry to know about a *** tons of censorship they did over the years and they will continue to do it in the future.

Also just FYI, even without so-called DEI department, Japanese also censor their games. It has been a tradition that any R18 VN would remove the R18 element when they did console release.


Just a few years ago I read some Japanese gamer on 5ch had a mental meltdown after they spent 20000 yen on a gacha character, only to have her short skirt design changed to something longer after all the money spent. And this game didn't even have western release at that time, obviously it's not western DEI's fault that skirt length became longer.

Asian gacha companies do clothing censorship all the time. Both Chinese and Japanese. You just don't know because you obviously don't play those games nor read about them in their community, so when it happened you wouldn't know.

Did you read any of what I said? China censor games all the time. They didn't do this for money nor investors. They do this because the government thinks it is culturally inappropriate if something they don't like shows in their games. And they censored culturally inappropriate ***in creative industry all the time.

You have absolutely zero idea how Chinese gaming industry is like, at least do more research before spamming endless ridiculous comments.

It's *** ridiculous that anti-woke propaganda is now hyping Chinese gaming industry as a beacon of censorship-free games, while knowing nothing what's really happened in Chinese gaming industry in the past 5-8 years nor cared.

(Read: CCP puts so much restrictions on games a few years ago to the point that the industry took a huge hit, but yeah anti-woke factions who just want a weapon to fight their holy war wouldn't care to mention it at all.)

The reason why Chinese gaming industry is strong is because they have a much bigger market than other country, therefore it leads to bigger investments. That's really all there is. They can make anything and everything cheaply and solely rely on Chinese market to survive. So that's a LOT of advantage for Chinese business in global competitions.

Big games like Genshin Impact or Wukong only happened after YEARS of industry development, siphoning top talents and money in a big market. It all came from 30 years of making worse smaller budget terrible games to built a foundation for big budget well-made games.

That's really all there is behind Chinese gaming industry's success. Everything else you said are just anti-woke propaganda aimed at fighting western culture war.

Not to mention they can keep other games out.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ConcordGame/comments/1e4bfa6/the_entire_concord_roster_gets_roasted_by_avgn/

So from what I'm reading, the new season of LOTR opens up with the screenplay trying to get the viewers to empathize with the orcs?? Trying to show that orcs are peaceful creatures who arent the embodiment of hatred??

Why are you still watching or paying attention to that drivel is the real question.

I cant control what extra ***pops up on my feeds unless I block them after its shown up.

Since the topic here has gone back to woke drivel, mentioning how the new LOTR show tries to make the viewer feel compassion for the bloodthirsty orcs seems relevant.

I took off for the office and I left my gym shorts at home ***.

I like western games because they are often unique. Chinese games not so much. ;( I've been waiting for that one game from China that would change my gaming life like Disco Elysium, Deus Ex, System Shock/Bioshock or Planescape Torment did with a thoughtful theme, but it never happened. And it is quite unlikely to happen anytime soon.

I blame the CCP oppression on creativity expression. Money and talent makes you beautiful games like Wukong or Genshin Impact, but pretty visuals are all there is.

Japanese games are hit or miss for me kinda. 90% of them are generic too. But VERY occasionally there are good stuff like 13 sentinels aegis rim, when the developers put artistic expression above everything else.

The fact that western gaming community even HAS woke v.s anti-woke debate, that alone makes it MUCH better environment for creativity . Because creativity comes from wide variety of pov on different matters. Something that doesn't even exist in many countries in the world.

Stop hyping Chinese games like some kind of saviour in our world, they are not, lol.

Edit:Despite I didn't play Wukong, I read all the in-game story online. I can't help but feel they *** up another opportunity to tell a good story AGAIN. (Or it's more like they can't due to creativity oppression.)

Imagine putting Gacha games on a pedestal, just lol.

I mean. They make a *** of cash. They are the pinnacle of gaming. Like it or not. There's more than 50, billion dollar (+) mobile games.

In turn that cash could be used to make a good game.

Mfr said gacha games are the pinnacle of gaming

I dont need my gym shorts anymore, im getting a baller workout laughing my *** off at that ridiculously stupid statement.

oh my gosh i had my PC on airplane mode for like 2 months i didint notice the internet issues

The pinnacle of gaming:

If "good game" to you means good graphics, tight controls, great progression curve etc, yeah you can get them with money, by hiring top professionals that's really good at doing those.

But those aren't what pushed a "good game" above and beyond to "unforgettable one time experience" level in a game.

I've always found that a theme or story that challenged our pre-existing pov on things having way more potential to provide such life changing experience. You can't really get that with money IMO.

Probably one of the reason why AAA game stories are often more generic than indie or AA games. Money doesn't give you unique story.

Is this real? You're telling me that some idiots on YT had an idea and that somehow became canon in LOTR universe?

ok, channel has 165k subs and video has under 500k views... Not even gonna bother watching it.

Good guy, bad guy... basic story telling for literally all of time. Bunch of idiot writers these days want to say that's no longer acceptable... That's fine. Their ratings and revenue are showing how absolutely stupid this ideology is.

Well, the channel used to have a lot more subs, but it did fall of pretty hard. honestly i am suprised it is down to 165k subs now that is crazy.

Apparently J.R.R Tolkien doesn't know how to write then......

You CAN make evil races in a story, but it is generally not a good idea to make them the main conflict. That's what people really meant when they said "no evil race" etc.

JRR Tolkien never make orcs the central of conflict in his story. The center of the conflict has always been humanity and their inner struggle, and the love hate relationship between races. The orcs, Sauron and the ring are simply a trigger to the main conflict, but the orcs itself are not the central conflict.

The evil races are the same role as disasters in disasters movies. In any disasters movies the real antagonist is never the disasters itself. It is people and humanity struggle being the central conflict in disasters movies.

This is why the main conflict in "Tiantic" isn't ship sinking and people escaping, but Jack v.s Rose's Fiance.

I didn't watch all of the YouTube video content, but if your conclusion after watching the video was "a story should never have evil races" instead of "an evil race shouldn't be the main conflict", then that video probably doesn't teach the art of script writing correctly.