Yes!!
Started around 2015 or so but has gotten worse every year. Now I see the xbox or Sony showcase and I can unconsciously tell which games I am staying far away from. Its like your eyes and senses become trained. It's telling in the art style.
It happened to me with pen and paper AD&D and magic the gathering too! Things I have been playing since inception. Newest versions are woke fest. Again the artwork is all telling.
For games, I used to buy every AC game. I seen them bend the knee, after odyssey (it was a good game because the bullshit didn't happen until the main game was already out, same with Far Cry 5). The woke mob were pissed that the main female version protagonist (also the last actual feminine looking one) was a straight lady and wanted her gay. Ubisoft gave in and the games got more woke ever since. You even seen their stupid message before the games change to reflect it.
Valhalla outside of dumbing down the rpg aspects of this era of AC, turned the female version into a manly woman. No one really said anything but I seen it right away. Like they were in denial something was going on.
It also happened to the indie scene. Example: Wargroove a game which looked an awful lot like advanced wars/fire-emblem or something in between, was all ugly female leaders, and one black old man, and a dog, no white men or straight dudes except for cannon fodder. All the main characters had ugly faces and red dots on their noses. The pixel I could tell right away what direction the wind was blowing and it sucked. This game I would of bought and its sequel, not now, not ever.
They lost a sale. I was a guaranteed buy. Was it worth it? How many more people like me exist?
All the square jawed faces on women, the sweetbaby shit. It's a plague, reset era/reddit no fun allowed people are being catered to, and ruining our once scrappy hobby. One that I have been a part of since I was a little kid playing on an Atari 2600, inTellivision, Apple iic and then NES IBM.
Thing is I don't mind some games being about alternative lifestyles or what not. There is more than enough room for both.
I just don't think that all our classic stories and games should be retconned and race/gender/sexuality swapped, and only in one direction.
I also don't like the erasing feminitity to appeas .01% of society. Sorry women exist. Women look good and shouldn't be erased to appeal to people to make them feel better. We shouldn't turn society upside down for appeasement.
Who's bright idea was this anyway, and why do 95% of creative people fall in line?
Remember Mass Effect Andromeda? how the main character male looked attractive and exactly like the real life model, yet the female protagonsits looked different. They proved they can model 1:1, they changed it on purpose. Why? It was done for every female in that game. We see it in other games, and games to be released. Every game from the MS confrence was infected with the plague. Fable, Perfect Dark, are the most high profile from it, but infected all the same. Notice agian the male characters (all taking back seat supporting roles) are all looking good. It is intentional.
Either way, it's abundantly clear, these people don't like or want straight males (of any ethncity) to be the target audience or even buy the games. They are flat out antagonistic and say so openly now. So I say, fine I won't buy your game.
For every woke production there is a greater non woke game.
Good current non woke games - Dragons Dogma 2, Rise of Ronin, Unicorn overlord, SMT 5v, Stellar Blade, Kingdom Come 2, Robocop, Hogwarts Legacy, and many indies.
I have money for games, I buy tons (mostly on switch, and pc anymore) but have all the systems. I will buy more, but guess what, I won't buy woke games, or games from people that push the cult.
Again I have no issue with a gay character (ff16 and tlou had ones that fit the story and were fleshed out great chracters), but not done for checkboxes or to push politics.
Nah aint buying.
My backlog is 1000s deep from 4 decades of gaming. I am good to pick and choose my buying of games way more carefully.
