Immersion is DEAD

at the beginning of this year I made a video called escapism is dead basically talking about how modern left-wing politics are ruining immersion in video games and as you might imagine this is a sequel to that video so I would highly recommend you check that one out first and probably also watch some of the baldus gate 3 review to have some context for what I'll be talking about in this video the reason I'm talking about this again is because Baldur's Gate 3 is a perfect example of a game that in a perfect world would be an amazing game that most people would love of course we don't live in a perfect world we live in a world where we're shoveled propaganda daily by the elites whoever they may be and if we're being honest here a lot of times the developers are not doing it for the ESG money A lot of times they're so obsessed with these politics themselves that they have to write it into their stories and they never make it subtle it's always the most obnoxious distracting on the nose direct analog real life stuff that will take anybody out of an immersive experience unless you agree with said politics and as it turns out larion fits under the ladder they are not a publicly traded company so the chances of them being influenced by outside funding is greatly diminished now it doesn't mean that Executives there can't be a part of some kind of Greater conspiracy but I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and just say that the developers are a bunch of ideologues who are just making their fantasy world that they want to see based on the ideals that were shoved into their brains growing up or maybe they just succumbed to the Natural social change that occurred over the course of the 2010s now I'm sure some people make the argument that it's much better to just naturally believe in something and make art based on your ideals but honestly to me it doesn't make much of a difference I'm sick of the [ __ ] either way it doesn't have to be part of some big conspiracy to be intolerable the question on many people's mind is how did I end up liking the game at the end anyway and this honestly is one of the most true criticisms of my channel is that I'm too negative though really that criticism isn't entirely accurate I would argue that the problem is not that I'm too negative it's that I don't know how to explain why I even enjoy a game especially if it's a game that I have a lot of issues with and I tried to explain myself by saying I just really like the fantasy genre and that much is true and I'm far from the only one you have to remember that one of the most popular Normie games of all time is Skyrim a heavily flawed RPG that has dumbed down mechanics from previous entries yet somehow it has managed to stay in the cultural Zeitgeist over a decade later I mean seriously you can find popular videos talking about Skyrim even today I would not be shocked if millions of casual gamers got into gaming because of Skyrim and you can me amongst the people who still really likes the game despite its numerous flaws I would not call it a masterpiece but I still spent over 200 hours playing it obviously I like the game I do and the reason why I and many other people like the fantasy genre so much is because it really is the ultimate escapism kind of like how the isakai genre got really popular in anime people like the idea of being dropped into a world where you understand nothing and anything can happen because magic can do anything the real world seems so mundane in comparison especially for those of us who are constant shut-ins right it seems like through the power of laheck and soyance that humans Now understand almost everything about our material world and so fantasy is very refreshing in comparison you understand nothing and you're slowly introduced to all these other intelligent races of creatures that have their own quirks that in a good story would act almost nothing like a human but yet somehow we have managed to maybe begrudgingly lived in peace together I'm not completely against fantasy races occupying the same kingdoms but obviously the Baldur's Gate approach is completely unbelievable and by my argument would absolutely be propaganda that they're trying to insinuate that humans of all Races are completely the same but it's that much more ridiculous when the other races aren't actually human they're different species so it doesn't even work as a proper allegory and something I definitely should have emphasized in the video but I cut so much from it because originally it was going to be like 90 minutes long and it was just too repetitive and I had to re-record multiple segments as I was playing further into the game while editing the video which is why it took so long to come out that I forgot to emphasize that a big part of why I like the game is because of the co-op realistically you and three friends could play this game and just kill every NPC you don't like you can beat this game by killing basically everybody the way I understand it and while it's certainly no Bethesda RPG in terms of all the crazy different things you can do in the world interactivity now this is much more linear like I said there's still a lot of weird creative things you can do with the different spells that I didn't even really get into and I don't know there's something that I vastly prefer about a fantasy Adventure that is about a group of Heroes than just one hero I played like a thousand video games in almost all of those games mainly feature one hero character who saves the World by himself I feel like it's completely played out there's nothing wrong with it obviously but there's something far more interesting about having a group of characters do something because then there's a lot more writing involved more drama the story has the potential to be much better the characters have their own arcs you know etc etc the point is at least for Fantasy I think a party works better than just one guy who saves the world but you know people play video games obviously they want to be the hero of the story and you can still be the main character of the story but also have people helping you while this gay three kind of dropped the ball on that one too because your main character is basically a blank slate unless you pick dark urge and your companions feel way too special they got all their own [ __ ] their own baggage and like I said in the video they're horny as [ __ ] so over half of them manage to be a drag on the experience the less developed ones that you get later on like Jahira and minskin Boo and minthara if you're playing an evil character they're actually probably better companions because they have less going on you get to know their basic personality you can ask them some questions but ultimately you still feel like the main character there you're the one driving the story forward instead of half of your companions having these big side quests that are tied into the main story and you can even choose to play as them as your main character in character creation which makes them feel even more important but anyway to Circle back around into me liking this game there is a small vocal minority in my audience that is uh depressingly obsessed with politics I'll put it that way to be nice about it but honestly it's beginning to become concerning to me now me I hate the woke [ __ ] more than almost anybody but there are people in here that hate it even more than I do to the point of they don't care if a 9 out of 10 game comes out if it has the smallest drop of propaganda in it that only a schizo like me would sniff out then they're not gonna buy the product and there's absolutely nothing wrong with boycotting a product but I would argue if you would potentially have fun with the game if it's in a genre you enjoy it looks like exactly your type of thing then you're just purposely making yourself miserable dude all this Doom scrolling constantly listening to ultra black pill news stuff you gotta take a break from it once in a while again I'm not gonna tell you to spend 60 to 70 bucks supporting people who hate you I would never [ __ ] say that what I would tell you to do is pirate it if you can in fact that's probably the biggest mistake I made in the Maldives Gate 3 review was not saying in the conclusion to Pirate it if it looks like a game you would like right boycotting is all well and good totally support it conceptually but the real issue here is you should never let subtle political propaganda potentially ruin the fun you could have playing a game if a game is fun to play that's way more important than any of the other stuff and let's derail this topic once again to talk about that for a second because this is something that people watch this channel still do not understand even after over three years that my primary concern with any video game is simply the question is it fun if the answer is yes then I think it's a good game and I'm going to recommend it that's it now does Walgreens stand in the way of fun absolutely which is why baldus Gate 3 is such a peculiar case like I said I didn't really do a good job explaining the good things about the game it's just very obvious when you play it that a lot of work was put into making roughly every hour of the game have something unique in it something different something that feels straight out of some high fantasy novel or if you know the DND setting at least Forgotten Realms anyway it's very fitting how much different [ __ ] you encounter even if it doesn't really make for a believable world it's certainly interesting and although I've seen some people use Hyperbole and say this is one of the worst combat systems they've ever played for me I wasn't overly concerned with Min maxing and so even though the game was mostly easy when it was was challenging it felt like a fair challenge now I'm sure if I just Min maxed all the magic items looked up the proper multi-classing builds for fifth edition I would have completely dominated the game on normal difficulty and maybe if I play it again I'll play it on tactician and then do some Min maxing but when you're just playing the game normally it absolutely provides a suitable challenge the problem with 5th edition's combat is that something that's actually challenging is honestly very annoying as I explained in the video with all these encounters that have 20 enemies or the bosses have these weird gimmick Buffs or there's Arena hazards that are overpowered so on and so forth most of these things don't really matter if you're a suitably min max there were a couple of those late game bosses that me and my brother defeated in two rounds I can't imagine how easy they are if you're really getting into the build autism but if a lot of these encounters weren't a real d d game they absolutely would be a good challenge for actual player parties because in reality most people are not good at the whole tactics and strategy thing but whatever this video is not really meant to be a I'll explain myself why I like this Ultra woke game thing because at the end of the day I'm still with any of you guys that this is completely ruining what could potentially be a game that actually deserves a 95 Metacritic score whatever it's at now as it stands this is more like a 75 at least by my score now honestly me talking about my out of 10 score system could be its own video I've hilariously gotten in arguments with my own chat about that but long story short a 7.5 in my book is like a slightly above average game or at least average for like 2010. these days 7.5 is way above average an add-on to the whole this game being overrated thing it has an insane amount of cut content that's the reason why I said that not a single person giving this a 10 out of 10 played into act 3 it is clear how many cut plot lines and I just read a full list I can post some of it on screen here but again I'm about to spoil some stuff if you're still playing the game so feel free to skip ahead a couple minutes one the whole car lack dying at the end thing or you have to send her back to a furnace that's supposed to be the bad ending of her companion Quest because they cut the entire upper city of baldu's gate which funny enough they actually talked about being able to explore the upper City in one of the marketing videos only like a month or two before release so they must have cut that pretty late in development you were supposed to be able to do an extra part of carlax quest to fix her Engine Heart right that seems like a pretty [ __ ] big deal to cut especially because it just felt like such a gut punch to [ __ ] that up already as I explained in the original video but on top of that halson's companion quest which I also failed on my first character he was supposed to have more quests in act 3 all the companions was supposed to have a lot more dialogue in general in act 3 and probably the most egregious cut content of them all a Todd Howard tears statement was made by the game director claiming there were 17 000 different endings well as of massive shock to everyone there is no [ __ ] ending to the game after you save the world you get one last dialogue and then it's roll credits none of your choices throughout the game come up New Vegas style as slides at the end which is probably what most people expected no it's just each companion sort of gives like a little epilogue dialogue thing of what they're going to be doing next depending on if you resolve their questline or not and that's it man instead of 17 000 endings it's really like three or four basically Mass Effect 3 style if this came out 10 years ago there would be a huge backlash against the lack of ending but no this is the modern time people don't even finish games anyway so you know you can call a game a masterpiece when you haven't even [ __ ] finished it and not to mention the cherry on top that all of my fellow quote unquote in light in Centrist or right-wing YouTubers fell Hook Line and Sinker for Josh Sawyer and a bunch of other RPG developers saying that bulge's Gate 3 would set impossible high standards for the industry did any of them even play it Baldur's Gate 3 is not a 10 out of 10. it's not a 9 out of 10. it's probably not even an 8 out of 10. how the hell is it setting new standards for the RPG genre especially it's hilarious Josh Sawyer saying this when Fallout New Vegas is probably one of the greatest RPGs ever made in spite of all the various subtle propaganda in its that again is probably worth its own video and I have to remind you that Fallout New Vegas is in my top 20 favorite games of all time maybe I need to say this more because you have to understand that a game being woke whatever your definition of that word might be I've already given you mine multiple times does not ruin my ability to enjoy it and I would not be shocked if the majority of Western made games were created by developers who were at the very least Center left in the past the difference between now and 20 to 30 years ago is that modern politics has been shoved down our throats constantly so we're all [ __ ] sick of it by now and it's that much more insane than it used to be right I mean all this [ __ ] about pronouns and having ugly women and trans characters and black female protagonists everywhere it is just naturally repulsive to any straight white male with any amount of testosterone right which is why they hate us so much or maybe it's a chicken in the egg situation and they hate us so they purposely make the products unplayable unwatchable etc etc to deem moralize us right the point is that boycotting is well and good if people actually stick to it but I've already said this in the past that gamers are hopeless addicts they're gonna purchase any product that looks fun because our lives are [ __ ] miserable and so we're trying to escape into this fantasy world right that's the whole point of this video but these people won't let us Escape they gotta put in their personal politics into every product because virtue signaling has dominated the minds of so many people not only must they appear as a good person in every possible scenario but they also must exterminate anything they don't like from art and for women this means getting rid of attractive female characters you can't possibly have a woman that's a supermodel in a video game that might make these other women feel ugly in comparison it's so [ __ ] ridiculous it gives me a headache but you know and if baldus Gate 3 taught me anything it's not just the The Gamers who are desperate to escape it's also the developers too I mean just look at the state of the romance options in bulges gate 3. a lot of these devs must be actual in cells or Femme cells because I can't possibly understand why you would think it's acceptable to have companions who want to have sex with you within five minutes of meeting them I mean to any normal person that is repulsive now granted normal doesn't really exist anymore pornography has warped an entire generation and a half's Minds to the point where I would not be shocked if a significant amount of players of bg3 think this is completely acceptable behavior it's sad when the straight white male companion is the most unhinged and the most thirsty at least carlak had an excuse that she couldn't touch anybody for 10 years and I know I'm far from the first one to point this out but I just find it funny that these leftists hate anime and say that if you want sexy see stuff in video games you should just jerk off to porn when they made possibly the most degenerate non-pornographic game ever made to the point where it has actual sex scenes they look terrible I forgot to put the magical realm comic in my video somehow but that's exactly what Baldo's gay three reminded me of of a degenerate DM putting his [ __ ] piss Forest fetish which is oddly specific for the comic so I'm assuming it's based on a real experience but the fact that this is a fairly High budget Western game that is allowed to have sex scenes and is praised by the puritanical left-wing media but anime is the worst thing ever everyone who likes anime is a pedo and I think if you're one of the few people confused as to why this is the case the simple answer is that anime girls are attractive and Western girls are not it's really that simple guys and the reason I liked ball to Skate 3 is because I thought it was fun in spite of the propaganda that's it of course the propaganda makes the game less fun I think if the world was much more homogenized and the different species of faerun were made distinct culturally and behavior wise maybe even give them a quote-unquote problematic view on ethical issues though that might be a little bit too far we almost dipped into that with the gith Yankee but it turns out their evil space fascists so that ruined any possible Nuance they could have had my point is that a big part of what makes escapism so exciting is that it's different from the real world but these leftists can't picture anything that isn't the real world that's why they're destroying all this art and that's one of the things about them that disgusts me the most and that's why I've been critical lately of my audience being too obsessed with politics I pointed out because it does ruin games to a point but I do not decide whether or not I think a game is good simply based on if it has any left-wing propaganda in it if they were subtle about it like they used to be in the 2000s then I'd probably let it slide and just say well that's kind of gay but it didn't really ruin the experience I mean just look at the type of stuff I talked about my tears of the Kingdom review none of the quote unquote propaganda in that game was overt right you could argue that none of that was done intentionally for ESG money or whatever I would disagree with you certainly but there were a few things that I stretched like the Baphomet thing but honestly it's funny to me anyway to imagine that Nintendo would put Pro demon propaganda or something in the game because of certain Cults if certain Elites are a part of who worship demons which may or may not exist and I might just be completely crazy but regardless the idea that BlackRock would push Nintendo to put those things in the game it's kind of exciting and kind of amusing to me it doesn't mean it's true it's funny as I'm talking about this I feel like I've completely lost my original Point somewhere along the way but that's kind of why I like these gaming is dying Doomer ramble essays because I can just jump from one topic to another and not have to like edit it into something listenable like I normally do for these videos this is just how my stream of Consciousness is always in real life if you've been curious but whether it was healthy or not since I was a child I've indulged in Escapist fantasy the first game I remember playing is Spyro the Dragon you play as a [ __ ] purple dragon that's not exactly relatable to a human being maybe having an exposure to something like that so young is what made me love fantasy not to mention the very first MMO I played was RuneScape when I was like eight or nine years old and obviously RuneScape is very goofy it's not a serious world at all and it's incredibly repetitive and grinding I certainly wouldn't recommend anybody play it in the modern day but it's certainly greatly influenced my taste in things As I Grew Older another example is Kingdom Hearts it's [ __ ] Disney combined with Final Fantasy right it is not grounded in the least it is purely fantasy stuff and the story just got more and more stupid as it went on but I still enjoyed it for the most part so I definitely have a high tolerance for Fantasy to be ridiculous and not grounded it's just specifically modern politics that annoys me right I just want a video game version of Lord of the Rings and I don't mean a literal adaptation I mean a group of friends who got in this Epic well-defined Quest and while the characters all have their differences maybe they're of different species or player races or whatever right but they have a common goal they have relatable motivations they act like humans but are significantly different enough to feel somewhat alien right what happened to elves being basically alien to human understanding and the dwarves being super greedy and holding grudges and [ __ ] you don't have to copy the fantasy tropes exactly but you definitely need an equivalent to the Tolkien tropes to make other player races compelling otherwise you're just a special snowflake tiefling you want to look like a pretty demon person with none of the downsides to being a [ __ ] devil and something that's going to be a thing of the past in just a few years straight up evil races right the drow the dueragar Orcs goblins bug Bears arguably the gift whether it's because of how they're born or how they're raised either way they are evil when you meet them so it's okay to murder them right now depending on your political lens you might view that in a negative way but I think it's completely fine in a fantasy setting to have a fictional thing that doesn't exist and it is not not an analog to any real life races unless the Creator makes it a bit obvious what they think of certain minorities it's completely okay to just have evil right and a lot of left-wing people argue that evil doesn't even actually exist now I would say that in reality the vast majority of people now believe in evil whether or not they will admit it and we don't agree on what the evil is obviously but I'm pretty sure people believe in evil they just don't want the religious Association because they're Fedora tipping atheists at heart I mean [ __ ] I'm agnostic and I'm pretty sure evil exists but yeah Dungeons and Dragons has to be completely sterilized because of its new audience that it's gained since the release of fifth edition and probably more importantly critical role because of course some Californian voice actors are paused to [ __ ] that's not a shock to anybody which is ironic because I listened to the entire first campaign of critical role maybe one of the more embarrassing things I've done but it was good background noise and I really enjoyed it because because it was a more classical fantasy Adventure yes Matthew Mercer has always been woke it's obvious by his NPCs the amount of gay ones the amount of ones with pronouns and he obviously has a fetish for muscle girls which wouldn't be bad except that he also has a fetish for dominant women in general Baldur's gay three had a few moments where it felt like the party might actually be at odds considering that most of them occupy different squares on the alignment chart But ultimately there was only like two scenes of conflict between party members with only one of them being actually serious and then everybody's just fine they might as well all occupy different adventures and they just so happen to be working with you because you all have worms in your head and man that is just such a shitty Trope where a bunch of [ __ ] come together to save the world they have almost nothing in common between each other but yet they work together just fine again it's propaganda plain and simple whatever the case may be I still love the genre to death and that's the only reason I was able to tolerate baldu's Gate 3 because there's so few High budget Fantasy games coming out and I can't believe I almost forgot this considering it just came out last month I know one of you guys is going to bring up Final Fantasy 16 but listen this might sound crazy but I would rather a fantasy world be completely unbelievable and outlandish then it'd be incredibly boring in Final Fantasy 16 was one of the most boring games I've ever played I know people tried to over hype it just because pretty much all the characters were white or debatably Asian considering their anime they could be whiter Asian but we'll just say for the sake of arguments this is Medieval that they're all white that doesn't mean the game was good it was boring as [ __ ] and if the only thing you like in an RPG that is majority cutscenes in story is the gameplay then your game sucks period if the game was 50 gameplay 50 cut scenes you might have a point but it was 75 five percent cut scenes and they were boring that is horrible you can say whatever you want about this gay three I called it like the most gay game of all time but you can't say it's boring because the game is so insane and over the top and not believable it also is not boring and boring is the worst thing in entertainment product can be so let's not pretend to Final Fantasy 16 is the game I'm asking for it absolutely is not but the point is that we are not allowed to get immersed in any of this [ __ ] without being constantly reminded about the state of the world because that's exactly the point we are not allowed to escape we must be miserable constantly but the thing that kills me is that's not really their actual goal their goal is to normalize the insane [ __ ] by constantly pushing it all the time because most people are susceptible to peer pressure and so even in a fantasy world we can't escape Multicultural globalism which is kind of a misnomer because cause it's not really Multicultural it's single culture which the elites determine what the culture is there is no other culture period well this is probably the weirdest video I've ever made but I guess the point of this all is that I miss immersive fantasy the fantasy genre is one of my favorites just like 3D Platformers so obviously I am biased and I'll go a little bit easier on a high Fantasy game than I will on all the other AAA slop that comes out each year and I like sci-fi too but maybe not enough to be so easy on it like Starfield I could probably easily [ __ ] on if it turns out to be what I think it's going to be I hope it surpasses my expectations the worst possible thing that could happen is me making baldi's Gate 3 Game of the Year especially because honestly tears of the kingdom is probably the better game but just because I'd already played it or at least a slightly inferior version of it six years ago that honestly soured my experience just enough for me to actually like balder's Gate 3 more just because it felt a lot more unique there's still quite a few big games coming out this year so it's not like all hope is lost there's very good chance that armored Core 6 which is about to come out at the time of when this video will be released could be the real game of the year I still like from software not as much as I used to but Elden ring was my game of the year last year again another Fantasy game I love my fantasy so hopefully they're the savior's of modern gaming but I'm not gonna hold my breath if you want to see more of these weird rambly blog type videos tell me what kind of subjects you'd like to hear me tackle in the comments I do like doing these because it's definitely less work and I kind of like following the stream of Consciousness because that's just how my brain works people like video essays hate that [ __ ] they need the organization me I like it it feels much more human at least to me which is why I like making these videos and I always put way less effort into the edit editing because they're kind of supposed to be a break for my normal reviews so yeah tell me what you want to see and I'll see you next time guys [Music] but without magic we can't win the war to control Magic correct guys it's like climate change dude we got to use fossil fuels to power all of society and it's killing the planet this secret sucks [Laughter] what no come on dude

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Published: Fri Aug 25 2023