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I don't believe Google has the right culture to make compelling video games anyways. Maybe at best a super safe mario clone for children. Anything remotely cont

I don't believe Google has the right culture to make compelling video games anyways. Maybe at best a super safe mario clone for children. Anything remotely controversial will have half the staff protesting threatening to quit.

shmageggy 6y ago
Why does a game need to be controversial to be compelling?
- psyc 6y ago
  Compelling to a significant demographic maybe? “Controversial” can include violent. Seems like those games tend to be technically amazing, as well as particularly entertaining / humorous if that’s your thing.
  - klipklop 6y ago
    Exactly. Some of the best selling games are games like Call of Duty, GTA or Mortal Kombat. Any game like that would have a full on employee revolt as people demanded the team involved to be fired.
    - evanextreme 6y ago
      Google sells all of these games on Google Play without any form of "revolt" from their developers. So im not sure where you're getting this idea, other than baseless conjecture
- malwarebytess 6y ago
  It's not a novel idea that all great art is in some way disruptive or transgressive. If you're aiming for art with cultural relevancy you've got to push some kind of boundary, mechanical, technical, or social. If you have an culturally oppressive environment, whatever flavor, you're going to struggle to make great art.
rodgerd 6y ago
That is true. Google alt-righties would riot at anything that was controversial in a gaming sense (like having women as protagonists).
- s3r3nity 6y ago
  More likely, people losing their minds over what the protagonist in a Star Wars game looks like. [1] https://etcanada.com/news/548672/star-wars-jedi-fallen-order-video-game-star-responds-to-controversy-over-heated-tweets/ https://etcanada.com/news/548672/star-wars-jedi-fallen-order...
  - rodgerd 6y ago
    "Redhead erasure" is, in my experience, a talking point for "great replacement" types, who I would think tend to overlap heavily with the "women can't have muscles", "there are two genders, men and political", and similar mindsets that are the incumbent position in gamer culture.

shmageggy 6y ago

Why does a game need to be controversial to be compelling?

psyc 6y ago
Compelling to a significant demographic maybe? “Controversial” can include violent. Seems like those games tend to be technically amazing, as well as particularly entertaining / humorous if that’s your thing.
- klipklop 6y ago
  Exactly. Some of the best selling games are games like Call of Duty, GTA or Mortal Kombat. Any game like that would have a full on employee revolt as people demanded the team involved to be fired.
  - evanextreme 6y ago
    Google sells all of these games on Google Play without any form of "revolt" from their developers. So im not sure where you're getting this idea, other than baseless conjecture
malwarebytess 6y ago
It's not a novel idea that all great art is in some way disruptive or transgressive. If you're aiming for art with cultural relevancy you've got to push some kind of boundary, mechanical, technical, or social. If you have an culturally oppressive environment, whatever flavor, you're going to struggle to make great art.

rodgerd 6y ago

That is true. Google alt-righties would riot at anything that was controversial in a gaming sense (like having women as protagonists).

s3r3nity 6y ago
More likely, people losing their minds over what the protagonist in a Star Wars game looks like. [1] https://etcanada.com/news/548672/star-wars-jedi-fallen-order-video-game-star-responds-to-controversy-over-heated-tweets/ https://etcanada.com/news/548672/star-wars-jedi-fallen-order...
- rodgerd 6y ago
  "Redhead erasure" is, in my experience, a talking point for "great replacement" types, who I would think tend to overlap heavily with the "women can't have muscles", "there are two genders, men and political", and similar mindsets that are the incumbent position in gamer culture.