Newly Vacant
Member
Every time this thread gets a bump, I’m excited and then disappointed. I don’t even know what The Last Night will look like at this point, but I hope it eventually comes out. I was really looking forward to it.
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The last night still in development.
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Shmunter
Member
It sounds like Phil isn't going to help out The Last Night, unfortunately
Is that so. Spineless or more likely aligned with regressive woke.
Newly Vacant
Member
Microsoft is in the middle of a huge diversity push. There’s no way they would support anything that would question that worldview. Even if The Last Night changed, and is now about a patriarchal dictatorship, Microsoft isn’t going to take that chance.
Shmunter
Member
Makes sense. Just another freak show.
LittleBusters
Banned
Where do you get off making such a pronoucement?
Newly Vacant
Member
I thought it was a well-known thing at this point? Microsoft has been pushing "Diversity and Inclusion" for the last few years now. It's even the top point they make in redesigning their controller. Microsoft has even had specific GDC talks, for at least the last 3 years, about the topic. I'm not making a pronouncement, I'm just pointing out what Microsoft is saying about it's own plans. It's not a secret.
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Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
It sounds like Phil isn't going to help out The Last Night, unfortunately
Well fuck
darkinstinct
...lacks reading comprehension.
Was The Last Light ever more than a tech demo? Sounds to me like there wasn't an actual game, that's why nobody jumped in to save it.
mortal
Gold Member
It sounds like Phil isn't going to help out The Last Night, unfortunately
These companies are something else...Use the game to hype up their own brand, but bail at the slightest bit of controversy from a tiny vocal minority of ideologues with too much time on their hands.
If a game that looks as good as The Last Night struggles to get funding because publishers are afraid of the association or what some literally who feminists will think, there is something fundamentally wrong with this industry.
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Shmunter
Member
It was true to cyberpunk lore, where excessive progressive ideology results in a dystopia.
Mithos
Member
Sounds like the game would/will be prescient.
Shmunter
Member
I actually don’t know how the hell Cyberpunk 2077 is being embraced. The source material is scathing of wokeness.
The Hermit
Member
By the time this game is launched it will either be dated of the "future" will already be in place.
We ARE living a distopia.
We ARE living a distopia.
Scopa
The Tribe Has Spoken
Makariel
Member
Wait, what? Since when is it cyberpunk lore that "progressive ideology" in today's political sense results in a dystopia? Are we rewriting history here? Cyberpunk is about rapid technological change, computerized data and AI everywhere, invasive modifications to human bodies and a future where high-tech meets low life, where humans simply can't keep up with the rate of technological change. It usually describes societies where governments have nothing to say and are being railroaded by untouchable international companies, who get away with murder on a daily basis.
Shmunter
Member
SuperLupeRap
Banned
I know right, the fact that Phil mentioned that people like him and other publishers are aware of the Last night's troubles but nobody has bothered to scoop it up makes me think that it was probably just vaporware. It can't be a coincidence that not 1 single publisher thinks it's worth investing in, they know all the details we don't know.
data_jack
Member
The rapid advancement in technology and technological change is just subtext of the larger whole; it's the day-to-day grind about staying alive with the resources (read: technology) you have available when everything else is taken from you or you're kept in a perpetual state of poverty by the corporate entities you mentioned. The real dilemma people in the cyberpunk universe face is the roaming gangs of crazies who are so malformed by societal upheaval and socioeconomic struggle that all they have left is the identity of the gang they belong to. It's not as if governments have nothing to say, it's just that nobody will listen anymore.
data_jack
Member
Building off of this, the studio lead (Tim Soret) is forever catching flak for comments he's made on the #gamergate movement. He's since apologized and claims his views have changed but makes it clear that the game won't deviate from his artistic vision of a world gone to shit from extreme identity politics
Article on his comments and modern thought
JLB
Banned
The fact that the creator didnt even pushed a short demo to show progress is definitely concerning.
At the same time, I could argue that if Microsoft allowed this game to be showed on e3 stage, they verified that it was an actual game and not just a tech demo. But who knows.
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LittleBusters
Banned
I think COVID-19 will cause a big rethink on SJW nonsense.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
DunDunDunpachi
Patient MembeR
It still has to steal that crown from Fez.
Hans Bubby
Banned
I'm starting to believe this game has never existed.
MisterBrimstone
Member
It's ok. The art they are aiming at is timeless. We can wait.
Clintizzle
Lord of Edge.
Nope. If you care more about a global pandemic killing thousands over a 10 year old boy who identifies as a female you are literal scum of the earth. Probably a while male.
Spaceman292
Banned
This thread is beyond nonsense. Try reading through this shit. It's like its written in ancient Greek or something.
D.Final
Banned
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Beer Baelly
Al Pachinko, Konami President
justiceiro
Marlboro: Other M
I dunno how is special is this game now that octopath traveler already came out.
Allnamestakenlol
Member
Wow. LOVE the art! Know next to nothing about the gameplay, but am certainly interested just based on visuals alone.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
It's a LOOOONG story.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Vapourware. I dont believe for a second its coming out.
LittleBusters
Banned
This game is so canceled because of the woke culture we live in now. There is zero chance now, as this guy is labeled a Trumpist.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
When was he called a Trumpist?
Cleared_Hot
Member
Lol it's trumpist now? Trumper sounded too derogatory or what?
LittleBusters
Banned
Trumpist, Trumper, Trumplet, Trumpanzee. All kinds of variants.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
The game is still alive
There's a game that stole this game's WHOLE look and the company gave it a name, poking fun that they are the "new" version of that game now. I can't think of the name of the new game though.