What's "woke" about this game?

[Natty Daddy]

I have seen many negative reviews recently of people saying the developers succumbed to "woke culture" and implemented it into their game. Respectfully, what are y'all on? Dylan being gay? Ryan being bicurious/sexual?

Finished my 2nd play through and haven't seen a lick of political propaganda or them trying to force a movement down our throats. God forbid they try to be inclusive.

If your sole reason for review bombing this game is strictly this, it's time to do some soul searching.

[f5f9]

How much nonsense!
The problem with the so-called "woke ideology" is that, since it has become a ferocious dictatorship, it is transforming many reasonable people into homophobes, racists, misogynists, etc.
Nice result!
That said, The Quarry from this point of view is still a game that can be saved

[Rominvictus]

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First of all quit vomiting up that word please. This word was created by Conservative Culture and I guarantee you no one in the real world refers to themselves as Woke. Only some idiot that tries making silly stories up about half of the population for simple political control uses the word Woke to describe someone else.

This whole silly idea about being woke is just that, some people in this country want to literally remove the last 50 to 100 years of progress simply because they're racist ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. You would be better off thinking for yourself, deciding the truth for yourself rather than let some idiots do it for you.

Do not FOLLOW. LEAD, THINK for YOURSELF before the REALLY BAD side - The "right" side leaning Republicans" attacking voting rights removes voting rights for those they don't like flush your rights away like they intend to do for women who will lose control of their bodies because of silly attacks on reproductive rights. They have the most sickening policies and most of what they preach is NOT what people actually want, they just couch it in lies and racism and that silly word, WOKE like somehow being inclusive and intelligent is a bad thing.

Last of all, READ, that is what they are trying to discourage you from doing is critically thinking about the BS the right side spews. Sorry about the politics stuff, but it disgusts me when people willing lose their ability to critically think for themselves.

Hear here

[Rominvictus]

I wonder, what's the opposite of woke?

[flinker]

The word "Betreuer:innen" in the german description of the game is woke as hell. It's an artificial agenda driven word, most germans don't like or accept. But it's used for virtue signalling and lecturing people. And this will fire back in the long run. Most people don't like getting lectured by activists. The game itself i've to play longer to see what's possibly woke.

[[HdF] Almut Grete]

There is one black dude, one kind-of-asian-chick and 1-2 chars might be homosexual. For most of them we simply not even know what they are into - and why would we? oO
The homosexual (maybe bi, maybe nothing the like) thing just drives the story between characters a bit or not depending on choices.

If this was supposed to be "woke", they failed at it.
Where is the religious aspect, where is the politcal nature, where are trans people and problems, ... ?

Just a standart horror-flick with interactions (and not the worst one).

More interesting questions would be:
-> Why do we always need a sporty-idiot, why a insta-vlog-girl, why narsesistic bland tards, why ... , ... , ...
Is there no group of simply well-ish educated "nomis" around to be slaaughtered in some wood?

[Gremling]

Publicado originalmente por Rominvictus:

I wonder, what's the opposite of woke?

Old-fashioned. Better said, their prefered kind of media includes the 30's - 90's definition of a "man". Ya know...terminator, James Bond a few dozen military and mafia stories...something something action that include overly muscular guys with or without sunglasses, but always carrying guns and funny one-liners. At least that's the stuff regularly described in their rants when they talk about "real men".
Entirely ignoring reality and that they're talking about Hollywood and digital worlds.

Edit: "woke" is not even a term that 95% of the people they refer to use for themselves. It's their invention to divide between people who are old-fashioned and people who are fine with living in the 21st century.

[Grestorn]

It's really depressing that the inclusion of someone that represents around 10% of the people on the world is seen as a negative point to any kind of production.

Homophobia is rampant these days under the pretense to fight against some kind of "wokeness". It's really disgusting.

[Sick Chuck]

Bruh! The plot is literally some white girl gets offended in someone else's place. If it were up to me the main reason behind that character would be she is either is a furry or she loves the heck outta of doggy style. Then if it were up to me the game would be one big fuq fest instead of Chad crying about his feelings amidst the forest, naked. Don't blame the devs these days you need to be on the leash to not to go bankrupt.

[Darkraven125]

I actually didn't hate this game, but I do feel they did go "Woke" Why I think is the women characters were always in charge and the men were always second best. "straight white men" like Jacob, Nick, and Max were treated poorly and are just thrown to the side. Kaitlyn was written to the point there's no development. She's just a bad ass and that's it. I loved Laura because she actually was the most developed in the game and Kaitlyn was just awesome and there's nothing to build on. To be clear I have nothing against women being the star role, but they can't just be amazing first hand. What's the point then? That's why I call this game "Woke" but I still recommend it to people because it's not a horrible game and I am replaying it to save my man Dylan from danger. I loved Dylan and that has nothing to do with his sexuality. I didn't care for any of them at first, but Dylan grew on me so much.

[Gremling]

Publicado originalmente por Darkraven125:

I actually didn't hate this game, but I do feel they did go "Woke" Why I think is the women characters were always in charge and the men were always second best. "straight white men" like Jacob, Nick, and Max were treated poorly and are just thrown to the side. Kaitlyn was written to the point there's no development. She's just a bad ass and that's it. I loved Laura because she actually was the most developed in the game and Kaitlyn was just awesome and there's nothing to build on. To be clear I have nothing against women being the star role, but they can't just be amazing first hand. What's the point then? That's why I call this game "Woke" but I still recommend it to people because it's not a horrible game and I am replaying it to save my man Dylan from danger. I loved Dylan and that has nothing to do with his sexuality. I didn't care for any of them at first, but Dylan grew on me so much.

This is entirely your interpretation though. Even entirely disregarding their character arc.

While yes, the women came off as more dominating on their first appearance the following occured during the game:

Kaitlyn:

Situation: Nick got attacked and someones gotta save him
- Kaitlyn immediately shoves Ryan forward, handing him the gun without question and staying behind with Abi

Situation: Bobby (big beefy guy) wanders across the lodge. Kaitlyn has the gun.
- she sneeks behind him until caught and leets Bobby wrangle the weapon out of her hands. She then flees back to Nick and Abi in a panic.

Situation: Nick (infected) creeps all over Abi until she pushes him into the pool.
- Kaitlyn doesn't do ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Simply comforts Abi afterwards.

Situation: Ryan asks for Kaylees opinion when questioning Laura
- Kaitlyn gets defensive and wants to make no decision whatsoever. It's all on Ryan.

Laura:

Situation: Weird person being weird in a weird basement under an abandoned Lodge in the middle of the night.
- she does the dumbest thing possible, as can only do a blonde chick in a horror movie. Anyone trying to disagree here?

Situation: imprisonment
- one weak idea after the other. None work. Until the cop made a row of several mistakes that led her to something like an escape plan. Oh wonder.

Situation: breaking the curse
- apparently the plan was: just shoot the first werewolf on sight, then be fully convinced that the curse is broken and run back to the werewolf boyfriend she locked in a windy shack. Bloody genius.

and so on...


Emma:

Do we really need to talk about her? I think everybody knows that she tries to hide her insecurities by acting as "the bad b" (she literally is the THEATER teacher in the camp) and some online-personality, as can be seen plenty on her monologues with her phone or dialogues with Abi.


Every. Single. Character...
in this game has his or her pros and cons and of course a little layer of Horror-movie-teenager-coloration. I have zero clue why the "anti-woke-police" starts crying over every single piece of media that dares to portray bossy or confident girls/women as if that would only exist to cather to their imaginary feminazi-mafia. It comes off as paranoia at this point. If they've never ever seen a confident woman in life, I start to think they're reclusive hermits or something.

[Artur Ditu]

Having a gay or bi character in this game is the least of it's problems. The writing is atrocious.

[Darkraven125]

I went to this discussion and stated an opinion that YOU disagree with. You want to call me the "Anti woke police." for stating my opinion go for it, but I never demanded for Supermassive to be shut down over a game I didn't 100% love and yes because there are people who want to know how "Woke" new things are I have a right to review and state my honest opinion. I'm sorry if that offends you, but I'm not responsible for your happiness. There's a difference between confident and just plain rude. You're entitled to think whatever you'd like about me. I won't stop you.

[Artur Ditu]

who the ♥♥♥♥ are you even replying to? the're a reply button right there. use it.

[Darkraven125]

I'm low vision and can't find the button. Sorry man, but it's not targeted at you.

[Artur Ditu]

do you see that gold ♥♥♥♥ untop of the comment? it's on the left of that