Why are people calling this game woke?

[asheski]

The topic of race in the fantasy genre is integral to the world building of it. I don't understand what the problem is. So unless people are just trolling, I genuinely have no clue why people would say that Metaphor is woke.

[REBirthTheEdge]

After muh localization, something something equity.
It seems the topic of the strong helping the weak is triggering some of the more political-aligned.

[Fast Pooper]

Well the translators are localizers so we all know what that means. And add in a primitive Japanime story about "discrimination" that denizens of a monoculture probably have to really stretch to come up with and it will likely be a nonsensical mess.

[REBirthTheEdge]

Originally posted by Fast Pooper:

Well the translators are localizers so we all know what that means. And add in a primitive Japanime story about "discrimination" that denizens of a monoculture probably have to really stretch to come up with and it will likely be a nonsensical mess.

Yeah, they don't have to stretch to come up with that, literally be japanese/asian and visit any western country.

I feel the game gets that feeling very right.

[SnoLight]

Its buzz word gamers being snowflakes because some youtuber told them to be

[lordatog]

Originally posted by Fast Pooper:

Well the translators are localizers so we all know what that means.

Yep! It means that the game won't read like a translation - things will be natural rather that stilted and awkward. It also means that preserving the *experience* is prioritized over preserving the exact wording, because it's generally not possible to have both when something is translated. Neither of these things would be good if you were translating a historical document or such, but for a game with mass appeal it's perfect, and it's what almost everyone wants. The online warriors complaining about localization are a tiny, tiny minority.

[Drake]

People have no sense of nuance anymore, it's either woke or antiwoke...

Wtf happened to fiction just being fiction.

It's the same as when people are triggered by warhammer 40k and its totalitarism.

What happened to having fun with a fictional universe without constantly having people either wanting it to be either more woke or less woke.

Please let authors do their work, stop trying to influcence it and change it because you can't handle the work of others.

[The Seraph of Tomorrow]

Originally posted by Drake:

Wtf happened to fiction just being fiction.

Before the woke activists jumped into the games industries and started influencing it, very few people cared to try to influence the medium. Take GamerGate for example where it all first came to light that activists were literally in bed with game devs.

All went downhill from there as things became more corporate and these corporations support the woke activists.

Games are not a medium for proselytizing political or religious ideologies, and when they become that people take issue. There is no "moderate" position on the issue, because it's a intercultural conflict that stems from the western market and corporations.

[mdart]

the Senior Localization Engineer kat has admitted to changing the context and stuff on other stuff she worked on due to not like the subject matter (some of the changes have been better and some worse). and some people like the kotaku group have tried to say the game is a metaphore for racism when its not its a metaphore for anxiety

[Thegoldenwizard]

Incels will call anything woke dont worry about it
i think its most likely about the fact that the traslator for the english dub also worked on P3R

[archonsod]

Originally posted by asheski:

The topic of race in the fantasy genre is integral to the world building of it. I don't understand what the problem is. So unless people are just trolling, I genuinely have no clue why people would say that Metaphor is woke.

Tribal idiocy. I suspect if the original Witcher was released today it'd be accused of being woke due to the whole racism aspect, and anti-woke due to the collectible cards of women in the buff.

[REBirthTheEdge]

Originally posted by archonsod:

Originally posted by asheski:

The topic of race in the fantasy genre is integral to the world building of it. I don't understand what the problem is. So unless people are just trolling, I genuinely have no clue why people would say that Metaphor is woke.

Tribal idiocy. I suspect if the original Witcher was released today it'd be accused of being woke due to the whole racism aspect, and anti-woke due to the collectible cards of women in the buff.

It is very sad that they are gonna remove the sex cards in the Witcher 1 remake, oh well, wouldn't be buying that one :(

[SuperBearCat]

Same reason Dustborn is woke.
this game is quite literally "Dusborn, but made in Japan" lol.

[eduard34]

Brainrot from both sides

[REBirthTheEdge]

Originally posted by Beruang Fighter:

Same reason Dustborn is woke.
this game is quite literally "Dusborn, but made in Japan" lol.

Wow bro, what?

[REBirthTheEdge]

Originally posted by Beruang Fighter:

Originally posted by REBirthTheEdge:

Wow bro, what?

from other site:
You LITERALLY grind out your "TOLERANCE" stats by engaging with precious brown ppl and minorities.
every second sentence in this game being some variations of RICH BAD, CLASS WARFARE, POOR MINORITIES, DIVERSITY GOOD
has typical obnoxious translator team
every character, including the protagonist, is some variation of colored people

Yeah I think you need to at least see the trailer or play the demo.

The protagonist is a japanese-looking kid stepping in a western style country, it's supposed to show the racism westerners show towards asians.