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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
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Mizake
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You clearly meant games produced by the Western world.
If you did mean JUST England, then name me some great games that have come out of British gaming studios.
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Chris
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I used the exact word I meant and I used it correctly.
You still don't know what "Anglosphere" means, it's English speaking countries, not just England.
I was going to type out exactly which countries that is for you, but as I typed "New Zealand" I remembered Path of Exile lol.
I spent last year playing Polish and Japanese games and suffered Diablo 4, so clearly I'm not talking about the entire "West".
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Not sure why you would just limit yourself to games made in countries where they speak English primarily, again I think you are just being pedantic.
Especially in this day and age where most large games are a global effort, and multiple studios from multiple countries make a single game. In case you ever stick around long enough to view the credits.
Also I don't know you would view something like Assassin's Creed, which is made by a French company, from a studio based in Canada so English speaking, but also in Montreal which speaks mainly French, so technically falling out of your "anglosphere" definition - again, if you are choosing to be so myopic. And yet, I'm sure most of us would view AC as a "western" game and readily different in tone and content compared to something out of Poland or Japan. Just not you apparently.
Especially in this day and age where most large games are a global effort, and multiple studios from multiple countries make a single game. In case you ever stick around long enough to view the credits.
Also I don't know you would view something like Assassin's Creed, which is made by a French company, from a studio based in Canada so English speaking, but also in Montreal which speaks mainly French, so technically falling out of your "anglosphere" definition - again, if you are choosing to be so myopic. And yet, I'm sure most of us would view AC as a "western" game and readily different in tone and content compared to something out of Poland or Japan. Just not you apparently.
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I listed games that weren't polish or japanese, although there's more but I did understand your "request" as western games(Dave the Diver is a pretty good game for example but is Korean so didn't add it to the list), but yeah if you want to nitpick BG3 isn't made by an english speaking country studio, I just don't really see the point of making the distinction between western games in general and ones made in english speaking countries specifically. You can further divide the western games but it makes little sense to do it by language spoken in the country the game studios are set up in.
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Burns
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As I have always seen it used, the anglosphere is Great Brittan, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Ireland, and the the US.
I would take Chris focusing on just those countries is because the current progressive political rift is more pronounced in them and "wokeness" is viewed as starting in the US. Thus making the Anglosphere more susceptible to companies hiring people for diversity, instead of skill, thus possibly making worse games.
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Burns
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Yar, I have only ever seen it used (probably in articles/videos about history or economics) as what Wiki has listed as "core" and wasn't sure about South Africa since I don't concern myself much with them.Fuck you all for making me look this up:
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Anglosphere - Wikipedia
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It has to be huge to wrap around and contain the rest of the world. Think about it.
It's the projection. Antarctica is half the area of North America and less than a third of Asia.
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DOESNT MATTER. STILL HAS SECRET ANCIENT ALIEN CIVILIZATIONS THAT RULED THE WORLD AND YOUR GOV'T WONT TELL YOU ABOUT IT.
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DOESNT MATTER. STILL HAS SECRET ANCIENT ALIEN CIVILIZATIONS THAT RULED THE WORLD AND YOUR GOV'T WONT TELL YOU ABOUT IT.
Oh bullshit.
It's where Cthulhu lies sleeping.
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Maybe it'd be better to judge a game by how good the game is, rather by who made the game. I can't vouch for all the games I listed since I just picked a list of the best 2023 games, but you have to be some real fucking idiot to think because a studio that employs sometimes 200+ people has an inclusivity clause so they don't get sued, then somehow that makes all their games bad. You can't just handwave all the bad games because of blue hairs and transexuals either, there's likely a bigger amount of games ruined by poor management and money suits asking to cram some microtransactions down the throat of their
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