Turtle Rock Studios are the developers who created the original Left 4 Dead - a ridiculously popular 4-player co-op shooter game that still has a loyal player base to this day. While Valve's internal team created a much more popular sequel, the franchise has been languishing to this day.
Turtle Rock attempted to catch lightning in a bottle a second time when they released their asymmetrical multiplayer game Evolve.
It was around this time that Turtle Rock started attracting the woke crowd during the start up of serious incursions into the gaming hobby.
Josh Olin, the community manager for the developer in 2014 tweeted a defense of L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling's right to free speech while denouncing his statements. This was all the self-righteous needed and pounced. Turtle Rock did what any company faced with an angry mob of Twitter activists would do. They fired his ass.
https://archive.is/XjDJONow, for comparison sake, here's a picture of what Turtle Rock's staff looked like in 2014 when this all happened.
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Largely white and (((white))), right?
Let's fast forward to 2021.
Since this incident scared the hell out of them, Turtle Rock went back to the drawing board and started working on something that might do better than Evolve did - Back 4 Blood (or Left 4 Dead 3).
They've also been doing some staff shuffling.
Here's what they look like now.
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Holy Mass Effect Andromeda, Batman!
Now what might that have to do with their upcoming shooter, you ask? Well, they didn't just diversify up their staff. They also did it to their game.
8 Playable Characters announced for Back 4 Blood. 4 were shown in the Alpha with one teased.
We have strong black male Walker.
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Token white woman Holly.
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Spic (?) Evangelo.
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The old white (?) male, Hoffman. (He appears to be literally Philip Seymour Hoffman.)
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And finally the teased 5th of 8 playable characters... (Single) Mom.
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All of this reeks of the trend in franchises like the Marvel, Uncharted, etc. where the old white male exists solely to pass the torch to the younger and more vibrant diversity characters
While all of this is not conclusive proof of pozzing, pattern recognition suggests it's a strong possibility given the existing evidence.
[ + ] fightknightHERO
[ - ] fightknightHERO 3 points 4.0 yearsMay 15, 2021 02:00:35 ago (+3/-0)
dude doesn't even look white, he looks Jewish
(massive forehead, ears below the eyes, and knuckle shaped nose)
and holy hell, this is the studio that used to make left for dead? i pity the few white programmers in there, assuming there is even white programmers left (could be kikes, only god knows)
but tbh, Left Dead 2 was pozzed as fuck with replacing Zoe with an unlikeable nigger woman
eh these days vidya is no longer maintained by white men, they have been chased out, rooted from the very core of every studio, now kikes have taken over all of them
not just metaphorically speaking, but legally speaking (publishers bought out every single independent studios out there, even mediocre Polish ones because they gotta have it all)
all that remains of vidya is ash and sorrow, fueled only by the Nostalgia of the days of yore, before all this (((cultural marxist))) crap
[ + ] WittyUserName
[ - ] WittyUserName [op] 1 point 4.0 yearsMay 15, 2021 02:03:16 ago (+1/-0)*
http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=805
[ + ] fightknightHERO
[ - ] fightknightHERO 1 point 4.0 yearsMay 15, 2021 02:05:17 ago (+1/-0)*
actually look at his wife, he might be an actual kike driller
[ + ] Misanthroat
[ - ] Misanthroat 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 15, 2021 13:48:40 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] albatrosv15
[ - ] albatrosv15 2 points 4.0 yearsMay 15, 2021 05:14:58 ago (+2/-0)*
For example, Dishonored was great game. You know what happened to Dishonored 2? Like, take the first mission. The enemies are ALL white men and at the end of the mission you meet your first ally, the... wait for it... Black Disabled Woman. So progressive.
Or take XCOM 2 for example. The human enemies are all white male(more precisely, mutant). In the propaganda of Advent(the evil force you are fighting against) it's all white people. The crew of your xcom? At least 50% women and most of them are mixed or black.
So i'm still glad that such games like Graveyard Keeper are still done by small companies. Or Frostpunk.
[ + ] WittyUserName
[ - ] WittyUserName [op] 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 15, 2021 05:42:38 ago (+0/-0)
https://archive.is/txkwk
[ + ] AlexanderMorose13
[ - ] AlexanderMorose13 0 points 4.0 yearsMay 15, 2021 07:29:10 ago (+0/-0)
As far as the characters in the game goes, this is one case where I don't mind if I hate them. And naturally, the game is going to be as a woke dumbass as possible. I don't plan on buying any of their other games besides Back 4 Blood. Already, they've pushed back the original release date twice. The first date was in June, next month. Now, it's been pushed back to October. I'd rather they take as much time as necessary to polish the game.
I'm one of those guys who still plays Left 4 Dead 2 every now and then when I can't figure out what game I feel like playing. They did that weird and pointless update a while ago, where they added some weapons and a few short levels. I think that they did that as a way of inspiring some attention for Back 4 Blood.
In the meantime, we here at Voat understand how off base the game is. Reality says that the girl Holly would probably be in Evangelo's role, because girls can barely hit or swing a bat for shit. She'd probably get tired after 20 or 30 swings or so. There's some backstory that the group that you play as was never intended to work together; the reason that the black ex-military guy is the one in charge is because the previous leader was killed. Then again, the game is about zombies infested with "demon" worms that turn into monsters. Reality matters very little in games like this one, and I'm not going to care about woke they make the characters as long as I get to see them die every now and then. While playing the alpha, I killed every single one of the characters myself when the players who were controlling them attacked the team, anyway.
https://discord.gg/turtlerockstudios
Check it out for yourself.