Thread for gorgeous looking game shown during Xbox conference devolves into panic as ResetEra members worry that, despite being from a completely different developer and publisher, it could be a SECRETLY rebranded version of The Last Night, some four year old vaporware/goobergate controversy
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“The Gamergate people are for journalistc integrity, honest debate, transparency, inclusiveness, & egalitarianism [sic],” Soret wrote in September 2014, in one of the tweets that prompted the most discussion.
“I’m against feminism, because it’s getting more and more skewed,” he tweeted just before that, in July 2014. “I am for egalitariasm [sic]. I don’t care, boy, girl, alien.”
In response to celebrity scientist Bill Nye’s new Netflix show, Soret said this past April that “injecting identity politics under the cover of ‘science’, it's not gonna end well.”
As screenshots of Soret’s tweets circulated across Twitter, some who’d been excited about The Last Night began to express serious reservations. The game’s premise, as described on its Steam page, further stoked their ire.
“Stabilised by universal income, people struggle to find their calling or identity, and define themselves by what they consume, rather than what they create,” it reads. Players assume the role of a man named Charlie, who finds himself disaffected in this technological, socialist dystopia.
In response to the growing discontent, Soret posted a series of messages saying that he’d changed his stance.
“Controversy time,” he wrote in the first of three tweets. “That's fine. Let's talk about it, because it's important. I completely stand for equality & inclusiveness.”
“In no way is The Last Night a game against feminism or any form of equality,” he continued. “A lot of things changed for me these last years. The fictional setting of the game does challenge techno-social progress as a whole but certainly not trying to promote regressive ideas.”
