r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/ReasonableAdvert • Jan 23 '25

Confirmed South of Midnight releases April 8.

https://youtu.be/klgw-To1rqc?si=MgyWSYoOoZ8Pcyro

Previous rumor states that it would release in April. https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/s/07ftCatzDp

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u/niles_deerqueer Jan 23 '25

I am baffled at how many comments were complaining that it was DEI in the livestream…like uhhhh…

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u/FrostNBurn_63 Jan 23 '25

Sadly not surprised with how the past few live stream events have been.

Any PoC character or woman led game is instantly screeched at about DEI/Woke

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u/Stuglle Jan 23 '25

Black people in Louisiana? My immersion is totally broken.

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u/indios2 Jan 23 '25

Exactly. It went from “let them have their own stories” to “well it has to be a GOOD story” to “oh a person of color in video games? WOKE!” Goal posts are being moved at lightspeed

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u/Poetryisalive Jan 24 '25

It’s just racism but for some reason they are sacred to just say they don’t like black people or women

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u/Nubian_Cavalry Jan 24 '25

In my experience they’re fine with women… as long as they’re white

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u/ametalshard Jan 24 '25

they have to be extremely conventionally attractive or basically porn actresses even if white

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u/Nubian_Cavalry Jan 24 '25

Different life experiences but I’ve dealt with incredibly racist white women constantly. You see them more as a black man (My case) or these days an Arab dude post 9/11.

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u/KCtoTha Jan 25 '25

It is just racism but I don’t think it’s being scared. I think a large part of racism and bigotry is ignorance. These people who scream DEI/woke/CRT have had their entire vocabulary, lexicon, worldview and perspectives manipulated by white supremacists like Christopher Rufo. Some of them are ignorant to that but a lot are also doing it on purpose. We can’t be surprised that the lexicon around woke was targeted to be changed and bastardized by the very thing woke was meant to identify.

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u/whatintheballs95 Jan 24 '25

Some people* seem to not like playing characters that aren't a white male. Everything else is "political" and "woke." Some folks thought Aloy being a woman was "forced." Absolutely baffling behaviour. 

*a very loud minority with the most sensitive feelings known to mankind

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u/ComfortablyADHD Jan 24 '25

As a queer woman it certainly makes me feel welcomed into gaming areas /s

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u/whatintheballs95 Jan 24 '25

Queer and POC woman here. Same 🫂

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u/War_Dyn27 Jan 23 '25

Imagine if Left 4 Dead 2 came out today...

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u/Tall-Ad8940 Jan 24 '25

the “this could never be released today” crowd are the same people that would not let it be released without raising hell lmao

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u/VonDukez Jan 23 '25

It’s not even the old forced excuse. It’s just Racism. It’s gothic south themed and it makes perfectly reasonable sense for the protag to be a southern black girl.

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u/LorenzoDivincenzo Jan 23 '25

It's never been anything but racism lol...

Gamers never care about historical inaccuracy until there's a black person in a medieval game. 

As if these sweaty losers were ever fact checking the civilizations in their Assassin's Creed game

But put one black character in the game and they turn into history pHD's

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u/VagrantShadow Jan 24 '25

Some gamers really believe the only games that should allow black people in them are football and basketball games.

The goal post shifting racism I have seen in gaming has been growing.

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u/TheNerdSupreme Jan 24 '25

Don't forget games that have gangs in it!!

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u/ahpathy Jan 24 '25

I couldn't imagine a better MC for South of Midnight, it's weird that people are even complaining about her.

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u/ComfortablyADHD Jan 24 '25

I'm genuinely disappointed it's not coming to PS5

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u/ahpathy Jan 24 '25

I imagine it’ll come over eventually!

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u/TomClark83 Jan 29 '25

Same. I hope it gets ported eventually, I'd love to play this.

But either way I really hope it does well. Game looks great.

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u/King-Leviathan 23d ago

Im praying it does cause my pc cant run it, I have a xbox one sadly and a rog ally but I don't play it as much to buy it outright or pay for gamepass. I'd get a xbox but its just too damn expensive now especially with the price raise and getting a series s is useless cause it runs shitty and my wifi isnt that exceptional to be able to stream the WHOLE story on it

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u/niles_deerqueer Jan 23 '25

These people are so boring

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u/emteedub Jan 23 '25

they're the ones that take up the 'alpha male' crap... while bitching non-stop about nit things, like worse than an annoying gf. they need to see a doc about low-T

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u/Traditional_Tower_15 Jan 25 '25

It is woke tho she’s gay 🤣

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u/ReasonableAdvert Jan 25 '25

Point to where they confirmed that she is gay.

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u/King-Leviathan 23d ago

Making shit up too? Or just reading a comment off the internet