It's case by case. Some immigrant parents are adamant that their kids learning English or kicking their accents and some don't see it as an issue.
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CDPRs handling about minorities in Cyberpunk 2077 is a joke
- Thread starter Chairmanchuck (另一个我)
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It's case by case. Some immigrant parents are adamant that their kids learning English or kicking their accents and some don't see it as an issue.
The industry repeatedly praises GTA year after year which is walking talking racism,sexism, anti-trans etc. In fact the question is will GTA finally get held accountable for what its done for a decade now. GTA just hides all its awfulness by claiming its a parody of America so Post Op jokes etc are suddenly ok
thats the argument tho, all the asian characters in this game have asian accents, even tho they are in america. I mean, thats partly what this whole thread is about.
Expert? No. But i am a POC who grew up in a place where Hispanics and Asians outnumber White people speaking about my personal experience. What about you?
I don't misunderstand the thread? But when people just randomly accuse other users of being racist how the fuck is that okay?
None of that changes the fact that cdpr is a shit company and that they have the full responsibility for the horrible things in their games. This goes all the way back to the cards in Witcher 1.
But it's not racist to have issues with the source material as well.
I didn't say that Asian street vendors don't sell Asian food. What I'm just trying to say is that I have never seen anyone selling Japanese dishes along with a typical Chinese takeout box, while wearing an Asian farmer's hat.
i kinda just honed in on you saying sushi. Its true about the chinese boxes. Thats more of an american takeout thing. The farmers hat tho Ive seen but it doesnt really justify its use
same. Some of the hispanics I grew up with have accents and some dont. Why that is, I dont know. But pretty much every asian I grew up with didnt have an accent unless they hadnt been in the country for a long time and were foreign born.
Not to say it's supposed to be 2077. The likelihood of all Asian characters speaking in stereotypical accent should be far lesser.
I mean I have friends who leave my country to work in the US for a few years and they come back with an pseudo American accent, that they can code switch to when they speak to Americans, while retaining our local accent when they speak to locals.
Not going to give them the benefit of the doubt.
The more I see of this game the less I want to even play it anymore. This sucks :( I was super big on the witcher 3 as well. But this just seems to be a lesser game with more bigotry etc.
I know a lot of suburban schools like to heavily push kids Accent Modification programs, that definitely accounts for some of it. Lots of my friends have been through that ringer as kids, quite a few of them feel some kinda way about it looking back.
i suppose you think I should excuse racism. I'd rather vote with my wallet and not support this game.
Even then shipping completely broken unplayable garbage and hiding the console versions from reviewers so that the MC score isn't affected is pretty scummy and anti consumer.
It really feels like CDPR's understanding of Cyberpunk might as well be boiled down to "we did some light research of 80s/90s "cyberpunk" scifi and it was very edgy, full of stereotypes and had all of these corporations running things!" just the most surface-level BS with a property that has evolved so much over the course of the last 20+ years thanks to varied views on the genre that expanded the scope of its aesthetic and vision.
Yes, if anything that's what would get people to turn on them.
That's not even in question - the writing is way better in Deus Ex too. Don't believe me, it's all in the numbers. What I mean is that there many cool elements about Deus Ex's portrayal of the future that can be appreciated on a surface level without even discussing the themes. The major element being the fashion.
not surprised since, as has been discussed, Poland is terrible for lgbt+
For the wrong reasons imo, but at least it's something.
As someone else said, this is a reference to a part in The Office.
the video in this reddit pretty much lays it out
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Witcher series got plenty of its own bigotry, like the misogyny.
The Witcher 3: Misogyny in my video game? More likely than you think
So I decided to finally try out the Witcher 3 after hearing pretty much everyone and their mother speak about how amazing the game is--barring the combat, of course. I borrowed a copy off a friend as I don't personally feel comfortable giving CDPR money with the Cyberpunk/transphobia situation...
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And that is why I said "more".Witcher series got plenty of its own bigotry, like the misogyny.
The Witcher 3: Misogyny in my video game? More likely than you think
So I decided to finally try out the Witcher 3 after hearing pretty much everyone and their mother speak about how amazing the game is--barring the combat, of course. I borrowed a copy off a friend as I don't personally feel comfortable giving CDPR money with the Cyberpunk/transphobia situation...
This is it exactly, feels do like an 80s/90s vibe. Black people talk with slang, russian are also a stereo type, asian people are awfully represented and the list goes on. It feels very cheesy and in this day and age and sometimes even offensive. It feels like im watching a late 80s begin 90s B action flick.
Oh yeah, but it is an RPG so got some extra bigotry modifiers.
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I apologize if I am being wrong, but isnt a non la, usually worn by farmers in SEA?
Changed it in the OP and apologize for that.
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This sounds like an excuse to point blame at the source material when the author is a pretty unproblematic individual, who is aware of and comments on stereotyping and appropriation in his work.
It's the use of Pondsmith as a kind of "see, we're working with a Black creative so we can't possibly be racist or have racial blind spots" that comes across so gross to me.
I agree with this, a 40 year old TTRPG is going to have outdated and potentially offensive content, but there's no excuse for people in this decade to allow those to continue.
I guess that's the one time it's better they saw Bladerunner trying to scare people about a future where japan owns america because that was a fear of the 80s, and said "wow cool future" instead of "wow cool political statement".
So why exactly is this offensive again? I'm a german dude and I'm not offended a single bit when I see Lederhosen dudes or terrible german accents in gaming. On the contrary... I find it quite funny.
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Yeah. Reading up on it currently. Apologize for that mistake. Learning something new every day.
Deus Ex had the dumb "aug lives matter" moment, but I agree that it's much, much better than this garbage.
Power relationships between races and racial history. Have you ever been mocked in a German accent by strangers? Because plenty of Asians have even been in an Asian accent when they speak perfect English.
No I have not tbh. Even at the time where I lived in the states and my English was by far not as good as it is today.
there's a big difference between someone poking fun at cultures that aren't the subject of historic and institutionalized racism and those that are. One of which is just a joke and the other enforced long running racist sentiments, stereotypes, and usually dehumanizes people of that group.
User Banned (1 Month): Dismissive Commentary Surrounding Racism Over Multiple Posts
Hm okay. Didn't see it from that angle. It's nice at least to get some real answers and not only offended oneliners as usual.
In other words they're trying to invoke the nostalgia of when media was more offensive to any marginalized people, using a setting that even at the time was taken by more conservative people to be asperational more than dystopic.
Anyone looking for the message inherently underlining narrative driven works, maybe that's your answer for this game.
really? it's minorities fault for being "offended" when presented with racism/phobia? and on us to educate you on some real basic shit?
I'm so glad I was never invested in this game, because every new thing I read about it makes it sound worse than the last.
Basically, it's a transphobic, sexist and racist dumpster fire of a game that is so full of bugs that it doesn't even work properly, while at the same time forcing the development team to work inhumane hours until the bitter end.
9/10.
Basically, it's a transphobic, sexist and racist dumpster fire of a game that is so full of bugs that it doesn't even work properly, while at the same time forcing the development team to work inhumane hours until the bitter end.
9/10.
Oh yeah. You didn't know? If some random person doesn't get upset at people mocking their German accent, nobody else has the right to get offended. Era logic.
1. Most people don't know or care about it.
2. Most people don't care about it as long as it's not about them personally.
3. Most people don't know or care about it.
4. People are pissed and want to sue CDPR over it.
Priorities...
What a shit world we live in.
They already earned the full development and marketing costs back.
After eight years of development, Cyberpunk 2077 made a profit in one day
CD Projekt says the game earned back its development and in-house marketing costs from preorders alone.www.pcgamer.com
Big hit in china even though it's not even released there yet.
They are beloved and nothing they did will change that.
The biggest problem they're facing is the shit performance of the base console version.
The world has gone mad. Nobody cares...
Well, the game seems to be dubbed in Chinese, so the accent thing is not shown.
At least what I've seen from this easter egg finder person video