Considering how angry fans of the game got when they first heard there were going to be black people in the show, CDPR faceplanted morally but it was probably a smart business decision to make it so fucking pasty white. Which says alot about the gaming community
NiOh is alternate historical Japan and they had a black samurai.
Fantasy or alternate historical Japan means shit, you can have black people if you want to
Because that's not true, there are big cultural differences between different races. Asians are different from black peope are different from southern white and northern white people.
Well, the black samurai part isn't exactly alternate history.
Yasuke actually existed, just like William Adams.
Yasuke - Wikipedia
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That's just telling me you should not play up racial stereotypes though, which... I mean yeah, obviously. I'm mostly talking like if... say Joel was made black or Hispanic instead of white, it would not have negatively impacted TLOU imo for instance.
I have no idea why you are so bent on protecting Sekiro from criticism but as far as I can tell Sekiro is set in the 16th century, which would be before Japan deciced to close itself off and even then certain foreign countries, like the dutch and chinese, were allowed to trade with them.
LMAO what's this? I'm gay so the Witcher 3 is fulfilled my straight wet dream? LMFAO
In a fantasy setting cultural differences of race don't matter.
"There are no people of color in the books" seems like an impossible statement to make — the books, like almost all books, do not exhaustively detail the skin tones of every major and minor character who gets mentioned. You'd have to do a lot of "white is the default, so any time the book says someone is Aedernian or Temerian or Rivian etc that means they're white unless specifically overridden by text elsewhere" reaching to get there.
Some don't realize there are places in the world besides America.
Complaints about white washing have less to do with loyalty to the source material and more the fact that in media roles for POC are already not as available as they should be without removing more for them
The Witcher as it stands today is not "polish culture"
idk seems both to me tbh. I mean you are doing a disservice to the source material as well. Dragon Ball Evolution and The Last Airbender comes to mind.
Yup, if anything they should continue doing it to spite those assholes.
Fair enough, I don't know enough about Polish culture nor the Witcher universe to discuss this. If that's the case, the backlash makes more sense.
Yeah, I think everyone should be able to call out bad world building. Imagine a fantasy world in which everyone looked exactly the same. If there were an in-world reason for that, then great, but it would make no sense otherwise.
Polish man wrote Polish-language novels in which he stuck the entirety of Europe and some bits of Asia and Africa in a blender to play with a lot of pan-cultural tropes and caricatures of regions like France, Spain, and Germany, specified the skin tone of almost no character let alone the dominant skin tones of entire regions, and spent a lot of time decrying mob violence against visible minorities.
The Witcher takes place in one small area of the world. However, the far off lands where people of color might reside have basically no information.
Aren't tea and vea definitively described as dark-skinned bc they are from zerrikania?
Yes it is. Like objectively it's good to have diverse media. Media informs the audience's world views on a subconscious level even if they vehemently deny that it does. Hence why it should be no surprise that the gaming industry, it's audience specifically, had a gamergate tier event.
For decades PoC were borderline forced to do this since there weren't many PoC in media.
