All the sudden i log back in and people are accusing me of being racist because i referred to "mid-western" as
There's a remarkable amount of racism involved with Japanese game fandom. A belief that Japanese games, and their developers, are unique among all the countries of the world, imbued with qualities that only people born of pure Japanese blood can provide. Every non-Japanese developer in any position of leadership is viewed with suspicion.
One thing I've always noticed is how Japanese developers rampantly imitating British and American games back in the 1980s and 1990s is glossed over, while so-called "western influence" in the years that followed is met with a sneer.
Okay, first off wtf. I said "mid-western" because i was trying to find a very milk-toast idea of an american setting.
I have zero, zilch, nadda, issues with japanese developers using any setting they like. I was simply pointing out that it felt exceedingly generic. At least the city in the first game was fractured, shifting, conceptually interesting.
MY point was, i found the setting bland. There was zero intent or malice. I wasn't packing some sort of racist "japanese devs must have a pure japanese whatever" message in there
further more, TEW2 is directed by "John Johanas" not Shinji Mikami. So i don't know why this became a discussion point.
