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YIIK: A Postmodern RPG contains an insulting homage to Satoru Iwata
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I came in expecting full UpsetEra. Glad common sense prevailed.
I'm not here to dunk on the OP; I don't think we need to dogpile anyone for this any more than we already have. All it is now is just dunking for sport.
That said, I still haven't found any actual explanations for why this might be insulting besides "people don't put graves in some rando's backyard" and "Iwata was alive when the game took place," both of which seem to be addressed by the game being apparently a) surreal and b) very loose with timelines. If someone wants to take a crack at an explanation, by all means.
That said, I still haven't found any actual explanations for why this might be insulting besides "people don't put graves in some rando's backyard" and "Iwata was alive when the game took place," both of which seem to be addressed by the game being apparently a) surreal and b) very loose with timelines. If someone wants to take a crack at an explanation, by all means.
I just realize how Smash Ultimate release date is close to Iwata's birthday now. Probably a coincidence though.
I actually expected something gross and disgusting, it's just a pretty boring and lazy homage.
Era is slowly losing its mind.
Era is slowly losing its mind.
Wow, kind of a over reaction. Not really insulting, just out of place and random. I expected worse reading the title.
This thread is like a caricature of what everyone else thinks Resetera is like.
Doesn't matter how far we gotta stretch, we're gonna be offended today chaps!
Doesn't matter how far we gotta stretch, we're gonna be offended today chaps!
it's a very weak easter egg but I don't really see how it's insulting? it's not like they have your character then pee on the grave
Oh god. Everything aint offensive. The people who are offended or feel Iwata has been insulted, are you offended because the original poster and twitter guy got offended? Did you borrow their feelings without making your own judgement call?
Meanwhile in heaven Iwata is probably happy they were thinking of him.
Meanwhile in heaven Iwata is probably happy they were thinking of him.
A dev puts in an homage to someone who is likely one of their influences and has passed away. Yet that's supposed to be insulting?
Nah, the biggest thread backlash was that one where a guy's take was so nuclear that the subsequent backlash caused him to request an account deletion as so many industry people came in to tell him about off the mark he was.
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Honestly it was more insulting when they patched out the hidden nes golf game on switch, which was put there as a tribute to Iwata.
It's not insulting and clearly meant as an homage. Though I think it's not very tasteful either.
That's a pretty bad one, too. With this one we're up to 9 pages, eclipsing the game's OT, and OP has basically ran off and hid in a corner since the first page.
Mortal Kombat 3 had the designers name on the gravestones on one of the stages.....
and Bayonetta had all the lead designers of the game engraved on the gravestones ending with Kamiya and literal piss on it......on the opening of the game itself.
Granted these were all examples of designers putting themselves (or their colleagues) on gravestones but still, i don't see what's the big deal. Will OP be satisfy if they change the year from the 90s to year 3000s?
and Bayonetta had all the lead designers of the game engraved on the gravestones ending with Kamiya and literal piss on it......on the opening of the game itself.
Granted these were all examples of designers putting themselves (or their colleagues) on gravestones but still, i don't see what's the big deal. Will OP be satisfy if they change the year from the 90s to year 3000s?
I'm curious what a "respectful" homage to Iwata would be in this case. A character making reference to his accomplishments? Maybe a magazine talking about a man who could fit two regions on a single cartridge? Make Iwata an NPC? Though I feel like those might stand out a bit too much.
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... I think it's not insulting at all. It's a tribute, clearly the guys making this game meant it in the spirit of honoring Iwata.
I'm relieved I'm not the only one not understanding the "insult" part.
OP you should be cautious with words, if you call that an insult, how would you call an actual insult ?
OP you should be cautious with words, if you call that an insult, how would you call an actual insult ?
? I still don't understand how showing a grave is insulting. Are grave sites not typically where you put dead people? Have they not for things of years been made into literal tributes to those people, with monuments, statues, quotes, and years lived etc inscribed on them? What could possibly be insulting by showing that...?
Insulting? Lol. I really have no idea how some of you guys manage to function off the internet. It's undoubtedly a little clumsy, but that's about it.
What damage exactly?
Jesus Christ some people in here. Devs put a tiny nod to a developer they obviously liked. Who gives a shit if the game is set in the 90s it was released recently and he's 100% dead now
Because it only shows Iwata's importance by showing that he's dead. That's the thing that game thinks is important to immortalize as. There's no touching quote or reference to his accomplishments, just his gravestone and his death date. As depicted the thing that the video game thinks is important about Iwata is that he's dead. Graves are not inherently respectful or sacred. In Final Fantasy I there's a gravestone for Erdrick which was clearly meant to be read as a dig at a competing franchise. Just because you put a dead person there doesn't mean that gravestones are inherently respectful.
Also, when you reference real life deaths in a video game, you always get the family's blessing before you do so. Do we think that the developers got Iwata's family blessing for this? Somehow I doubt that.
Wow.
Chill out, and remember what "insult" means please.
This is just an easter egg. Come on.
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