Here are 12 minutes of Shaq-Fu, where Shaq beats up stereotypical rice farmers

I just watch that video and the premise of the game seem to be rooted in overt stereotype and has a much more hideous racial subtext. This game is a case study on how to appeal to a baser audience with very obvious wink and nod to discrimination and prejudice.

Taken at face value, this game is about a black man beating up asians. I don't think it needs to be said how this game is racist and anyone that does not believe this does not know the reality of black/asian racial fiction. To hand-wave this game as parody is disingenuous and speaks volumes on the life experience and thought process of an individual.

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I went to youtube to watch the Kandy fight. I can't tell if she transformed into a butt with a really weird butthole or a butt with a gigantic vagina. Regardless, the actual fight against her and the accompanying dialogue was terrible. The best part is what was linked. They appear to be as bad at making brawler games as they are at making NBA Jam ripoffs.

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That can only be a vagina, but they're treating it like the anus.

Looking at the original, Shaq Fu was always in that weird place where it tried to seem asian without having to go to the trouble of finding any cultural awareness or authenticity in it. The plot of the original game was Shaq going into a kung fu dojo with a Mr. Miyagi-looking guy inside, being told something about the stars, and then being warped to another planet to kung fu fight with aliens. Also, he fought a catgirl named Kaori.

So I didn't really have high expectations for it in this area going in. I'll have to give the video a look later, but it sounds bad.

TheGreatMightyPoo said:

I don't think it's even trying to offend, it's just dumb comedy.

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Agreed, I just meant sanitized, playing with flimsy tropes and stereotypes of days gone by, without any degree of talent.
It requires intelligence to be purposely dumb, and I think this lacks.

This game has its tongue so far in its cheek it's ridiculous. How can you argue with masterful product placement like this?



and let's not forget the 100% heath restoration item.

what have they done???

MP! said:

you can have an opinion and be white... contrary to what the internet will tell you

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Lol, but why bother? On race at least I'll stay out of it.

glasiche said:

You simply have no clue. I couldn't believe my eyes that anybody would really try to compare Shaq to Sabonis, that's what people should be offended about

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I dread discussions where people are offended over such issues!
I could compare Galis to Jordan too if you like. They had a match in the 80s when Jordan was a college player and Galis scored 50 points against him.

Adamska said:

Why exactly am I being obtuse?

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Biker in pink gloves / helmet with a unicorn helm & short shorts (with a heart tattoo) blushing when Shaq brings up "getting a ride on me"....come on.

Sounds like shaq shaqting-ed himself

petran79 said:

I dread discussions where people are offended over such issues!
I could compare Galis to Jordan too if you like. They had a match in the 80s when Jordan was a college player and Galis scored 50 points against him.

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And yet he's nowhere near the player Jordan is which shows how clueless you are in assessing player's talent, skills, athleticism and overall competition and applying it in any meaningful discussion.

Red Liquorice said:

In other words they made a racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic video game intended to be played only by heterosexual white men who are equally as racist, sexist, homophobic and xenophobic as they are. Gotcha.

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Some crazy mental gimnastics here.

Why not just say that this is a Nazi game made for nazis?

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lmao this is the best anime of all time.

litebrite said:

And yet he's nowhere near the player Jordan is which shows how clueless you are in assessing player's talent, skills, athleticism and overall competition and applying it in any meaningful discussion.

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He is famous in Europe and still remains top scorer in FIBA European and National competitions. Petrovic and other players admired him long before Jordan became what he is. All discussions are meaningful as long as you accept them.

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He is famous in Europe and still remains top scorer in FIBA European and National competitions. Petrovic and other players admired him long before Jordan became what he is. All discussions are meaningful as long as you accept them.

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OK. I don't know why I'm continuing this discussion. You win. You tapped me out with your strawmans. LOL. Good job.

I passed on this in the eshop, but watching these stupid cutscenes raised my interest. Some of the comments here are so over the top.

I really, really wish people would stop using "it's not PC" as a shield for shitty humor and bad writing.

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Biker in pink gloves / helmet with a unicorn helm & short shorts (with a heart tattoo) blushing when Shaq brings up "getting a ride on me"....come on.

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Yeah it's called sexual innuendo

If anyone should be mad at anything it's the stereotyping of the biker and they way they portrayed him as gay

The sexual innuendo joke is not a problem.

I mean it's stupid, but it's not a problem by itself.

Real Renaissance Man said:

Played a bit yesterday. There's a lot of wrong to unpack.

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Wait, is this out already?

Kyzer said:

Yeah it's called sexual innuendo

If anyone should be mad at anything it's the stereotyping of the biker and they way they portrayed him as gay

The sexual innuendo joke is not a problem.

I mean it's stupid, but it's not a problem by itself.

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All good and fair points, it's just incredibly tacky and feels very...1992.

I see censorship warriors are at it again

Downloading now

Some really disappointing posts in this thread, but I am used to this by now.

Kyzer said:

Yeah it's called sexual innuendo

If anyone should be mad at anything it's the stereotyping of the biker and they way they portrayed him as gay

The sexual innuendo joke is not a problem.

I mean it's stupid, but it's not a problem by itself.

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So you are saying that using homosexuality as a puchline isn't shitty?

As long as everyone is offended equally (no sacred cows), I'm cool. There's already a Donald Trump boss, do they have overweight white guys with red caps and shotguns as minions too?

I hope nothing bad actually happens to anyone because if it does Twitter will be even more whiny than it is now.

I don't understand how no one nowadays, can take a joke anymore. Everyone seems so sensitive and taken back by things like this. Yet the same people watch South Park and nothing is said. When did our society turn into this type of behavior or mental state? And if it offends you turn it off or dont support the developers games anymore. If I go to the movies or watching Television and something comes on I dont agree with, I just turn it off. I don't hunt out their next project trying to throw my at them money at them. Just my two cents.

Phatzo said:

I don't understand how no one nowadays, can take a joke anymore. Everyone seems so sensitive and taken back by things like this. Yet the same people watch South Park and nothing is said. When did our society turn into this type of behavior or mental state? And if it offends you turn it off or dont support the developers games anymore. If I go to the movies or watching Television and something comes on I dont agree with, I just turn it off. I don't hunt out their next project trying to throw my at them money at them. Just my two cents.

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I mean you are free to have your opinion and others are free to criticise stereotyping certain races and make fun of them just because of they are of that certain race.

Truelize said:

I'm going to buy this right now. Watching these videos and reading how over the top it is sounds like a good time to me, but all the comments attacking it for not being pc is what sold me on it.

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Seriously why would this matter? You are a weird little dude.

Phatzo said:

I don't understand how no one nowadays, can take a joke anymore. Everyone seems so sensitive and taken back by things like this. Yet the same people watch South Park and nothing is said. When did our society turn into this type of behavior or mental state? And if it offends you turn it off or dont support the developers games anymore. If I go to the movies or watching Television and something comes on I dont agree with, I just turn it off. I don't hunt out their next project trying to throw my at them money at them. Just my two cents.

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So your argument boils down to : if it's making fun of the other but not me, then it's perfectly fine. This line of reasoning won't work because another game can easily flip the races and there would be a tremendous outcry.

Bud23 said:

I see censorship warriors are at it again

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Is this the new term for SJWs?

HP_Wuvcraft said:

I really, really wish people would stop using "it's not PC" as a shield for shitty humor and bad writing.

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It'll stop when people stop entering threads about sexual harassment solely to complain that the words used by the people calling it out have gotten annoying.

Bud23 said:

I see censorship warriors are at it again

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When you waste your money on a bad game to "own the libs"

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It'll stop when people stop entering threads about sexual harassment to complain that the words used by the people calling it out have gotten annoying.

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Um.... the people using the term "I'm not PC" are the same ones victim blaming those victims.

Kurdel said:

When you waste your money on a bad game to "own the libs"

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RM8 said:

Lol, we have people buying shovelware to spite other people online. Humans are silly creatures.

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I legit once got into an argument with a Rick & Morty fan who then bought a copy of my game in order to "own me". It was incredible.

Lol, we have people buying shovelware to spite other people online. Humans are silly creatures.

8byte said:

All good and fair points, it's just incredibly tacky and feels very...1992.

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I'm with you 100%

Kurdel said:

Some really disappointing posts in this thread, but I am used to this by now.



So you are saying that using homosexuality as a puchline isn't shitty?

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Where did I say that, at all? The portrayal of his homosexuality was what was problematic. The punchline was sexual innuendo. It could have been a woman and the joke could have had the same punchline. Yes I think using homosexuality as a punchline is shitty, and that's why im saying, their portrayal of the biker as a gay man is very shitty. I give zero fucks about someone making a dumb sex joke.

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I'm with you 100%


Where did I say that, at all? The portrayal of his homosexuality was what was problematic. The punchline was sexual innuendo. It could have been a woman and the joke could have had the same punchline. Yes I think using homosexuality as a punchline is shitty, and that's why im saying, their portrayal of the biker as a gay man is very shitty. I give zero fucks about someone making a dumb sex joke.

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Arent both connected though? The stereotypical gay guy from the 80s/90s always wanted sex from whatever male partner.

Kyzer said:

Where did I say that, at all? The portrayal of his homosexuality was what was problematic. The punchline was sexual innuendo. It could have been a woman and the joke could have had the same punchline. Yes I think using homosexuality as a punchline is shitty, and that's why im saying, their portrayal of the biker as a gay man is very shitty. I give zero fucks about someone making a dumb sex joke.

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Of course it wouldn't lol

The joke is "Shaw missed the cues the biker was gay and made the biker think he was also gay". You're meant to laugh at Shaw naive response, when he should have known better.

It's shit all around. Saying "it's just a double entendre" is completely disingenous.

Bud23 said:

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A fool and his money are soon parted.

Also:

I'm fine with offensive humor.

It has to actually be funny, though. Otherwise it's just embarrassing.

Also, cartoon Shaq at least needs dopey-er eyes. It doesn't even look like him.

Jbourne said:

A fool and his money are soon parted.

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Exaclty how I picture many of the edgelords in this thread

David said:

Some crazy mental gimnastics here.

Why not just say that this is a Nazi game made for nazis?

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????
how

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LOL, you should stop owning yourself.

Are any of the old characters bosses in this game? I doubt I would give this a try even if it was in game pass lol

PrimeBeef said:

Wait, is this out already?

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Yeah, came out Monday.

RM8 said:

Lol, we have people buying shovelware to spite other people online. Humans are silly creatures.

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It's not shovelware.
It does nothing new but it's a passable beat em up that plays pretty well.

litebrite said:

OK. I don't know why I'm continuing this discussion. You win. You tapped me out with your strawmans. LOL. Good job.

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Nah. We went to overtime and both fouled out!

Kurdel said:

Of course it wouldn't lol

The joke is "Shaw missed the cues the biker was gay and made the biker think he was also gay". You're meant to laugh at Shaw naive response, when he should have known better.

It's shit all around. Saying "it's just a double entendre" is completely disingenous.

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Saying that what I'm saying is "it's just a double entendre" is completely disingenuous. I'm literally pointing out the same bullshit as you, except for some reason you are unironically typing "he missed the cue that he was gay" out as the issue when thats not an issue at all, and I am much more succinctly stating that they are portraying this biker to be gay via stereotypes like the ones everyone is complaining about. What are you even saying? That you are more outraged than me? I'm not outraged enough? You just told me that I don't think using homosexuality as a punchline is shitty for saying what I said? You are making allies out to be enemies for no reason.

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Imagine a lets play with Charles Barkley and Shaq doing commentary over it LMAO would be GOTY material really.

Big_Erk said:

This game has its tongue so far in its cheek it's ridiculous. How can you argue with masterful product placement like this?

and let's not forget the 100% heath restoration item.

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Okay that Gold Bond bit is ridiculous haha.

I'm glad Shaq Fu exists, even if only to definitively prove that memes suck. The worst fighting game of 1994, resurrected because of its meme potential. Shaq Fu is alive and Streets of Rage is dead. What a tremendous result. Thank you, memelords of the Internet. You really stuck it to that PC culture.

The base game plays on a lot of stereotypes and just really over the top enemies. I'm not sure if they were made to intentionally offend any particular group though. But I do wonder what the reaction is going to be to the Barack Fu DLC that's coming out for this game.

It features Barack Obama taking Kanye, and at least one reference to "dicks out for Harambe" and playing a game of "Barack, paper, scissors" (which actually seems quite clever).