KojiKnight
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Far Cry 4's art is racist and the antagonist is (potentially) gay
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KillerIsJed
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As an openly bisexual (if we must label it) man with a boyfriend, I'd like to think I know about gay dudes. I'm just saying it looks like they created a character that leans towards being a gay stereotype from looks alone.
SketchTheArtist
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Wow. That's just..... wow.
Judging and calling out racism based on a cover with zero context. Internet crusaders.
Judging and calling out racism based on a cover with zero context. Internet crusaders.
Solidsoul
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Agreed. Are we really having this discussion? Threads like these are fuel to the fire just as much as anything else.
SniperHunter
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yea i need to stop doing that
IdreamofHIME
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OP avoids answering any serious questions about his crazy OP, but instead replies to some very random and OT comments.
What a great thread.
What a great thread.
Dr. Buni
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There is no such thing as "look like gay". The guy in the cover looks like a guy dressed in pink, nothing more.
Calling a game racist for featuring a racist antagonist is akin to calling a game anti-Semitic for featuring Nazis.
The logic presented by the OP is actually really fascinating:
That doesn't add up to me. Seems like there's a lot of baggage being dragged in to the evaluation of what message the game may or may not be making.
The logic presented by the OP is actually really fascinating:
- By portraying an antagonist as racist, the game is positively reflecting on racism.
- But, by portraying an antagonist as gay, the game is negatively reflecting on homosexuality
That doesn't add up to me. Seems like there's a lot of baggage being dragged in to the evaluation of what message the game may or may not be making.
thefunkyman
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I'm kinda baffled by this. I'm not seeing how the art is racist, and I don't see why it matters if the antagonist is gay.
This is the vibe I'm getting from the post.
Depicting something =/= Condoning it
OP just looking to get offended.
I'm now more interested in this than I was before.
SirMossyBloke
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Yep. There's no argument here. He looks gay on a stereotypical level. From his hair and purple clothes, his ruffled shirt and even the way he holds his left wrist.
They just went about it the wrong way.
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wuxian fengguang
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The imagery of a subservient "native" kneeling for the white man is definitely undesirable in this day and age. You'd better bring some nuance or underlying meaning to supplement this imagery or you will be rightfully frowned upon. One must be very ignorant to not understand this.
RedRooster
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This controversy is one big "meh". In Far Cry 3, you burned a pot field, killed some jungle animals to make pouches and had sex with some kind of hot goddess. I never noticed those other undertones even existed, and I put 100 hours into that game. Whatever. If a gay guy makes a good antagonist so be it. Dr. Claw was gay.
TheBaronOfNA
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Dunno if gay, but to me it seems to stereotype of a flamboyant white European controling and destroying (look where he is sit) another non white nation.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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He doesn't look like a gay stereotype so much as he looks like a flamboyant bastard.
A gay stereotype? If the character turns out to be gay, how should he dress? How should he dress so YOU aren't offended?
SenatorBot
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I do not understand why people are in a uproar over a racist villian, isn't that the point of a villian? To be antagonistic and to represent something evil and something the player is against?
Coolade
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Masquerader
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Sorry, but there is NO proof that the antagonist is gay, there is NO proof that he is racist, and there is NO proof that he is the antagonist. This thread is discriminating towards antagonists. Aren't protagonists allowed to smirk a little, reign over things, and have RPGs (They always do SOME degree of all three)?
FloweryMarston
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Ubisoft wasn't kidding when they said Far Cry would potentially be a franschise selling 22+ million units.
I mean, day one and there's already controversy without knowing even putting posters on the streets? HOT DAMN MARKETING GENIUSES
I mean, day one and there's already controversy without knowing even putting posters on the streets? HOT DAMN MARKETING GENIUSES
licktheenvelope
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It's getting very annoying.
SirMossyBloke
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Well alright then. No argument. Looks = Fact.
Thanks.
Neuromancer
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As a great man once said, 'Just because you're offended, that doesn't make you right.'
Fantastapotamus
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What I personally find much more problematic is the glorification of domestic violence that is clearly shown on this one picture. Also, if you look closely you can see that the protagonist is a scientologist which I find very problematic indeed.
TheBaronOfNA
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One must be very angry and judgumental before actually waiting to see how the actual game manages it
Zomba13
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When I saw the character the first thing I thought of was flamboyant, rich (probably crazy) European (scandanavian?) bond villian type. Though I guess if you think all gays dress in loud pink suits I can see how you can think he is automatically gay.
I hate how people always label pink or a certain stance/mannerisms as gay.
This. If you see a guy with black skin you can assume he is black. Homosexuality doesn't have any identifiers like that. Yeah, there are those out there that like to wear flamboyant clothes or speak in a quirky way but there are also so many who, surprise surprise, dress and act "straight".
Makes you wonder how many people are actually offended and how many people act offended because they think they are suppose to be offended.
molnizzle
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I have a few gay friends who dress and behave in much the same way. Why can't a video game character be portrayed like that if many real people choose to portray themselves like that? Why couldn't a video game character be even more flamboyant than the Far Cry dude? Some people are just flamboyant, gay or not. Why do game devs have to pretend that such people do not exist?
blame space
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Dr. Claw was gay?
GregLombardi
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That is one hell of a cover.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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He knows he fucked up, he's just trying to figure a way outta this hole.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
No brah, he's wearing pink he must be one of them gays. No real manly man would ever wear a pink suit, pink is a girl's color brah.
Masquerader
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This.
So what if the antagonist is gay? I thought the internet was pro-more gay representation in video games? Or am I missing something here?
Also, I don't really see the racism at all. It's only two guys in the boxart. If he was like sitting on a throne with a bunch of HImalayan natives bowing to him, that'd be a completely different story. Everything is racist nowadays, though, so I'm not sure what to think of it.
Also, I don't really see the racism at all. It's only two guys in the boxart. If he was like sitting on a throne with a bunch of HImalayan natives bowing to him, that'd be a completely different story. Everything is racist nowadays, though, so I'm not sure what to think of it.
Yeah, I thought of commenting on the logical inconsistency myself, but you got it covered.
That's cause he is Asian with bleached hair. Can people not see the black hair growing on the side?
scoobidoo112
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Indeed it does.
If it is from the same people who wrote Farcry 3 then the apprehension is deserved.
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