there's no way that guy is more than a 4 on the Kinsey scale.
Well he's clearly the villian, right?
I'm sure he probably is a racist, arms dealing, slave trader lording his rich, white privilege over the Himalayan natives... which is why you're not suppose to like him very much.
Look at those boots, he's not gay, looks more like a metrosexual guy. Looking at the pic he is probably the an antagonist; means he is not nice, probably treats people like shit, who would have guessed...
Where do they see a white man?
Controversy this early on?
Excellent marketing.
Don't think it's racist at all. The antagonist may be racist, and that's what the box art is clearly showing - him trampling and destroying native culture and artwork, having a soldier or guerrilla fighter under his thumb (literally), lording over a country which he most likely doesn't care about or understand.
What if..
He's the protagonist!?!?
As a brown man who was raised in this region, this image is NOT racist at all. That is a Nepali Gurkha (basically Nepal's version of Navy Seals), he is tied and being held hostage by the evil dude. It is just symbolism, an evil man came to the region and now their elite commandos are kneeling before him. There is nothing racist about it.
I mean, hell, he could be bisexual and just gets off on causing suffering.
I think you are looking too far in to it.
I can see it now, people thinking "Finally, I can call a character in a game a faggot and he will actually be one."
Pretty much sums it up. Bravo.I think I've just discovered hitherto unknown levels of outrage based on massive oversimplification and complete lack of information. Well done OP.
While I think OP is off-base on this one, this is ALSO off-base.
But Tomodachi.
This OP is emblematic of everything that I hate with Twitter and journalism and people in general today. Faux outrage and offense over NOTHING. Grandstanding at the drop of a hat, without any understanding of context or pretty much anything.
"I see vaguely see something that might be a commentary on RACE! RACIST!"
"I spy with my little eye something that might be stretched and distorted and misconstrued as negative towards gay people! HOMOPHOBIC!"
This is ridiculous. Do people WANT to be offended? Sometimes I think these twitter folks are either trolling or just don't know the meaning of their words.