Have you considered how many people would be turned off for taking stances and what kind of lens you put yourself under?Not taking a political stance infuriates me, has reggie considered how many people would be turned off because of his statements?
Not taking a political stance infuriates me, has reggie considered how many people would be turned off because of his statements?
the entire topic is about nintendo being unwilling to use their games to make political statements, so the author's will is exactly the point.
one can see twintelle and see a successfull "colored" woman that's empowering for both women and people of color...nintendo just thought that design was cool.
in this matter i'm pretty much on the author side..i want creatives to be able to make the stories they want to make without having to worry about what message people would try to get out of it..otherwise is just another form of censorhip
all white men cast? great
all female asians cast? great too
wanna make a story where the main character is a rapist? if you think you can get a good story out of it,go for it.
you think a given culture imagery is cool and wanna adapt it into your fictional world? be my guest
people can always try to find a message where there's one,but that's not the author's fault if that wasn't his/her objective in the first place.
Pretty sure a good amount of Nintendo's games have an environmental message. The Pikmin series in general, some Mario games, some Pokemon games, Kirby 64, Animal Crossing, Splatoon (?), Mother 3, and so on. Which I feel would make sense considering Japan is an island nation vulnerable to floods, typhoons, and tsunamis, which will get worse due it climate change.
But yeah, some of those games have a political statement that says respect and protect nature.
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Yeah I'm not sure why everyone is praising Super Mario Odyssey when it says NOTHING about raising the minimum wage or the Paris Agreement.Not taking a political stance infuriates me, has reggie considered how many people would be turned off because of his statements?
Way less than you'd imagineNot taking a political stance infuriates me, has reggie considered how many people would be turned off because of his statements?
Cuningas de Häme;241048057 said:That is not a political statement. That is only some common sense (that seems be lacking in some parts of the world).
Protecting nature is the one thing that should be uniting mankind. It is the most natural thing to do, make sure that the thing that grants you life is doing great so you can continue your pitiful, miserable life until you die alone in an old folks home.
You don't kill your mom while she's breastfeeding you, right? The same applies here.
People confuse political with ethical and right and just. By that reasoning individuals religion is political. Hint, it's not unless people use it to further their political agenda, and at that point it's not about religion anymore, it is just abusing other people's faith.
It is politics when there are political parties around the world who are completely denying its existence and actively push against any pro-environment movements and polices with polices that hurt and destroy the environment just to fill their pockets with money.
Games are escapism. I don't want to be reminded of the harshness of the modern world whilst I'm trying to explore Hyrule.
What is and is not politics is determined by the political environment, what might be a political issue for you or your country might not be a political issue for someone else in their country.
Why should that be? Sexual orientation isn't political
Video games are whatever the hell you want them to be. Thats the beauty of the medium. You can play gta for the sole porpouse of having a shoot out with the cops or you can walk around and appreciate the satire of modern LA society from the pedestrian voice clips or the rediculous billboards. You can dump hours into a mindless rouge like or get wrapped up in the narrative of The Beginners Guide. Video games are pretty great.
OP: Making grammatically correct titles is for other people. I just want to have fun
... Of course it is. It sends a message that "gay people are ok", and that's quite political. The single virtue to be tolerent IS political.
Everything is political to me. Every interaction between characters. It can be subtle but there is always something, it's nearly impossible to make game with character without being political imo. It always try to be "familiar" to the player and so, presesnt a certain situation as "normal"... Which is political.
Well, i know i said that everything is political before but... Shooting a cops which control the liberty of the player is VERY political... Even that. (And i think in GTA you even play at some not-so-virtuous people which make the message even more clear)
Ugh, terrible answer.
I completely agree with Reggie/ Nintendo. Don't say anything that would have someone associate your comment with your company or your company's product.
Far Cry 5 has nothing to do with Nintendo, and it's never coming out on a Nintendo system, they just wanted a juicy headline.
But they do.
Put in a character that, if another dev had made the game, would have made a big deal out of how inclusive they were. Instead Nintendo treats him literally the same as any other character in the game
Include an all female society with a variety of skin tones, body types and personalities. Again, they make no "comment" on it or how progressive they are. They're simply treated like any other race in the game
We at Nintendo have always believed, first and foremost, that our duty is to provide content that can be enjoyed by absolutely anybody; regardless of gender, colour, race, or age. We believe that nobody deserves to be excluded from the joy of games and the feeling of inclusion and representation that games can provide. If that's a political statement, then absolutely it's the one we want to make.
Gotta love capitalism and its innate spinelessness as well as lack of moral <3
This is probably the worst thing said in this thread.I felt that way when they revealed BG&E2. As if i couldnt figure out that the trailer promoted how diverse the races are in that footage. They even put in the credits of Assassins Creed that many types of people helped developed the game as if they deserve an award for it when it should just be common knowledge?
Mario supports a feudalistic system that inheriently suppresses the citizens of the land.Lol
Gotta love socialism/progressivism and its constant cynical look on everything, finding something wrong even on pure joyful games as Mario.
What does this even mean? Is the ideal world where Nintendo doesn't exist and games are made by state-run media?Gotta love capitalism and its innate spinelessness as well as lack of moral <3
ORAS had more than just modern game play updates, they changed environmental design, available pokemon, introduced new characters, it being a remake was not really a good excuse to not include customisation when they went out of their way to change everything else. I would not hold my breath with Game Freak with potentially dropping important features in the future (and giving out stupid excuses like Kalos is for dressing up) even if they made a come back with the latest games.ORAS was a remake though. They basically said "R/S didn't have customization so this won't", despite it including all the other modern updates, so I'm not sure I'd count that. The fact that it was brought back in S/M kind of makes it not arbitrary
And Splatoon 2 is weird, because the female squidling on the box is much lighter than she appears to be in any other version of her, including the amiibo and in the Salmon Run art
However if the Audience missunderstands a creators intention because it was misscomunicated then it is the fault of the creator.
Yeah I'm not sure why everyone is praising Super Mario Odyssey when it says NOTHING about raising the minimum wage or the Paris Agreement.
A lot of so called "non-political" games are political, you just don't see it as that because it upholds and supports parts of your world that you view to be normal.
Lol
Gotta love socialism/progressivism and its constant cynical look on everything, finding something wrong even on pure joyful games as Mario.
What does this even mean? Is the ideal world where Nintendo doesn't exist and games are made by state-run media?
"This coming from the company that removed crosses, smoking, alcohol, and gay marriage from its games.
Sounds pretty political to me, you brogressives you."
Crosses were generally removed for trademark reasons(red cross logos) or because the Japanese, when looking up what knights would carry into battle for Zelda, saw that every single shield in the history books had crosses on them. They didn't make the connection that crosses = religion. Japan's christian population is less than 5% of the population and Christianity(and most religions) are dumped on very frequently in Japanese popular culture. Removing those was a business, not a political decision.
Smoking and Drinking, this is the same thing. It's just washing that stuff away, Putting smoking and crude sex jokes and such is pretty common in Japan but that shit won't fly here, lots of stuff won't air, or it'll bump the rating up and alienate parents looking to get trustworthy family friendly games for their spawn.
And if you're seriously going to bring up the gay marriage, which was a glitch, not a feature, then I don't know if this post was worth typing up. that level of dishonestly is IMPRESSIVE, my man!
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Mario and Bowser battling for supremacy on top of a giant penis-shaped building, looking down at all the poor women and minorities below. Clearly this is meant to reinforce the white patriarchy.Mario fighting Bowser at the top of New Donk City's empire state building is a metaphor for the common people taking on Trump. I couldn't imagine actually getting riled over Reggie's statement. All art is political. Donkey Kong jumping over a barrel can mean anything to anyone.
The worst kind of political art is the shit that is constantly making a point of HOW political it is. Nintendo doesn't have to make a comment. This thread reminds me of the famous dril tweet https://twitter.com/dril/status/107911000199671808
just play the games and take what you want from them, I don't need the fucking president of Nintendo to validate my political insecurities. Living in America does that every day