ViktorBKK said:
Scoobes said:
ViktorBKK said:
Japanese games never try to conform to the norms of political correctness. If you see a "girly" character in a Japanese game, it's because that's the art direction the developers wanted to take, and nothing else. I really respect that.
In contrast, certain big publishers, namely EA & Ubisoft, are notorious for ruining their games trying extra hard to conform with political correctness. Churches without symbols in Assassin's Creed 3 so that nobody gets "offended", gay characters that feel forced in Dragon Age 2, the list goes on.
If there is one reason that Japan is cool, it's because all Japanese people shit on political correctness. Hurray. |
Yes because Japanese publishers never force their devs to do anything based on market trends or political correctness.
Just like Vaan and Penelo were featured in Final Fantasy XII for their artistic merit and not thrown in to conform to Japanese teen stereotypes...
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Sorry, I missed FFXII. Last two I played were X(loooong time ago) and XIII. Political correctness is usually against stereotypes, not the other way around. Recent example is Blizzard dev getting harassed by some "journalist" because female characters in blizzard dota look too sexy. And that's "sexist" and "offensive" somehow to the PC crowd.
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My point was that Japanese devs are just as bad for meddling in a developers artistry in order to conform to some ideal (be it political correctness, "market research", PR etc.). Publishers will meddle if they think they'll lose customers.
The PC thing can get a bit over the top though. I read an article a couple of months ago about horrible/sexist female characters... unfortunately half of the characters on the list were actually well-written characters with depth and perfectly normal physical design (as in normal clothes, not too revealing etc.).
