Ometeotl posted:

So utterly disappointing that it might as well just be nothing.

corn in the bible posted:

it turned out to just have been some guy who was fat and in disguise for no real reason who then immediately died

bloodychill posted:

The Yiddish-speaking grandpa who gives you missions in one district made me laugh. There should be more Yiddish in video games.

Man Whore posted:

Why is it racist? I haven't looked into it at all except for one article which was mostly about how the message the game puts across is about the government only protecting capitalism or something.
Are all the hoodie people black?

Cardboard Box A posted:

bloodychill posted:

It's kind of hard to tell because their faces are shadowed but that makes them look black. Otherwise, they look like "generic video game gang-bangers in hoodies often wearing bright colors." They have a definite racist vibe. In terms of the overall plot, not really racist or even utterly pro-capitalist

CJacobs posted:

So what you mean to say is, "it's not, but I just wanted to have some input on the discussion of this video game"

CJacobs posted:

You think "wearing a hood with face shadowed" = racist so I don't know what to tell you lol

CJacobs posted:

See it's funny, if you had said all of that instead of only giving the least reasonable part, I'd have been like "ok I can see where you're coming from".

Sleeveless posted:

The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Telltale Games Series

Ravane posted:

I think black people should be less offended about how they're portrayed. In fact, they should be thanking Ubisoft for including them in the game at all, unlike my tan friends. It's just black and white and ambiguous asian. Don't even forget that choosing a black character gives you access to four stereotypical black hairstyles and denies access to white people's hair, so you can be your unique black self without the burden of feeling white. Thanks Ubisoft for giving us such an amazing character creator in 2016.

Nasgate posted:

I want Taint Reaper back.

FactsAreUseless posted:

As much as Ravane sucks (and he does suck) I feel like plain old sarcasm is better than his usual bullshit, so yaaaaaay.

Sleeveless posted:

I forgot that Resident Evil 4 has an entire segment near the end where you're fighting spider robots and flying drones.

Sleeveless posted:

My favorite little thing that I had forgotten about this playthrough is that at one point you get to play a human crane game with a giant claw and a garbage chute.

Also since I've played the game legitimately on like three different platforms I used a trainer and went out of my way to use weapons I normally don't and it rules. The mine launcher is a beast when you don't have to worry about ammo and the TMP is surprisingly effective because it can just stunlock most enemies until they die.

Nasgate posted:

I want Taint Reaper back.

CJacobs posted:

One rung up on the humor ladder is still not very far.

Sleeveless posted:

I wish the game made it more clear that flashbang grenades instantly kill any exposed Plagas because it turns them from being vendor trash to being the most useful grenades by far.

Sleeveless posted:

I wish the game made it more clear that flashbang grenades instantly kill any exposed Plagas because it turns them from being vendor trash to being the most useful grenades by far.

Ravane posted:

Ravane posted:

How do you idiots not see the racism, though?

I'm not joking, how is it 2016 and a basic character creator doesn't allow you to create literally 1/3rd of the human race? Think about that. Assuming that we vary in skin tone from white to brown to black. Think about all the olive and tan skinned people whether latino, south american, middle eastern, east indian, aboriginal australian, spanish, or a mix of any of those or just mixed in general. The Division's character creator has like 8 faces you can choose from, 4 of those are white, 2 of those are black, 2 of those are asian. How does that represent me? I can choose a white guy and give myself a slight tan, but that will never be MY SKIN TONE. I can choose a black guy, I can't change his skin colour, and I'm stuck with the stereotypical hairstyles, such as corn rows, an afro, bald or buzzcut. How does that represent ME?

I'm not either of these, I'm in between and I can't choose myself because someone at Ubisoft just forgot about 1/3rd of the human population and chose to cater to white and black people, of which they couldn't even get black people correctly. And asians can choose like two faces and that represents all of japan, china, korea, etc. That's clearly good enough.

You know, in Deus Ex, I was able to choose a latino looking JC and I thought, finally, someone that isn't a white protagonist that I can relate to. But this poo poo in The Division is just too ridiculous. Some characters are going to be white or black or whatever, but in a game where you create the protagonist and they don't give you option to be your own skin color...

Can you imagine playing Dragon Age and they said "white people don't exist in this game, so there is no white skin tone." Can you imagine?

So now think how I feel. Think how all the tan to brown people feel when they have to choose a white or black character because they can't choose a character that best represents them.

If you think this is taint reaping, you're just a racist, sorry to say.