Good riddance.
Did people really expect them to produce them forever? Like, thatâs not how things work. Even games and movies stop being produced and become out of print after a while. Why would a novelty collectors item be any differentl? People have had ample time to get them since the restock 6 months ago. If they havenât gotten one by now thatâs on them. People are just to find reasons to be mad at Nintendo. Itâs dumb.
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Apparently there are copies of KH 3 out in the wild?
May want to watch for spoilers
People are surprised they are ending production on them as they are still selling sell. It would be like if Rockstar stopped selling Red Dead 2 after breaking sales records.
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Whatâs the hate against pro gamers? They deserve props from making some good money out of only playing a single game.
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Likely the same type of hate people who make their living on youtube get. Itâs ânot a real jobâ. I find it ridiculous
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Damn, didnât they just announced a week or two ago they were done? I canât believe they already got a retail leak, I would figure Japan would keep the physical copies locked in Japanese warehouse until January to avoid this sort of stuff.
I disagree.
Holy FUCK that gameplay trailer for GBF Relink is fuckin SICK. And itâs going to be a 4 player ARPG?! Fuckin sweet. Getting 3D Dragonâs Crown vibes, which is a great thing
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That fighting game will probably play like absolute ass warmed over, but at least itâs pretty to look at.
Itâs Arc Systems, even when their games are not great they are never less then decent.
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I liked Battle Fantasia. Iâll give them that at least.
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Underrated Gem. I loved Battle Fantasia.
Too bad that Granblu game is made by P*. It actually looks interesting. But, like, P* makes it a no go for me.
Iâm sure there are dozens of people look forward to it.
You hear me! Dozens
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I just imagined all the never-nudes from Arrested Development at an anime fighting game tournament.
Some journalist is trying to say rdr2 is racist because some of the non white characters are not voiced by by their race
Ill quote it for those not trying to give it clicksâŚbut really with this shit again?
Summary
Itâs nearly the end of 2018, and I have to write an article about blackface and redface in Red Dead Redemption 2.
That sucks.
It sucks, because it means no one bothered to interrogate the casting. It sucks, because I know the pushback Iâll get for being the one to call out readily apparent racism in a game that opened to $725 million in sales. It sucks, because weâre still having to have conversations about why the perpetuation of racist stereotypes and the dehumanization of people of color is bad. It sucks, because didnât we just do this with Uncharted: The Lost Legacy?
And it sucks, because I hoped maybe we could do better than Charles, and as a Native woman who got her start pleading with games journalists and developers to do better, I wouldnât need to keep writing these articles.
Charles Smith has a Black father and a Native mother. He doesnât know the name of his tribe, his father was an alcoholic, and his mother was taken by soldiers. Charles is grateful to find a group of white outlaws to accept him. He uses every part of the buffalo. Charles sucks. Heâs another racist Rockstar caricature, and honestly that should be enough. But thereâs another issue with Charles.
The actor who portrays him is neither Black nor Indigenous.
But, thatâs complicated, because as is not infrequently the case with Native characters in films, he is a person of color.
The two other major Native characters in Rockstarâs cinematic Western labor abuse disaster are voiced by Graham Greene (Oneida) and Jeremiah Bitsui (Navajo/Omaha). Notable Black characters like Lenny, Tilly and Anthony are voiced by Black actors Harron Atkins, Meeya Davis and David St. Louis, respectively. Tatanka Means (Lakota/Dine) and David Midthunder (Lakota/Dakota/Nakota), among others, add their voices to the long list of incidental characters. Rockstar could have chosen any of these actors, the ones providing incidental voices, or literally any Black and/or Indigenous actor in this role, but they didnât.
They cast Noshir Dalal, a Japanese and Parsi actor, who claims his being âpretty damn ethnically ambiguousâ as a selling point, and that his âlookâ covers a wide-range of ethnicities. I donât really blame Dalal. Playing into this ambiguity is what white supremacy in the fiercely competitive space of acting demands of marginalized people.
Blackface and redface have been an unfortunate constant, particularly in what is currently called America, for centuries. From its inseparability from 19th century American theater to later Hollywood films, (usually, but not exclusively) white actors have been pretending to be Black and Indigenous, typically as radically offensive stereotypes. Now, with digitally created characters, weâve shifted from the makeup and costuming to their CG counterparts. Mocap actors inhabit and voice constructs of Blackness and Indigeneity. Itâs a violence that continues to dehumanize and perpetuate racist ideas about people of color.
In addition to the usual violence of black or redface, what this âalternativeâ to whites performing in black and redface communicates that people of color are entirely interchangeable. That our lives and experiences and understandings are not unique, that we are merely âOther.â It perpetuates white supremacy. And, in a way, itâs worse than if theyâd simply cast only white actors. Due to the casting of other Native and Black actors elsewhere in Red Dead Redemption 2, it communicates âWe know better, we just donât care.â
But, of course, itâs not merely that another AAA blockbuster did digital red and blackface. The problem is this kind of low-key racialized aggression doesnât end with the act itself. This casting means a Black, Native (or, god forbid, a Black Native actor) didnât get to play an actual Black Native role (and since Rockstar likes lesser known actors, a potential breakthrough role for them). They didnât get to offer any feedback or help guide the role away from the regressive stereotypes present in the game, like Michael Greyeyes (Plains Cree) was afforded with 2006âs Prey. By not casting an Indigenous actor in the role, there was no real challenge to the racism in Houserâs story or characters, and that means that challenge has to come from us, from journalists, critics, gamers. And, well, it hasnât been.
The most biting criticisms it received are about the labor conditions that created it, which is important and good. But in the month after those critiques, indigenous people have had to watch as this game, this character (and Dan Houser for creating him) are praised. And when literally any games critic or journalist could have written this piece, itâs once again up to me, the indigenous woman, to raise these issues alone. And thereâs the equally inevitable silence from developers, journalists, and gamers themselves after this piece is chewed up and forgotten in the constant churn of games discourse.
Itâs 2018, and Iâm really tired of having to write this piece, the reasons I have to write it, and everything having to write it says about the world we live in.
I mean, I do think thatâs a bit of an issue with the industry. Another example is Mortal Kombat X. I love that game and it fills out a lot of my social justice barbarian checklist, but you donât think itâs kind of weird that a Chinese guy has a whiter-than-the-driven-snow voice actor? You shouldnât be able to get away with this type of shit in live-action, either, and itâs a bit rarer there, thankfully.
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If weâre gonna pull this shit, then youâd have to shit on a ton of media using women to voice a ton of male characters whether young or not. Every possible race and sex often are cast as someone not within said race or sex. Live Action, while I get annoyed as well, I can at least understand the outrage. With Voice Acting, your voice and your ability to act with your voice should be the one and ONLY thing that matters.
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He only sold them for a $100 bucks too. Pretty cheap especially with Kingdom Hearts.
The next time a VA like Phillip LaMarr and Cree Summer voice white people I better see you complain.
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