Only for 48 hours, though.
BTW, looking at his post history (to see what he was banned for and how long), the most ironic thing is that it's nothing but attacks on people that critique socially regressive elements in games (fanservice, Catherine's controversy, etc.). It cracks me up so much how the same dudes crying about angry feminists and "outrage culture" are the very same ones that seem to spend their entire lives salty and butthurt about it. :D
Excuse me if that avatar doesn't exactly inspire a lot of faith about you not finding something to discredit or otherwise disbelieve any studies that don't align with your exact world view.
Valkyr has been active in the thread for a long time and more than willing to engage in good faith, even if I don't necessarily agree with him on everything. I just spent a bunch of time digging through old threads and lunch break's over now so I can't find the post myself, but it's not a drive-by.
But it's also fair to say that a lot of studies of all sort are done and not all are definitive or particularly noteworthy. People don't usually bother going out looking for studies themselves. Those who want to argue a point are expected to provide the information and explain why it is of importance. If you're not interested in detailing the information why bring it up at all?
Often it's less a concern of the specific monetary costs of localization and more a concern of manpower. There's only so many staff you can dedicate to localizing things at a given time and so many firms that you can outsource to whether because of business relationships, policy, or just the limit on actual competent people to do the job. Sometimes it's determined not that money would be lost in a literal sense, but that the opportunity cost of localizing it is too high. It isn't worth the theoretical loss--ie., time that could be spent on things that'd make more money.
So why bother posting in this thread at all? If you are so tired of it you don't want to engage anymore, what do you have to add to the thread other than being aggressively rude and making us look bad? Serious question.
That assumes there are only two true sides of where you stand. There could be people with developing views on the issue that could be swayed to the wrong side by continuing pervasive objectification in the media.
Someone was trying to ban you, but they gave you a gold account by mistake.
I think we should drop the entire clown analogy entirely because it does a disservice to the complex discussion on hypersexualized design that veers on misogynist and damning representations of women. Hypersexualization can take on more subliminal and therefore insidious symbols. Clowns are not close to even metaphorically representing the human condition and how it is intertwined with sexuality because the former is purely visual.
You have a fair point.
Ah I see now. I understand the reasoning for using the clown analogy, but I fear that those that want to get into this thread with the intent to learn will think that purely designing respectful visual design is the end-be-all for equitable representation in the gaming industry. One common example that I can think of from the top of my head is the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States. Many allies and, anecdotally, LGB+ (I removed trans because their struggles are unique and same-sex marriage does not directly address their specific struggles) identifying individuals have started focusing their efforts outside of LGBT+ legislation purely because same-sex marriage was the easiest market approach in allowing LGB+ peoples the ability to win the culture war.
Do yourself a favor: Toss this logic back into the dumpster fire you found it in. Then come back with a level headed argument.
Monolithsoft made more than just Xenoblade all their careers. Xenosaga was a spiritual successor to Xenogears and it was anime as fuck. Xenogears as anime as fuck. You might not like it, whatever, but it's more like they're going back to their true roots instead of making stuff they're not that great at. The decision paid off because finally they have the most expressive and animated cutscenes in their studio's history.
Yeah, I hope so too. The thread goes in the same circles again and again but I do like to think (and people have chimed in to substantiate) that the more nuanced meta discussions we have inbetween have been useful to them in learning about this kind of stuff. Plus those discussions are just really interesting, and they seem to be generally "safer" hidden inside a long, impenetrable thread like this than they have been out in the wild in the past.
The original had art staff that Takahashi has worked with over the years, and X had a lot of the same staff--I'd hypothesize that most of the increased Anime there was as a result of the shift from fantasy to more overt sci-fi and the visual tropes involved in Japanese sci-fi. Which is to say, there probably wasn't really a conscious decision to sex up the designs, but there's a long genre history of the kind of visuals at play in X.
Also yes, Masatsugu Saito's designs really do transition incredibly well to animation (which previous Xenoblade games had an issue with). He's known for it, and Expelled From Paradise was a 3D film, so.
I still have a hard time viewing it as a return to form, but I also have never been a fan of pretty much any of the Xeno-related stuff (I've played about half of it). I'd say it's always been pretty consistent, but the best I could say about any entry is that it's inoffensive, versus other entries which are... well, markedly offensive.
That's exactly how I feel too. There's a reason why I like male characters better, and that is because for the most part, they are taken more seriously. Their roles have serious impact in the games they are starred/featured in and they are overall behaved as well as dressed seriously. Female characters? The opposite.
Same, although, I have considered that if I make a female character after all in Monster Hunter, that her name should be... NeedNoMan, as a form of mockery to all the single ladies--- I mean female protagonists in other games, that are either always lonely as heck/not interested in men to appear single for the you know whos, or lesbian, though this isn't to take it I am against those people/communities that are LGBT. Lol.
Who is "us"? Because Weltall has been contributing very positively to this particular thread, and I don't think he has made anyone look bad.
