From Japan

[Victoria]

Thanks. Yes. They're opinions.

And this is yet another (that's been stated before) : So just because someone isn't clearly stereotypically "asian", they're automatically caucasian? What if that's just the art style? I mean, like what's been said.. Honestly, they're just people. Racially ambiguous for the most part. Unless specified otherwise, like fighting games for example where their race is in their character profile.

I mean.. does it really matter what race someone is in a video game? Where the concentration and focus is the gameplay and the plot/story development?

In my opinion.. No. No it does not matter.

But as far as the 'Questions' go...

1. This is opinion worded as fact. If I remove the 'clearly', then honestly most characters.. to me, look asian or.. neutral.

2. Yes, there are gaijins/americans living in Japan.. but what does that have to do with video games?


Edit: Holy crap, dude. Take a chill pill. Don't take every little word I say literally. I didn't accuse anyone of anything. And wow, I can't talk about anything other than the actual question? ...Then wtf are you doing? The same thing, aren't you?

But anyway.. to reword that opinion: "The point is to have fun with the game; not waste time caring about who is what race, because in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter."

[JuzamDjinn]

"The point is to have fun with the game; not waste time caring about who is what race, because in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter."

Why don't we go over to o0Odin0o's threads an inquire why it matters who is the best looking character, or who is the most badass villian?

The point is to have fun with the game;not waste time caring about who looks the best, or what villian is the coolest, because in the grand scheme of things, it doesnt matter.

....and if it doesn't matter why are you still posting in this thread?
I was hoping we would be able to talk about this, after all that what a forum is for.
And caucasian people are stereotypically white, with blonde,red,brown hair...it's just a sterio type though, not all caucasians are like this.
Asian people are stereotypically portayed as having flattened facial features(when compared to caucasians), "asian" eyes, and tan/yellowish skin, having coarse straight black hair, but again, these are just stereotypes and are not meant to describe the physical characteristics of all "asian" people.



@Che: Some examples of who Im talking about.... Link, Solid Snake, all the Final Fantasy leads, Samus, Mario(before someone blows up abotu how hes "italian, not caucasian" the point is, he's not asian). Im sure there are lots of asian looking characters, but these are the faces of the bigger franchises.




I'm just wondering why these people do not look like their creators, for example when we go into movies here in america, we see the kindof of people that live IN america, mostly white, few black, and a pretty level distribution of the rest. It would just seem logical that media produced by people of specific physical appearance would make games starring people that are like themselve/those they work or live with/those they see all around them.Take Bollywood films for example, They use primarily indian actors,because....

SPOILER!!:

Indian people live in India.

this is(...was?) a serious question about media production, I wasn't trying to offend anyone with the question.

[che]

@Che: Some examples of who Im talking about.... Link, Solid Snake, all the Final Fantasy leads, Samus, Mario(before someone blows up abotu how hes "italian, not caucasian" the point is, he's not asian). Im sure there are lots of asian looking characters, but these are the faces of the bigger franchises.

TBH I've always thought those characters looked incredibly asian, with the exception of Mario. I mean, it was hard to tell with Link in A Link from the Past, but even in Ocarina of Time I thought he was asian, and he looks incredibly asian in Twilight Princess. Solid Snake definitely looks asian to me, and most Final Fantasy characters. It's hard to tell before FF7, but with the non-sprite characters (cutscenes and battle characters), they look asian to me.

Samus is questionable I suppose, as I haven't seen her in much (except SSBB which I played for 5 seconds). But it's not her blonde hair that makes it questionable.

[JuzamDjinn]

I mean, it was hard to tell with Link

Samus is questionable I suppose, as I haven't seen her in much (except SSBB which I played for 5 seconds). But it's not her blonde hair that makes it questionable.

How many blonde haired, blue eyed asians do you know?

[che]

How many blonde haired, blue eyed asians do you know?

How many girls have you met that dye their hair blonde and wear blue contacts?

Probably 0 I'd guess with your attitude.

ps



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Most models of eye inheritance postulate that there are 3 genes involved
in eye color determination and that brown eyes are dominant while blue eyes
are recessive so that if one has an allele (a version of a gene ) that
determines brown eyes that person
will have brown eyes. To have blue eyes you must have two blue eye alleles.
It is possible for 2 brown eyed people (both carrying the recessive blue
eye allele) to have blue-eyed children. In fact it is not rare. It is
also possible for blue eyed alleles to be carried for several generations
without having blue eyed people until 2 people with blue eyed alleles
marry. It is not thought that eye color affects vision unless
one has no eye pigmentation such as albinos in which case they do have
visual problems.

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