First Look at Far Cry 4 Protagonist Ajay Ghale

[SacremPyrobolum]

I must admit. All this talk of race has gotten kind of creepy. The people fighting against racism seems a s obsessed with it as racists.

OT: yeah, I guess this is a good thing. Hopefully it will mean more than seeing slightly different colored arms hovering in front of you. I also won't have to hear people bitching about it....

Ah, who am I kidding, they'll find something else.

 

[endplanets]

Note how the main character is still Caucasian (racial classification is illogical)

 

[Vault101]

Is he...Asain? Holy shit he is. I was not expecting this. I am pleasantly surprised.

*whooshacuteasianhottie? you are!*

hoenstly I don't think I could stomach another white guy...this is cool

Although if his voice actor is white, I'm sure there'll inevitably be an article bitching about it.

I'm kind of split there...in that suitable Asian actors might not always be availaible...that said I think it would be nice if they made the effort to get one, I have a feeling they arent that scarce

 

[Vault101]

WHY ISN'T THE CHARACTER FEMALE, THIS IS AN OUTRAGE BLAH BLAH BLAH

INSERT SEXIST OUTCRY HERE WHINE WHINE WHINE

we don't need that shit...please my blood preasure was already coming down from last time...

 

[Vault101]

This is clearly a highly stylized and idealized version of an Asian, perpetuating the "Model Minority" stereotype. Furthermore, since this game was written by white people, this is a problematic example of cultural appropriation.
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I thourght you were actually being serious....Jason Brody going all "mighty whitey" (weather it was satire or not) was more cultural apropriation than this...since its a white person taking the culture of another...rather than a conflict from people within that culture

but thats a sticky subject I don't want to drag up

 

[William Fleming]

I'm honestly just glad it's not some 20s/30s white dude like most other games. Whether that actually affects his character or not, we'll just have to wait and see.

 

[saltyanon]

Why is white people writing about white people suddenly racist? In fiction even. Someone explain to me why it is "immoral" for writers to write about something they identify with? Or their fantasies? Or something they aspire to be? Why should writers suddenly have to write what other people want and not what they want?

If you use a white guy, it's racist. If you use a native, it's cultural appropriation.

Who are the uppity, holier than though assholes that decided this?

 

[verdant monkai]

I bet this is a shock to all of the people who complained about another white protagonist.

I hope he will be as cool as Wei Shen, western cultures other Asian character.

 

[sXeth]

My only problem is that the antagonist actually really sounds like Vaas 2.0 and it's a bit unnerving just how little they seem to be diverging from that template. I liked Vaas a lot, but I don't really need more of the same.

Eh, I'd say they're cribbing off the Joker a lot more then Vaas. They even got the same voice actor and put him in a purple suit with oddly coloured hair. The whole stalkerish-vaguely-sexual undertone to the protagonist is even reminiscent of the Joker/Bats dynamic. Speaking of which, we'd be watching literal explosions about that if the protagonist was a girl and Min was doing that to her.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

This is clearly a highly stylized and idealized version of an Asian, perpetuating the "Model Minority" stereotype. Furthermore, since this game was written by white people, this is a problematic example of cultural appropriation.
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I thourght you were actually being serious....Jason Brody going all "mighty whitey" (weather it was satire or not) was more cultural apropriation than this...since its a white person taking the culture of another...rather than a conflict from people within that culture

but thats a sticky subject I don't want to drag up

Well you did bring it up, so all I'll say is no, I wasn't being serious because cultural appropriation in a nonsensical concept created by silly people.

 

[ABLb0y]

Ubisoft, couldn't you have unveiled this during E3 and quelled some of the "white-dudebro" accusations leveled against you?

They could have, except that I'd bet that he was originally white (and was intended to stay white), and they quickly made him a different race in order to quell some of the controversy that's been going on since E3.

No, his name was unveiled before E3 and it was obvious from that he wasn't intended to be white.

 

[Vault101]

probably, but that doesn't mean that some people can or cannot pull it off. For example, Ashley Williams from Mass Effect?

Spoiler: This is her VA.

you'd never see a white person do Daisy Fitzroy though....

also ashley doesn't seem completely which..but I guess over analysing her possible race is....well it kinda undermines our efforts not to be racist