buy AC3 Liberation is you want to be black in AC, there is also that DLC that became standalone for AC IV.Faustek said:
NIntendo Apologizes For Exclusion Of Gays From Tomodachi Life
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Well Nintendo of Japan does, definitely not Nintendo of America. NoA has been infamous for censoring many things in localization. For one, the Vivian thing was changed in the US only saying that Vivian is female, while in the Spanish, Italian, and Japanese version it mentions that she's a trans woman. Same thing with Birdo in all manuals. NoA has been getting better though over the years, but they still have a ways to go.DrOswald said:
But they aren't the only North American group to censor out homosexuality in games when being localized. Sony Computer Entertainment America has done it too with Monkey Yellow from the Ape Escape series, although that might have been more because he sorta goes after younger boys and SCEA didn't want the idea of child pedophilia going around...
But they didn't censor it out in the European localization and the Japanese versions, and anime, show it.
And to chime in on the Bravely Default IP, Square Enix owns it fully in Japan, but co-owns it around the world. Nintendo co-developed it when it was being localized worldwide. Remember that "nonscandal" when it came to how some of the females were clothed? That's what Nintendo helped with. In Japan, the original game was entirely created and developed by Silicon Studios and published by Square Enix, so they own the IP fully in Japan, but it's co-owned in North America and PAL regions. Confusing yes, but that's how it's currently split up.
OT: Nice for Nintendo to be speedy in a response to this. While I do support same sex marriage, the "all or nothing" attitude always makes me sad. However, because Nintendo had included heterosexual couples in the game to begin with, they would have had to choose a side in this either way. Sweeping it under the rug and trying to not pick a side would have worked if they didn't include heterosexual couples, but because it did Nintendo set themselves up for failure in that regard. I hope the next game has the ability to have same-sex couples, and hope that everyone learns from this.
Dexterity said:
As the saying goes "Nobody remembers when you do something right, but everyone will remember when you do something wrong."
Yes yes I know, I can be black in Pokemon and the mother stays *white* meaning interracial. That's awesome. And I remember Birdo, I remember it all. And I remember always being *white* in Animal Crossing(sorry didn't mean assassins creed). I could start out *black* but bought the affro(yeah sorry I'm old and sport an affro when not shaven) and suddenly I was white again. This is last year, Nintendo do has worked very hard not to be inclusive in my eyes as of late.DrOswald said:
Goddamn... Why can't people get up in arms like this over stuff that's actually important like DRM?
Still, at least the SJWs might shut up for a while now.
Still, at least the SJWs might shut up for a while now.
Nintendo's stance: "I don't care if you have sexual relationships with men, women, or whatever. We made this game over a year ago and it will cost us more money than we'll make back with this specific game because of the issue that we do not know how well it will sell."
And people are calling Nintendo bigots and homosexual haters? Absolutely disgusting from those who are. There's at least[/] three stances in the homosexual debate; For, Neutral, and Against. Nintendo went Neutral, because they are a company, not a political activist machine. They even recognize the fact that people themselves are the political activists. But no, Nintendo is a gay hating evil corporation for not wanting to recode a game.
And the original guy who talked about this did not want such stupidity to be involve, just Nintendo to say "Yeah, we'll include it in future installments", which is what Nintendo just said. Now all the faux-activists for homosexuality will say they won, which will bring out the faux-activists that are against homosexuality call the pro-homosexuality all evil for attacking Nintendo's neutrality (Which is happening now). Good job, people. Creating a mountain out of a molehill.
And people are calling Nintendo bigots and homosexual haters? Absolutely disgusting from those who are. There's at least[/] three stances in the homosexual debate; For, Neutral, and Against. Nintendo went Neutral, because they are a company, not a political activist machine. They even recognize the fact that people themselves are the political activists. But no, Nintendo is a gay hating evil corporation for not wanting to recode a game.
And the original guy who talked about this did not want such stupidity to be involve, just Nintendo to say "Yeah, we'll include it in future installments", which is what Nintendo just said. Now all the faux-activists for homosexuality will say they won, which will bring out the faux-activists that are against homosexuality call the pro-homosexuality all evil for attacking Nintendo's neutrality (Which is happening now). Good job, people. Creating a mountain out of a molehill.
I'm serious.Faustek said:
I think DRM is far more detrimental to gaming than lack of gay representation.
But this issue with Nintendo was solved in what... a week? And purely by internet activism too. Wherease the only DRM 'victory' I can think of is the xbone debacle and that still took a month or so, and probably only because PS4 preorders were outselling xbones by 10 to 1.
Neutral is not supporting or helping either side in a conflict or being an impartial or unbiased state or person (Or company) in this case.Saint Ganondorf said:
That is what neutral means. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/neutral
Just putting that bit of inf out there.