I can easily see the market for this kind of stuff collapsing. So many clones, not enough quality assurance, too fickle a market. There will always be Bejeweleds and Tetrises but the Facebook Cash Cow is dying.
I play games in like 6 hour chunks at a time so this has been a problem for me in the past but I got in the habit of standing up every 30 minutes to an hour in order to pet my dog (not a euphemism). That way my ass and eyes get a couple minute break every once in a while.
@Dixavd: It didn't bother me because shes a trivial gag character, but you're definitely right. They should have a fat guy party member in the next Persona. The genre that bugs me the most about diversity is RPG's considering none of the excuses for using exclusively handsome white/asian people really work when you have a cast of 7 main characters.
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@mutha3: The Japanese they used translates to "strange/weird/different" but it's highly specific. So Atlus USA decided to translate more literally in that case. It's weird how they handled Kanji in comparison to Jun. As they make sure the player knows Jun is gay and that he wants to have sex with Tatsuya.
Jun was sure he was gay. Kanji wasnt, and so they left it ambiguous.
True, but I think making her a shitty person really is enough justification to warrant how badly she is treated.
Yeah, definitely. The problems arise, however, when it can be seen as their body shape defining what type of character they are. It is perfectly reasonable to have a horrible character be overweight as long as there is another overweight character of on-par representation who isn't a horrible person. When they are seen as the only one of that body image (enough so that you can describe them to someone purely on that they are fat and others know which character you mean), to the point where it becomes a defining characteristic of them that it starts to become questionable if it is a good character to put in the game at all.
I don't know if there are any other overweight characters in the game (as I have never played Persona 4; hoping to at some point - in fact, it's fantastic representation of gender is one of the reasons the game interests me which is why I find this whole boycott to be quite odd) but if she is the only one then it is pretty legitimate complaint. However I would still have a problem if she was the only fat character and she was portrayed as nice (or the stereotypical "jolly giant" character) as it would still leave their weight as a defining characterisitc (even if it could be called a "good" stereotype).
I don't see the problem with having a bad fat girl even if it is the only overweight person in the game. One person doesn't make a pattern. If they had 3 or 4 and they were all assholes? Then I would be pretty pissed.
I don't back anything on kickstarter because I find the idea of paying for something that won't be taken out of your account for a months time incredibly nerve racking.
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