For those who don’t know, Overwatch has been the subject of a lot of longstanding criticism regarding cultural appropriation regarding its decision to put characters in clothing and accessories from cultures that aren’t their own.

It’s quite literally the most lucrative media property of all time.

Wow this is racist. People calling out Mercy about cultural appropriation while Lifeweaver gets a free pass because he’s Thai?

The combining of heavily stylized elements with otherwise realistic ones is an aesthetic choice in and of itself. See also, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World or Kill Bill.

I think part of the problem with the people complaining about this is either;

1. As you stated they are white knights championing a cause that isn’t theirs and lacking the perspective to do so.

2. People who take the game out of context and treat these characters like they are their own persons. I think we would be…

Lmfao.

for a second i was starting to have a panic attack worrying that i wouldn’t have anything important to get outraged over. thank god! now i can be outraged!  this is a hill i’m definitely going to die on.

i guess that justifies all these illuminating “articles”...like this slideshow of NPC faces

the amount of comments i get here from having the corny confused face is astonishing.  always good to judge a book by its cover.

You’re opinion and voice as a Chinese-American will be drowned out by idiots with nothing better to do then attempt to complain on your behalf, instead of actually asking you what you think on the matter. I’m sure there are Chinese-Americans that aren’t cool with this, but they too will be drowned out by idiots…

I guess it was pretty much exactly what I expected it to be. Pretty pumped about it, but at the same time honestly don’t understand the ridiculous hype around the visuals.

I thought it looked pretty good, but the amount of TikTok/Instagrasm shit I saw in the trailer was very concerning to me. I want to play a GTA game, even if it’s a more serious GTA game in the tone of RDR2 rather than GTA5. What I don’t want to play is a zoomer clout-chasing simulator. That shit’s tiring enough in…

I have never heard anyone that’s black or hispanic ever say the words “cultural appropriation”. As usual this is white people trying to out SJW each other. It’s cringy as fuk.

At this point, these criticisms are just noise. No matter what you do, you’re going to offend someone. If the skins had been kept culturally matched with characters, people would be bitching about characters being pigeonholed with their nationality.

Well said. If we followed the logic of these hyper-sensitive, philosophically obscurantist they/thems to its logical conclusion, artistic expression would be subject to capital punishment.

This is such a terminally online take. The notion of bottling up each individual culture such that everyone stays in their respective lanes and culture can only be expressed or shared if someone has the exact same skin tone and nation-state lineage as you is so fucking backwards.

If people have issues with the…

when i realized they were doing a tiktok thing i felt a bone deep weariness that i have yet to shake off

13 “articles” in a day on a 90 second teaser trailer. i get that gta is a big franchise but yeesh. this is like cable news calling a road closure breaking news. im glad the AI staff has something to write about though.

Articles like this scream for a dislike button.

I mean, you’ve gleaned a lot from from one trailer. You may be too old and crotchety to remember, but Power Armor’s always been front and centre, even back in Interplay’s days. Just have a look at the covers for Fallout 1 and 2