Speaking as a huge Mega Man fan: Mega Man is very much a series that could stand to have a little more diversity.
When I was eight years old I took note of the lack of diversity in the series.
Edited by Protagonist506 on Mar 20th 2024 at 1:41:34 AM
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Aren't most of the mega man characters robots?
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If you see the original Oil Man, you wish there wasnt diversity
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I noticed the Mega Man 'verse barely shows any humans beyond Dr. Light and Wily.
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Yes, but nearly all the ones that have visible faces with skintones are all white. Off the top of my head, the only one I can name with a darker skintone is Blast Man from 11. And even then he just looks Ambiguously Brown.
Edited by TheDarkMantis on Mar 20th 2024 at 9:49:20 AM
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Obviously we can't just have racial diversity on the villains' side; we'll need some racially diverse good guys to balance it out, probably supporting characters and maybe another playable character.
Edited by MJTrooper on Mar 20th 2024 at 3:37:33 AM
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would be good fodder for a reboot, though. Save have Mega Man and Roll interact more with humanity and learning more about them as why they are protected to defend them. Though it might be heavily similar to Astro Boy as a result, but otoh that ship has long since sailed.
Like even something as simple of going to school would open a wealth of opportunity to flesh out a secondary cast beyond robots.
Edited by MorningStar1337 on Mar 20th 2024 at 4:50:23 AM
Hm, I feel like this topic is better moved to Politics and Media, if you don't mind me saying?
"Any campaign world where an orc samurai can leap off a landcruiser to fight a herd of Bulbasaurs will always have my vote of confidence"
Wanting diverse epresentation isn't a political issue. Bad actors in criticism have tried to make it one.
Politics in Media is more about what works are saying internally.
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Diversity and Representation in Media
would probably be the best fit here... albeit it's over in the Live-Action Film forum, so I don't think you could be faulted for not noticing it if you mostly hang out here.![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
The thread is encompassing of all media though, and I'm guessing it being there is a Grandfather Clause.
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uhhhh, i think we should change the subject before things get ugly
lets talk about something else, like uh bland jrpg games
Edited by Cordite-455 on Mar 21st 2024 at 1:05:20 AM
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Oh, to be clear, it's not that I don't like the topic (quite the opposite), I was just wondering if this was the right place for it.
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We had a discussion awhile back over there on Diversity and Representation as to whether or not it should be moved to OTC. It was quickly decided that, yeah, Grandfather Clause reigns supreme in this case.
Nothing's gotten ugly, and everyone has been quite civil. This just isn't the right thread for this very valid topic.
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I don't know why we're entertaining an obvious alt-righter's dogwhistle tbh.
Also, I believe Mega Man Battle Network 4 had a non-binary character all the way back in 2004. And characters of color sprinkled throughout the other BN games. The woke mob already infiltrated the franchise two decades ago.
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Director of Baldur's Gate 3, Swen Vincke, blasts publisher "greed" behind layoffs.
"It's always the quarterly profits," he continued, "the only thing that matters are the numbers, and then you fire everybody and then next year you say 'shit I'm out of developers' and then you start hiring people again, and then you do acquisitions, and then you put them in the same loop again, and it's just broken...
"You don't have to," Vincke went on. "You can make reserves. Just slow down a bit. Slow down on the greed. Be resilient, take care of the people, don't lose the institutional knowledge that's been built up in the people you lose every single time, so you have to go through the same cycle over and over and over. It really pisses me off."
Whatever happened to all the unionizing from a few years back?
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Capitalism worked around it.
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As far as I can tell, every group in the game industry that unionized recently were either people like QA testers and marketers, or they were small studios outside the US. The developers themselves who actually make the games by coding and making the art assets and who work directly for these big companies doing layoffs haven't unionized at all it seems.
Edited by KuroBaraHime on Mar 21st 2024 at 5:07:59 AM
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Sony seems to have temporarily halted production of PlayStation VR2 due to poor sales leading to stock pileup. Note the "temporary" part.
It seems like the high buy-in price (it costs more than the PS5 at about $550 USD) combined with a lack of games have caused this.
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Ah, the VR fad again. 
The problem is that VR is going to require specialized, expensive equipment for the foreseeable future, and that's not something the average gamer will spring for, which is going to limit its adoption for a good while.
There's also the limited variety of gameplay ideas that VR would be good for.
I see it as ideal for games in which you sit down and drive or fly a vehicle. But not for moving a character.
Ironically, I find from personal experience that that's the worst application for VR. Movement without any physical feedback is extremely jarring; if I'm moving forward, even in a vehicle, and feel nothing it gives me motion sickness. It's also why jetpacks and grappling hooks don't really work if you can't feel the G-forces.
Edited by Anura on Mar 22nd 2024 at 6:26:17 PM
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People have been complaining about "forced diversity" since the 1970s. Video games have been increasing in popularity since the 1980s, and as long as they have existed, they have been played by people other than cishet fellows whose skin colour is not dominant in their country, but writers, developers, and publishers mostly targeted cishet racial-majority men as being dominant.
In the early 2010s, some of those people started to speak up about their experiences in the fandom, and the cishet racial-majority men lost their collective shit about it.
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