The Middle East is an ethnically diverse place, but the characters in the OP are specifically Saudi. And the issue is the characters being whitewashed after the fact. It's just bizarre.
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The Middle East is an ethnically diverse place, but the characters in the OP are specifically Saudi. And the issue is the characters being whitewashed after the fact. It's just bizarre.
Do you really think tweeting is gonna change anything
Dragon1893
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Damn, this is weird...
On a completely unrelated note, this is a bit spoilerish, I wish I hadn't clicked. Nice dress though.
On a completely unrelated note, this is a bit spoilerish, I wish I hadn't clicked. Nice dress though.
kiddCharlemagne
Neo Member
Yeah ... god forbid, if you have people of color represent characters in the middle east
Bitch Pudding
Member
At least they didn't use a Danish or a British actor to play a character form the middle east...
benicillin
Banned
Those look like different models entirely, not lightened skintone.
LifeBrandRobot
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Looks like they've been Jake Gyllenhaaled lol
YoYo Switch
Banned
but why?
CassidyIzABeast
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Grimløck;187702053 said:
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
No big deal.
Right people?
Right??!?
Right people?
Right??!?
donkey show
Member
Byproduct of unlocking the seventh core.
Maverick T51
Member
No big deal, but why would they do that?
The Lone Courier
Member
What
Jawbreaker
Member
Looks like they were able to hire Bobby Jindal's artist for the remaster.
benicillin
Banned
Quite literally just background characters with no impact on the story or anything. I sincerely doubt this was intentional or done for any specific purpose.
CambriaRising
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But...why though?
Black Republican
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Grimløck;187702053 said:
pretty much
Machinehead
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God, thank you.Grimløck;187702053 said:
How can you say it wasn't intentional when they only changed the Saudi characters?
They didn't just change the skin color but even the facial features are more "white"
They've not only changed the skin tones. You can see the facial features has changed too. So serious work went into this thing, yo.
That lighting change surely made the guys nose smaller
StreetDisciple
Member
still white-washing the people of the middle east...smh
Warm Machine
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It almost comes off like a shader bug given that colours of everything can be randomized. The eyes are different in that image as well though.
Chubby Rain
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Grimløck;187702053 said:
GODDAMN
It's literally the same character model but lighter your just looking for stuff that isn't there.
-Mutsukki-
Member
This is really hard to understand. There's got to be something more to it... right? There's literally no reason somebody would go on and change the models of random background characters out of nowhere...
benicillin
Banned
The facial features of the guard changed because it's probably a slightly different model. Half the guests are changed, have different hair color, facial hair, clothes, etc. This seems like something that would happen when they up-res a model and use the wrong skintone for the "Saudi" models or something, not like someone going in and hand-lightening each character individually.
Different eyebrows. Different eye structure. Different nose. Different lips.
Not even close.
I wonder if it's some bugged skin shader. But even that doesn't make much sense since a bunch of the background women changed too. Different coloured dresses and hair colour. A couple of the men got beards or whatever. It's possible that they are randomly generated, but even at that point, the system would pick from select pre-made assets, and the Saudi clothes/features seem independent of the other models.
It just doesn't make any sense.
If they had wiped away the appearance totally, I could see it being some dubious business, but the models are still clearly presenting as Saudi, but with light skin. Why? Why why why why?
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Strangely enough, neither of the guys in the OP picture looks what I'd think of a typical middle eastern. The one on the right has the facial features and skin color of a black person. The one on the left looks white as white gets.
It is not. One of the characters has even gray facial hair. They did put some extra work.
Deceitful-Fox
Neo Member
This has to be a bug... Nobody's that stupid, not even Cage.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Something like this doesn't happen by accident. And that most certainly isn't the same model. They swapped the heads completely for multiple characters. Beards don't magically appear out of thin air.
Krappadizzle
Member
Going for the filmic route for sure. Games are definitely becoming more like movies.
Never underestimate the Cage.
piccio_ssl
Member
lol perfect
If you guys want, for comparison and analysis, here's a playthrough of the PS4 version, starting at the Saudi embassy.
Spoiler warning, just in case.
https://youtu.be/cTKHCp4y9f8?t=24m11s
Spoiler warning, just in case.
https://youtu.be/cTKHCp4y9f8?t=24m11s
Gold_Loot
Member
Viewing on the cell so it's a bit harder to see the smaller details.They've not only changed the skin tones. You can see the facial features has changed too. So serious work went into this thing, yo.
That lighting change surely made the guys nose smaller
It's odd though. Nobody complained over the originals. I'm thinking they were trying to avoid any stereotype complaints and by doing so, jumped into another boiling pot of water.
I laffed