The long-awaited next entry in the Mega Man collections, Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection, was released yesterday and those who have purchased it are presented with the an opening disclaimer about insensitive cultural depictions. The message from the team at Capcom says that the company “values diversity and inclusivity within its games and its community. Please be aware the games in this collection may contain some cases of insensitive cultural depictions that are presented as originally created to preserve their authenticity.”
Message:
American branch I’m assuming responsible for this shit.
Wait, they added in a sensitivity warning because there’s a black dude in sunglasses saying he prays every morning in the game?
Am I missing something here? Because I’m genuinely not sure what’s supposed to be offensive about that.
I’d actually be offended if somebody was offended over that.
Some people actually did if you check the source.
Of course it’s resetera. I don’t even know where to begin with those people.
It’s nothing to do with the pray every morning bit.
Did they specifically mention that that was the reason they made that sensitivity warning? I assumed it was because Netopia was supposed to be america and the citizens were depicted as thieves, thugs and rapping black men.
I suppose that’s better than removing or censoring content.
It’s funny how upset people get over a simple disclaimer.
I prefer a disclaimer over completely removing content tbh
Which should never have been there in the first place.
It’s funny how upset people get over someone simply pointing out this disclaimer.
Wouldn’t be surprised if this type of disclaimer starts being more common within newly released games.
Better than censoring a +10 years old game.
They’re just too lazy to do it.
We’re goin’ to Junon, boyeeee!
The disclaimer is bs period. People complaining it shouldn’t have been in there anyway are out of touch also.
The fact is this is like a 20 year old game. No one back then got offended by any of this so the fact that anyone today is just means they are going backwards in society not forwards.
If you want to end all discrimination then just stop talking about it. Fact is the more you push anything no matter what it is on people the worse it becomes. We were better off as people 20 years ago than we are today, everyone thinks they are owed something or everything offends them.
You cannot end any kind of discrimination or hatred by throwing that same discrimination or hatred around or by blaming others for doing it. That does nothing but makes it worse and if they last 10 years hasn’t shown you that then I feel sorry for you.
As for this game I own the originals so I care less what they do, if they would have edited any of it I would not have bought it. Disclaimers are common now because of all these crybabies and companies do not want to have lawsuits and I don’t blame them. I am fine with it as long as they leave the content alone or don’t bend the knee to any group to add or not add content to any new games regardless of what side that content represents. Make games, play them and have fun. That is the only point and none other.
Growing up with other young black kids who liked Megaman at the time I can confirm you’re wrong. We were all pretty disappointed and rolled our eyes with how ignorant they were. Least they actually are empathetic and intelligent enough to do better, unlike too many in this world.
Yes, as any surgeon knows, the best way to deal with a cancer is to ignore it and pretend it’s not there
There’s barely been Mega Man games on Nintendo platforms in psychical forms in the Europe for decades, I’ve never seen a real copy of Mega Man Battle Network anywhere, so I would of never of heard of this.
Hilarious the sight of alt-right manchild Petit-Hitlers soiling their nappies in rage over a brief text disclaimer over suspect (if not overtly racist) content. It was either not release the game or add a disclaimer, so what do you prefer? Hypothetically if Capcom had the time and spare resources to reprogram a decades-old game on obsolete hardware, altering the old game would lead to your lot having even bigger tantrums.
read: mad internet commie is mad that people don’t like having this religion shoved down their throats, so they’re trying to provoke us into saying something foolish lol
Just stop including certain people in games at this point. They B about representation then just move on to something else to cry victim about. It never ends with the victim complex. Never. It’s all about attention. put who you want in your movies and games and let other communities who represent those do the same for theirs.
Americans try not to be weird challenge, failed again…
Quite frankly I don’t want to hear Americans granstand about cultural sensitivity….
Americans are the same people who attack actual Egyptian born actors because they’re ” not black enough ” or say that what school teaches you doesn’t matter because Cleopatra was black and so was a famous Norweigan Jarl in the Viking age etc etc…
THAT is cultural insensitivity and appropriation…
American people and companies do it ALL THE TIME and live in their own bubble they try to center the entire world around.
gotta love ignorant foreigners who don’t realize that us average Americans are beyond sick of this pandering nonsense, too
With the best lines removed from the remake of RE4 (Luis’ ballistics comment which prompted Ashley’s awesome retort to it, the funny way she says ‘you pervert’), I’m not surprised by this. I’m not bothered by it, either, though. It IS better than censoring (removing or altering (like in the RE4 remake) the content.
Capcom: Puts a brief comment about a game being of its era that doesn’t affect the games at all.
Internet weirdos: “this is a good day to die.”
One: why is this worth getting upset about? It’s a disclaimer, and the content inside remains untouched. Why get upset about that?
Two: why is this worth writing an article about? Does anybody honestly think that these silly people getting outraged that a disclaimer was added would give a single solitary crap about it if you hadn’t pointed it out to them?
The disclaimer is fine. The only people getting upset about it are the same people who get upset over countless other inconsequential silly things because they LOVE being upset. Get upset over a disclaimer before The Muppet Show. Get upset over M&Ms not being sexy enough or whatever. Get upset over the “Mr and Mrs” from Potatohead being left up to whichever kid has it rather than the box.
All inconsequential, stupid stuff to get upset over because you guys have bought into the right-wing outrage machine.