Poll of the Day > banjo tooie is so much more racist than i remember

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humba wumba is pretty embarassing. not to mention basically all of mayahem temple -- "targetzan's slightly less sacred chamber"? yikes

I mean, that was basically N64-era Rare in a nutshell.

See also: Taj from Diddy Kong Racing, Rubee from Banjo Kazooie.

Yeah as a kid I didn't know any better, but looking back, it's pretty bad.

I hadn't seen the star wars prequels since I was younger and my gf hadn't so we watched them a couple years back and I didn't realize how racist they are especially the first one. Like the aliens used to speak alien languages and then all of a sudden they just speak English like a racist caricature? Weird creative choice

There is indeed a non-trivial quantity of yikes in there.

BADoglick posted...

I hadn't seen the star wars prequels since I was younger and my gf hadn't so we watched them a couple years back and I didn't realize how racist they are especially the first one. Like the aliens used to speak alien languages and then all of a sudden they just speak English like a racist caricature? Weird creative choice

Wat.

Revelation34 posted...

Wat.

rofl have you never seen Watto, Nute Gunray or Daultay Dofine? I thought everyone had watched the Plinkett reviews of the prequels.

Donkey Kong 64 was like that, too. A lot of this is a stretch, but you can't really deny that there are some racist elements:

https://youtu.be/6EKTGo4Dr6A

Meanwhile a side quest in red dead redemption says there is nothing worse than White trash and no one cares. Double standards galore.

its okay to hate on white people apparently but god forbid you use a stereotype on an anthropomorphic animal

This is around the time Jar Jar Binks was created and he basically is a black 30's stereotype. So really back then the racial connotations were less of a big deal if they made Jar Jar in the 2020's you can bet there we would be a lot more pissed off people.

Devil_May_Cry posted...

Meanwhile a side quest in red dead redemption says there is nothing worse than White trash and no one cares. Double standards galore.

Counterintuitively, "white trash" is actually usually more racist against non-whites than whites (particularly when used by white people). The implication is "behaving like that is supposed to be for those other races, you're supposed to be better than that because you're white," which is very clearly grounded in a stereotype of white supremacy.

It's also important to consider context. I'm gonna guess that that's just one character saying that, in which case the game just has a racist character. People don't freak out about racist characters existing in a context that makes it clear that they're racist (for an extreme example, any movie about WWII has Nazis in it, and nobody complains about that). This topic, on the other hand, is talking about games just throwing around racist stereotypes without doing anything to acknowledge that they're a problem.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/4/7/AAPCn7AAEwW3.jpg https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/4/8/AAPCn7AAEwW4.jpg

I always thought she was hot >.>

For real though, they didn't need to make her tits that big

Devil_May_Cry posted...

Meanwhile a side quest in red dead redemption says there is nothing worse than White trash and no one cares. Double standards galore.

its okay to hate on white people apparently but god forbid you use a stereotype on an anthropomorphic animal

i think the context of it being a historical game is a bit relevant

also, are you upset about it and want it removed? this is a conversation about Banjo Tooie. it's a conversation, nobody is deprogramming Humba Wumba, don't fart yourself from too many facebook memes telling you to get upset about a conversation lmfao.

Don't you understand? If people are okay with one instance of racism in a video game, they have to be okay with all instances, regardless of context, content, presentation, or anything else that might affect the interpretation.

Its not bad you people force it to be bad

Zareth posted...

For real though, they didn't need to make her tits that big

why the hell not

NinjaGhosts posted...

Its not bad you people force it to be bad

explain how

NinjaGhosts posted...

Its not bad you people force it to be bad

you seem more upset than anyone else. an observation isn't forcing something to be bad.

Nade_Duck posted...

why the hell not

He only said that because he's a woke librul soyboy cuck.

Also, racism against white people is the only real racism.

ReturnOfFa posted...

rofl have you never seen Watto, Nute Gunray or Daultay Dofine? I thought everyone had watched the Plinkett reviews of the prequels.

"Wat"

Revelation34 posted...

"Wat"

Watto's design and accent come across as a Jewish stereotypes and the two Trade Federation aliens (Nute Gunray and Daultay Dofine) have bizarre Asian accents that aren't real accents.

there are so many funny asian accents to choose, you might as well just use them all.