Please tell me the Skin Colour = Difficulty is a joke.

[Thundah]

Let me just get this out of the way: I LOVE South Park. I love Matt and Treys humour. I love how they will ♥♥♥♥ on singular person or group of people. I love all of this. But what I don't love is this addition to the game.

Now, I'm not complaining about this addition because I feel like it's Trey and Matt pandering to the Left. Nor am I complaining about this addition because I believe/don't believe that skin colour affects your chances in life.

I'm complaining as a gamer.
This game is an RPG with a main character creation option, therefore players will attempt to create their character to look as much as themselves as possible with the options provided (Yes I know not every gamer does this) so as a White gamer who likes a challenge with his games and likes to make created characters look as close to myself as possible why am I being forced to forgo making my character look like myself so I can have a challenging experience or forgo having a challenging experience so I can have a character that looks like me?

[Evabant]

So, just to point out, like the say in the video, that slider does not affect combat (the main source of difficulty in his game) in any way. It has yet to be proven if it actually effects anything in the game. The first battle you get into, you chose the combat difficulty, setting it to easy, normal or hard.

It has been stated by Ubi-soft that it will affect the way people talk to you and how much money you get, but not confirmed how much.

[WaLeS]

So go play literally any other rpg or almost any other game for that matter. God forbid the main protag having more pixelated melanin than yourself.

But just to somewhat ease your delicate sensibilities,

“Don’t worry, this doesn’t affect combat,” narrator and South Park mascot Eric Cartman says during this segment. “Just every other aspect of your whole life.”
“This means that the default behaviors for almost all the non-player characters in the game are easier on you than they would be otherwise,” Scalzi wrote. “The default barriers for completions of quests are lower. Your leveling-up thresholds come more quickly. You automatically gain entry to some parts of the map that others have to work for. The game is easier to play, automatically, and when you need help, by default it’s easier to get.”

[Felix]

Supposedly it was a joke, according to Ubisoft: http://comicbook.com/gaming/2017/09/13/south-park-the-fractured-but-whole-s-revolutionary-difficulty-sl/

[King Link]

It's almost certainly not a joke, but more a form of social commentary in a game mechanic. Honestly I give two thumbs up to the idea, it's right up south park's alley, and it's perfect for Matt and Trey to push that.

But yeah, it sounds like it's more about resource management, then combat difficulty.

Remember South Park isn't "left" or "right" both are pretty firm Libertarians, which means they take pot shots at everyone, and will do social commentary like this because... well it works.

[iNocturne]

I am pretty pale so i am gonna have it easy if real ;)

[Evabant]

In the above linked article, ubi publicly said it was a joke, and the slider will not effect the game in any way. As a note, there is a difficultly selection before the first non tutorial combat.

[Shotagonist]

This topic is immensely funny to me. "What if I *want* to be target of racist discrimination without being black?"

[Mr Windblade]

It's the easiest way to represent difficulty in a "real life" setting. Skin color is pretty much the reality difficulty slider. So basically, once you go black, you best git gud.

[FauxFurry]

It is just a silly reference to the article claiming that being born white is like playing the game of life on easy mode with cheats enabled. Whether they believe it or not, it is fairly amusing that they thought to include it and scores them easy controversy points.
It might have been a harder sell if social class, which is determined by one's direct ancestors' successes, determining the difficulty of one's life's path in the game plus it would be a bit too on the nose to be funny.

[Karl Pilkington]

snowflake gamers are the worst.

[Haunt Fox]

If they were to be realistic, darker skin characters would have affirmative action/employment equity power, the power of whining for cultural accommodation, etc, and the lighter your skin was, the harder a time you would have it with everyone assuming you're a supremacist, and you'd have been colour-blind in the past, but forced to see it by the "social justice warriors" who shake their heads sadly at you being such an old-fashioned redneck when they see you wish a Merry Christmas to a black man with a Kenyan accent who visits your Christmas gift wrapping station to get a Christmas gift to somebody wrapped.


:P

[identifiedasbeingdisrespectful]

Originally posted by Mr Windblade:

It's the easiest way to represent difficulty in a "real life" setting. Skin color is pretty much the reality difficulty slider. So basically, once you go black, you best git gud.

This be bait lads.

OP, were you offended at the Jew class getting antisemitc songs sung at them in the background? Because some was enough that they added the song for everyone in a patch.

[CuckerTarlson]

Originally posted by sc2mails:

It's also a method of censoring content to the region specific rules. Look at what the EU and AUS got for the SoT.

I don't get it. Why would they censor some cartoon jokes in Russia? They could just use steam means of restricting - the one which won't allow you use games if they were bought in specific regions. Why mess up the languages? What's SoT? Some kind of game? Yeah, I've seen the video about German policy - they replace all human enemies with freaking robots in order to reduce the violence. But imho this is retarded. Than again what do I know? I'm just a customer who pays money for the products.

[identifiedasbeingdisrespectful]

Originally posted by HughMongous:

Originally posted by sc2mails:

It's also a method of censoring content to the region specific rules. Look at what the EU and AUS got for the SoT.

I don't get it. Why would they censor some cartoon jokes in Russia? They could just use steam means of restricting - the one which won't allow you use games if they were bought in specific regions. Why mess up the languages? What's SoT? Some kind of game? Yeah, I've seen the video about German policy - they replace all human enemies with freaking robots in order to reduce the violence. But imho this is retarded. Than again what do I know? I'm just a customer who pays money for the products.

Stick of Truth, the game this is a sequel of? I'm not saying there's neccessairly censorship in the Russian, or any, version. SoT had "offensive" scenes deleted in EU and AUS. Instead of just deleting them, they were replaced with an image by the creators saying that their government caused them to have to censor it. There were nazi zombies in SoT to play on the cliche of them being everywhere in games now, but I don't know how they handled that in Germany. Perhaps just censorship of the swastika was enough.

what I'm saying is that different regions have different laws for censorship based on "deceny", and forcing you to use a localized version prevents Ubisoft from being liable for someone accessing the "banned" version for their region. It also could be used as a further government censorship tool, like China does with films, but I'm not saying that's what's happening, just that the issue itself allows that.

[Devious]

If you cannot enjoy a game because the main character does not share your superficial characteristics, how are you any different from SJWs complaining about straight white male protagonists?