Why I wont be playing a Novakid.

Well, would you believe it, the mods deleted my post for "inappropriate language".
Sure is butthurty around here.

Here's the post without the "inappropriate language" then:
It's mostly loved by British people of questionable weight who in 1942 moved to another continent because in the wild west you could use guns however you wanted.
And you know, British people of questionable weight who in 1942 moved to another continent love guns.

The changes are in red.

 

Here we go again. We have a person who wants his opinion to be heard about something trivial and pushes his radical mentality in his opinions upon everybody else who tries to disagree.

The backstories and aesthetic themes don't mean anything for any of the races. You're not forced to wear ''their'' armor, and backstories don't play a single role in the entire game other than to say "Hey, this is a story". Kind of sad how hard you're pushing your incredibly ridiculous views on this as if they're facts.

It's called "fantasy", guy. It doesn't matter what ACTUALLY happened in any given time period. It's up to the person telling to story to write the rules of his story. Actual history is only left to history books. Almost everything else is going to be a "twist" on that period of time; i.e. fantasy.

Why do people like this period of time? Because it's not only VERY recent, and seems more "human" than other periods of time which are VASTLY different from who we are today, but it also has that "grit" that people like.

 

Perhaps some of these traits will change/improve once they're done integrating both races the Starbound Novakid is supposedly comprised of.

 

The allure comes not from the actual history per se (though there are many fans of that) but rather from the legends and mythos that have steadily built up and been established. The fictionalized Wild West as seen in many rather wonderful movies (I am particularly fond of the Man with No Name trilogy by Sergio Leone myself) are the basis here, not the historical fact.

 

If this topic is so offending to your sensibilities, why are you here? You are complaining about people complaining, this will surely not result in anything but meta-intellectual rubbish. Oh god! Now im complaining about people complaining about people complaining! We are approaching a singularity of discontent! All hands to the escape pods!

 

Age of OP is definitely 18-21. Old enough to start learning how gruesome and unfair history is, young enough to have the free time to start discussions on the morality of the wild west in a 2d indie game forum who are guilty in his eyes simply because one of their races wears cinematically fantasized western attire. For what it's worth, knights were worse.

 

According to string theory, there is a universe somewhere out there where the wild west never even existed. For that matter, there is an alternate universe where America never even existed. Bam.

 

Damn cowboy sympathizer! It is you and your ilk that are responsible for the decline of the world we live in!

 

Im sorry but this statement is just plain silly... or he's trolling

 

I hate the avains because the Mayans were horrible people and thus I shall not play them.....-wait a second no one cares!

 

I actually wouldn't mind discussing that with you if you'd like. Is the sole reason for dislike your belief that all Mayans were terrible or is it a mix of factors?

 

OP can play whatever he wants. We would play whatever we want. The Wild West is interesting, IMO. To each his own.

 

I respect your decision. I don't like the wild west much, either. I think the idea of the Novakid is rather silly.

 

Woa hey I'm not claiming anyone here is guilty, calm your farm. Furthermore I'd learned plenty of this history back in my much earlier teens around the age of 13-14, I've had this distaste of the genre for a while, and this isn't the first, or last, time I've had discussions of the morality of the wild west on a forum.

Furthermore how is any of this relevant to the discussion? What does my age matter?

 

My reasoning is that apocalypto was a amazing movie and bird people wouldn't be able to live up to that legacy.

But seriously noone cares you don't like cowboys

 

I don't see how thats relevant. Who cares if no one cares? The point of this thread isn't to change peoples mind, nor is it born out of some misguided belief that I as a single human of seven billion matter, I made the thread to discuss the Novakids and the Culture they were based on, and for a while I was successful until people such as yourself came in and felt you needed to point out the obvious.

Of course no one cares, who cares? I don't expect you to care, and if you do, great! If not, whatever! If you really don't care about my opinion you can simply not post anything. I don't want to hear how much you don't care, go away.

 

Funny how this game is entirely fictional and you feel the need to force real world events into the history of the game? All they are doing is wearing some western themed items, there are plenty of pictures of other races wearing the same stuff. It is a complete outfit they already have so they slapped it on the NovaKids. Horribly bad things have happened through out history, but that doesn't mean that everyone in that time period and area committed horrible acts. There are plenty of good people no matter where you look in History. Do not let such a little thing as clothing ruin the game for you. No we shouldn't forget the genocide and flat out murder of the Native American people, but neither should be seek and look for things to be offended by in harmless game. It isnt like the NovaKids are depicted killing and raping native people of a planet. Making a fuss over such a small thing in a game trivializes the actual happening in history, in my opinion anyways.

 

I bet you wouldn't say that if they had a nazi theme.

 

Where does it state that Novakids are Western themed? Just cause the wallpaper has them dressed up like cowboys doesn't mean their centered around that.

 

Wow, this argument reminds me of the time when Dead Rising came out, and people were up in arms because they thought Capcom was trying to say America sucks.

It's just some graphical touches and armor, don't get worked up over it. People take video games too seriously.