Harriet should have a Tanning Salon in the next game

[hulaburger]

the default is super pale & light skinned. if you're darker skinned IRL, you have to spend 30 minutes in the sun every day just to be normal?
maybe Harriet could have a tanning bed so you can change your skin.. or you could go ahead and decide it with Rover I guess.


thoughts?

 

[snapdragon]

I would like this a lot!!!

 

[Geneve]

Oh man, +1 on tanning bed idea. That would be amazing.

 

[Amalthea]

I don't think the player character is meant to be white, I think they're meant to be a light-skinned Japanese person.

I'd prefer if they allowed you to pick your skin colour during character creation. One brilliant idea I heard from someone on this forum is that you could fall and scrape your knee, and Rover would offer you a skin-coloured band-aid, and you could choose the one that best matches your skin tone.

I don't really enjoy the tanning mechanism but I suppose they could either adjust the tanning feature accordingly for each available skin tone or remove it altogether.

 

[daydreamingstudent]

I love that idea! It would be nice if you could choose from the beginning though but the tanning bed idea sounds more plausible.

 

[Bcat]

^this! I would love it if you could use it to get back to normal instead of tan too. I hate being tan.

 

[oath2order]

^this! I would love it if you could use it to get back to normal instead of tan too. I hate being tan.

How would that work though? If they make it so that your tan in the machine wears off, that would be inconvenient for the people who are that race and then we'd have another whining thread like we did a while back

 

[hulaburger]

I don't think the player character is meant to be white, I think they're meant to be a light-skinned Japanese person.

I'd prefer if they allowed you to pick your skin colour during character creation. One brilliant idea I heard from someone on this forum is that you could fall and scrape your knee, and Rover would offer you a skin-coloured band-aid, and you could choose the one that best matches your skin tone.

I don't really enjoy the tanning mechanism but I suppose they could either adjust the tanning feature accordingly for each available skin tone or remove it altogether.

yeah I guess white was the wrong word but they're light skinned

 

[animale12]

I like this idea! Or I just wish there was the option of picking your skin color when creating your character like someone above mentioned.

 

[Alyssa]

I like this idea for maybe changing your skin color during gameplay, but you really should be able to choose it in the beginning.

 

[DarkFox7]

A tanning bed would be awesome, and a perfectly fit feature for Harriet to have!

However, I WOULD rather the option be at the beginning of the game. That way it won't feel weird that your characters darker skin tone is actually just a tan. It would feel more realistic if you could just choose. Either of them would be a great addition to future AC games though!

 

[MayorMina]

Love this idea!

 

[the groke]

both ideas are good! last night i was trying to think of a way rover could ask your skin tone without the dialogue unfitting or choppy
i couldn't think of a perfectly flowing way, but the bandaid idea sounds pretty good

 

[ellabella12345]

I like this idea. Though I think it would be a bad influence.

 

[Astro Cake]

I think it would be better to have your default skin tone be chosen at the beginning of the game. Having very light skin as the default has some very bad implications.

 

[oath2order]

I think it would be better to have your default skin tone be chosen at the beginning of the game. Having very light skin as the default has some very bad implications.

The implications are only there if you project them there.

The game is all about customization, what would they do for people who want to lighten their skin?

 

[Astro Cake]

The implications are only there if you project them there.

The game is all about customization, what would they do for people who want to lighten their skin?

Oh my god are all your posts stupid? I never paid attention to them before. I admit to knowing next to nothing about race issues in Japan, but in Western society the whole "white = default" is disgustingly pervasive and has very racist implications. Though I'm sure you don't think it matters all, I'm sure you're white as can be.

 

[Mercedes]

I Digb relly care

 

[f11]

I don't think the player character is meant to be white, I think they're meant to be a light-skinned Japanese person.

I'd prefer if they allowed you to pick your skin colour during character creation. One brilliant idea I heard from someone on this forum is that you could fall and scrape your knee, and Rover would offer you a skin-coloured band-aid, and you could choose the one that best matches your skin tone.

I don't really enjoy the tanning mechanism but I suppose they could either adjust the tanning feature accordingly for each available skin tone or remove it altogether.

but there are dark skinned Japanese people tooo....

 

[Amalthea]

but there are dark skinned Japanese people tooo....

That is exactly why I specifically stated "light-skinned". The creators of the game are mostly Japanese and the game is originally Japanese and the characters originally speak Japanese so I think it logically makes more sense that the player character was modelled to be a Japanese person and not a white person.