Harriet should have a Tanning Salon in the next game

[kakuloo]

I really like the immersion of Rover just talking to you and your responses determining things. I wouldn't want just to pick out things from a list or something.

I'd say be able to pick your skin tone at the beginning (I saw another thread suggest that you "scrape your knee" and Rover offers you your choice of bandages...in different flesh tones, which sounds brilliant to me.) Then ALSO have a "spray tan" at Harriet's shop.

That way you get to choose in the beginning...WITHOUT losing immersion...and you can always switch later if you want to, just like with eye color!

 

[Tinkalila]

I've posted in threads about this before, I agree a choice of skin colour would be good in future games. I thought it would be perfect if right at the beginning of the game you just had a design your character page come up with a avatar you could design the way you wanted within the games built in limits, ie: gender, hair style and colour, eye shape and colour, skin tone, basic starting clothes. Then it could transport you to the train and Rover could ask his questions to determine your name, town name and map.

I think it would also be good to have a choice of all available maps at the beginning in a scrolling form so Rover didn't have to go through each one, and he could ask questions like what's your favourite fruit so you can pick your town fruit. I doubt this one will happen but it would be nice.

That's all a realistic thing that nintendo might consider, and honestly is the best way to go!

 

[FancyThat]

I really like the immersion of Rover just talking to you and your responses determining things. I wouldn't want just to pick out things from a list or something.

I'd say be able to pick your skin tone at the beginning (I saw another thread suggest that you "scrape your knee" and Rover offers you your choice of bandages...in different flesh tones, which sounds brilliant to me.) Then ALSO have a "spray tan" at Harriet's shop.

That way you get to choose in the beginning...WITHOUT losing immersion...and you can always switch later if you want to, just like with eye color!

Thing is Nintendo are going to be very wary of offending anyone at all, and i think the only way they can completely avoid that issue is by not mentioning skin tone at all in a conversation (even offering a bandage or something they might be wary of) but just give you a design choice right at the beginning before you're transported onto the train/Rover talks to you. You'd still have Rover talking to you about everything else like your name, date of birth maybe, town name etc as I said before. So you'd have immersion there. That's just my idea though, the tanning booth could also be an option they consider if enough people ask.

The choose a map from all available options and fruit thing (or even grass pattern) I suggested before I don't actually think will ever happen, it was just something I'd like to happen.

That's all a realistic thing that nintendo might consider, and honestly is the best way to go!

Thanks , I hope they at least listen to the ideas fans are coming up with.

 

[hulaburger]

yea either Rover should ask you or the tanning thing should be available as soon as the game is started imo
you shouldn't have to play for weeks being pasty white til you unlock it

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That's all a realistic thing that nintendo might consider, and honestly is the best way to go!

what if rover forgot his glasses at home and was like "sry what do you look like" and then you get your character customization

 

[superblooper]

I think it'd be cool if Rover asked "Where are you from", and there would be a slider from "Up north" to "Down south".

If you choose more north he might say something like, "oh pretty cold up there" and you'd be more pale; and more south would be "I love, hot sunny weather" or something, you're more "tan".

And YES, Harriet should have a tanning machine..and it shouldn't wear off...just like you don't have to change your colored contacts in the game (even though IRL you def should!)

 

[Atalie]

I really like the idea of Rover asking you a question and determining your skin color.
But I feel the best way to go about it is to offer a tanning booth at Shampoodle to change your BASE skin color. The selection having multiple skin colors that have different undertones and shades.
And then you can go to the island and get darker temporarily based on your base skin tone.
As for Nintendo being afraid of offending people, I hope they learn soon that excluding a majority of their target audience is also extremely offensive... The current system is somewhat inclusive but requires too much work from the player :/​

 

[oath2order]

I hope they learn soon that excluding a majority of their target audience is also extremely offensive... The current system is somewhat inclusive but requires too much work from the player :/[/SIZE][/FONT][/center]

i want to see the racial statistics of the gamerbase if you're calling it a majority

 

[Boccages]

No offense, but why not let the character also smoke and drink and gamble ? I mean, tanning is bad for your health. Why would Nintendo encourage that ?

 

[FancyThat]

I'm not sure it's a majority tbh, but I think everyone's avatar is supposed to be Japanese in the game anyway. I read an article online that Nintendo are thinking about including skin colour options in the future, so they are listening to fans who want it .

No offense, but why not let the character also smoke and drink and gamble ? I mean, tanning is bad for your health. Why would Nintendo encourage that ?

Turnips are a bit of a gamble, so they allow some games of chance .

 

[kakuloo]

No offense, but why not let the character also smoke and drink and gamble ? I mean, tanning is bad for your health. Why would Nintendo encourage that ?

Bingo is definitely gambling. =P Whenever you play those games with campers it's gambling. But it's not
"real" money, so it's not that big of a deal. Also, just because they call it "sparkling cider" doesn't mean we don't all know that the real tradition is Champagne. ;P

In any case, this is why spray tans! Spray tanning isn't bad (It's basically just sun lotion with food coloring in it...except the food coloring is for your skin. lol) even if it's kinda silly in real life. (At least, I think it is...it makes you look a little too...orange...in most cases. haha)

 

[Tinkalila]

No offense, but why not let the character also smoke and drink and gamble ? I mean, tanning is bad for your health. Why would Nintendo encourage that ?

You're missing the point. We could avoid mildly controversial practices all together if we were just allowed to CHOOSE our skin color. We don't need it to be subtle so that it fits into the game. Non light skinned people exist.

 

[Preet]

Maybe Rover asks "Do you hang out in the sun alot"? Then your options are:

I like my idea, because t's true if you hang out in the sun for a long time then you do get a tan. By rover asking do you hang out in the sun alot, this way It won't seem offensive or racist or anything like that gecause it's a reasonable question. Like you ask me "Hey Preet! You go outside much?" I'll say not much because really I don't and then i'll get the skin color I want. Plus, once people realize that this question determines the skin color they can reset the game and get the color they want. And also Harriet can having a tanning bed to make it even darker. If you want to reverse it, Harriet should have a lemon facial treatment. I've googled it and it said to get your skin lighter is to use lemon juice. Harriet can make it that she does lemon facials. You can choose how much lemon you want in your facial cream mix. By doing this it'll tell you how lighter your face/skin gets. It works! and it's antursl!

 

[oath2order]

I like my idea, because t's true if you hang out in the sun for a long time then you do get a tan. By rover asking do you hang out in the sun alot, this way It won't seem offensive or racist or anything like that gecause it's a reasonable question. Like you ask me "Hey Preet! You go outside much?" I'll say not much because really I don't and then i'll get the skin color I want. Plus, once people realize that this question determines the skin color they can reset the game and get the color they want. And also Harriet can having a tanning bed to make it even darker. If you want to reverse it, Harriet should have a lemon facial treatment. I've googled it and it said to get your skin lighter is to use lemon juice. Harriet can make it that she does lemon facials. You can choose how much lemon you want in your facial cream mix. By doing this it'll tell you how lighter your face/skin gets. It works! and it's antursl!

Welp that answers my #1 question

 

[matthevvv]

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.

this is the best idea ever omg

 

[Tinkalila]

I like my idea, because t's true if you hang out in the sun for a long time then you do get a tan. By rover asking do you hang out in the sun alot, this way It won't seem offensive or racist or anything like that gecause it's a reasonable question. Like you ask me "Hey Preet! You go outside much?" I'll say not much because really I don't and then i'll get the skin color I want. Plus, once people realize that this question determines the skin color they can reset the game and get the color they want. And also Harriet can having a tanning bed to make it even darker. If you want to reverse it, Harriet should have a lemon facial treatment. I've googled it and it said to get your skin lighter is to use lemon juice. Harriet can make it that she does lemon facials. You can choose how much lemon you want in your facial cream mix. By doing this it'll tell you how lighter your face/skin gets. It works! and it's antursl!

You don't become black if you're not black by tanning, and you don't magically become light-skinned if you're not light skinned from one lemon treatment. It's just a racist idea in general. Let the game break the context for a second for us to just choose it in a character creation screen, I think you can handle not being in character for one minute.

 

[oath2order]

You don't become black if you're not black by tanning, and you don't magically become light-skinned if you're not light skinned from one lemon treatment. It's just a racist idea in general. Let the game break the context for a second for us to just choose it in a character creation screen, I think you can handle not being in character for one minute.

We /get/ that, but the game is all about customization. What they are suggesting is a way to change your race for customization purposes.

 

[Goth]

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

"Oh Hey I see you have a injury what color band aid color do you want?"

 

[Skyzeri]

I think the tanning bed is a cute idea.
The only problem with the band aid thing, is that some new players don't know that the beginning dialogue determines appearance. If the point is to customize the avatar to fit the player, then I don't think dialogue is the best route to pick skin color.

 

[oath2order]

I think the tanning bed is a cute idea.
The only problem with the band aid thing, is that some new players don't know that the beginning dialogue determines appearance. If the point is to customize the avatar to fit the player, then I don't think dialogue is the best route to pick skin color.

The argument could be made that your player's face isn't completely customized to the player.

 

[pika62221]

I'd pass. I barely like changing my hair as it is, so I'd keep my default color too.