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• • Where do people get off calling this game anime?

  • Originally posted by suu141
    

    Originally posted by Niirnaeth
    

    Originally posted by suu141
    
    

    The real question is: if you take out all the Asian and obviously anime-looking toons out of the game, would everyone still call it Anime style?

    Those characters are a part of the game, whether or not the game would be labelled differently without them is irrelevant because they are not going anywhere. This discussion is about those characters, obviously if they were removed the grounds for this argument would no longer exist but they do so its pointless to ask what if they weren't.

    In regards to the discussion at hand, I have to agree with Sovrath. While yes, it is ignorant for people to see something that is obviously influenced by eastern art and label it as anime in the same way that people are labelled for the way they dress or their hairstyle. Art, people, and everything else for that matter can't be so easily put under such broad definitions since there are so many different blends of style and art in between.

    Both looking at Aion's characters and reading information from developers give the impression of many different influences having gone into the game's artwork and anime just happens to be one of them.

    The people that are arguing that the game isn't anime are making the same, just opposite, bias towards the game's artstyle. It doesn't have to be one or the other, it's something in between, much like everything else in this world. Most of you obviously like anime so Aion being influenced by it should be a good thing. To me, western game art, at least for mmo's is bland and has no flare, so I for one enjoy the creative artwork that has gone into Aion's character design.

    Anyway as Sovrath said, things don't exist in a vacuum, they all blend and mix to create something new and unique so stop trying to put things under labels, thats what your complaining about in the first place anyway.

     

    I'm not the one placing labels. Frankly, I don't care about other people's opinions, because they're just that, opinions.

    When people start twisting around facts and opinions to the point where nothing is making any sense, I'm not gonna sit around and just read all this garbage.

     

    It's getting to the point, going by Sovrath's logic, for example: If you place a few asian and anime characters in WoW or WAR, you, Sovrath and a few others will call it new and unique. Do you think everyone else would just label the entire game as an anime game?

    
    

     

    Only the first paragraph was about what you said Suu. I know you weren't throwing labels around, the rest of my post was about people saying the game has nothing to do with anime.

    As for your second comment, my entire post was about how labelling something under a single term because of some amount of influence, as well as the opposite, denying its complete involvement, does not make sense. Thats the opposite of believing a "few anime characters" can make an entire game anime. Read things before accusing people of twisting facts and opinions so you won't go on to do the exact same thing you are accusing them of.

  • Posted: 11/13/08 8:33 PM
    Aion
• • Where do people get off calling this game anime?

  • Originally posted by suu141
    
    

    The real question is: if you take out all the Asian and obviously anime-looking toons out of the game, would everyone still call it Anime style?

    Those characters are a part of the game, whether or not the game would be labelled differently without them is irrelevant because they are not going anywhere. This discussion is about those characters, obviously if they were removed the grounds for this argument would no longer exist but they do so its pointless to ask what if they weren't.

    In regards to the discussion at hand, I have to agree with Sovrath. While yes, it is ignorant for people to see something that is obviously influenced by eastern art and label it as anime in the same way that people are labelled for the way they dress or their hairstyle. Art, people, and everything else for that matter can't be so easily put under such broad definitions since there are so many different blends of style and art in between.

    Both looking at Aion's characters and reading information from developers give the impression of many different influences having gone into the game's artwork and anime just happens to be one of them.

    The people that are arguing that the game isn't anime are making the same, just opposite, bias towards the game's artstyle. It doesn't have to be one or the other, it's something in between, much like everything else in this world. Most of you obviously like anime so Aion being influenced by it should be a good thing. To me, western game art, at least for mmo's is bland and has no flare, so I for one enjoy the creative artwork that has gone into Aion's character design.

    Anyway as Sovrath said, things don't exist in a vacuum, they all blend and mix to create something new and unique so stop trying to put things under labels, thats what your complaining about in the first place anyway.

  • Posted: 11/11/08 9:38 PM
    Aion