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Square-Enix Drops ’Male’ and ’Female’ from Dragon Quest III Remake?!
A Dragon Quest III HD remake is on the way, and it’s rumored to be very "current year." According to alleged insiders, Square-Enix will drop gender from the remake and Male and Female characters will be called "Type A" and "Type B." I thought this was a company that wanted to pivot to profit? ➡️ Tip Jar and Fan Support: http://ClownfishSupport.com ➡️ Official Merch Store: http://ShopClownfish.com ➡️ Official Website: http://ClownfishTV.com ➡️ Audio Edition: https://open.spotify.com/show/6qJc5C6OkQkaZnGCeuVOD1 About Us: Clownfish TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary channel that covers Entertainment and Tech from a consumer’s point of view. We talk about Gaming, Comics, Anime, TV, Movies, Animation and more. Hosted by Kneon and Geeky Sparkles. Disclaimer: This series is produced by Clownfish Studios and WebReef Media, and is part of ClownfishTV.com. Opinions expressed by our contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of our guests, affiliates, sponsors, or advertisers. ClownfishTV.com is an unofficial news source and has no connection to any company that we may cover. This channel and website and the content made available through this site are for educational, entertainment and informational purposes only. These so-called “fair uses” are permitted even if the use of the work would otherwise be infringing. #Games #RPG #News #Commentary #Reaction #Podcast #Comedy #Entertainment #Hollywood #PopCulture #Tech
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Thanks for listening. Hey, guys. Welcome back to Clownfish TV. This is neon, not here with geeky sparkles in this video. Got a little bit of gaming news for you. We're going to talk about Dragon Quest 3 and Square Enix, potentially ditching male and female characters. They're going to have gender-neutral looks in their upcoming remake. So this is interesting. This is something that they're doing in a lot of new games, and people are kind of torn about it. In some ways, it's not a big deal. In other ways, people are like, "Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Are you saying that gender doesn't exist?" Or I think it's developers trying to sidestep a difficult conversation in current year because we know how these things go, right? If you put explicitly male and female characters in a game, you're going to get dog piled on Twitter. If you don't, you're going to get dog piled on Twitter. But I think in a case like this where you're remaking a game that is decades old, I think that you want to keep the game intact as much as possible. So I don't know if this is a good move. That is my personal opinion, but we're going to talk about it. We're going to talk about Square Enix, and apparently they are trying to pivot back to profit. They said that they're going to drop Sony exclusivity. They're going to go to Steam. They're going to bring back the Gooch, and they're going to publish Mistwalker games. His Final Fantasy-like game, I forget what it's called, taught my head. We did a whole video about it, but it seems like they're trying to pivot back to profit because they've spent a lot of money chasing unprofitable things like For spoken and the Marvel Avengers game and all these other other things that blew up and cost them a ton of money. I don't know if this is going to be a deal breaker for a lot of people, but we'll we'll report on it anyway. Before we get into it any further, please subscribe for more pop culture news views and rants guys. This has come from bounding in the comics. We'll talk about what they're saying here. Spencer over at bounding in the comics is saying, and then we'll go out to some other other potential changes. So yeah, Dragon Quest 3 is an old game. I remember the big story being that, I guess, school children were given the day off of school, I think, to get Dragon Quest 3 because it was such a big deal back in the day in Japan. Then when Dragon Warrior came out in the U.S., nobody really cared. It was kind of weird. Dragon Warrior was kind of sort of a thing, but not it never took off as much as Final Fantasy did over here, or even Fantasy Star. Sega Fantasy Star, I think, was was bigger than Dragon Warrior was over here. It's kind of like, oh yeah, those are out too. But in Japan, they were huge. Square Enix, who reportedly replaced male and female options with gender neutral looks, an upcoming Dragon Quest 3 HD 2D remake. Again, we're remaking a game that's like 30, 30, 40 years old. You know, I don't think I don't think you need to go that far. In a move that reeks of the company's infamous ethics department, a new report suggests that rather than gender, the characters in Dragon Quest 3 will instead be classified according to their looks. As seen immediately upon starting the original 1988 adventure, Dragon Quest 3, The Seeds of Salvation features a novel for the time gender mechanic, which allows players to not only choose the gender of the game's protagonist, but also recruit male or female versions of each respective class. Yes, current year, this is where we're at, guys. Like, it's you're not even allowed to you're not even allowed to talk about it, especially in the gaming space. While the decision to play as a man or woman ultimately has a little effect on the game's narrative, the choice to play does determine their appearance, what equipment they can use, and which personalities a trait that has slight effect on gameplay stats they can potentially develop. A memorable, if not in consequential element of the overall Dragon Quest 3 experience, every version of the game including the aforementioned 88 original, and the 96 Super Famicom Remake, the 2000 Game Boy Color Remake, and the 2014 Mobile Remaster God. I can tell it's Square Enix, they just keep releasing the same things over and over again. They've explicitly labeled the mechanic according to the standard male female binary button remake. This consistency will be coming to an end, according to a noted Japanese entertainment scoop, uh, an outlet called, uh, Ryu Kuta 2089. Is that right? As machine translated via deep L rather than male or female as machine translated. So, you know, take it and leave it via deep L rather than male or female, the two options will instead be referred to as look A, clearly male and look B, clearly female, but we're not calling them male or female because Twitter will get angry. Gaming journals will get angry. Each look will be voiced respectively by these voice actresses. I guess it's the trend of the times wrote the identified, unidentified scooper who broke the news. It seems that the game's other jobs will no longer distinguish between male and female in the name. And they're talking about how in Final Fantasy 7 rebirth, the company edited the scene in which cloud originally stole a pair of Tifa's panties, uh, to make it less controversial. Lots of changes at Square. I think at the behest of, of California, I think some of it's Sony too. But now just, just the play devil's advocate here for a second. And it's possible that this game started development under the old regime because Square did lay a bunch of Western developers off and they said that they're going to try to pivot back to profit. And Japan doesn't really care about this stuff. This is, this is very much to appease the West. And, and I just have to wonder if this isn't a remnant of that mindset, you know, I don't know, I don't know. But again, rather than, you know, find themselves in the middle of controversy, they find themselves in the middle of controversy. It doesn't matter what you do. You're going to get, you're going to get, criticism anytime you're dealing with gender and video games, right? So we'll see. This is a rumor we don't know if it's going to happen. I think it's a very stupid change given the age of the game. That's my personal, personal opinion. But we've already got the gamer. This is, this is a site that would totally be down for a change like this. They're already saying that the game looks low effort. But don't worry guys, it's gender neutral. But it looks low effort, they said. They said it's a hodgepodge of random stuff. It's a cash grab. Probably. We're talking about the digital wallpapers. People said it's a ripoff, most low effort collectors edition. I've seen a while on Reddit, claims a person on Reddit. I normally buy collector sets for Dragon Quest games, but the price is ridiculous. What'd you get for this? You get $199. Wow. Okay. So you get the remake, the full game. You get the collectible game case storage box. You get character and monster acrylic figure set, right? So they look like shrinky dinks. You get an adventurous accessory kit in game and two digital wallpapers in real life for $199. Yeah, it's kind of a rip. Like, look, Square's hurting right now, right? And they know that the people that are going to buy this game are old heads like myself, people that do collect physical editions of games as long as they don't come from women run games who do collect physical editions of games and a lot of times they come with a lot of trinkets and charge keys and stuff like that. And this goes back to like back in the day, I had both copies of Lunar from working designs and they had like, you know, an appendant came with one and it was really cool stuff, right? So it makes the case for buying a physical copy. It's a collector's item, but you got to make it worth it. And I think that they could potentially piss off the audience with the gender thing. If it's true, it wouldn't surprise me at all, current year, if it's true. But yeah, when you're asking basically old heads to to plunk down $200 and then you're like, Oh, by the way, a major part of this game was choosing the gender of your party. And you can't really do that anymore. Yeah, people are going to be pissed. I know they're going to be pissed. They just, they're not going to say anything until the game comes out. And then to, to put out a low effort, collector edition like that, like, look, Square, I know you're hurting for cash. I mean, it took, it took you getting to this point to finally release Kingdom Hearts on Steam. But you know, you got to be smart about how you do it. You got to pick your battles, I think. So I'm going to wrap this one up, guys. Please subscribe for more pop culture news, views, rants. We'll talk later. Thanks again for listening. More news and videos are available on our website at www.clownfishtv.com and on our YouTube channel, clownfishtv. You can buy official merchandise, clownfish comic books and more at shopclownfish.com. If you like this show, please consider subscribing and leaving us a positive review on iTunes and other podcast platforms. 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