Do better BHVR - The Baba Yaga skin
Watching this skin get released is sad.
As an Eastern European (Who lives OUTSIDE of Russia), I feel heavily conflicted about the Baba Yaga skin. It makes me happy to see a bit of acknowledgement towards Slavic folklore, as Baba Yaga had some significance to me, especially with my parents warning me to behave or they'll feed me to her (lol).
But why is it that Slavic/Eastern European representation is always just 'Russia'? Especially when most of the Eastern European/Slavic countries to this day, have conflict with Russia over what the country did to them.
We have 8 Americans, 1 Nigerian, 1 'Anglo'-American, 2 African-Americans, 1 Russian, 2 Japanese, '4' Canadian, 1 Babylonian, 1 Irish-American, 1 Scottish, '2' French, 1 Korean, 1 English and 1 Chilean..
Before anyone comes in here, saying that this game isn't about lore - I agree. But it is nice to see representation, or acknowledgement towards one's culture, or even the impact that the culture has on the design of the killer.
Baba Yaga could've been a concept for a whole new killer in itself - and probably would've been a better idea than squeezing a whole 'deity' into a skin. Seeing people hate on the skin because they hate her unique sounds and/or design, is pretty disheartening too as this is the only nod that we, Slavic people, get towards our culture.
Whilst writing this post, I wanted to make sure that I had all fronts covered, and went ahead to read on the lore of the killers that weren't simply classified as 'American'.. Those that are of only one nationality, seem to be alright as they somewhat explore the country that those killers originate from, but those that are doubled with American?.. Lazy lore writing.
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I have no idea.
Clearly I have upset you but so many Huntress's are embracing in the new Huntress, and well I would find that embracing but so many, find so much negativity just to post about it :) I am not trying to disregard, another excuse and forth words of phrase in this world, perhaps if you feel that bad then don't play Huntress, the devs aren't going to remove it, not sure what this is going to do? it's been making a thread for thread sake, so well and I gave my fee back, so many are so offended by literally anything these days it's hard what is actually serious and what is just becoming a thread. But please enjoy, don't use Huntress and just perhaps make not a thread if no one can leave opinions, :)
I am ALLOWED to voice my displeasure with BHVR's actions. There is a reason that a forum exists. For FEEDBACK.
Let's please keep the discussion civil and respectful, thank you.
Wasn't what the Romes disclosure of a forum was to inspire a debate? A forum exits due to such, for such things to be discussed i am not toling I voicing my own opinions which as last term legal, it is not your thread if you cease to allow others to indulge in their own voice and expressions. It is not for FEEDBACK, I believe BHVR have a thread for such but making a topic, openly exists for others to express their voice sweetie :)
i like it and im serbian
and she looks more like a serbian then russian but both are the same but different (slavic wise)
Why do you even feel represented by it? That’s entirely something you decided to do.
your country/culture is just currently not represented. There are many others as well such as almost all of Africa, Australia, Everything Asian but Japan, China, South Korea, almost all of South America etc pp.
Baba Yaga was not chosen to represent you or your culture, it’s not exclusive to your culture as well, it’s also part of Russia and that one happens to be more commonly known to the rest of the world. that doesn’t mean Eastern Europe is now represented as a whole by this skin and won’t get anything else.
Because generally so to speak - Eastern Europe hardly has any media exposure, and any attempts at such are usually done by slapping a Russian in our faces.
If i were to ask for an Eastern European or Slavic character, many will jump the gun and say Huntress is already in the game, why? Because she is a token that is being used for that region. As i've also said, the only reason that there is such a strong association with Russia to Baba Yaga or Eastern Europe is because of the fact that media refuses to give representation to that region through a different nationality. Which is an issue in itself, and I believe deserves to be highlighted.
Well you get very close last summer then when everyone thought the resident evil was going to be Lady Dimitrescu.
Unless Romania is not enough slavic and too much latin for your taste.
People thought it, but that wasn't the plan, and it didn't happen in the end - so why does it matter?
Also no, Romania wouldn't have been bad, and i never stated it not to have been. I do say either Eastern European or Slavic, the latter being that Russia is used as a token for that specifically (especially with the Baba Yaga skin), but a country that is EE and not Slavic, would be fine too.
Don't mix politics into this game
Lol that's true
I wonder if the next original killer will be related to rats somehow and hail from Alberta
I was not using this to bring politics - I'm just saying that regions deserve better representation and not to be summed up by the one country that did so much harm, historically and in the present.
It'd be the same way as slapping a native skin onto one of the american characters, which had no mention of being native nor have any intentions of exploring them being native.
That's true. There are no crows south of panama. Incredible because in all the other continents there are! They found the only place on the earth for a crow theme killer where there are no crows!
Exactly. There’s a Krampus, which is from southern Germany and the alps, the Oktoberfest skins which is focused on Bavaria, and thats it. I’d really like a killer from northern Germany, since most pop culture focuses on the south
Yeah right we have so much cool folklore that could be made into a killer. I don't like that Germany is always condensed down to the south. We even could get some ww2 related killer cause back then they tryed all kinds of strange ocult stuff to make a super soldier and to find magic artifacts
That would be really cool, and I don’t think it’d be out of place with killers who torture people for fun