The presense of cultures - Sinicism (Or everything Chinese/Chinese related)
(music in link for Metal Slug style brainstorming)
Oh man, I must say my expectations on this game are extremely high (as on any other game). Anyway, in cyberpunk fiction, there are always presence of multiple cultures. In cyberpunk reality (our world), there are, too.
This thread in particular is only about everything Chinese/Chinese related, because, well, you know, ehh, "China", whether we are referring to regimes, the civilization, languages or else.... there are so many things, you know.
How should Chinese stuff be presented in the game? How many Chinese things are we talking about first?
A rough list for brainstorm, inspiration and discussion:
1. Languages: Taking all varieties into account, you may say there are 8 major branches of Chinese languages - Mandarin官, Yuet粵, Hokkien/Min閩-東南西北, Hakka客家, Hsiang湘, Gan贛, Jin晉.
Being in the same branch does not mean they are all mutually intelligible. If taking all varieties into account, one may even say there are more than 100 Chinese languages. So.. yea.
Oh, by the way, since these languages are old, there are reconstructed Middle Chinese and Old(!) Chinese. Hmm, What would the reconstruction sound like in 2077?
2. Writings: Today, we usually say like "modern vs classical", "traditional vs simplified (simplified as governments promoted, in the PRC, Singapore, Malay, Japan)". In old days, the first distinction was always vague. Even in today, it still is. The traditional vs simplified thing is like common sense today, but in old days, it never existed.
People in ancient China would recognize two distinctions - 1. Commonly written vs less commonly written vs written for aesthetics, depending on regions, 2. super ancient "WTF is this, pictures flying around" letters vs easy to write with brushpen letters which are like (or just are) the Chinese words you see above.
And... Calligraphy!!!
3. Clothing: Actual Chinese clothing, after centuries of demise and oppression, is being revived. Future development until 2077 should be interesting.
4.
Ah, shit man. Family bullshit again. I can't think further right now. I'll leave this here for you guys.
(music in link for Metal Slug style brainstorming)
Oh man, I must say my expectations on this game are extremely high (as on any other game). Anyway, in cyberpunk fiction, there are always presence of multiple cultures. In cyberpunk reality (our world), there are, too.
This thread in particular is only about everything Chinese/Chinese related, because, well, you know, ehh, "China", whether we are referring to regimes, the civilization, languages or else.... there are so many things, you know.
How should Chinese stuff be presented in the game? How many Chinese things are we talking about first?
A rough list for brainstorm, inspiration and discussion:
1. Languages: Taking all varieties into account, you may say there are 8 major branches of Chinese languages - Mandarin官, Yuet粵, Hokkien/Min閩-東南西北, Hakka客家, Hsiang湘, Gan贛, Jin晉.
Being in the same branch does not mean they are all mutually intelligible. If taking all varieties into account, one may even say there are more than 100 Chinese languages. So.. yea.
Oh, by the way, since these languages are old, there are reconstructed Middle Chinese and Old(!) Chinese. Hmm, What would the reconstruction sound like in 2077?
2. Writings: Today, we usually say like "modern vs classical", "traditional vs simplified (simplified as governments promoted, in the PRC, Singapore, Malay, Japan)". In old days, the first distinction was always vague. Even in today, it still is. The traditional vs simplified thing is like common sense today, but in old days, it never existed.
People in ancient China would recognize two distinctions - 1. Commonly written vs less commonly written vs written for aesthetics, depending on regions, 2. super ancient "WTF is this, pictures flying around" letters vs easy to write with brushpen letters which are like (or just are) the Chinese words you see above.
And... Calligraphy!!!
3. Clothing: Actual Chinese clothing, after centuries of demise and oppression, is being revived. Future development until 2077 should be interesting.
4.
Ah, shit man. Family bullshit again. I can't think further right now. I'll leave this here for you guys.