Quote Originally Posted by lolnotacat View Post
You bring up a good point. They were trying to be "respectful" of cultures, but then they sanitize something that was a part of early American culture? Yes, duels didn't historically happen all the time like in the movies, but they did happen. Hell one of our founding fathers was killed in a duel with the vice president. And one of our presidents, Andrew Jackson was a notorious duelist.

If they didn't want to have the duel end in death, there are ways around it. Historically, many duels were about honor. Both participants would just shoot into the ground because they had no intention to harm each other. Also before the invention of rifling, a lot of duels just ended with both participants missing each other, shrugging their shoulders because honor was satisfied, and goin home.

Whatever "cultural sensitivities" CBU3 was adhering to seems to be directed towards a group of people who wouldn't care that they got American culture wrong.
The rubber bullet thing was the first time in game where I thought "Wait, are they having some westerners write for them now?!?" because its such a weird western culture warrior way to sanitize American wild west gun culture. Japanese writers usually have no problems with portraying a violent gun culture, indeed its the usual meme in Japanese media when presenting "americans".