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Gameindustry.com: "30 years of black video game characters"
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Tom from Shenmue, but specifically the Japanese version where his character made a bit more sense, in it he speaks very basic Japanese, you know, like a foreigner might do instead of being, well whatever he was in the Dub.
B.D. Joe from Crazy Taxi - Always my favourite out of the characters from the 1st game, and was pleasantly surprised when he came back in Sonic All Star Racing and again in the sequel.
B.D. Joe from Crazy Taxi - Always my favourite out of the characters from the 1st game, and was pleasantly surprised when he came back in Sonic All Star Racing and again in the sequel.
Hi, I'm a Hispanic and no, I have never, ever identified as white, either colloquially nor on any census. Nor am I majority "White Spanish descent."
Go up to dominicans and ask them if they are black, and the overwhelming response you'll get is "no, I'm dominican."
Well, there was an A-Team game starring Mr T for the 2600, but it was unreleased, though you can get the prototype.
...what the hell are the first 3? Holy shit.
I thought Marcus from Watch Dogs 2 was a pretty good character.
He's the clear cut best example for me. So well done. All the characters in Watch Dogs 2 were, though.
https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/cyborg-crl-zx-spectrum-magazine-advert-ad-2854-92417675.htm
it's a bidding site, but here's cyborg from CRL for the ZX Spectrum. I think the lead designer / programmer was also Black, which was rare by in the early 80's...
it's a bidding site, but here's cyborg from CRL for the ZX Spectrum. I think the lead designer / programmer was also Black, which was rare by in the early 80's...
I'm from NYC and I know plenty of Dominicans who identify as black or afrolatino. I mean you can not claim it all you want but at the end of the day that's what you are, that's your roots. Fuck outta here with that and fuck outta here for calling me pathetic for accepting what I am. It doesn't make me or anyone less attuned with the culture of my country or the diaspora.
The new Wolfenstein games have some great ones. Grace in particular.
How often do you see a woman
in a game?
How often do you see a woman
breastfeeding her baby
in a game?
I'm calling you pathetic for not accepting what I am and speaking for me and others. Hispanic roots are predominantly native american, not african or caucasian. There is a very obvious reason why people would classify dominicans separately from black people, and it comes down to thousands of years of roots.
The new Wolfenstein games have some great ones. Grace in particular.
How often do you see a woman
breastfeeding her baby
in a game?
I loved her the second I saw the trailer with her. So far she's exactly the kind of character I wanted her to be.
That scene was certainly surprising, I can't think of a video game that's had one.
I follow you on the Crazy Taxi one but clearly Tom from Shenmue is not a black video game character, seems more like a caricature of what they might consider "black" at that time.Tom from Shenmue, but specifically the Japanese version where his character made a bit more sense, in it he speaks very basic Japanese, you know, like a foreigner might do instead of being, well whatever he was in the Dub.
B.D. Joe from Crazy Taxi - Always my favourite out of the characters from the 1st game, and was pleasantly surprised when he came back in Sonic All Star Racing and again in the sequel.
Well that's absolutely not true for Caribbean Latinos and you can choose to ignore it, or identify as you want. I am, what I am and it doesn't make me less Hispanic or Latino so Yea, fuck outta here with that. Also Rico is 100 percent afrolatino. So are Sean and Laura from SF.
Vanasha was definitely one of my favorite side characters in HZD.
And Three-Toe Huadiv but he isn't really relevant to this thread
Lots of good examples from Horizon ZD.
Sylens
Vala
RIP
Varl
Sona
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Yeah I get where your coming from on that, I suppose a better example from the same game would be Toms friend, Honey
Powerful presence and influence among the royalty of Orlais, no-nonsense, driven and skilled character. Racism against black people doesn't exist in Thedas, but it does on Earth, so the sight of a black female character in an important position in their society was much welcome.
Adam Hunter
There's my boy Adam. Always my favourite. Still clearly remember the first game of it I played on Christmas day.
Jonathon Blade!
This is not true at all. We absolutely see race and ethnicity in Latin America. Don't kid yourself, Latin Americans of Portuguese, German or Spanish ancestry are not going to tell you that they are the same ethnicity as everyone else in the nation. Only way someone identifies as "nation of origin" is because they are immigrants in another country. But in their original home where almost everyone else the same nationality as you, you don't go using something as broad and meaningless as your nationality as your ethnicity, you go deeper than that. You are descendant of Portuguese,or of the native population, or of Chinese, or of African descent, etc while still being Latin aAmerican, but never only your nationality.
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It's mutiplayer was super unbalanced from what I could remember. I remember once people realized it was easy to spawn trap the other side to the point they couldn't build up any resources to do anything other then spawn and then die if you tried to move out of the area it became pointless to keep playing and things just died. Very quickly I think feel. Like within days I think. I don't recall there being any patch to fix this either. Gameplay wise though the game was solid and story somewhat interesting. It's really a shame it died and wasn't supported.
Good: Lee Everett (Telltale's The Walking Dead)
Lee Everett was one of my top favorite characters of any game, hands down.
No love for Mr. Game & Watch?
I found the lack of diverse characters more understandable when console gaming was dominated by the Japanese, but these days it does strike me as odd. TV and movies are not perfect, but are much, much better about this than games for some reason.
I found the lack of diverse characters more understandable when console gaming was dominated by the Japanese, but these days it does strike me as odd. TV and movies are not perfect, but are much, much better about this than games for some reason.
Yeah he is a pretty good character and the game was goodI thought Marcus from Watch Dogs 2 was a pretty good character.
I wish I could go back to WD2. I never played the DLC, maybe I should. Were they any good?
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I wish I could go back to WD2. I never played the DLC, maybe I should. Were they any good?
I never did, But I did enjoy his character. I think the DLC of the first game turned me off of buying it for this one. I will look again.
Thousands of years ago, the concept of race is different. Rico can't be considered afro anything. He wasn't even born on planet earth. And there lies the problem. Race evolved from language, to people who were from the same area, to physical traits. That part is came about in the 17th century. What is horrifying is that it became a tool used to divide and separate and to simplify people, who have numerous nationalities in their blood, down to one signifying external trait. I will give you three guesses on why that came to be and another three guesses on how this makes the back and forth you are having even sadder.
Quartet's been mentioned (1986 for the arcade version). Pelé's Soccer (1980 on Atari VCS) is the oldest I can think of where the character has a name.
That article.. wasn't good. Black representation isn't great, but that list just ignores so, so much.
Fighting games tend to give me most of my favorite black heroes.
I would have been happier if they didn't bleach her skin in the sequels.
I got love for him. Dude was the most level headed out of the three. And
he makes the final decision at the end of the game
It can be argued that he's the main character of GTAV
Im dying for a sequel or remake.
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS.
One of my all time favorite games.
Thanks for posting this, you beat me to it!
DAT soundtrack. Dat atmosphere. Game was legit scary and well designed. There's no words to describe my love for Shadowman.
Another sequel or a remake and I would cry tears of joy.
Ps. Rockin' a Guts avatar too :)
They didn't remember him :(
LOL
The Suikoden series had a large amount of characters that were at least partially inspired by people with an African background;
Hugo
Lucia
Aila
Anne
Samus
Hugo
Lucia
Aila
Anne
Samus
Common is in a jrpg?? LolRemember when Nomura still designed normal characters?
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Lol, well a survivor horror game with rpg elements.
Also, now that you say that, I'd be up for an attempt at a Parasite Eve movie.
