Gameindustry.com: "30 years of black video game characters"

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Naughty Dog has done a pretty decent job in recent years:

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Seeing them all side by side like this makes me realize there's a bit of a pattern in their designs.

Regardless, Nadine was the best part of The Lost Legacy. She quickly shot up to becoming my favourite character in Uncharted. I hope to see another game with her and Chloe in the future.

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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.

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Vivienne was very rude and arrogant but she was my favourite. I always brought her along to hear what she had to say about the other party members. She was quite funny. I hope she returns in the next Dragon Age.

 

[Rackham]

I really like Barrett. He's one of my favorite characters in FFVII.

 

[Lulu]

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

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Soo good

 

[Silky]

Is Billie Lurk in this article? Can't click cause I'm on the train

 

[BossAttack]

How could they forget the best?

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Even now, years later, I still have the sudden urge to punk him in the face every time I see him mentioned.

 

[JusDoIt]

 

[Formless]

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Axel man what a beast.

 

[LoyalPhoenix]

I thought Marcus from Watch Dogs 2 was a pretty good character.

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i actually really liked those characters like when they were gonna watch the new trailer for that ingame movie and they turned off all the lights and asked if someone wanted snacks...like that's me watching star wars,marvel and dc trailers lmao

 

[Mafro]

I thought Marcus from Watch Dogs 2 was a pretty good character.

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Horatio in that game was really good too, I like the mission that went into him talking about the lack of diversity at his work ad Nudle (the game's Google equivalent)

 

[KomandaHeck]

BIG "THAT WAS SUHWEEEEEET" BO THE GOAT

 

[Tigerfog]

I loved Kimberly Fox from Kenji Eno's D2.

 

[batfax]

How about The Elder Scrolls: Redguard's Cyrus?

He's a pretty important character lore-wise, and holds a pretty nice status as the only TES hero that's actually defined by history and went on to have some pretty good adventures after the game's ending. Also, even though voice acting was still pretty rough in 1998, he left a pretty strong impression.