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Gotta give Microsoft props for bringing forth more women & people of color for their protagonists today (especially for black women)

Neoxon

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State of Decay 3, Everwild, As Dusk Falls, & The Gunk respectively​

The diversity they showed today should certainly be commended. To Microsoft & all of the developers attached to these games, good shit. Representation matters, & to see them deliver on that is worthy of praise. Granted, State of Decay 3 is probably gonna let you play as any survivor if the first two games are any indication. But to have a black woman as the poster woman for the game still deserves props.

Between Microsoft & Sony having more diverse leads lately, I'm liking where the industry is going with regards to gender & ethnic diversity in games. We still have a ways to go, but progress is progress.
 
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Shawt21

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Yup. I loved the show and all the games they showed, but this, to me, was really important and made the show much more special.
 
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Neoxon

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rohogums said:
Yeah, that was pretty cool. Looking forward to more black women in gaming!
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Same here, man. A shame Nintendo (the one I most actively follow) is lagging behind. But to see the others start to pick up the pace is reassuring for the future of the industry.

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Yup. I loved the show and all the games they showed, but this, to me, was really important and made the show much more special.
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I couldn't have said it better myself.
 
platocplx

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yup i love that there are more and more diversity of characters this gen.
 

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Neoxon said:
Same here, man. A shame Nintendo (the one I most actively follow) is lagging behind. But to see the others start to pick up the pace is reassuring for the future of the industry.
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Yup, Nintendo needs to start branching out more. I mean, I'm glad we can change our skin color in Animal Crossing but it's honestly the bare minimum. I want to see more.
 
sirap

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Yeah, gamepass is looking great. Shame it's not available here.

EDIT: My bad, I thought this was the gamepass thread
 
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rohogums said:
Yup, Nintendo needs to start branching out more. I mean, I'm glad we can change our skin color in Animal Crossing but it's honestly the bare minimum. I want to see more.
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Japan as a whole needs to step it up with regards to diversity in their games. But I highlight Nintendo since they're one of the Big 3 console makers, & the other two are already picking up the pace.
 
MistahS

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Love to see it.

Face of Gears atm: Kait Diaz

Senua

and possibly Joanna Dark in the future.

Three big IPs with women front and center.
 
Hey Please

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Where is Tell Me Why? It is the first title to feature a trans-man as one of the protagonists.

Also, do you play as a set character in State of Decay?

Edit: While not PoC, a definite minority nonetheless
 

Fredrik

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Yup. State of Decay 3 - Game reveal of the show. I loved every second of that trailer!
 
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Yeah, this is necessary and important.

The industry needs to majorly increase the speed it's moving when it comes to telling stories about a more diverse range of people and not relying on so much straight white male derivative garbage. Great to see quite a bit of it in the Xbox showcase.
 
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Hey Please said:
Where is Tell Me Why? It is the first title to feature a trans-man as one of the protagonists.

Also, do you play as a set character in State of Decay?

Edit: While not PoC, a definite minority nonetheless
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Oh yeah, Tell Me Why's trans-male lead (Tyler) also deserves props.

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Kazooie said:
Probabyl just meant for the other thread about gamepasses value.
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JusDoIt said:
I'm just saying, what Gamepass gotta do with this thread, fam?
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Hey Please said:
Yes but this is not the thread for that though.
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Neoxon said:
I think you're in the wrong thread.
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Whoops. Yeah, I swear I had that thread open. Early morning stream must've fried my brain.
 
Aaron D.

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This struck me as well.

Not only were we seeing diversity in main characters, we were also seeing less shoot-shoot / bang-bang adrenalized gaming that seems to completely dominate these events.

Super refreshing all around.
 
Mass_Pincup

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Black women were really lacking as far as main characters go, but outside of The Gunk, I'm waiting to see if they're actually main characters.

Hey Please said:
Where is Tell Me Why? It is the first title to feature a trans-man as one of the protagonists.

Also, do you play as a set character in State of Decay?

Edit: While not PoC, a definite minority nonetheless
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Unless they changed the formula you don't, and you don't really create a character or have a MC either. Everyone can die so you just switch characters back and forth.
 
MGPanda

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I noticed that too! Definetely a step in the right direction, the whole presentation had a decent amount of representation (specially Tell Me Why, I still can't wrap my head around the fact that there's finally a game with a trans protagonist).
 
Powerofthecloud

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As someone who's been playing video games since the '80s I wholeheartedly agree. Having more diverse protagonists at least changes things up it's a good thing.
 
Blizz

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Super cool showing in this regard, more diversity in the characters you play as only brings positives, hopefully we also start seeing more of it on the teams behind these works.
 
Armadilo

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They could do more though.

Yeah if only they cared about its black employees , Remember what they did to the black employee at Mixer, he brought up the issues to higher ups but was ignored when he called out the racism
 
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