"You want a black character in smash!? Now I wish I had voted for a racist fascist, that would learn ya!"
This thread really rusttled your jimmies enough to make you dig out this two year-old account that only just reached 10 posts?
If Smash is seen as a history book of gaming, it's one of the worst ones you could imagine. For starters, it obviously only covers games that were on Nintendo platforms, and even then it's a very specific curation of that history.
I agree with your observation that it seemes that equality fight in the USA has a somewhat important, and unique, aspect in the equality of representation in the media/TV/Movies. I am also trying to understand this tendency.
That's actually rather dismissive. Racism against Black people exists all over the world, & the need for representation in media exists no matter where you are. It's not just specific to the US. No matter where you go, stuff like those racist spirits shouldn't be tolerated.
Not my intention to be dismisive, i apologize if it seems like that, i wrote i need to understand it...and if you will i need to listen, or to read and thread like these help me in this .
Honestly I see people saying they could put Doc Louis in the game and what would he even be like? Mac is already unfairly super garbage in the air, are they going to just make him a heavier Mac and just even more incredibly crap in the air? Him getting in would be fun but like can they rework Mac too so we can have two characters that are fun to play as instead of two that will basically always be awful?
nintendo gave a set of moves to fucking duck-hunt dog, they can figure it out
I mean yeah, but I'm guessing he'd play like Mac be some kind of semi echo or whatever. I'm not arguing against it, I'm just saying if it happens please fix Mac too. Don't make both of em terrible air fighters please lol.
Like I said in the OP, let's not diminish the importance of Min Min being Smash's first Chinese character. It's a shame that she came at the cost of Twintelle, but Min Min is a great pick in her own right.
Not seeing the issue of a japanese videogame not having black characters isn't racism, because in Japan black racism is a very different thing than in the US. Yes, there's racism all over the world, but the issue have it's particularities in each country, because it's history is different in each place. You are being bothered by this fact (lack of black representation in Smash) because of your background, you need to understand that, in a different background, black racism and the fight against it can be very different depending of the place. It would be better if we learn the view of black japanese citizens about the issue.
He'd be awesome. He doesn't need to be an echo of Mac or anything. He can be his own character.
This is true as well and what I'd hope for, I just don't want more characters that are as shitty as Mac in the air and I'm afraid that would happen to him if he were ever playable. What they did to my boy is just super disappointing.
I'm saying that you are consuming willingly the product of another country. Demanding they change it because of issues relating to specifics about your culture, instead of theirs, is a colonialistic mentality.
To defer all the blame to the industry is dismissive of the role Sakurai & Nintendo play in Smash's current situation. Yes, a solid chunk of the blame falls on the industry at large. But Sakurai & Nintendo could very well make the most of the options that exist regarding Black characters, & they choose not to. Like I said in the OP, we shouldn't have to wait for a magical Black main character to come along for us to get a Black character in Smash.
Honestly, even if there was a new game I still don't have much hope for Nintendo not fucking it up again unless the company activelly makes new black protagonist/main characters in their first party games.
What? Ah yeah, Japanese company Nintendo that only operates in that country and has no international presence, yeah. Alright.
No I mean, who's the big name character who'd be the first? Even someone like Shinobu from No More Heroes would always be joining AFTER Travis Touchdown. The three I mentioned are the ones I can think of that would be the big main draw/face of the game, and even Alyx would have the issue of Gordon Freeman likely dashing in first.
