Perhaps I should say, judging things based on complete information is just a universally agreed upon thing that's a good idea, so it might as well be a fact. I mean, I'm not saying you can't have an opinion on this incomplete trailer. But calling him "yet another white dude" is next to useless, because we don't really know whether he has any true defining characteristics that emerge due to the actual progression of story and characterization, because the only information we have is this 2 minute trailer that's supposed to show of a bunch of other stuff aside from the main protagonist.
If it makes you feel better, I would have known you're joking. But yeah, it's a bit close for comfort.
I agree. It's getting old to have to keep reminding designers and corporations that other people exist and are worth catering to. If people hurried up and became more progressive then we wouldn't have to keep having this discussion.
That really hasn't been the case for story driven games of basically all types for a long time now. At the very least since stuff like TLOU. Protagonists in video games these days do have an arc, and are well characterized, and do have depth. I mean heck, to see the most startling evolution of this example, just take a look at God of War. I'm sure you do have self-insert type characters still, but I think this game is definitely trying to tell a specific story about a specific main character and his journey.
Well then devs need to stop making white dudes the star of every major game of theirs then. It's not that hard
this really, for example for me I guess some people feel represented by any "latino" character but for a lot of people if they aren't from the same country or even region the character may as well be from new Zealand because it makes no difference.
And also one of the most interesting Star Wars characters in the last 20 years.Ezra is Middle Eastern,
Video games is far behind Hollywood and Hollywood itself is just now catching on.
Yeah, and look at what happens when games like TLoU take those chances: we have gamers talking about how Ellie being LGBT and telling a story from that perspective will "take them out of the experience" before the game is even released. There's a reason main characters are written to be the blandest character in most games and, yes, race, gender and sexuality all have a part to play in making them that way.
but how would you know he was white if he wasn't human. checkmate!
This is the second Star Wars game with a story that EA has released, and the first/other one starred a woman of Indian descent. Which was great, because who doesn't love Janina? But improving representation doesn't mean no more white male leads.
EA is certainly breaking no speed records with this license.
Let's just take the population of people who play games, since they're the ones interacting with this content. I'm pretty sure games don't even approach that. I don't know the exact numbers, but I do know there should be significantly more female leads
I mean, there are people at Disney that likely regret it exists.
Are you being serious? How have the recent female leads been very bad? Especially given the Hellblade example?
Lol at you thinking this AAAA game is being made with artistic vision in mind.
Yep. Also Cameron Monaghan is a fantastic actor and I have faith he will make it work.
Easier to not think about why people might dislike something when you assume they're just being irrational and angry.
