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Re: Race and Game Characters
Racism or bigotry? There is a difference. And we see it all the time in RPG if you choose between male and female in how come of the characters "hit" on you. Have people complained? yes. Do these titles still sell? yes. Your seeing demons where non-exist Frank. Also, it would be simple enough for a dev to CALL their local… -
Re: Race and Game Characters
[ QUOTE ] Racism or bigotry? There is a difference. [/ QUOTE ] The only difference is you can be a bigot about something besides race. [ QUOTE ] And we see it all the time in RPG if you choose between male and female in how come of the characters "hit" on you. Have people complained? yes. Do these titles still sell? yes.… -
Race and Game Characters
Just wondering. How many main/leading game characters are anything but Caucasian (or Asian for the Japanese/Korean market)? I guess in the MMPOG you can choose (right??). But what about mainstream single player portion games? I thoughy HL2 was at least a half a step forward since the main squeeze was half African American.… -
Re: Race and Game Characters
oXYnary : I think I lost track of where this discussion has gone, but of course that won't stop me from sharing some ideas I think your question's been answered, there are a few games where the ethnicity of the key character has been non-Anglo. SiN is an excellent example, I think, where there's nothing in the story to… -
Re: Race and Game Characters
well I know in some lucas arts games you can personalize your character. Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy and Knights of the Old Republic come to mind -
Re: Race and Game Characters
That sounds like an interesting concept. Its about time we got some historic typed games coming out that aren't about this war or that. There was a third person action game that came back a while ago starring a spanish woman. No idea what it was. I don't think it found a publisher over here. I suppose you could count Turok… -
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[ QUOTE ] The minority groups spend more money on car sterios than games. [/ QUOTE ] I can't believe you just said that. How sadly terribly ignorant. Anyhow, culture wasn't my point. Thats your own stigmatism coming into play. NFS:U Only played bits and pieces, but thats not character specific game. Paparappa? Thats a… -
Re: Race and Game Characters
I agree on the point that if the character is white it doesn't matter how you portray them. If the character is a minority people are going to scrutinize the situations you place them in and then come up with all kinds of ways that the developer has stereotyped that minority. I've already heard about the haitians making a… -
Re: Race and Game Characters
[ QUOTE ] The only difference is you can be a bigot about something besides race. [/ QUOTE ] Well looking in the dictionary.. We are both right and wrong depending on the definition in use. The main distinction for me is bigot is referenced to prejudice. Racist however has two definitions of note: Racist 1. The belief that… -
Re: Race and Game Characters
Afew mates and me were talking about this exact thing down the pub afew weeks ago about black main charcters in games,needless to say we came up with an exstremily small amount...GTA:SA being the most ovious we came up with. I agree totally about games needing to start thinking about mixing the race of the main charcters…
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