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Why are video games the only medium where a product aimed at

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Why are video games the only medium where a product aimed at the black audience rarely succeeds? We got San Andreas, Def Jam FFNY and that's it.
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How about you enjoy your fucking games and not be a SJW cuck
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Because mostly white males play video games
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>>377979390
Because nigs don't play anything but sports games, the occasional fighter, and Kingdom Hearts.
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>>377979390
San Andreas is anti white kike trash you numale cuck piece of shit.
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>>377979390
Nba 2k sells well
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>>377979390
Because whites bitch and scream whenever a game has a black protagonist in it.

I'd like to see more black protagonists (as well as other PoC protagonists in general), but sometimes I feel like this industry is already poisoned. Shit ain't gonna change any time soon.
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>>377979472
There's nothing SJW about targeting a market and pandering to them of you feel like you will profit
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>>377979390
You also got every sports game. Which is all they play anyway.
So shut the fuck up.
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There are 2 types of "black gamers" that I've run into. The Madden/2k sports ones or the anime/fighting game ones.
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>>377979646
Kill yourself queer
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I'm Penny Proud
I am cute and I'm loud
and I got it going on
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>>377979607
so many buzzwords
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Gaming is the most expensive hobby.
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>>377979390
>the light half-white wife late 80s/90s/early 2000s meme

What was up with that anyway?
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>>377979865
>No argument
Typical numale cuck.
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>>377979918
Because white men wont touch black women so they make them whiter to appeal to them.
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>>377979918
colorism is real in the black community. Men often prefer lighter skinned black women for some reason.
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>>377979776
that's...surprisingly accurate
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why would you make a game aimed at a black audience? they have no money
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>>377979646
>PoC
Please explain to me how people of color is better than saying colored people
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You want it. Admit it


https://youtu.be/hZyYVDte1sw
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There are plenty of black targeted games

For example Melty Blood, and Blazblue
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>>377979390
>B-b-but ASIANS need more acting r-roles :(
>OP makes a valid point about so few games about black culture
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>>377979390
i loved The Proud Family. Penny was was and still is best loli
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>>377979390
Games "aimed" at the black audience are almost always controversy bait with uninteresting or outright broken gameplay. See Mafia 3 and Watchdogs 2.
San Andreas wasn't successful because it aimed for the black audience, it was successful because it was a good game.
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>>377979390
Majority of blacks don't play games outside of fighting games, fps, and sports.

>>377979646
>Because whites bitch and scream whenever a game has a black protagonist in it.

That is absolutely false and you know it. A minority on /v/ might but in the real world you will never see any outrage over a black protag.

San Andreas and Walking Dead are critically acclaimed and well loved by whites, who are the majority of people that played them.
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>>377979776
>>377980090
No it's not. /v/ is just stupid and can only think in terms of rigidly-defined stereotypes.
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>>377979918
Because even black men who like black women still want lighter skinned black women. Dark skinned women are considered undesirable. There have even been documentaries studying this phenomenon.

SJWs don't get it when you try to explain this either. When Beyonce and Nicki Minaj put on pale foundation and light lip gloss they aren't doing it for white people.
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>>377979390
How do you aim a game at black people? Make it about basketball? What kind games do black people want?
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We play games that are fun, not games that liberal faggots make to prove a point about black people they only saw on television. Stop falseflagging and fuck off back to wherever you came from.

Black people don't care about what a game's characters have, as long as it's fun.
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>>377980384
>I didn't even play these games and drank the /pol/ kool-aid

I agree with Mafia 3 but there's literally nothing wrong with Watch Dogs 2.
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>>377979646
No, we mock white, liberal nu-male developers who make characters certain ethnicities for the sake of pushing their political narrative onto people.
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>>377980523
I can see why. She actually looks quite beautiful with that skin tone.
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>>377980438
>That is absolutely false and you know it. A minority on /v/ might but in the real world you will never see any outrage over a black protag.
To be fair, nerds on the internet are a large enough group that they CAN have more pull than normies, since they're the ones who make the most noise online and are the most emotionally invested in vidya. Just look at RE6. It's actually one of Capcom's highest-selling titles and most normies actually loved it, but the backlash from hardcore RE fans was so huge, that they went in a more survival horror direction after the release of that game.

And it's not even just /v/. Way back on Gamefaqs iirc when GTA:SA was first announced, people were complaining about the black protagonist. It's just hard to believe now considering how well-received the game was.
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>>377980578
>Naruto game
>Indie rock soundtrack
>Fighting game genre
>Maybe a late 90s/early 2000s rapper like Jay-Z
>Story is conveyed through hilarious instagram captions
>Maybe a "We wuz ninjaz" plot to interest the cute skinny girl with an afro in your lecture
Done. Anything about sticking to stereotypes is a recipe to fail. Rappers like Lil Yachty and Kanye are for white people, but almost every black person I know eats up 90s-early 2000s.
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>>377980384
>watch dogs 2
>aimed at black people
the protag was basically an uncle tom geekboi
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Ever notice how nearly every time there is a black protagonist they're only partially black?
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>>377979390
probably because those games had content and people are trying to make the black characters and blackness a selling point of the game
like, fuck, if your game could stand on it's own, why does it matter if the characters are black or not?
It would satisfy people who actually buy and play games' desire to have fun and also satisfy the company's obsession to diversify their games
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>>377980885
/v/ does both, actually. I can sympathize with the latter, but the former is pretty disgusting. And considering that /v/ is racist as fuck, it's not hard to see how I might confuse anyone doing the latter for the former.
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>>377980384
>Mafia 3 and Watchdogs 2
>aimed at black people

PfffFFFAHHAHA that's like saying Prey is aimed at Asians.
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>>377979607

explain to me how it is anti white please
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what games are aimed at white audiences?
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Def Jam and San Andreas has enough personality to it that the race of the main cast doesn't matter. You could play as some wiggers or philippinos and it wouldn't take away from the experience. That's something that most devs don't seem to understand.

You can't just put minorities in a game like it's an item on you grocery list.
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>>377979918
What can you say about Phillip Banks? What the heck can you say about Phillip Banks?
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>>377980148
Because people of color puts the word people before the word color. That is literally their reasoning.
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There's not really any point in making videogames targeted toward any specific race.
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>>377979646
This!!
When can i get to play a game where you dress like a fabulous pimp?

how will the gameplay be??
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>>377980060
>>377980523
I just like how they look. I don't mind dark skinned girls or anything, but if it was between light skinned, brown, or dark, I'd always go light. I just thought it was because you'd associate the darker girls with the more ratchet hood types. Its kind of funny though since light skinned girls tend to have this stigma attached to them of being mean and stuck up.
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>>377980794
>there's literally nothing wrong with Watch Dogs 2.
You're joking, right? The diverse cast was handled clunkily as shit and the only two main characters with personality were the white guys. There were tons of issues with invisible walls extending past the objects they came from. Playing around with drones was fun but other than that WD2 was sub-par at best.
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>>377979390
Marlow Briggs is fucking awesome. Play it.
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>>377982554
Pretty sure you can do that in Saints Row.
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>>377979390
Because black gamers know that western games are shit
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>>377979390
>FFNY

Stop using abbreviations for less commonly known shit, fagotron. No one knows what the fuck you're on about.
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>>377979390
>Mom has bedroom eyes
>the fucking BABY has bedroom eyes

Pretty good movie, though.
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>>377984008
>Def Jam ffny
Gee, I wonder if this is some kind of abbreviation that is linked to the previous title he mentioned. I think I'll just Google it just to be safe though. Wouldn't want to make a fool of myself on the internet or anything.
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Probably because the black population in the US isn't big enough to help get high ratings on thing. And white people feel they're not allowed to play video games/watch movies with black leads.
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