Post non-white video game characters before E3 2017
>>380273596
Every fighting game have a bunch.
My main
>>380273596
holy shit sazh was a top tier character
if they want to make a black character they should learn from them and not just force one for the sake of MUH DIVERSTIY
He's not white
>>380273987
DELETE THIS
>>380274590
A man with patrician taste right here
As long as the character's whole identity isn't being black, there's literally nothing wrong with it
Sazh was a sick pilot with a chocobo in his fro, and he just happened to be black
It's when you start trying to tackle social inequity and drumpf in vidya that people get tired of it
Fuck, I'm black and I'm tired of that shit
>>380273596
The only one that matters desu
>>380274901
I am white and you absolutely fucking get it. This shoehorned diversity is fucking cancer, and does nothing to advance your race
>all black
if I was an alien I'd think only whites and blacks exist
Another one
>>380275109
If you were a human that was white or black you would as well.
>>380273596
>No Barret
Truly neo/v/ is awful.
>>380273658
e3 2017 nigger edition.
>>380275508
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>>380273596
NO MORE SHEVA
videogame devs are such hacks, they cant make a single decent character
>>380274901
exactly
the characters they make now are just "this black guy from mafia 3". there is 0 character to them its just "this black guy that you remember because was black
>>380275471
Barret is white
>>380275471
barret was an actual nigger who behaved like a nigger, he hardly counts
>>380273596
Sazh was the fucking best thing to come out of FF13, the only character who had good background and character growth throughout the game.
It's a shame he's stuck in such a bad game.
>>380275704
>he rapes you in the middle of the battle
Based Rodin
>>380273596
I mean I'll gladly do this all day, i just wish i had different Shevas to post.
what exactly is the point of this diversity trend?
>non white
so literally any japanese game?
>No memers posted the unpostableHE
I'm fucking shocked at you anons
Post black characters before the sjw downhill of 2007
>>380276027
oh really i didn't know nigger where knowed for their fatherly instinct
>>380276067
I wannakissher
>>380276115
Social Media is largely controlled by virtue signalling faggots who have game devs convinced they are the majority when it fact they are a tiny minority.
They'll get it eventually, but many more games will have to fail.
>>380273596
>>380273658
>>380274382
>>380274567
>>380274891
>>380274971
>>380275370
>>380275440
>>380276027
And for the most part, these are all have interesting designs. I couldn't care less about the skin color of the character, but at least put some effort into the design instead of making them all black chicks with afros and a 70s look.
That's just laziness.
>>380275216
That's not CJ. That's Caesar , but I get what you're saying.
>>380275631
Those astronauts never found her
>>380276334
wolfenstein is still made after 20 years
fuck off back to your kekistani land
>>380276115
Tekken is diverse as fuck
>>380276548
I have no idea what you're trying to say here.
>still no Big Bo
That wasn't very SA-WEEEET of you.
>>380276552
I love choco taki, most fighters are pretty diverse never understood how games weren't
>>380276552
>>380276779
>>380276067
Never to appear in any future RE game although she'd be a prime candidate now that the original cast are either dead or old as fuck.
>>380273658
Why did he turn black?
>>380276418
Which is absolutely what the issue is but not what vox, kotaku, and huffpost will report
The black chick in the new Wolfenstein sorta makes sense to have around. If nazis controlled the US they'd have a reason to join whatever resistance there is. The new order had Jimmy Hendricks
>>380277067
He's always been black, even in the image you posted
>>380275471
i was going to post him anon
>>380277236
Doesn't look black to me. He has the same skin color as king in this cutscene
He's my fav black character.
SF characters are a mix of irl martial artists, movie stars, sportsmen and anime. Boxer he's based on Iron Mike, which is a fucking beast of a famous boxer.
Since Iron Mike is black, it does make sens that Boxer is black.
Since Iron Mike is vicious, violent and greedy, Boxer is vicious, violent and greedy too.
Boxer isn't pandering. Boxer isn't SJW nor blackface. Boxer is just your best anime Mike Tyson.
This gross swamp lady.
>>380277537
I thought Shadow hated Black creatures
>>380276948
Brown girls with god tier legs are the best
>>380277464
Who would win?
>>380277464
>>380277537
Happy kwanza!
>>380278215
>>380277735
>>380277942
Balrog (Boxer) hands down. He's way more memorable than your losers.
Boxer is the perfect SF character: anime version of something globally famous.
Deejay on the other hand is the less inspired character in the whole SF universe.
>>380278775
maybe so but they are not white, which is the point of this thread
>>380277091
It's also not what nu-/v/ thinks it's about.
>>380275328
garrus was the whitest cricket alive dont kid yourself
>>380279107
I fucking hate nu-4chan in general. They think this is some place to be edgy instead of somewhere to post your unfiltered opinion
>>380279130
>posting a whitey in a diversity thread
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Alternate Universe time!
every white video game character is now black.
and
every black game character is now white.
now draw your fave white as a black and vice versa.
>>380279130
he is not white
he is dead
>>380276249
Right?
Other characters trying to be attractive draw attention to their ass, tits, thighs, etc, but Sheva's best asset is her face and especially her eyes. I think she is easily one of the prettiest characters in vidya history.
>>380276418
Agreed.
I think it has to do with the progressive stack thing socjus is all about. Black females with natural hair (fros) are looked down upon, thus they have to be represented.
It's just boring.
>>380279841
>>380279415
......how kaiden is white?
he's some kind of future-race mongrel. don't slander him this way
>>380280213
>the original diverse character
>>380280095
>>380280398
>>380276979
>nu-RE
>nu-Capcom
Nigga, be glad. Be eternally glad...
>meanwhile 0 rep for chinese people
WHO YOU?!
>>380280709
I would say minsc is white
>>380273596
Why'd you post 3 of the same character?
>>380280785
also
>>380281192
were you born a retard or was this developed later in life?
>>380280785
and also
Literally my favorite character in Mass Effect 1 for all the sacrifices he makes for Shepard without a second thought. And not once does he mention being black or some other retard identity politics bullshit, which I am almost certain modern (((Bioware))) would bring up constantly
>>380281491
is this Zasalamel from SC?
>>380275440
Ah so this is what Diversity actually looks like.
>>380281835
yes
>>380281812
>tfw bioware used to make compelling diverse characters without even thinking before shoehorning them in because muh diversity
>>380276027
>environmentalist, good daddy, stronk community values
Did you even play the game through?
>>380282167
#%&$ nigga
Yes
>>380281812
Fuck, the feels man
>>380281812
>Have a great black VA
>Make his character black to suit him
Bam, that's it. Everyone's fucking happy.
>ywn give sheva a nice feet massage
Hold me boys
>>380273596
>No CJ
The fug, famalam?
>>380282462
>2017
>No no no thats not enough, we have to make sure he states that he is black and there to crush white cis males!
t. modern game devs
>>380282462
Yup, and nobody pays attention to his skin colour because his character fits so well into the story
best character
>>380279841
I just got done playing Resident Evil on the Gamecube for the first time.
I played RE5 around 2010 I think, and I always believed how "it's not a resident evil game". Fuck you, yes it was. It's an action Resident Evil game. But wouldn't you expect Chris Redfield to have gotten gud at killing zombies by now? If he still stumbled around like an idiot I'd be disappointed.
Also there's some references and just general gameplay aspects that I recognised were done as a callback to REmake. When examine those weird meat things the majinis are processing you're told it's "meat of unknown origin", like the meat in the basement of the Spencer Mansion. You collect gemstones, not for puzzles sadly but for money. You can read gratuitous amounts of lab research documents and other files to soak up some background story, and build some atmosphere.
The graphics are still fucking great. I busted out my 360 to play some Mercenaries lately and it's still fun, especially since now I've got some pretty good routes and character strategies figured out.
Also Sheva was great. Sexy, but with some character, and not a generic "black woman because diversity" appeasement.
>>380281812
Fortunately the trilogy finished before the new devs could fuck it up
>>380283824
>before
Did you finish ME3?
Also
>ME Andromeda
>>380284096
Ending was meh but I still really enjoyed it
90% of these are from fighting games. And you know what? It makes sense because the demographics fit that genre.
This thread disappoints me.
>>380285825
so make it less disappointing
>>380286256
I just did, dumb dumb.
>>380285290
she was so qt
>>380286337
Someone already commented on CJ so you added nothing.
>>380283001
She doesn't fall under any character stereotype, she's just positive, supportive, loyal and competent. The perfect PARTNAH.
Many retards didn't like her because they don't know how to control the AI or make it effective.
>Leave her on Cover unless you absolutely need the firepower
>Give her health times
>Give her the SVD
>Give her weapons with penetration capability
>Give her a magnum
>Give her the protective vests (or don't because they cover part of her pretty skin)
Bam, you are set. She is the fucking terminator with the SVD or any other sniper rifle.
RE5 gets memed a lot, it's pretty sad. My only problem with RE5 on consoles is that you can't turn off the piss filter, even there is pointless option for extra filters in the game.
I can't believe I forgot about Fran
>>380276827
Bo the bro.
>>380286802
Caesar you mean.
>>380287449
Those guys were so ridiculously over the top sassy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3rKPYvPXSU
This whole thread is proof that fuck you mah diversity
>>380280785
LMAO. Try Indians, bet you won't find more than a handful.
>>380288430
>>380288430
>>380289032
what kind of indians you want senpai
>>380289032
Dot not feathers
>>380280785
My wife is chinese.
>>380288430
also
I like her design, a shame she's stuck in a mediocre game.
One of the protag of Suiko3, his mom and pretty much his entire tribe
>>380288430
see>>380287101
>>380280785
>>380288430
Or do you mean
>>380273596
guild wars nightfall is basically a game where africa and middle east are very respectfully depicted. it showed a bit poverty of people living in savanna, showed some excessive splendor of arabian elites. and guess what? it didnt need any agenda behind it. it was a simple game with great setting.
>>380288430
>>380289426
>>380290352
Some nigress stole my chance at godhood, so fuck that
>>380288430
I think he is
>>380288430
Nigger please, fine ONE New Zealand character
>>380280785WEI SHEN MOTHERFUCKER
>>380289953
>delicious brown with red hair
That's pretty much my default character if the game has character creationwith green eyes and freckles
>>380279415
>white
he's gay, you reddit fucking shit
>>380280785
How about a GOOD german character?
look at fucking Leo from tekken..
>>380273596
>>380292537
>literally the whitest
>>380273596
Sazh was the best part of the trainwreck that was FF13
>>380292537
#NotAllSkeletons
>>380291798>you will never go back in time to become you love interest's mother
>>380289953
I never played this one, but that design is great.
>>380275538
>pretending Uncharted, Crackdown, Knack, Dishonored, Wolfenstein and fucking sports games didn't have black people in it before
lol
>>380274567
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIvx-fKFwVk
>>380296776
2bh sports games all ready fulfill the diversity quota that people keep harpin on about
>>380296091
She's asian in real life.
>>380298168
Still non-white
>>380273596
half the overwatch lineup
>>380273596
Why did they have to change the virus stuff into glowing shit? The look from the first game was good.
>>380274567
this nigga looks good
my favorite is the one from killer 7 tho
We need more dogversity.
>>380275854
>>380276027
>>380274620
>pulled over 'cause I ain't caucasian
>>380299960
I really like this art
>>380300385
I really like this art too but differently
>>380273596
Is Venom an arab or black? I can't tell. Not really ultra concerned, but I was just never sure.
Glad that Daisuke is one of the few devs to realize that future England would have people like this.
>>380277882
>no one posting the best nigga
I'll do it
>>380276240
We all know that Barret stole that kid from her real mother.
So i think he is nigger enough.
Iori Yagami is asian, thus non-white.
If you say some shit like "why doesn't he look asian?" that's basically the same as saying "where are his ching chong ding dong slanty eyes?".
>>380299960
>tifa
muh fugen dik
>>380274901
You're not Black. Shut the fuck up. You disgrace yourself by kowtowing to white boys. Our identity is being Black. Our WHOLE identity. We are all different and our culture has many nuances. I won't be ashamed of me.
>>380275440
the chick from remember me is black?
>>380299960
I unironically like dreadlock Sephirot
>>380302086
No one said anything about shame. It's more about needless politics being cumbersome. This is like saying that avoiding pointless fights makes you cowardly.
>>380273987
I one can only imagine what it would be like if D2 was released today.
>>380300902
>would have people like this.
Gays? I think England has plenty of those already.
>>380303117
>WE
>>380301972
>If you say some shit like "why doesn't he look asian?"
He does tho
All this SJW propagated bullshit in the last couple years has brainwashed us all to hyper-focus on race more than ever. In their attempts to push "equality" they have actually made it awkward for everyone.
>>380280576
>file name is a judas priest reference
i like you. keep on keepin on
>>380299960
this art really resembles el shaddai that has an actual nigga whos pretty aesthetic. nobody in the west knows of him tho.
>>380302949
He actually looks like a credible villain and not a gay fuccboi.
>>380302884
well she definitely ain't white
>>380303481
Game is bad tho.
>>380273596
>>380303250
he's not gay, he's zato-sexual.
>>380303478
I've had people tell me "a-anime looking characters don't count" in these sorts of discussions before, oddly enough.
>>380303259
>why does she have to be Indian?
>why does she have to be so ugly?
poles aren't white
>>380274390
kek
the KANG himself
Shinobu from No More Heroes.
Its the meme afro done right
>>380282462
If Mass Effect came out today /v/ would bitch a put this character and say he was forced diversity.
>>380274567
Steam release when =[
>>380282943
Michael Mack was the best Redguard voice actor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoxgQ48SAqo
>>380289953
Good designs and good soundtrack.
Daness is literally my waifu. Much cooler than Anastasia.
The entire cast of Yakuza
>>380300385
>people cry about new call of duty being sjw'd
>>380304787
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>>380305384
How is that diverse? All the same race.
Pai Chan is Chinese, thus a minority in Japan.
>>380304442
Isn't BJ also a jew?
>>380305521
Thread is non-white not diverse
asians are not non-white stop posting asian characters
>>380305521
They had a half asian half black kid in 3 who becomes a pro baseball player in 6 tho
>>380306050
>asians are not non-white
I know that asians act like robots, but damn anon, they are still human
>>380273596
Call me Don Dindu, white boi.
Looking at all these blacks and literal aliens makes me wonder what went wrong when designing one.
>>380305384
>>380305521
> How is that diverse? They are not all black.
FTFY.
>>380303117
>Everyone gaming was more tolerant before but also used a shit ton of offensive language towards minorities
It's almost as if pushing artificially hard towards super acceptance rustles people up.
Really poked you in the grey matter.
>>380304841
/v/ would complain about a bunch of games they like if they came out today and only claim to like them because they came out at happier points in their lives.
>Deus Ex is tinfoil hat wearing bullshit for alt-right nutjobs
>Diablo is a retarded Christfag brainwashing game in disguise. Can't fool me, Blizzard, I know this game is all appeal to emotion.
>Mario is a randumb faggy platformer. Talking mushrooms and evil turtles? They definitely want the Twitch audience for wacky streaming.
>Legend of Zelda? Why do I want to play a game about some gay weeaboo anime swordsman?
>Metal Gear Solid? This is just a meme game. They even mention memes! Why am I just running around in cover while these non-sequitur bad guys attack me in this stupid popamole cinematic """"shooter""""?
>Mortal Kombat? This is just some edgy, attention whoring weeaboo game that wants to try so hard to look Japanese, it's pathetic.
>Sonic? This is just literal furry pandering. There is no reason for a character like Cream to exist outside of loli furry pandering, Tails is for the shotafags, and Knuckles is only there for forced nigger diversity, 0/10
>>380302979
What this thread proves is that it's been normal to see black people in video games for approx. forever. What's new is that the industry, in accordance with today's norms, feels the need to engage with the audience constantly and on every little aspect of their work.
I think pointing out "hey we made a black character" is problematic because it makes it seem like there's something unusual and newfangled about that. It's a sort of dog whistle. There's no such thing as a pointless fight for publicists -- if it pisses off the trolls, and the SJW crowd gets counterpissy, that's invaluable metabuzz and any related coverage inevitably makes the company look like they are being somehow brave
I think most black people would like be represented in media as though they belong there, not as though it's a challenge to some authority. The only authority is the market, which is obviously keen on seeing more diversity in games and esp. among protagonists so congrats publishers on deciding to sell more games. Most of the characters in this thread are NPCs or part of a cast with no lead, i.e. fighters.
>>380290805
>>380305921
nah, never confirmed, he's a filthy slav though
>>380280785
>>380288430
>tfw all Middle Eastern characters are terrorists
>>380289461
>overshit
Are there any pacific islander video game characters
>>380290352
Oh I'm sure if it came out today you'd see endless /pol/dittors shitting up /v/ with threads crying about it
>>380285618
FGC is like it is because there was actual black representation in the original games, not the other way around.
>>380290805
There's one in the entire Rainbow Six series, but that's pretty much cheating
>>380307887
Umaga from Smackdown vs Raw 2007
>>380307887
Path of Exile is full of Polynesian shit
>>380288430
gas yourself and your victim complex along with you currynigger scum, go look for 10 seconds on google
>>380307217
I get your point, but even if something has a potentially good result, I'm not sure about the implications or the person's intentions. Do you think most of those devs actually care about black people or do they really just want brownie points? It's like affirmative action. Sure, getting a new job is great, but did they actually think I was the most qualified, or did they really just give it to me to say they did? Now it doesn't feel like I really accomplished much of anything.
>Post non-white video game characters before E3 2017
>everyone posts black characters
I guess every other race is white.
>>380299960
Latifa and Sephiroth look good.
>game where EVERYONE is black
>instant cult classic
all you have to do is not push a fucking agenda
>>380307783
What about the one in SF V and Prince of Persia?
>>380307164
Maybe, I think it has more to do with a steady trickle of Poe's law and newfaggotry and seeded this board with people who see everything as inflammatory.
>>380288430
>what is far cry 4?
>>380307217
>What this thread proves is that it's been normal to see black people in video games for approx. forever.
It doesn't show that because the characters in this thread make up probably half the amount of blacks in games yet there are thousands of games in existence.
Pulling some hyperbolic numbers out of my ass, there's like 1 brown character with a name and voice per every 50 games.
>>380308459
You want me to post monster girls?
>>380275538
>So fucking mad
What's the matter? You thought voting Trump was going to put an end to all this?
>>380308459
White people think that anime characters are white
>>380304442
Quit posting communists
>>380305142
yo what's this from, need to masturbate to this
>>380307783
Shaheen
Rashid
Do you count turks? If so, Hakan from Street Fighter.
Pullum Purna
Arguably Shantae.
>>380291798
What's wrong with Leo other than ambiguous gender? I rather like her overall.
>>380275708
Well, there's really no reason to single out the black ones then, or the gay ones, or the female ones for that matter, is there?
>>380288430
>>380308817
I think the point he was trying to make wasn't about the abundance of non-white characters so much as a preestablished apathy towards race.
RIP Prey 2 Bounty hunter edition
oh well at least the new one is good
Demopan
>>380309546
Ah, fair enough
>nobody posted one of the most GOAT designs in recent memory
>>380304825
It's not even fucking hard, the black woman + black afro is so boring.
>>380275767
How is that true though if you've actually played the game?
>>380307783
>>380309149
Lilith's Captive Market.
>>380309763
>Pharah
>Middle eastern
She's black
>>380304932
Best swordstyle
>>380309212
This is something I never understood. People complain about minorities being written badly or stereotypically, but basically all video game characters are cliched tropes or blank slates. Isn't "generic bald space marine" also a meme?
The kid from Papo and Yo.
>>380279268
Those tend to overlap a lot anyway. The real problem is that edginess has become a matter of dead seriousness to some people. WE WUZ KANGZ is the most tired fucking forced meme in existence, but oh no, SJWs hate it, so it's a matter of free speech, so you have to do it every single fucking time there's a black video game character anywhere, or "they" win. Can't we talk about the games for a change?
>>380280629
Malcom will always be mah nigga
>>380306667
Best turk is blonde girl tho.
>>380310187
Literally an arab from Egypt. You know Egyptians are mostly arabs, right?
>>380307783
>>380307863
Doesn't stop her from being non-white.
>>380289953
>>380291384
>Be black
>Wish I had red hair
At least I have hazel eyes. Even if you can barely tell.
>>380310557
Do we know if she's ethnically egyptian, so probably coptic or arabic muselman egyptian?
>>380307187
People say all of those thing regardless.
>>380310765
Become a Gerudo
>>380310570
I would fucking die for a sequel.
>>380310862
I have only ever seen one Deus Ex Alt Right comparison on here.
>>380310557
Sorry sweetie but tumblr told me Pharah is a proud Nubian woman
>>380308974
They are
>>380308298
I have the same issues with AA and I also think it's impossible to know for sure what anybody's intentions are any of the time. I mean, who can you ask? Not the person whose intentions you want to know.
I'm white, so I know what it means to get breaks I'm not sure I deserve. I've decided to just take them and act grateful, and it's everyone else's problem to figure out why they do or don't do the right thing. I'd like it if people made more diverse games just because they'd be more interesting, but ultimately I'm only going to play the ones that are actually interesting -- meanwhile, it'll become more normal, just like it's become more normal to hire black people onto a job without being forced to. That's good, but nobody deserves thanks for it, and certainly, neither do game devs
>>380308817
True, they've been too rare. Most of these are Jap games, to boot. But it wasn't UNUSUAL or controversial, either in a positive or negative sense.
>>380310773
All I know for a fact is that she's half white.
>>380275684
>mfw no more Sheva
>>380310284
It's a lot easier to understand when you realise a lot of gamers, and /v/irgins especially, are sheltered white boys with a load of unexamined biases.
>>380310862
Not him but I think the point is that those games wouldn't even get the chance to become popular before hipsters show up.
Imagine a timeline that's identical to ours except for the fact that Earthbound came out today. What do you think the reaction to it would be?
>>380312041
Stay out of my white nationalist hobby REEEEEEE
>>380299890
Killer 7 is my favorite multicultural game
not sure if he counts sincehe's a daemon
>>380273596
Black characters use to have actual work put into them, not just forced. Sassy black woman with afro is probably the easiest shit to design and write.
They wanna earn points with black people and the "diversity" liberal cunts, and it will work because those people don't realize how shallow the characters are.
>>380311251
Usually not.
With the way anime characters are drawn, there usually isn't a large focus on their nationality. Characters are made to look "universal" and then a person's mind fills in the blanks. I've noticed this pattern where I ask people from different regions about what they think anime characters look like and their answer will vary. I've met Mexicans (from Mexico, not Mexican-Americans) that unironically believe characters like Pegasus Seiya are the same race as them since, again, with how anime characters are drawn, they could just be light skinned Mexicans for all they knew. I've asked asians the same question and they'll say "he's definitely Japanese". I'm sure some will bring up hair color, but a lot of anime characters have hair colors of an unnatural palette anyway. How many people are born with purple or blue hair?
Anyway, the easiest way to tell is the name, most of the time. Look at these two characters. Left is Fuudo Yusei, a Japanese man. His name is written with Kanji (Chinese characters) so it's obvious that he is supposed to be of asian descent. Compare him to his rival on the right, Jyakku Atorasu (Jack Alus). His name is written in Katakana (phonetics). This is how the names of foreigners are written since there are no Chinese characters for the names of westerners.
>>380276394
thats fukcing great
>>380312041
What? It seems more like the tumblrinas complaining about badly written minorities since they haven't played enough video games in general to realize that white males also have plenty of shitty plot holes associated with them.
>>380313256
pretty sure daemons are non-white
>>380313596
Here's the secret: black people haven't changed. The steady drip of memes being force-fed right into your brain by the reverse social justice warriors of /v/ has changed.
You're literally complaining about how "shallow" a bunch of characters are from games you haven't even played yet. The only thing shallow is your familiarity with the characters.
>>380312058
>kiddy animeshit for retards
>lolis and shotas everywhere
>fedora plot about aliens
0/10
>>380308470
>Latifa
+10 of my personal internets for you my friend
>>380313729
*Fudou Yuusei, sorry, screwed that up since I was writing from memory.
>>380310284
>>380310284
>People complain about minorities
its pretty simple desu
>situation in the west
people who make games: 80% white, 15% asian, 5% pajeet
people who play those games: 80% white,10% asian, 10% hispanics and blacks
>situation in japan
people who make games: ~100% japanese
people wh play those games: 85% japanese, 15% weebs from abroad
so the default is that games made by white people for white people are full of white people, and games made by japanese for japanese are full of japanese.
now suddenly we get a bunch of companies putting a bunch of niggers in their games, while at the same time putting out press releases about how much they love diversity.
so we ask "what did they mean by this?" and "why do they do this?" and the answers we get are buzzwords like "representation" and "diversity" - which essentially boils down to "we do it because that's our political agenda".
naturally, when you enter politics and pick a side, you end up alienating the other side. companies pander to the left, they alienate the right. that's why the backlash happens. it's not as simple as "lmao drumpftards triggered by black people" that creates the backlash - it's the ideology, the political platform that these companies openly profess to, that creates the backlash.
Why are white people making such a big deal about these characters again? We've had to deal with underrepresentation in gaming for 20 years. Stop whining and enjoy the games.
>>380273596
>>380314992
No one is entitled to representation.
If it was up to me, i'd ban all human characters.
>>380305142
what the fuck
this image is doing things to me
>>380306140
delicious chocolate bunny
>>380314992
>all the topics brought up at E3
>but black people though!
Fuck off.
>>380314992
I wouldn't give a shit if they were interestingly designed and well written, but no, this very E3 there were three generic, interchangeable stronk blaq womyn with an over ''fuck whitey'' attitude. And of course, none of them will have any depth to them because a lawed black person is RACIS.
Ironically, the oh-so racist, xenophobic Japs make cool looking non white characters with interesting stories and with no ulterior agenda.
>enjoy the games
CLETUS GET THE ROPE
>>380294490
She's egyptian.
>>380314950
That's not what I was implying.
What I meant was "a bunch of people get angry about offensive stereotypes" when that's basically 95% of game character thanks to lazy writing all around. I see people, even on /v/, saying things like "name a GOOD gay character" and then when you give an example, they'll go "kek, he said this one thing I don't like, so it doesn't count". What I'm asking is, would these people put this much examination towards a non-gay character? Most game writers are hacks and washouts that couldn't make it in Hollywood or as real writers, so they're forced to write for video games. Look at someone like Kratos. He's practically a one note character most of the time with his focus and motivation being revenge. Or look at games with excuse plots like Bad Dudes. Why do people not complain about shitty writing in those? How about the plot of Virtua Fighter? Most of the characters haven't had any real development in several installments. Akira is still just training to become the best and nothing more. Is that okay? Should they push extra hard to give him a new motivation? It would be like complaining about a flat character in Naruto that is also a different race or whatever. Half of the characters are written like shit in it anyway, so why is it a big deal now? This isn't even shocking or surprising when the protagonist already has a bunch of flaws.
Do you mean that people wouldn't even mind/notice the shitty writing if the devs didn't make a big deal about their agenda since they'd have a lower standard of expectation?
Lee and Clem from Telltale Walking Dead
Roland from Borderlands
Lesbian gjrlfriend from Last of Us
Ajay in Far Cry 4
Deslin Rowe in inFamous Second Son
Prophet in Crysis 2
Almost everyone in Dead Island and Riptide
Chell in Portal looks pretty Asian to me
Prince of Persia obviously not white
Kratos wasn't even white before the ash
You guys need to chill and just play what you want to play and stop caring about the skin color of the character. If the game is good then it won't matter. And if the game is shit because the character is black then they won't fuck that up again.
>>380311538
>Egyptian
>Half white
WE
>>380316319
Yeah because thousands of generic, interchangeable stronk whyte men is so much better
>>380316058
I think that's the thesis of this thread- nobody actually should care.
>>380316804
Her mother is Egyptian. Father is Canadian. She lived in Egypt, though.
>>380317267
LEAF'D
Probably the first black female protagonist and also the best one.
>>380314992
cause they have nothing to do other than that
this thing if anything shows western devs cant do anything new but such pc/sjw things
so they get frustrated by it. if theres something new that excites them they wouldnt really complain about it. i mean western devs suck
>>380317645
So what you're really saying is you want new IPs
>>380311538
She's half Native American.
>>380303996
Her mom is black.
>>380316319
Only one character has what you'd describe as a 'fuck whitey' attitude, and she's living in a world run by Nazi's and Klansman, so it would make sense in this case. In fact, now that I think about it, she doesn't even have that seeing how she willingly working with white people even before the protagonist showed up. Her attitude is more of a 'fuck Nazi's' one more than anything, but that doesn't matter to folks like you. All you see is what you want to see.
>>380317227
>games produced by white men for markets primarily composed of white men primarily feature white men as the characters in their game
Whoa, who'd have imagined?
>>380316591
>Do you mean that people wouldn't even mind/notice the shitty writing if the devs didn't make a big deal about their agenda
that's exactly what im saying.
note how just 5 years ago literally nobody cared about blacks in movies or games, but nowadays there's significant backlash over it. what happened over the past 5 years? SJW ideology started popping up everywhere and shoving identity politics into literally everything.
a decade ago, a black character was just a character, his skin color was one among dozens of his characteristics, and nobody really cared about it because lol video games.
today, a black character is openly declared a political statement by the industry and by the media. so naturally, like with every other political topic that exists, you get people endlessly arguing and bitching about it.
>>380311538
>half white
Which half?
>>380317236
It's summer, and /v/ already has enough children. It's unfortunately inevitable.
David Cage is the type to put black people in just for muh diversity.
>>380317267
>>380311538
Half white half middle eastern people don't look that brown.
Pharah is half black
>>380318120
That's just a skin she has.
>>380318392
What? They debunked that theory? Fucking Kaplan.
>>380318392
Delete this, arabic women are for white men
>>380318020
i dont play western trash except some slavshit
enjoying this shit grinning
Is Iris black or Southeast asian? I'm leaning towards the latter, but that's just my autistic headcanon based on how she looks different from other dark skinned characters in Pokemon.
Funny story, I asked my Japanese friend about her (he believes Serena is best girl) and he said "Hm.... a lot of guys like girls with the dark skin, but I do not see what the big deal is." and I had to hold back my laughter. Thanks, /v/.
>>380318920
>Being wrong later in a post when you could have just deleted the first part
But why? Also:
>Thinking that comic shows a white man when his skin is literally the same color as Pharah's
>>380318020
YES
Just make your own IP already, people Sick of people piggybacking off of established characters just to potentially get more sales. It's like when they make a superhero a different gender instead of just making a new character. Of course, I hate every Robin except Dick Grayson anyway.
>>380319793I have bad eyes and fell for memes from shitposters
>>380314063
I've literally never seen that. Except for actually offensive stereotypes but then those are praised by /v/.
No, it's the milquetoast "I don't hate black people BUT" crowd of /v/ who always make a point of letting everyone know that their problem with a particular minority character isn't that they're minorities, honest, it's just that they're badly written. Now, since we can expect /v/irgins to have played enough video games to realise that white males also tend to be poorly written, as you point out, I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions as to what the real problem is.
>>380314950
>it's not as simple as "lmao drumpftards triggered by black people" that creates the backlash - it's the ideology, the political platform that these companies openly profess to, that creates the backlash.
But "black people are alright to include in your games" isn't really a political statement unless you disagree with that so really it does all boil down to drumpftards getting triggered by black people, as you eloquently put it.
>>380277091
>Which is absolutely what the issue is but not what vox, kotaku, and huffpost will report
Lmao. /v/ hates black people and don't give a fuck about any of that. /v/ will use any excuse to not outright say that don't want black people in videogames. There's blatant racism around here open your eyes.
Other VG communities don't have the same complaints that this place has. No need to pussyfoot around the fact that we hate non-whites.
>>380318497
A game dev could put a black character in their game because of a fetish for all I care- motivation makes 0 difference, its still not worth 'discussing'.
>no central american representatives
good
>>380276418
>not all the black chicks in E3 2017 are title characters
>not all of them are even main characters
>studios don't coordinate together to pick what characters appear in their game
>we can stop pretending that we don't fucking hate black people now
>>380275538
>someone actually went through all the E3 trailers to screenshot every black person they could find
I wonder if that person likes black people. No wait, don't tell me.
>>380317227
Woods is not the protagonist in any call.of duty game.
>>380320915
(you)
>>380320271
You've never seen people complain about stereotypes in games? I recall a bunch of people complaining about Lamar saying nigga too much in GTA V and specifically remember Jim Sterling complaining about Letitia in Deus Ex being an offensive stereotype (though not much about the Chinese characters, oddly enough).
Personally, I think that that the issue is that a lot of devs, when trying to write non-white male characters is that they don't actually know much about the groups they're writing about and end up writing really embarrassingly bad dialogue that seems even more stilted than usual. Sure, most white male characters are bad as well, but as someone that is actually black, I assure you that a lot of writers don't seem to know how black people actually talk and it just comes off as "I watched BET for 5 minutes, time to write this script" which I find way worse than just "Eh, too lazy to fix this plot hole or give this character a good motivation".
>>380277071
HOO-RAH!
>>380314950
>political agenda
This has got to stop. Game companies don't have "political agendas," they have sales tactics.
An agenda is a set of policy priorities. What priorities does a game company have? It is to sell products, to solidify a loyal customer base, and sell more products. Mainly to young people. Young people have politics, and so companies appeal to that. Always have. If there were a wide network of anonymous discourse throughout the 80's and 90's, you'd see the same arguments playing out. Back then, people usually had to put their names or faces to what they said, and so bigots mainly kept it tight, and radicals mainly preached to the choir, leaving the debates to braver and more influential people.
The sooner that people like you cut the shit, the sooner this business will take a backseat and some other outrage will take its place. It is every bit as gratifying to them to see you resisting them as it is for you to resist. Bunch of babies, all of you.
>>380320271
>not allowed to dislike a minority character or else you're racist
I hate most video game characters, don't take it personally, nigger
>>380314950
>people who play those games: 80% white,10% asian, 10% hispanics and blacks
Hahahah, it's funny you think that.
>>380318283
Bet he'd be one of the first to complain how Tumblr calls all white men Nazis, too
>>380322532
Show me the stats of some games that show the actual numbers.
>>380322002
>(though not much about the Chinese characters, oddly enough).
No one ever cares about chinks
>no one posting Doc Louis
How much outrage would there be if Not Important was black or hispanic?
>>380318293
So now we're back to "that's just the way it is" and yet when we get back to the current state of the market with all its diversity that suddenly doesn't fly any more. It's just an endless circle of contrarianism that never ends at any definite position.
>>380320271
>as to what the real problem is
This is not GameFAQs or Reddit. /v/ is anonymous. Why would anyone be afraid to just say they're? You have nothing to lose from it. What's going to happen? Some people get upset with that anon for one thread? Oh fucking well. Some people genuinely dislike some characters given how they are written. Not all bad writing is equal.
>>380314950
But games made by Japanese people are FULL OF white characters you dumb retard
Do you think Japanese gamers scream "FORCED DIVERSITY" when they see Mario, Link, Samus?
>>380323896
That's just Japs wanting the international market. They know that white people won't buy the game otherwise. This isn't even censorship, it's marketing. If you want a good example of this (though not with race,) look at Arc System works. They made Guilty Gear and BlazBlue, which most Americans don't give a shit about or think look gay/retarded. As such, their sales aren't so good. Later, they decided to just reskin their GG engine with Dragon Ball Z characters and now Americans actually want to play a game from them based on the IP alone.
Whites are the primary buyers of games in the west, so it figures they'd make characters white in hopes of more western sales. Blacks don't buy games nearly as much simply because there aren't as many of them in most western countries compared to whites.
>>380314950
>situation in the west
people who make games: 99% leftist
people who play those those games: 1% autistic white nationalists
Why should they pander to you?
>>380322002
>I recall a bunch of people complaining about Lamar saying nigga too much in GTA V and specifically remember Jim Sterling complaining about Letitia in Deus Ex being an offensive stereotype (though not much about the Chinese characters, oddly enough).
Yeah, when there's an actual offensive stereotype, you'll hear SJWs, and not a peep from /v/ about lazy writing. If anything you'll hear them defend the dev's "creative freedom" or "artistic integrity" or something along those lines. But a strong black woman? Oh, now /v/ is offended. Because it's just so poorly written.
>>380323769
I'm just saying you shouldn't be surprised by it. Having a Korean protagonist in a Japanese game would probably be interesting, but should that be expected as the standard? It's no real shock that games are going to use characters that look like what they think their audience wants instead of some group that's probably not as familiar to them.
>>380324990
But they like Jade from Beyond Good and Evil.
Do you get to the cloud district very often?
>>380314950
sad fact is, alt-righters cant make games
>>380323837
>/v/ is anonymous. Why would anyone be afraid to just say they're? You have nothing to lose from it.
I have no idea but it's clearly the case. People will wring themselves into some very weird turns in order to avoid admitting that their complaints are grounded in racism. Maybe they're normies who aren't used to giving their honest opinion. Maybe they're trying to coordinate their shitposting across several sites and trying to maintain plausible deniability. Maybe they're trying to be subtle to better bait people. Maybe they're in denial about it to themselves. Who knows.
>>380324565
>That's just Japs wanting the international market.
I think there's more to it than that. For instance: Mario was made in the image of an ex-GI who worked as a janitor at Nintendo. I think they did that specifically because an Italian-American guy is an oddity at a Japanese company, and the Japanese like an oddity. It has charm. It's both enviable and inviable to be one yourself in their society.
The issue of pluralism is a lot more fraught in pluralistic societies because just bringing it up may have actual consequences for us. For societies diametrically opposed to that, it's a novelty and it's harmless, in part because public/civic trust tends to run a lot higher.
>>380325128
But you're not actually saying anything. So what? Who cares? Hasn't the conversation obviously moved on from this observation?
>>380325346
Who? SJWs? Yeah they do.
>>380326680
Haha he said it! Guys, guys, he said it!
>>380278775
I wanted to know who would in a fight not a popularity contest you flailing dick pierced waffle.
>>380275042
ree
>>380278215
This is probably the best design out of all of them. I would be okay if they all looked similar to this.
SHE COUNTS
>>380280785
>>380326972
Calm down anon it is just a word meant to group a speaker with multiple people as the subject of the sentence.
>>380308029
FGC is like that because it came from the arcades. Where loud people attack each other in the parking lot because you landed an iron man infinite on them in tournament. Good times.
>>380301760
PATRICIAN TASTES HERE
>>380299960
Latifa traded her tits for ass
>>380327868
You could just say first person plural pronoun
>getting triggered at non-white American characters
Um sweeties non-whites make up 50% of the U.S. population
>>380307187
I've legitimately just given up on discussing video games on /v/ aside from a few. It's just not worth it with the amount of busswords spewn everywhere.
>>380307783
Prince of Persia.
Sultan Hakim Peace be upon him.
Sniper Wolf
Aladdin
Unfortunately not vidya Sindbad.
>>380329453
>Sultan Hakim
You mean the guy that's been sitting in my dungeon for two years?
>>380317227
anyone with a 'fuck whitie' attitude is the problem.
i ain't never given anyone of any race any beef, and no other white person i've ever personally known has either. but some people will give me beef just cuz of my skin color?
hypocrites need to exit immediatly
>>380307217
this is literally the only informed/ thought out point on this whole topic i've seen on 4chan. lead characters are important. cheers, anon
>>380326257
It's denial.
Most Americans are to some degree racist. But they are also quite effectively instilled with the idea that racism and racists are bad. This has been done through a relentless trend of narrative history and moralist fiction. They really don't have any racist heroes -- take R.E. Lee, who any Dixie kid will point out complied with Emancipation, and then fought for state's rights. They buy the fundamental idea that racism is bad, in part because they've had to; so they invent parallel reasons to hold the same beliefs. All but a few of them are aware of themselves, and all but a few will quite sincerely deny that they are racist.
Boogeymen like the Klan and the Nazis and the rest of the radical right are the most extreme expressions of racism, and they are emblematic. Real, effective racism, the average racism of the average voter, employer, cop or cashier, is much subtler. It's incredibly easy for moderately racist people to convince themselves they are not racists if they fall short of those boogeymen.
GRAAAHHHHH WHERES MY DAUGHTER MERCER
>>380277071
Easily the best character from any Halo game. Killing him off at the end of 3 made me mad as fuck, but given the shitshow the sequels turned out to be I'm glad he wasn't around to be ruined with everything else.
>>380275538
>Female WWII soliders
fuck i'd lol'd hard when I saw that on the stream. Why don't we just completey rewrite history and say the nazis have been the back guys in every single war ever, and were only stopped by the combined power of DIVERSITY and FRIENDSHIP of our stronk blaq warrior womanz
>>380299960
Sephiroth looks fucking amazing
>>380323478
Kek
>>380318358
Uh no, lol. Blacks cared about black people in video games 5 years ago. Developers have just finally started listening.
>>380285618
>niggers and spics like playing fighter games
>most of those games don't have a lot black or hispanics characters
>they still play and enjoy fighting games even due there's a lack of representation
gee, is like the only people who complain about the lack of diversity are white people.
>>380323478
>not thinking a Hatred where you play as Cho would be fun
>>380317227
/v/ used to complain about those guys looking the same too
>>380299960
Only problem I got is with Jaden over there.
Rest are pretty great,
>>380276418
I like black chicks with afros so fuck you.
>>380274390
>confusing brown fur for his skin color while DK's exposed hands and torso are completely white
>>380331407
90% of Western gamers are white so of course it's mostly white people who complain
Right?
Any case, the Japs get a pass from everyone because everyone knows they aren't racist
>>380331406
how convenient they started pandering to racial and gender groups the moment it became popular and profitable. really gets that noggin joggin.
>>380331761
I dunno how else one would give a black dude the Cloud hair. This was probably the best way to do it, but I'd welcome any competing designs from drawfags
>>380330208
No one said fuck whitie. We said having more non-white characters isn't the end of the world
>>380332368
People only ever change anything when it is popular, profitable and convenient
Fuck their motives, they are companies
>>380299960
Makes me wonder what Red XIII, Cait Sith, and Yuffie look like.
>>380273596
Easy. Locke from Halo 5.
>>380332787
Red XIII would be a pitbull.
>>380332787
>wonder what Red XII would look like as a black person
>Red XIII
>Black person
>>380290805
You are fucking Anglo or Polynesian you dumbass. That's like asking why there isn't a Nambian character.
>>380319672
Iris is hot af
>>380331487
Back when /v/ was halfway sane.
>>380333486
They're all Maori actually
>>380327594
The only asian in that game was the scientist I think, who also gets called a jap by a cop if I recall correctly
>>380323026
Um... you first? Since you gave actual numbers?
>>380319672
Nigga that is an afro puff.
>>380282943
He was good, but
>best
That would be Modryn Oreyn
>>380275119
Just because a character is brown doesn't mean he/she is black.
Why are niggers like you so retarded? Are you one of those KANGZ thatneed validation from fiction to feel better about themselves?
>>380314014
Zombies/ghosts don't count
>>380333973
Not sure if you've noticed but there's a shift going on right now, it'll take awhile though
This thread is proof
>>380336107
>Why are niggers like you so retarded?
Anon is very likely white and can't differentiate. You sound like an edgy retard.
>MUH REPRESENTATION
Black people are the most insecure people on this planet. Like, half of the "black" characters here are ambiguously brown or arab/indian/Mexican/tanned etc. See >>380311975
>>380275538
>ww2 black soldier doesn't have the 92nd Infantry Division patch
>>380336107
Where did he call the character black?
>>380336510
>Anon is very likely white
You can tell the race of an anonymous poster on the internet? Are you a magical negro?
>>380336396
I didn't think it would really happen but the pendulum is real
>>380336659
>half of the "black" characters here are ambiguously brown or arab/indian/Mexican/tanned
Thread said "non-white" characters not specifically black characters.
>>380332368
>companies act like companies
Woah what a shocker. You really cracked the radical leftist agenda
>>380275538
>Can barely even see the girl in the far cry 5 shot
>SHES OBVIOUSLY FUCKING BLACK
Why do cunts insist on speaking for me.
>you only hate these characters because they are black and you are racist!
No I hate them because they are generic and pandering
>no you don't liar!!
>>380307863
>deadfortress
>>380338314
You're not racist because you have that standard, you're racist because you don't apply it equally to white people.
>>380276418
Why don't you get triggered by white characters with uninteresting designs?
>nobody post him yet
>>380339258
Real talk, pretty much EVERY new game they showed off at E3 with white male characters looked boring as fuck. 90% of the fucking time, white male protagonists in vidya are boring and forgettable as shit anyway. I'm not sure why everyone's complaining about devs suddenly making boring and forgettable non-white characters, like it's somehow so much worse.