A Link to the Past
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Why is that obvious? How is it obvious that there's a legitimately story reason for it? Isn't it more likely that a statistically evident problem of overrepresentation of white people in video game media is the problem?
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Detroit Seems Very White and That's Kind of Deal Breaker for Me
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Why is that obvious? How is it obvious that there's a legitimately story reason for it? Isn't it more likely that a statistically evident problem of overrepresentation of white people in video game media is the problem?
CyberPunked
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Because it results in the addition of token characters just to satisfy some diversity requirement. So what if there are few playable black people?
I actually think this e3 has shown some steps forward in this department, though. There were quite a few big games with non-white leads, for instance.
A Link to the Past
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I am merely arguing that we shouldn't assume it is a storytelling reason. While it's better than it was, it's still a problem.
Messofanego
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I...what...this meltdown is great.
Again with this idea that white people somehow naturally appear in video games as if they grow from video game white people trees, while putting minority characters in is some big extra effort to "satisfy a diversity requirement".
All video game characters are made from scratch. You don't get white people for free, and then have to make a decision to put minorities in. You make decisions, every time you create a character, about whether you're going to make them male or female, young or old, white or black, etc.
If there are white people in a game, it's because at some point a creator decided, "this character should be white." If there are black people in a game, it's because at some point a creator decided, "this character should be black." This idea that white characters just show up on "naturally" and minority characters are some token things you have to go out of your way to include is stupid.
It's idiotic, and there's no way around that.
When people ask for diversity in games, they aren't saying "take this thing you never have to think about and make decisions about it." They're saying, "you make this decision every time you create a character. Maybe don't make the decision to make a white character every single time."
I wish this was engraved upon the entrance to every single game developer studio in the world
Quantic Dream and Sony Bend could have benefited a lot from just getting that memo. It's such a simple thing, yet almost nothing gets changed.
OniBarubary
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I'd be impressed if it's all white like this and you start playing and it's due to gentrification going apeshit in Detroit and one of the plotlines is about black people being seen as less human than the androids but ha ha ha, who am I kidding, they just forgot dark-skinned people existed.
prag16
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This deep into the topic and we're still getting idiotic comments like this. Watch the first trailer (from October).
OniBarubary
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Oh shit, they had black extras in crowd shots from a teaser trailer months ago.
Pack it up guys, we got black representation here, never mind. This game is A okay, seal of Black Approval. My B.
Pack it up guys, we got black representation here, never mind. This game is A okay, seal of Black Approval. My B.
zackmorris
Member
If this game hopes to be an accurate representation of Detroit then it definitely needs more Juggalos.
I've been several times and what strikes me every time is how segregated it is.
Wanda/Wander
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Sorry, for the bump.
Reading through the thread again and realized I never answered your question.
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