LilithSlave said:
Racism is more than "actively discriminating against people". It is social systems like white privilege.
In fact, not seeing racism as anything outside of the behavior of an individual tends to the the sign of white privilege.
Racism isn't dead, not in the slightest. In fact, in today's society, most people don't realize they're being racist, that they're supporting racism, and that a standard is racist.
totally heterosexual said:
I said names. name me people that...
1. matter
Everyone matters. What kind of ridiculous statement is this. You don't have to have Barack Obama making a "big deal" out of something for it to matter.
God this is annoying. NAME ME ONE PERSON WHO IS A FAMOUS NAME IN THE GAMING INDUSTRY! Its not racist, since there are plenty of characters who are both protagonists and main characters who matter quite a lot. Also, the games come from Japan and as such a large portion is also going to be white from when games were mainly ported over from Japan. And a large chunk of White Males play games.
Barret from Final Fantasy 7 played a big role in the game and he was black.
CJ was the protaganist of Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, you could also go out on a whim and say that all the characters that matter are mainly black.
Thats also why your Partner in Resident Evil 5 is both a playable character, black and a decent bot, because Resident Evil 5 is RACIST!
Eli Vance from Half Life 2 matters a shit ton to his story.
50 Cent is his own protagonist in his game, so is his game racist?
Sonic's Blue, so he could technically be any color under that fur you want him to be.
The first Saw game you were playing as a black guy, its not racist.
In Cave Story you play as a robot, but so it is a diversity of characters there, you can also pretend that Quote is a black man on the inside, if you want. But hes just a robot.
Counter Strike Source has a latino as a playable skin, good enough for you?
Dungeon Defenders lets you make your characters black if you want.
In Magicka you can pretend that all 4 wizards are asian or latino or black if you want.
Left 4 Dead games star two black guys, Louis and Coach and neither are very annoying and are quite intriguing characters.
Seriously, look at that list, for every Nathan Drake there are always 9 more characters who are not straight up white guys.
Zyxzy said:
I find the "male" part to currently be the most problematic. It is unnervingly difficult to find a non-sexualized female main character who isn't Samus Aran.
Though, video gaming is still probably better than Hollywood in the whole "white male main character" regard.
I agree, your probably not looking Hard Enough but there are some out there. Past Laura Croft's rack lies a much better feminist then Samus. Its true, I should know, I beat all the games because of her character.