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Black Vidya Characters Anonymous 03/26/2024 (Tue) 20:38:28 No. 824
(Unironically) Who's your favorite black character in Vidya? Some memorable characters I can think of: >Barret (FF7) >Garcian Smith (Killer7) >Big Bo (Binary Domain)
And here's an extra one.
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I was collecting some to post then noticed a lot of them are from Valve games.
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>>827 I'd argue Alyx takes more after her mother than she does after her father. Also, >Alyx has an Asian mom >She's literally named Azian How did Valve manage to get away with that?
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At least I think Marcus was meant to be black, before he was mutated. His VA is black and facially he kind of looks it.
>>827 Those made by Valve are one of the few memorable black characters, because they care enough to give them flaws and backstories that are more than generic tropes. Demoman is a no nonsense member of the team, but he's also drunk 90% of the time, has inexplicable connections to the occult and worst of all, he's Scottish. Every single bit of the character shines through both the model design and the voice lines and snippets of lore. Even Coach, as barebones as he is, to the point of not having even a NAME, can still have his moments where he shines through. Every part of him being a Louisiana black with obvious gluttony problems but still nimble enough to kick ass. Plus there's Louis, Rochelle and the Vances. All modern black characters come in only two flavors: perfect in every way so as to not piss off Twitter users, or white but colored black for no other reason than inclusivity points. They never feel like real people because they have no flaws or could not possibly exist in any capacity in their setting.
>>831 Well clearly if you make a character flawed in any way and anything less than a god among men that means you hate their entire race and are a terrible person (but only if they're a minority).
CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNSSSSSSSS
>>837 stop shouting
>>843 Why the blue squares?
>>844 I think I know and it's the dumbest reason. You know the political compass? Well reddit likes to make memes surrounding that, and by "make memes" I mean edit political alignments onto existing images.
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I want to fuck Sheva like you wouldn't believe.
I'll never forgive gearbox for what they did to her in Borderlands 3. Took one of the most interesting characters I've seen in a western game. A rich cold bitch whose front of being said rich cold bitch slowly breaks over the game as she sees Jack descend into madness and villany, and realizes she's setting herself on a very similar path and sets herself against such, determined to never end up in his shoes and helping the Crimson Raiders from the shadows so as to not have her brother reject the help. She puts up a front of being uncaring but secretly cares deeply for her estranged brother and despite apology after apology gets rebuked, insulted, shamed, and belittled, yet keeps reaching out in hope of mending that bridge some day. What appears to be the tropey-est and most stereotypical character of the protags from the outside actually has the most depth and the most significant character arc. All while having an amazing design, great VA work, and amazing personality of a blusterer and a rich lady putting on airs, and having damn amazing gameplay and char building that I'd say is on par with 3's character trees. And then 3 goes and throws all that out and makes her a shitty shallow stereotype that completely contradicts her arc and character building AND writing from the final defense of sanctuary DLC in 2. It's fucking bullshit and my gal didn't deserve to get treated that dirty even if she's a damn nigger.
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>>897 >I'll never forgive gearbox for what they did to her in Borderlands 3 The problems with characters in Borderlands likely stems every major entry being written by different people. Borderlands was written by four people, none of whom went on to write for the series again. Borderlands 2 was written by one person who had both never written for a video game before and had no prior (or future) experience with the franchise. Borderlands 3 was written by three people, none of whom had worked on Borderlands before. This leads to a messy story where characters change personalities every entry.
>>898 By that same measure you think a sane writer taking over for a series or doing a sequel entry would do their fucking research though. But no, let's just go off of a surface level summary and make her a boring caricature. Who needs character depth and growth when you have LE FUCKIN MEMES. It's fucking awful man.
>>897 Shame, but Borderlands 3 was such a disappointment I doubt it even made much of a difference. I tried playing through it with a friend and we both ended up dropping the game only like halfway through. >>898 You think the very least a new writer could do is understand what they're writing a sequel to (I know that's expecting much of someone in the modern gayming industry).
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I don't remember his name or anything about him, but he's the only thing I remember liking about FF13.
Who's the worst black vidya character? My money's on every single time that big eyed black lady with the afro is in a game.
>>2229 >worst black vidya character. Do you even need to ask?
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>>855 oh I dont doubt one bit
>>2291 NIGGAROBO
>>2293 Its not black when it comes to Japan, its chocolate
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>>2291 Aunt Jemima, the descendant of Uncle Tom. >>2379 Bleach is dang ass dogshit.
>>2379 There's no such thing as bleached, its just the normal way
>>2229 Western gAAAy always choose her or make ugly nigresses for some reason. Just give me some African Qween if you want me to like her.
>>3250 Rare breeds of black beauty, the majority are just Shrek relatives.
>>3250 A few years ago people like you (and the guy who made that picture) considerate black women just a extension of nigger shit, suddenly you are crazy about them
>>3250 The opposite of that picture is true
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how many games acknowledge the hands being colored differently in the palms
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One of the funniest things about Skyrim has to be how all the black people look like white people with a horrific sunburn. This is something most don't notice unless it's specifically pointed out. Todd has evidently never actually seen a black person.
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This is meant to be a black kid.
>>3330 >Todd has evidently never actually seen a black person. You're telling me Hyperborea is located at Bethesda Game Studios? Holy shit.
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>>3332 Yeah those places were no niggers are on sight because they still haven't decriminalized every law, pretty fucking bigoted.
>>3328 Good point, barely any games have that detail because devs are lazy bums.
>>3330 Um, excuse me, those are Redguards. I like to imagine that means black people just don't exist in TES.
>>3330 >One of the funniest things about Skyrim has to be how all the black people look like white people with a horrific sunburn. This is something most don't notice unless it's specifically pointed out. >Todd has evidently never actually seen a black person. Skin swap after diversity dollars maybe
>>3398 A few games did that, they have pre-release materials that show diverse designs in the final game weren't always diverse.
>>3398 I think it's just more likely that it's easier to paint an attractive white race's model brown than it is to make an attractive brown race model that's more accurate to real life.
>>3438 Note that this is also what lazy artists do, like in anime and on Tumblr/Twitter/reddit/deviant art etc.
>>3440 Yeah, that's fucking hideous. As are most Skyrim NPCs. It's weird, Morrowind NPCs look dated but fine and Oblivion NPCs look goofy but charming. Skyrim just had this gross realism to it, I never understood how anyone thought it looked good on its own.
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Adam Hunter was unquestionably the best played character in Streets of Rage 1, and he was badass in Streets of Rage 4.
I used to think Knuckles was black, but the new tv show established that he's a jew now. Casuals think Shadow is black, but everyone knows that that hardcore emo-esque subculture is a white thing. But Sonic? Sonic is black. At least Classic Sonic is. And not just because he was voiced by Steve Urkel. A lot of the music in those old games was "black music." Michael Jackson in Sonic 3, rap in Sonic CD. Plus he cares way too much about his sneakers. Sonic is a real nigga.
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>>3481 That's why his arms turned blue, because of all the dark tattoos.
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>>3481 >When I don't show up don't criticize >post yfw you realize this line is directed at his son At last I truly see.
Oiled black girl butt
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>>3511 *Smashes his face with a sledgehammer*


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