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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-03-07 06:46 pm

[ SECRET POST #2256 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2256 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2013-03-08 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
Can you elaborate?
I don't know much about the universe, but I assume politics play a big part in it?

Either way for once I'd like to have a game protagonist who isn't a) white, b) a brunette, and c) always a little rugged-looking
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[personal profile] ariakas 2013-03-08 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
It takes place in a floating city created to keep people of "inferior" races (e.g. blacks, hispanics, Asians, Eastern Europeans, and Celts) out.
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[personal profile] greenvelvetcake 2013-03-08 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
What a missed opportunity.

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(Anonymous) 2013-03-08 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
ohhh I see! Then I agree with the OP. They should have made him black.

(Anonymous) 2013-03-08 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
oh man wow

yes a coloured main character would have been way better rather mr generic privlageson

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(Anonymous) 2013-03-08 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
There's only one (obviously) rugged white dude protag between nine character options in both of the Borderlands games; one out of 4 characters in Dead Island; the aforementioned Arabic, Italian, etc dudes in AC; and in most Bioware games these days, you can be whatever race you want. So. Some hope for the human race?

(Anonymous) 2013-03-08 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Some :/

but I want more
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[personal profile] insanenoodlyguy 2013-03-08 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
It'd require a bit of story retooling though. I don't think there were any black pinkerton's, and that background is used to explain his battle prowess.

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[personal profile] wauwy 2013-03-08 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
Well, there are always Japanese video games, where the heroes are pretty much meant to be... Japanese

Usually pretty and blond, too.
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[personal profile] ariakas 2013-03-08 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
Yep. Sure would have. It would have been about a 1000x more interesting an meaningful, based on the premise of Columbia.

But God fucking forbid a video game protagonist for a major franchise not be a 30-something dark-haired white male.

(The only exception I can think of is Prophet, and he is literally in a white man's body.)

[identity profile] galerian-ash.livejournal.com 2013-03-08 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
Prototype 2, the original Assassin's Creed (unless you consider Desmond to be the protagonist instead of Altaïr), Starhawk... Hm, I wish I could think of more!

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[personal profile] dethtoll 2013-03-08 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
GTA San Andreas and Vice City Stories? Hm, maybe not the best choices, but...

(Anonymous) 2013-03-08 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Chell, Bayonetta, Aya Brea, Joanna Dark, Samus Aran, Lara Croft. Claire Redfield and Jill Valentine if you're counting single games in a series.

Uhhh... And the only other videogame title characters/protagonists that I can think of that aren't white males are like... the dude from Prince of Persia and characters that aren't human.

Welp. Isn't that special.

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(Anonymous) 2013-03-08 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
Damn, that does sound awesome.

(Anonymous) 2013-03-08 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
A video game protagonist that isn't a generic, white, bro-dude?

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA x100.

(Anonymous) 2013-03-08 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Well, uh... Not that it counts, but the protag of Remember Me is going to be a black chick.

inb4 she looks white as fuck and is barely better than Bayonetta.

[personal profile] sugar_spun 2013-03-08 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
She's supposed to be black?

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[personal profile] dethtoll 2013-03-08 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
I actually agree with you. And that cover art is atrocious, I said so then and I'll say so now. I much prefer something like one of these: http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18851esmwhp57jpg/original.jpg

(especially the third one)
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[personal profile] rivia 2013-03-08 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, any of those would have been better, and keeping in a similar-ish style to the previous BioShock covers, since the songbird is Infinite's Big Daddy.

[personal profile] sugar_spun 2013-03-08 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
The game will have a reversible cover! There was a fan poll. I voted for the third one too, but the second one won.

Here's Ken Levine on the subject. He has some very good points.

(Anonymous) 2013-03-08 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, he looks just like Rob Lowe.

(Anonymous) 2013-03-08 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
'MURICA
...my poor eyes.
Is this supposed to be a parody of the earlier games or something?

OP

(Anonymous) 2013-03-08 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
You know how game 1 was all about the failures of Objectivism, and 2 was about failed Utilitarianism? (At least, I think it was--it definitely wasn't secular humanism.) Anyways, 3 is about American exceptionalism and the racism that underlay it. (So yeah, it pretty much is 'MURICA.)

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Mod it...

(Anonymous) 2013-03-08 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Mods OP...look for and request a mod. I bet there is a clever and artistic player out there, who would make one for you.

Also just for myself, I'd love to have a black protagonist in a major game, but just have it be....no big deal ya know? He's not 'the black protagonist' he's just 'the protagonist'.

I hope we get there some day...