[ SECRET POST #2256 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2256 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Most Popular Girls In School]


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[Rust and Bone]


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[My Mad Fat Diary]


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[Sailor Moon]


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[Harvest Moon: A New Beginning]


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[American Horror Story Asylum]


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[Homestuck]


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[DC Comics]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 021 secrets from Secret Submission Post #322.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

12. http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/9576/infinitec.png

[(Anonymous)]

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

[ariakas]

It takes place in a floating city created to keep people of "inferior" races (e.g. blacks, hispanics, Asians, Eastern Europeans, and Celts) out.

[greenvelvetcake]

What a missed opportunity.

[(Anonymous)]

ohhh I see! Then I agree with the OP. They should have made him black.

[(Anonymous)]

oh man wow

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

[(Anonymous)]

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)]

Some :/

but I want more

[insanenoodlyguy]

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.

[wauwy]

Well, there are always Japanese video games, where the heroes are pretty much meant to be... Japanese

Usually pretty and blond, too.

[ariakas]

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.)

[galerian-ash.livejournal.com]

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!

[dethtoll]

GTA San Andreas and Vice City Stories? Hm, maybe not the best choices, but...

[(Anonymous)]

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.

[(Anonymous)]

Damn, that does sound awesome.

[(Anonymous)]

A video game protagonist that isn't a generic, white, bro-dude?

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA x100.

[(Anonymous)]

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.

[sugar_spun]

She's supposed to be black?

[dethtoll]

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)

[rivia]

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.

[sugar_spun]

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)]

Wow, he looks just like Rob Lowe.

[(Anonymous)]

'MURICA
...my poor eyes.
Is this supposed to be a parody of the earlier games or something?

OP

[(Anonymous)]

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.)

Mod it...

[(Anonymous)]

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...