>Like Hollywood, the games industry is facing a moment of self-reflection. For too long it has told the same stories, centring on the same white, male heroes. Game creators are finally examining the lack of diversity in their stories, but so far, representation of black people has been timid and predictable. With the number of women in the UK industry at just 14% and BAME representation at 4%, the narrative gatekeepers in games are primarily white men. If they are to find a broader range of stories, they need to rethink their representations of black people.
>Afrofuturism explores the idea of a black future, offering a rich source of inspiration for games. Black Panther, the story of an African superhero and the king of the fictional Wakanda, the most technologically advanced nation on the planet, is bringing Afrofuturism to the masses. In a cultural landmark moment, it is the first solo film for a black Marvel superhero. It is currently breaking box-office records, proving the demand for diverse stories.
>Last year, Watchdogs 2 and Mafia III were applauded for their portrayals of the black experience. In Watchdogs 2, Marcus gently subverts the familiar formula of a black man in an urban setting because he’s a hacker, rather than a gangster: he’s more familiar with his laptop than a gun. The game does deal with microaggressions, such as facial recognition technology not recognising black faces, but ultimately Marcus is in a familiar inner-city setting with a hip-hop soundtrack.
>Also released in 2017, Mafia III was a departure for the gangster-themed series, featuring the debut of its first black lead, Vietnam veteran Lincoln Clay. Set in the 1960s against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, the game doesn’t shy away from the racism of the time and has been praised for its writing. Sadly, it still falls back on the familiar story of black struggle.
Blah blah blah it's black so it's important what are you racist blah blah blah
Colton Jones
>Even in Assassin’s Creed: Origins, the first game in the series to be set in Africa, when the player comes back to the contemporary world rather than the historical Egypt conjured by Animus technology, the people in control are white. Once again, black people are relegated to history. They are not the masters of the technology on which the Assassin’s Creed story hinges; they are phantoms from the past.
>Occasionally, games do imagine a hi-tech future with black people and women as central figures, in stories that don’t focus on their oppression. Both Fullbright’s Tacoma and Dontnod’s Remember Me managed this, but they are notable exceptions. Coding aliens as black is a trap that games often fall into, a recent example being the Angara in Mass Effect Andromeda. Jaal, the main character amongst the Angara, is played by a black voice actor; we later discover that they are being enslaved by another race.
>If the only future for black characters in games is being thinly disguised as the exotic other, or reduced to the role of space slaves, it’s really time to move on. Black Panther shows games a way to change the narrative.
>Afrofuturism reverses the erasure of black people from the present and the future. It is about optimism, a challenge to look beyond black suffering and imagine a better tomorrow. The games industry must aim to become diverse enough for black storytellers to get involved, but it’s not at that point yet. Until then, the hope is that #BlackPantherSoLit fever has enough of an impact on the games industry to bring us games featuring Afronauts on cosmic adventures.
But Gayniggers from Outer Space was made decades ago
Nathaniel White
here's the reaction you want: >oh no this is the end of video gaming
Jaxson Fisher
EVIL WHITEY!!
Alexander Price
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Jack Campbell
boy i say boy what in the fuck is wrong with your font rendering?
Noah Myers
>Afrofuturism reverses the erasure of black people from the present Wew and I thought Sup Forums was talking crazy when they'd talk about "muh white genocide", this is even crazier. Anyone who thinks black people are "erased" from representation in today's world, is deeply, deeply delusional.
Ethan Thomas
I know it's now what the article is talking about, but I do wish we had more alien and different worlds in videogames. I wish we had more morrowinds and less Skyrims.
Eli Perry
tldr
Kevin Gray
Will Sup Forums be moving to a White ethnostate?
>tfw we can finally enjoy our vidya and progress technology and explore the stars away from niggers and spics
Justin Thompson
Foghorn Leghorn would be a fun gimmick to use in every thread probably
Easton Campbell
tl;dr but really? the story is just normal capeshit, but people are acting like it's revolutionary because it's a nig?
Brandon Gomez
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Cooper Anderson
black dude here you faggot
progressive liberals are as racist as the alt-right. they claim to want diversity in games but they don't want actual people, they want whitewashed niggas.
who's going to play a game about my cousin having to live with us because my dad's brothers molested him?
choosing to pay bills vs eating? when the fuck did them rich ass white people, same ones aiming for diversity, ever experience that?
fuck social justice warriors man
Thomas Rogers
>Watchdogs 2 Sold like shit. >Mafia 3 Sold like shit. (first numbers faked by overshipping) >Asscreed Origins Sold like shit. (Less than 1/3rd of Black Flags sales)
Almost as if there was a pattern here, hmm..
Jace Sanders
>Numbers from my ass.
Caleb Gonzalez
>games need more diversity, black protags! >goes on to mention numerous AAA games that have black protags
???????????????????
Blake Morales
>Sup Forums is crying an endless river of tears because Black Panther is a huge success
Grayson Wright
only if homosexuality is outlawed. wypipo are too gay and need to be taught how to act properly.
Easton Butler
>afrofuturism >Wakanda, a nation where any motherfucker can challenge the king in combat at any time >socially advanced
Gavin Harris
>what is steamspy and news Hangar 13 fired most of it’s employees over lacking sales of Mafia 3. They claimed 6 million but that turned out to be the number they (over)shipped to stores.
Mason Campbell
arent black homosexuality rates like 3 times wypipo's though?
Owen Jones
>implying you don't want to live in a society where you can ask your leader to throw down
Jack Garcia
black panter is going to influence how movies are promoted from now on, not how tthey are made
Jason Perez
>Sup Forums doesn't like a film showing black people being better off living with their own ???
Leo Bell
You don't understand user. If your put that in a game you're racist for enforcing a stereotype.
Elijah James
>Ruled by someone because they're seven feet tall, built like a brick shit house and could crush someone's skull in one hand
I mean, it might be fun.
Jacob Bell
Sure, on occasion it might be a good show. But at any time, on any days? Fuck no. This shit isn't governance,
Andrew Allen
>Sup Forums boogeyman
Nolan Martin
There is LITERALLY NOTHING WRONG with being able to challenge the leader of a country to a duel. If that was a law in more country's we wouldn't have any cowards for president I'll tell you that much.
Julian Davis
And the current system is?
Jackson Scott
>Sup Forums >Not liking Wakanda >Insular, xenophobic, walled off city that tells immigrants to fuck off regularly
Leo Cooper
How is making everyone black diversity?
Josiah Wood
Only until China stops watching them.
Ryan Nguyen
Reskinning doesn’t inherently add anything and afropunk is just another punk to grow bored of
Here’s hoping the games don’t blow
Zachary Anderson
At least there's an attempt. Fuck, it would actually work if it wasn't for the self-serving and the corruption.
Owen Martin
>This amount of cope
Sebastian Bailey
sjw logic
James Gutierrez
>unarchived link if i wasn't here you fags wouldn't be able to do anything right archive.is/tYqm8
Henry Adams
Diversity is code word for "not white". It's a shame really.
Nathan Morris
I'm pretty sure this shit thread is the same autistic neckbeards that posts the Kingdom Come deliverance eurogamer article every few hours
Fuck off you inbreed
Sebastian Reyes
Wakanda is a city state with massive walls and only blacks. So the film is promoting segregation and it shows it as a good thing. This is so god damn funny, liberals are truly retarded beyond belief.
John Nelson
Why couldn't we just send them all back while we had the chance?
David Lopez
Black Panther made a gazillion dollars in China also.
Benjamin James
If black countries and communities pulled together in the real world to make a name for themselves and provide some technological advancement in the world, then maybe there would be more stories about technologically advanced black people. Especially if they were making games themselves.
It really shouldn't be the fault of white people that they make games with white people in them, nor Japanese with Japanese people in their games. If you want black characters in games, make a damn game. Or I guess you could instead poison the media to convince someone else to do all the work for you.
Jacob Campbell
>it would work except for these reasons why it will never and has never worked
Christopher Gomez
>Cope
I just don't understand. Seems like they'd want all countries to be like Wakanda
Leo Sullivan
>black future hell yeah
Jack Powell
>tfw Chad will never colonise your ass
Luis James
The entire plot of the movie is about breaking down those wall and opening yourself to the world. The protagonist and the antagonist just have a different vision for it.
Shit, I didn't even watch the movie and I know that.
Kevin Cox
fuck white middle-class millennials. diversity comes in the form of poverty-raised kids fighting against those same sjw types.
my white neighbors suffer at the hands of poverty, too. but progressives want the rich to pay for subsidies instead of leading the fight.
Colton Adams
It's diverse in comparison to the average Hollywood super bullshit. But Sup Forums is to dumb to understand that. White fear is palpable in this thread.
Hunter Lopez
>For too long it has told the same stories, centring on the same white, male heroes.
But Black Panther is just the same old Marvel movie but with black people instead.
Asher Anderson
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Jace Walker
Is the goal to just kill all white people and remove them from history all together? It's legit the way I understand most of these articles.
Dominic Nelson
>to dumb to understand
Dominic Flores
It was a movie about on conservative black hero, sometimes I wonder if far left people even seen it.
Sebastian Taylor
Americans are just crazy like that. >an irishman, a german, a czech, a russian, a spaniard, a greek, a chinese and a japanese, an ethiopian, a banthu and a congolese >racist homogeneity whitewashing with token minority characters >entire cast of african-americans and mulattos from the same rich american auburb >wonderfully diverse and truly nothing anyone has seen before There is just something about americanized people in general, and their liberals in particular, that lead to this crazy shit. Anti-intellectualism and sheltered lifestyles probably. Never met more knowledge-hostile people than the ”I fucking love science” crowd out of Seattle/Portland/SF/LA.
Jackson Gray
Blacks are actually OVERrepresented in video games. So are asians.
But you never heard that because they pretend that sports games don't exist and that the Japanese industry doesn't count.
Brayden Cox
>remove them from history all together what would make you think that
Jordan Evans
>Create copious amounts of threads consisting of baiting and telling that the movie will fail >Movie succeeds We wuz supporters and shiet
Thomas Phillips
boy i say boy i think im a fag for name, i said namefagging
Bentley Nguyen
I'm not even white but nobody likes groids if you want your "diversity" go to fucking Uganda or something
Jaxon Murphy
>Last year, Watchdogs 2 and Mafia III were applauded
Just love when people lie
Kayden Hill
Yes this will not stand.
OPEN BORDERS FOR ISRAEL NOW!
Isaiah Adams
black- user here. i love my white friends. we aren't social warriors or anything but them limpwristed faggots can fuck off.
it's gets me that they want diversity but they want uncle toms as the lead.
they're racist against themselves and black people
Kayden Green
Scared whiteboi?
Cooper James
Based right-wing artists blowing the mind of tumblrites in their very own hives.
Ayden Baker
It made regular amounts, it’s just notable because everyone thought the chinks were avoiding Mahvel. If they actually do stop watching Marvel, or object to more black movies (they might, racism is rife there) then say goodbye to any more movies rike it.
Brayden Taylor
You niggas thought people like this didn't exist
Liam Thompson
Yes but it's not a conspiracy. Far left philosophy is self disemboweling, it's white suicide not genocide.
Noah Morris
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Christian Richardson
>black- user here. N I G G E R
Jaxson Price
>the narrative gatekeepers in games are primarily white men
EVERY games industry CEO is either jewish or asian.
EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
Bentley Russell
IMPLYING THE MOON LANDING WASNT FAKE AS FUCK WHITE BOI
Kayden Edwards
>limpwristed faggot don't falseflag for your sjw pals retard
Cameron Butler
>Is the goal to just kill all white people and remove them from history all together?
That literally is their goal and they even admit it.
Ian Price
Both are honorary white under the oppression olympics lens.
David Johnson
this but unironically and i'm white
Julian Nelson
Im reminded of the complaints over FF7, saying how the remake needs to tone down Barrets character because its supposedly stereotypical. Like, Barret is too cool to count as a black man. REAL black men are faggots who type on computers and govern countries. Bunch of white (jewish) social controllers who only count the non-threatening black men. Its the gayest load of drivel ive ever heard.
Adam Clark
>they’re literally spear chuckers >they literally act like apes when a white guy starts talking >they don’t give a single solitary fuck about the misery in africa that they could solve easily with trivial effort The guys who wrote it are fucking geniuses
Joshua Moore
ALL WHYT PEPOW IS RAYCIS
PAY ME
Julian Gutierrez
>16k all time peak
Joseph Brown
actually, no, Sup Forums doesn't care about movies
if you actually go there the only thing they're talking about right now is the government, it's the only thing they EVER talk about
Only found first week numbers on asscreed but yeah sold worse than most entries in the franchise.
Blake Wilson
>dr.who Someone post that webm. You know which.
Nathan White
nigger nigger nigger my nigger nigger.
Carter Harris
WHYT PEOPLE BEST VOTE ME 4 PRESIDENT
Robert Richardson
Shit thread
David Flores
GTA San Andreas did pretty well
Wyatt Martinez
THIS
Liam Thomas
And Donald Trump is diverse compared to the last 8 years of Obama. You can make anything seem diverse and revolutionary as long as you use the most narrow of qualifiers. Retard
Liam Turner
>Friar tuck Why is he a Vulcan?
Bentley Lopez
that could actually make for an interesting story if written correctly, but it'd have to be handled correctly
Alexander Johnson
This. See how blade inconspicuously doesnt count as a black superhero.
