Shadow Man, Men of Valor, Indigo Prophecy (1 of 3 protagonist in the game), SiN & SiN Episodes 1: Emergence , Killer 7,Urban Chaos, Crackdown, Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard, (Main character is Black),Sand Storm – Revelations,

I really do wish that they did a bit more Blacks as a Main Character in a not so thuggish way

The fact that you say otherwise as African Americans yourselves does not grant you any more ethos on the subject than I, as a Caucasian, am entitled to. In this discussion, race doesn’t really matter. We exist here as equal entities in an equal discourse. However, I’d have to say we OUGHT to take it into account if a PRIVILEGED WHITE MALE from a FIRST WORLD COUNTRY went to a historically ravaged THIRD WORLD CONTINENT to kill–with diplomatic immunity–Black individuals who have little material wealth and a disease that is a painfully easy parallel to AIDS.

Is it a simplified reaction to simply shout, “racist”? Of course. It’s as much a class and privilege issue as it is one of race, but, unlike “Boyz In The Hood” and GTA, we certainly can’t expect a redeeming theme out of Capcom for gunning down the Aids infested Underprivileged.

I think the lack of representation of culture in main playable characters in most games can be traced back to the problem that a lot of video games have with a simple lack of actual character. Meaning, the playable character is usually a hallow shell with no personality, and is a mere manifestation of the player in the game universe. If more time was taken to create characters with actual character, it would be easier to have, say, a black male who grew up in the projects, and has a “Im going to make it in life and get out of here while I still can” kind of attitude, which would be a refreshing video game.

The point is people need to bitch less and accept things because they say there portraying the blacks as savages but like I have said before what do you wants well behaved gents? Realism is adding any race and sex and just because i have to i don’t think you can have anything but pale white vampires because there dead and loose skin color (man i’m a nerd).

I myself am of mixed racial background (White & Puerto Rican) but it doesn’t bother me one bit that 99% of games don’t include a character that is of Latino decent. I see games as just that…GAMES…ENTERTAINMENT. Unless it is spewing out hate speech and willingly targeting specific races or groups of people then I’ll make a stink about and not buy or play it.

As for the people who see RE5 as “racist”? Sorry but those people are the true racists.

People who see everything on a color line level are the same people who complain about racism…think about that one.

No it’s not racist. It’s a guy protecting himself from a mob of zombies. The fact that the protagonists is white and the zombies are black shouldn’t matter. If it was a black guy and a mob of white zombies would you still say it was racist? Are you saying that we can never have a story where a large group of Africans turn into zombies and attack some white guy?

Your logic has some faults.

I refuse to believe that bullshit. Plenty of worthwhile games have been made that don’t feature that sort of stupid demographic pandering, and there’s no reason why game makers should continue to pander. I want to expand the base of people who play video games, and I want better, more creative, less brainless and exploitative video games that actually say and teach intelligent things to the players.

The same applies to RE5 – one of the above comments about some “scary tribal shit” indicates precisely how racist the game’s premise is. A lone white protagonist fighting off hordes of diseased third-worlders is racist, pure and simple, up and down. You want more representation of black people in media? Sure, so do I. But in fact, black people have been represented in all sorts of media for decades. But rarely is that representation positive. So, yes, more black people in games, but let’s actually have them be portrayed as real human beings worth caring about, not as flunkies we can eliminate on our way to 100% completion. See Half-Life 2 : Ep 2 for a great example of positive portrayal.

Incidentally, you obviously didn’t get anything out of your viewing of Boyz N the Hood. The reason it was critically acclaimed was because it had intelligent things to say about WHY the situation of black young men is the way it is. Not because it had black guys calling each other “nigger”. Any of a hundred other movies would do for that.