I think that diversity by color is good because it often brings with you diverse ideas. Having the same group of people over and over in companies, movies, games, etc. leads to stale ideas.

I loved playing the Battlefield 1 intro because of the story of the Harlem Hellfighters. It was something new and different. The same with the last story mission. Diversity of characters can lead to new, interesting ideas.

Seeing generic white protagonist #304 on game covers gets old quickly. Gaming can do better. I'm glad EA realized this.

What agenda? I'm just offering an opinion. Quite frankly I don't give that much of a fuck. It's fairly obvious though the game buying audience is quite diverse, so it wouldn't really hurt if new games with new characters maybe had a little more thought put into them than just "well just make the character a white dude". 

This isn't the country music industry, 90%+ of the gaming fan base is not white, that's just simply a fact. 

Sure have more ugly people too then, lol. Mario/Luigi aren't exactly supermodels though either. 

Though even in this respect gaming is normalizing a bit, Lara Croft looks more like a regular person than a walking set of tits as in the 90s. 

What the hell are you talking about? The majority of games protagonists aren't white males anymore. When will that get through your skull?

No, now she looks like an actual supermodel compared to the PS1 days.

Edit: And apparently real human beings can have big tits.

no, it is not a real criticism. The reality is that most developers create their characters as white men because that's what the majority of characters in any form of media are. Is it a bad thing? No. It isn't a good thing but it isn't harming anyone.

I'm sorry but that's pure bullshit. The majority of protagonists in games are still white. In fact 90% of characters (humanoid) in games are white. And I don't have a big problem with that. But don't give me that "the Kingdom Hearts characters are Asian" ... they're about as Asian as Brad Pitt. 

Yup I more or less agree with that. White male is basically the default, in a few cases developers are now saying "well ... hey, maybe the character can look at little different". And that's fine too, that's just a developer realizing that the audience their making games for isn't a one dimensional demographic. 

The thing is most developers care more about their characters from a perspective of theme and narrative than they do genitalia, which leads them to starting with the basics and going from there. There is rarely ever a reason to highlight race or sex in a video game, so in reality choosing a white male as the default is actually stearing away from those conversations. Which I think is usually good, i'd rather just focus on the character. 

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