Brianna Wu / John Flynt - Original Thread

[Kosher Dill]

Why is Revolution 60 solely on IoS?

I think the real reason for that is that it's barely even "for iOS". It was originally coded for one specific operating system revision on one specific hardware config of one specific iDevice, or something ludicrous like that. Like, it was a porting job to even get it running on a different iPhone than the one surgically grafted to Brianna's hand.

 

[Count groudon]

[MEDIA=twitter]602510362353803264[/MEDIA]So Wu only owns 1 game with a black protagonist?
How is that possible?

Im pretty sure most games these days feature black characters, or give you the option of playing as a black protagonist. If she only has one game featuring a black main character then she either doesn't realize being black is an option in those games, or she's actively avoids games with black protagonists.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

Im pretty sure most games these days feature black characters, or give you the option of playing as a black protagonist. If she only has one game featuring a black main character then she either doesn't realize being black is an option in those games, or she's actively avoids games with black protagonists.

I feel that she is probably also ignoring or doesn't own games that don't have protagonists or feature nonhuman protagonists - which you think would be a staple for her "casual" repertoire.

 

[Andy27]

[MEDIA=twitter]602510362353803264[/MEDIA]

I once saw some shitty "all protagonists are white males in video games!!!" poster in a facebook post which included Mass Effect as a game with a white male protagonist. When I pointed out the obvious - that the character was fully customizable including skin colour - the guy who posted it said that it still counted as a game with a white male protagonist because the "default" option was a white male Shepard.

Maybe Wu is ignoring these games as well with the same reasoning. Alternatively, she doesn't own anything from the Mass Effect (or Dragon Age) series that is known for their very strong storyline, characterization and dialogue which is odd considering how much she claims to like such games.

 

[Ti-99/4A]

Wu is Chris. We have come full-circle.

[MEDIA=twitter]602510362353803264[/MEDIA]So Wu only owns 1 game with a black protagonist?
How is that possible?

If were going to make Chris Comparisons @Jaimas we need to ask how many of the games she owns has she actually played?

 

[c-no]

[MEDIA=twitter]602510362353803264[/MEDIA]So Wu only owns 1 game with a black protagonist?
How is that possible?

Funny thing: I notice Wu has a copy of Far Cry 2. That game does have a wide array of guys you pick to play as. If Wu owns GTA: San Andreas or V, she's conveniently leaving out the black guy you play as in those games.

I once saw some shitty "all protagonists are white males in video games!!!" poster in a facebook post which included Mass Effect as a game with a white male protagonist. When I pointed out the obvious - that the character was fully customizable including skin colour - the guy who posted it said that it still counted as a game with a white male protagonist because the "default" option was a white male Shepard.

Did said guy not even know of games where the main protagonist is black such as San Andreas?

One may as well laugh if they included a game like Sly Cooper or Armored Core not having a black protagonist even though the people in those games are pretty much furries or are unseen.

 

[Andy27]

Did said guy not even know of games where the main protagonist is black such as San Andreas?

Even if he did, he would probably complain about how a black guy is portrayed as a criminal. There's no winning with these people.

 

[Jaimas]

If were going to make Chris Comparisons @Jaimas we need to ask how many of the games she owns has she actually played?

Check her Steam list. Of the 130+ games she's owned, she's played most of them less than 15 minutes, at most.

I once saw some shitty "all protagonists are white males in video games!!!" poster in a facebook post which included Mass Effect as a game with a white male protagonist. When I pointed out the obvious - that the character was fully customizable including skin colour - the guy who posted it said that it still counted as a game with a white male protagonist because the "default" option was a white male Shepard.

Maybe Wu is ignoring these games as well with the same reasoning. Alternatively, she doesn't own anything from the Mass Effect (or Dragon Age) series that is known for their very strong storyline, characterization and dialogue which is odd considering how much she claims to like such games.

She ignores as well how many of those games feature Hispanic or Asian protagonists.

 

[wheat pasta]

There's something very hilarious about a SUPPOSEDLY ACCOMPLISHED GAME DEV complaining about some diversity quota invented by her ilk, yet doing absofuckinglutely nothing about stepping forward to change it.
Keep fighting the good fight, Banana Woo.

 

[MiloWuCollusion]

She could have done the same point (not many games with black/minority protagonists) and with her own collection without the hyperbole of singling out anything. So why she does this? Make her look like a attention whoring poser in more obvious way. ...

 

[TyrannoNinja]

To be fair, some genres of games are still quite Eurocentric. The greater proportion of games out there with historical or fantasy settings tend to emphasize European or otherwise "Western" history. There have always been some which tried to be multicultural (e.g. Civilization or Guild Wars), but they're not exactly the norm yet.

At the same time, most AA game developers are still in Western countries where white people are demographically predominant. Of course they're going to be biased towards Western history. If African countries had the same thriving game development industry, we'd see a lot more games with African settings, and so on.

 

[Coldgrip]

To be fair, some genres of games are still quite Eurocentric. The greater proportion of games out there with historical or fantasy settings tend to emphasize European or otherwise "Western" history. There have always been some which tried to be multicultural (e.g. Civilization or Guild Wars), but they're not exactly the norm yet.

At the same time, most AA game developers are still in Western countries where white people are demographically predominant. Of course they're going to be biased towards Western history. If African countries had the same thriving game development industry, we'd see a lot more games with African settings, and so on.

A lot of games are developed in japan as well. These game also have white protagonists, but that's due to how the Japanese choose to depict themselves.

 

[MiloWuCollusion]

To be fair, some genres of games are still quite Eurocentric. The greater proportion of games out there with historical or fantasy settings tend to emphasize European or otherwise "Western" history. There have always been some which tried to be multicultural (e.g. Civilization or Guild Wars), but they're not exactly the norm yet.

At the same time, most AA game developers are still in Western countries where white people are demographically predominant. Of course they're going to be biased towards Western history. If African countries had the same thriving game development industry, we'd see a lot more games with African settings, and so on.

Many of this countries have history about dealing about racial issues and many are set in contemporary settings. Obviously, not asking for representation for quotas or "hurt feelings" like the Kingdom Come bitching. But western history or culture doesn't mean "white only".

 

[Peace and Harmony]

Zero??? John, John, John, how little you know:

Spoiler

 

[Ti-99/4A]

Doesn't Solid Snake have only one eye? Disabled!

 

[A Random]

Big Boss definitely does.

But who cares when it doesn't really affect your gameplay?

 

[Ti-99/4A]

But who cares when it doesn't really affect your gameplay?

I don't play much vidya so it was the only character that came out of my head.

 

[Frank_Jaeger]

Big Boss definitely does.

But who cares when it doesn't really affect your gameplay?

Actually when you go into first person view in MGS3 after Big Boss loses his eye, the right edge of the screen is blacked out slightly. TECHNOLOGY

 

[Positron]

How many black characters are present in Revolution 60?

They have Geishabots, which in social justice terms are equivalent to 6 blacks, 8 Hispanics and 3 Arabs.

 

[Blueberry]

She's right, there is not a game starting a black autistic transgendered homosexual feminist Jew.

God damn you patriarchy