Take 2 Regrets Caucasian-Only Character Options In 'Carnival Games'

pixelsword - 444 days 19 hours ago

...It was just an honest oversight. I'm a Moor (some call black in America) and I understand that they weren't focused on race, but also they didn't ignore their mistake, that's makes this developer's mistake and subsequent apology acceptable.

Some games do some things like if a multiplayer game has bandwidth issues/lag or something it makes all the characters look the same. Fine, and some games it will default to the host server uses. Also fine. What pops-out as curious is when the character in the game wasn't the color that they show in the first place. Quake 3 arena did that for some reason. Not a terrible crime, just a curious head-scratcher.

Some people add people in and it's refreshing, like Crackdown's main character, or the way you can change the character's look (or sex) in Mass Effect, or like in Insomniac's Resistance. When I first played the 2nd player I remembered "Oh, YEAH; there were different peoples fighting on America's side in the war!" games like call of duty and medal of honor oftentimes never explored those venues, so one could forget history if one wasn't so inclined to (by the way, kudos to Insomniac for that).

There are many games that do that unabashedly and then try to deny their biased attitude towards other peoples. Capcom's street fighter series is notorious for doing that, and has a history of doing so. I don't mean the whole Resident evil 5 thing, I'm talking about looking at their whole Street fighter franchise. The complete lack of Korean characters, Dhalsim's Arcade ending, Dee Jay's perpetual smile, Balrog's ending, Sean's gimped abilities, Blanka's bewildering appearance (originally supposed to represent Capoeira).

You also hear it in multiplayer games. My favorite is when people try to team kill me in multiplayer games because of the skin color of my character whilst calling me names. Little do they know I pwn in most games (like Warhawk, where it happens from time to time), so I often turn the tables on them.

I guess if you ignore the fact that not everyone looks the same, you also ignore the fact that it shouldn't matter. Odd catch-22.

Can't we just all hate each other's consoles? :D

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