Today the full roster of playable characters for WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 was announced.
J Station X writes
"Racism still exists. From the day to day micro-aggressions muttered under breaths, to the vocal suggestions in protests and online that any person of colour is less than their white peers and to the systematic oppression of those who don’t happen to be white. It’s around us and poisonously so, to the point where it infiltrates every aspect of society.
A place where it is most called into question and analysed is video games, where a (small, but meaningful) margin of non-white characters are seen. But can the behaviours of these characters influence our views on race? A new study seems to think so."
This is exactly what I was saying in the very first discussion of this article. There is an inherent "bias" in this study. The issue is pretty simple...there was no pre-screening. Therefore, we know NOTHING about racial bias, stereotypes, or prejudice that existed BEFORE the actual study. Let's not even go into the "more or less" racist idea. Finally, and pretty important, is that there was no control group. Why not do the same thing for minorities to see if they show similar changes in attitude while playing these games? This would at least provide a basis for quantifying the results, to an extent, and allowing a basis of comparison.
About the only thing this really shows, if at all, is that something that was a known issue remains an issue.
Well said.
Seems like half these studies that involve gaming seem to have a conclusion they want to come to; anybody that knows anything about science knows that this will inherently skew the results.
This article hit it right on the nail! Especially the part where the author said,we are dealing with systematic racism. Yes racism is a system that is the reality. The movie and gaming industry need to be more diverse, and stop giving us slave movies like 12 days of Slavery. Why can't they make movies or possibly even games about Africans and Queen? There are a lot of good stories out there.
I meant to say African Kings and Queens (I did that comment on the cell phone typo my bad) in that paragraph.
Gereralizations are wrong no matter who gives them. It's wrong to say that all blacks are violent. However, it's also wrong to label all Americans (or any other culture) as being unwelcoming (or racist).
Individual people can be extremely racist. Just because that one person goes to a certain school, or is from a certain country, doesn't mean that person is the representation for that entire pool of people.
Am I the only one that doesn't see race or sex in video games? It really doesn't register that I'm playing as a woman or black or a goat for that matter when playing, my first thoughts are functionality in terms of what they're capable of but never have I once thought "hey why aren't there people like me".
Sometimes I see gender. It depends on how out of place the character seems. The girl from heavenly sword was a good fit, but the new Lara Croft felt out of place in a highly violent videogame. Then again so did the guy from farcry 3 and sometimes the great Nathan Drake does aswell.
Honestly I also see race, if the character isn't awesome like kratos, I feel like it was a wasted oppurtunity, and if he's too stereotypical(and not in a funny way). It just seems corny.
"WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2009 has had 716 days of game-play data reported, while WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2010 has had 371 days of game-play data reported, through the Wii's Nintendo Channel.
Do the reported game-play hours for these two WWE wrestling games show some Wii owners enjoy wrestling games? Let's take a look...", says CoffeewithGames.
A most interesting thing has happened this week: THQ’s WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2010 has become a best-seller. That in itself isn’t amazing; in fact, it’s practically expected. But there’s more to the story.
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I haven't played a wrestling game since N64. This doesn't look like its going to change that.
It's a good game, I had a lot of fun with it. And $20 is tough to beat, definitely worth that much.
Incidentally, the DS game reminded me more of the old N64 games, but with a career mode attached.
When will we just get No Mercy 2? I'm sick of this series and I think everyone would like a sequel to the N64 smash hit WWF No Mercy.
Was that good? I remember thinking about picking it up the day it came out but I never got around to it. Guess I was just REALLY lazy then.
For the past 10 or so years, I've had zero interest in pro wrestling on TV but I still love the games. I should pick this one up.
I stopped watching when WCW died. I was a WCW fan. I still want No Mercy 2 though....ugh.
The Miz got a focking 78! I'm pissed.
Goldust made it in, so I'm okay for right now.
TGSI
I haven't watched the WWE in so long I don't even know half these guys.
At least Y2J's still hanging around.
THQ makes the same crap every year with minor features added
most up to date in years
I find it funny how the world's greatest Marky-Mark impersonator is always at the fore front of the line of superstars on the cover. He is a testament to the "Image first. Skill second, but not required" selection process within the WWE these days.
No legends like Bret The Hitman Hart? WWE is a mere shadow of its greatness from the WWF 90's days.