V-Jump: New Final Fantasy XIII Character Revealed

Slam-Master - 351 days 15 hours ago

in what way

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pwnsause - 351 days 15 hours ago

i was going to say the same thing, but you took my words for it, lol. nice to see this game being pretty diverse though.

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 351 days 14 hours ago

He's the token black guy because he's black. JRPG's ONLY have token black guys.

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BlindMonkey - 351 days 14 hours ago

Looks like some sort of captain. Maybe he pilot's airships?

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Black Maverick - 351 days 14 hours ago

Even though I'm black, I lol'd because that was the first thing I thought. I just hope he's a cool and important character and not just there for comic-relief.

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hay - 351 days 13 hours ago

In FF7 Barret was only black guy in the whole world as I recall, but he was pretty damn awesome. But this guy reminds me of RPG version of Afroman...

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Danja - 351 days 12 hours ago

wonder what they will name him now..

Mocha.....?

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AAACE5 - 351 days 11 hours ago

Look at the fro... reminds me of lionel from the jeffersons!

Well, I am glad they are getting more diversity in gaming(the blue and green people don't count).

Hahaha, but you can tell by the fro that the japanese developers don't get out much!

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Dir_en_grey - 350 days 20 hours ago

Barret wasn't black in the Japanese version, they just made him black when they translated the game into English.

I don't think there was any intention when FF7 was originally created that they consciously put in any "race" according to real life terms, they were just FF people like any other anime that is in their own little anime universe.

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coolfool - 350 days 20 hours ago

Do you have a link? I would love to see a white barret.

Anyway, on topic, I hope this guy isn't going to be as annoying has he looks like he could be. I also hope they don't stereotype the black persona........

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Keowrath - 350 days 20 hours ago

@ Dir_en_grey are you sure about that? I picked up FF7 on PS1 as soon as it was released and paid MUCHO bucks for it. From what I recall tho, Barrett was the same as how he appeared in the Western versions.

I say from what I recall because we're looking at a decade since I played the Japanese version (Not the international one) and seriously I don't remember there being any changes.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

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Dir_en_grey - 350 days 14 hours ago

I was trying to answer 1.6 on why Barret was the only black guy in FF7.

Back in the days I don't think Japanese were conscious of how westerners are sensitive to different skin tones. I don't think they were trying to make Barret black, if you compare it to any other anime or video games made by Japan at the time, if they were making a black guy, like people say you will KNOW he's a token black guy, and I think they kinda made him into one when the game was translated into English.
There were tons of other characters like Barret in other anime of the same time and they were just in the "big brute" catagory and they usually had tanned skin but still Japanese or what not.

At least for me I never thought about "race" when I saw FF7 characters for the first time, they were all just FF people/Japanese like any other anime. I was kinda shocked when I saw the character design in Advent Children for Barret, they really made him black but he was all small compared to the original FF7's "super buff" image.

Anyway I just thought that would answer the question why nobody else was black in FF7, since every body was just the same "FF race" but Barret was just tanned like any other "big brute" type that was tanned in any other anime and video game at the time. All this before Advent Children was out anyway.

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ultimolu - 350 days 12 hours ago

The f*ck?

I have no qualms with a black guy being in FFXIII. I think it's pretty cool.

Settle down people.

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Sony Rep - 351 days 15 hours ago

What a stupid comment to make. What makes him look like he belongs in GTA?

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Slam-Master - 351 days 15 hours ago

so because hes black, he belongs in gta 4

im glad idiots like you never get taken seriously irl

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lloyd_wonder - 351 days 15 hours ago

You know nothing about the guy and you're stereotyping.

win/win, idiot.

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pwnsause - 351 days 15 hours ago

yea man thats kind of the wrong thing to say. that's like saying that Drebin shouldn't have been in MGS4, and he was one of the coolest characters of the game.

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lonestarmt - 351 days 14 hours ago

yeah but derbin wasn't as token looking as this guy... I hope he turns out to be as cool as him...

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 351 days 14 hours ago

Are you black?

If so...stop it.

You're being extremely racist. None of us have even attempted racism. It's people like you that create MORE racism.

He said he doesn't belong in this game. That's not because he's black though. If this was Dynasty Warriors, maybe...but only because that's set in oldschool Japan. (I hate those games.) This guy doesn't belong here because he looks like he belongs on the front of a cereal box. If they had put Wesley Snipes in the game, it'd be different.

Lay off, dude. None of us are racist. You are.

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Slam-Master - 351 days 14 hours ago

LeonSKennedy4Life i am black, and i dont like the way people are so closed minded and how is addressing this being racist

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TapiocaMilkTea - 351 days 13 hours ago

I agree, he looks like he doesn't belong in the game, can't quite put my finger on it, but he looks more "realistic" than the other characters, he doesn't have the anime look.

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NinjaRyu - 351 days 12 hours ago

his facial hair. If they made him look more like an Anime character then I think people would see him fitting in the game more!

P.S.@LeonSKennedy4Life How is Slam-Master racist? He's not the one saying this character looks like he belong in GTA4!

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DrWan - 351 days 8 hours ago

If u look at that picture, he looks like a real person, thus he belongs to GTA4 and he looks like a Thug so he longs to GTA4, and since there is absolutely No dispute if u walk down to downtown LA u will more likily see a African American thug than say someone with anime looking face..so he belongs to GTA 4.

Hey when u have time, come into my E.R. I will show you records of who gets admitted most for gunshot wounds in LA. African American. Am I being racists? Hell no. Which part of me as a physician is being racists when I need to categorize my patient's ethnicity so I can treat them properly because I know that ACE Inhibitors doesn't work as well in blacks as it does in other people. So stop calling me stereotypical or racists, because I am not.

Come on, you put this guy and u put Miss Lighting or Mr. Tall blond guy or Miss Forest Tarzen Girl together, they absolutely look like they don't belong in the same game. Even the art style is different to be honest. This guy can pass off to be a "real looking dude" from a distance.

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DrWan - 351 days 8 hours ago

check the city's statistics, there are alot more poorer Blacks and Hispanics than there are other races in many many major USA cities. It's statistics, not racism. Don't be ignorant; if our nation is to advance, we need to admit the problem and not try to hide it or play "oh You are racist!" For god's sake our president-elect is half black.

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NinjaRyu - 351 days 3 hours ago

I wasn't taken a shot at you, I just used your comment to make the point that it's kinda stupid to say Slam-Master racist when their were worst comments made! If that's whatever I said in a way to a shot at you, sorry!

"Hey when u have time, come into my E.R. I will show you records of who gets admitted most for gunshot wounds in LA. African American."

I never called you racists!

However I still think you were stereotyping to a certain point! I can understand if you say he doesn't belong in the game but damn dude saying he belong in GTA4 only makes it at(the very least) sound like your streotyping! It's like me seeing a pretty boy asian guy in a FF game & saying hey looks like he belong in a hentai game raping some underage girl. Just because your not trying to make a comment that sounds like your sterotyping doesn't mean you ain't doing it!

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hay - 350 days 17 hours ago

Don't want to offend anyone but look at FF13. There are dinosaurs, chicks changing into motorcycles, Final Fantasy stormtroopers, jet fighters, advanced technology, huge and unknown entities, magic and most probably other crazy stuff.
Even Bugs Bunny would find his place in this world... So how come you say this crazy looking mofo wouldn't fit? I mean, Drebin looked kinda funny, but he was great character. This guy can be also cool.

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Rock Bottom - 351 days 9 hours ago

We didn't need a confirmation from SE to know that the new Final Fantasy would have Chocobos in it. :)

And don't worry, there will be big ones there too.

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TOO PAWNED - 351 days 14 hours ago

Duh

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Max Power - 351 days 14 hours ago

hand back, and lost his testicles? these are to completely different characters from what i just read.

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lonestarmt - 351 days 14 hours ago

my problem with him is his ugly mustard yellow or snot color coat. He could have been much cooler.

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Foxgod - 351 days 14 hours ago

yeah, that makes it even funnier, baret had surgery, he had his balls removed and placed on his wrist.

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Foxgod - 351 days 14 hours ago

YEah, maybe they could make someone like in your avatar, then i can see the same guys in Final fantasy as i do here at the office.

*sorry, just had to sound mean, youre always so negative :P*

No offense tho, i work on the office, and i like office people.
Just dont like negative people.

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lonestarmt - 351 days 14 hours ago

thats why he seems out of place. If I want real life characters I would play another game. Final Fantasy is about fantasy. lol Hopefully he will turn out to be like derbin, someone I thought was going not to be a strong character and turned out to be the coolest guy in MSG4. I'm hoping

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blackpanther25 - 351 days 11 hours ago

The funniest thing is that when i saw the pic he reminded me of a friend of mine. My friend happens to be a middle age black man with that same exact Afro shape. It is so weird its like they had a picture of friend used his image lol

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 351 days 14 hours ago

We can only pray...

Man, that would be amazing though, wouldn't it?

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Slam-Master - 351 days 14 hours ago

please explain to me how this guy would be better fitted in gta 4, that was the arguement, dumb sterotypically bs idiot

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Foxgod - 351 days 14 hours ago

because he looks like a stereotype ghetto pretty boy.

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Vecta - 351 days 13 hours ago

He doesn't fit in because you can actually tell that hes a guy, unlike most of Tetsuya Nomura's characters.

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Cheeseknight28 - 351 days 10 hours ago

Flop? You actually think a main FF game is gonna flop?

Sure it might SUCK, but it's definitely not going to FLOP. If I'm using this site's definition right, a flop would imply that it won't sell. The chances of this selling any less than a million within 2 weeks are slim to none.

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