I was reading AAK's post and I was slightly worried that maybe he would paraphrase a few things that I said, and he didn't, thanks man, I appreciate it, that's exactly what I said.
One more thing I mentioned just recently to Numb, is that fighting games are extremely stereotypical and antiquated when it comes down to the characters, how they look, sound, act, fight, all of that stuff. The issue with fighting games now, moreso, with Japanese fighters is that they are old. Mortal Kombat X, once again, I have to bring up this game since it's done so many things right, shows a good example of a fighting game that is not completely antiquated in those aspects that I mentioned.
Feng Wei, Marshall Law, Ganryu, Paul Pheonix, Jin Kazama, Kazuya Mishima, these kind of characters, to me, they don't give me a feeling that they are real people. I just can't imagine Kazuya going to the store to buy paper towels. He's just some guy with a particular character design from such a long time ago. There needs to either be, a fighting game that re-events the way characters look, Tekken 4 is a good example of this, or there needs to be a brand new fighting game that takes place in 2015, and that actually has characters in it that are from 2015. Who the fuck is Feng Wei really? I just don't think that someone like Feng Wei exists within the same realm of someone like Miguel.
Someone like Feng Wei is just a copy of some other guy from another Japanese thing. Someone like Miguel Rojo, the Tekken Tag 2 iteration, is an OK example of a character that I could actually imagine existing.
I get a sense that Cassie Cage is actually a person. She's 22 years old, she's in the military, she's white, young, and she is a person from 2015. One of her fatalities includes her taking a selfie of her and her opponent, and then she posts it on Facebook. Why don't I see characters like Ling or Lili talking on the phone as a win pose? Why are their costumes so oddly, particularly uncommon? The aesthetic of their designs only makes them exist within this unrealistic world. In what time period does Tekken take place now? It's confusing, there seems to be nothing modern about Tekken 7, and this idea that I'm talking about, it's just bullshit, just me talking with no real point, I'm not saying Tekken should do this, I'm just illustrating that, the most popular fighting games all stick to a formula. They use characters from the most popular countries with the most recognizable fighting styles. The most stereotyped people, equipped with the most archaic designs. Aren't people tired of seeing the same black boxer/muy thai guy? What about that same Indian guy, that same Karate guy, that same tomboy girl, that same Chinese girl with the pigtails, etc.
EDIT: The clear negligence in the inclusion of a black character that is from America, outlines the fact that Japanese companies know that they have no fucking clue how to create a black character from America without basing he or she on a stereotype. So what is the safer choice? Make nothing, we make no black characters, because now that if we released black boxer guy #3 Demario Williams, no one would like him or give a shit. He would be interchangeable. The black woman thing is so far beyond their scope that I am not surprised by the lack of that type of character. I would expect that from an American fighting game franchise, and Mortal Kombat X has two black women in it. There is no question that they are black, they both have black hair (really? not white, purple, blue, blonde?).
On another note, the only black female character in DOA, I believe didn't even make it into the DOA Extreme 3 roster, smh. For real, all of the characters in that DOA Volleyball game look the same with varying heights and hairstyles, there is so little diversity, but that's not their problem, that's just the demographic that they're appealing to.
