The Guardian: E3 2017 diversity report - female characters mask lack of progress
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Meant "less diverse". A game with a diverse cast is important, not just the diversity of the lead. Sure, the lead matters, but there's more to it than just the lead.
The Surge had a disabled main character
This article seems downplay and exclude some major positives for trivial reasons- like excluding npcs of color (Wolf 2), calling Chloe white and not mentioning Battlefront 2's lead.
That, also BJ Blazkowicz is wheelchair bound in the beginning of Wolfenstein 2 and the developers went out of their way to design wheelchair based gameplay mechanics.
TissueBox
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I haven't seen an action game tackle that that I had some decent fun with since Sly 3... it would be interesting to see if games could incorporate disabled characters adequately.
InterMusketeer
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What I especially like about this report, is how reductive it sounds when they refer to people who happen to men and white. You go The Guardian, keep fighting the good fight. Ugh.
It's rather clear in the trailer and the developer spoke about it pretty openly during the giant bomb interview
zenspider
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Because everyone on stage was white (even though they weren't). I'm not sure if I'm allowed to be offended - maybe disappointed is a better word - but hand-waving the entire staff of Ubisoft because of the color of their skin is really reductive. They are French in an Anglo-American dominated market and have consistently strived to have unique persepctive in the homogeneous AAA space. Being dismissive of culture in lieu of skin color tells me this is a plea for tokenism - diversity in appearance, not diversity in thought (by way of diversity in perspective).
Beyond Good and Evil 2 looked like an outlaw's Star Trek - who could possibly feel like they don't belong it that world?
Far Cry 5 is "diverse" by inversion: people are straight pissed at the idea of shooting white Christian bad guys.
Assassin's Creed Origins obvs (though I lament the likely non-Arabic VO).
I wouldn't be so dismissive of Madden's Long Shot story mode. I'm pretty sure you're playing as a black man breaking into the league as a quarterback - that's not insignificant.
This whole quantification of progress and diversity feels gross, and simply changing who's behind the gun shooting the bad people isn't 'capital p' progress.
TetraGenesis
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I think diversity in games is super important.
I think diversity in games is still lacking a full spectrum of representation.
I think diversity in games (and the lack thereof) is something that developers and publishers should be held accountable for.
All that being said...
This was a really poorly researched article. Totally clueless about so many things important to the conversation. I think this talk needs to happen, but it needs to be done better than this.
I think diversity in games is still lacking a full spectrum of representation.
I think diversity in games (and the lack thereof) is something that developers and publishers should be held accountable for.
All that being said...
This was a really poorly researched article. Totally clueless about so many things important to the conversation. I think this talk needs to happen, but it needs to be done better than this.