Ignore celebrity tie-in's and other extremely stereotypical depictions of black people, and games that allow for user definition of the character model unless it is considered cannon for the player character to be black (Crackdown) can any of you think of a game where the hero was black?
Does the black hero exist?
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I had forgotten about shadowman, Indigo Prophecy does not really count because Tyler is not the protagonist. GTA San Andreas falls under the extreme stereotype caveat.
Well, if we're not counting extreme stereotypes, then hardly ANY heroes exist in gaming, whether black, white, brown, or green.shadow skill said:
Okay, this is just abusing the edit feature now. How many times have you changed it? I saw the one I quoted in the next one, and another one about... um... oh yeah, "Got anything better to say?"Sylocat said:I'm with ya. When we think of something better to talk about, we'll let you know.
From my collection (which tends towards games where you create your own hero) there's Barret from Final Fantasy 7, Xavier Stone from Guitar Hero 2, the Demoman from TF2 and Jade from Beyond Good and Evil. Eli and Alyx Vance aren't player characters, but they are heroes. Some of those might not meet your criteria because you choose to play them, but I think it's a little unfair to eliminate any game where you can play as a black character but don't have to, or any game where the black character is a real person and then claim that such characters don't exist. Obviously any main character that isn't a white male is underrepresented, but exceptions do exist, just not to the extent they should.
