Stereotypes in Video Games...

[typical]

i didn't bother to read all the posts just the 1st few so i do recall a stereo type in final fantasy 7 with barret. he's the big strong black dude and he often cursed and used bad grammar....language slang i guess as if all blacks do.

Yeah, he's a dead ringer for Mr. T, but the fact is Japan doesn't see many blacks so they guess from afar.

[Mikey_]

thats kinda...sad. i mean, if they're gonna make a classic hit like FF7, they should do some research at least for their character development instead of making guesses and using stereotyping. japan doesn't see man blacks so they use what they see based on the media lol man.

[dlord0]

Hey, at least there was a black playable character in FFVII... You don't see many of 'em in Squaresoft games...

[xRaVeNx]

Hey, at least there was a black playable character in FFVII... You don't see many of 'em in Squaresoft games...

That type of reasoning is ignorant...

"Hey, let's have a black character in our game, but lets make him ghetto, uneducated, and stereotypical"

[Paladin_Hammer]

The main reason why when games come to the US and are censorshiped, is because we got dumb fucks here that like to play the game and go out and do stupid shit(i.e Kids stole a car - GTA ) If this country wasnt so fucked in so many ways, then maybe we could get the full effect of the game with no censorship. Thats it im done, Im learning Japanese, and movig to Japan. Sometimes I hate America

True dat. the only thing censored in Japan are penisis.

[polokitty]

Hey, at least there was a black playable character in FFVII... You don't see many of 'em in Squaresoft games...

wasn't there a black guy in the turks aslo in ff7

[Roux!]

Whoa, whoa, whoa!!

Barrett may have talked slang on the Japanese version, but what you see in the English version was translated in America... Actually, it was adapted...

Black guy talkin' slang...? So what...? White guys do it too...

Barrett's supposed to be tough and brash, not some intellectual muscleman... I mean... It makes sense...

So Tifa doesn't talk like that... Yeah, but they have different personalities...

If you wanna take it out with someone, take it to the game's translation team...

Streets of Rage 3... WHO THE @*&$!! PLAYS THAT GAME?!? IT SUCKS!!!

Oh, yeah, Latin-Americans don't wear sombreros and carry maracas in their belt everyday, m'kay...?

[Paladin_Hammer]

And Dante is not a women for wearing a red coat.

[Mikey_]

lmao@dante comment.

[Ryan]

Yes he is, but hes a badass so that makes up for it

[Mikey_]

hmmmm. how about the stereotype of how in just about all anime, men look like women? i think its sort of odd sometimes.

[xRaVeNx]

hmmmm. how about the stereotype of how in just about all anime, men look like women? i think its sort of odd sometimes.

What The? Do you know what a stereotype is? That ain't a stereotype, that's an observation....

[polobunny]

Changing a black women for a pink monster in a game ain't a stereotype either smartie.

[xRaVeNx]

Yes it is, play the game, it is more than substituting a character

[johnny blaze]

What The? Do you know what a stereotype is? That ain't a stereotype, that's an observation....

I don't think you know what a sterotype is either. What you posted on page 1 are also "observations".