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5525225 No.5525225 [Reply] [Original]

What did they mean by developing a game that consists literally every single black stereotype you can imagine (apart from watermelon and fried chicken)? Is it an offense, a parody, or just a completely failed attempt at "market research" targeted towards black audiences? What was it like back in the day in the USA oldfags of /vr/, did people of color play vidya as much as you did?

>> No.5525227

This feels like a falseflag thread to get anons banned.

>> No.5525235

>>5525225
I did like the tank theme but I didn't get the whole black thing. I have no idea what group they targeted. Young adults?

I don't care about stereotypes in video games, but the whole thing seems tacked on, it would make no difference without it.

>> No.5525349

>>5525225
>did people of color play vidya as much as you did?
Yes. Sega was heavy into PR in that sector of the market. Some places suggest that the only reason sega sports failed was that they lost the NFL etc licenses from their own Dreamcast game.

>> No.5525352 [DELETED] 

Black people played exactly the following genres no more no less

Sports games
Fighting games

There were outliers of course but characters like Barret were more than adequate to nod to those black players

>> No.5525353 [DELETED] 

Also, Japanese culture is racist as hell and gives zero fucks

>> No.5525415

>>5525353
This game was done by CORE from Derby, England. Brainlet.

Also, Japan isn't as retarded as western countries when it comes to all this "racism" nonsense.

>> No.5525420

>>5525225
>>>/lgbt/

Take it to your containment board, snowflake.

>> No.5525432
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5525432

>>5525225
>>5525353
>>>/lgbt/
Thank you, come again.

>> No.5525556

>>5525432
Why are you telling that homophobe to post in legbutt?

>> No.5525559 [DELETED] 

>>5525556
They think I'm saying racism is wrong

>> No.5525748
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5525748

You'd be surprised to know that blacks design their own characters with the worst stereotypes in mind. Fat Albert and his friends were a group of trouble makers who lived in ghettos, they were fairly dumb, and most lived in poor families.

>> No.5525754

He's more of an attention whore than Sevenleaf, nameposting just to get some validation from jancel

>> No.5525953

I actually kinda liked Shell Shock on the Sega Saturn. It was, in many ways, an extension of Thunderhawk on the Sega CD (and Thunderhawk 2 on the Saturn/ PS1). The Saturn version uses the systems "mode 7" 3D playing field, which made the environments very flat. But the game itself was alright.

It does have stereotypical 90's era black characters and a mid '90's hip hop aesthetic. But that was par for the course for the era.

>> No.5528086 [DELETED] 

>>5525227
Nigger