![]() Diamond Lobby found that only 8.3% of games had a female character of Asian, Black, or other ethnic origin. They examined the 10 highest sellers of each year along with every major release from the biggest publishers including, but not limited to, Activision, EA, Nintendo, Ubisoft, and more. That is just sad."ĭiamond Lobby performed an analysis on AAA games released between 20. "Only 14 black women have ever been put in the hands of a player, and only two of them before the year 2000. In 2015 Jef Rouner for The Houston Press wrote that at the time there were around only around 14 playable black women in gaming history. ![]() A perfect storm of a game being very middling and starring a black woman protagonist. So the criticism of the writer's room makeup hitting the point where it was not just black women griping about their absence was novel and welcomed. Perhaps an attempt at crafting a hit in the Western market, I can only speculate. Forspoken is admittedly unusual as a Japanese-developed game penned by an all-white writing team. ![]() These games are predominantly staffed by white people, and writer's rooms are no exceptions. This alone is unfortunately humdrum in the AAA games space. There are no black women on the writing team. Forspoken is destined to be reassessed in 3-5 years and diagnosed as "not that bad." It's really not that bad. ![]() I'm not going to talk about the dialogue discourse beyond I think the dialogue is okay. The maligned open-world RPG took its licks at the beginning of the year, and honestly from long before that, as 10-second clips were dissected out of context. Forspoken is not my game of the year, I'd be shocked if it's anyone's. ![]()
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