thebitterguy

Yeah, those games were obviously NOT selected at random. Picking "Shadow Warrior", which is hilarious but also screamingly racist (just listen to that guy's accent) kind of shuts down the point of this study. A better way to do it would be to play, say, the top five best-selling games of all time on each current system and see what comes up.

By the way, if you can find it, there's an absolutely HILARIOUS letter the Spanish envoy to Japan wrote to Capcom about the depiction of the Spanish in "Resident Evil 4." It was leaked and Capcom did a pretty thorough job of scrubbing it, but as bureaucratic hissy-fits go, it's hysterical. The guy seems especially upset over the foul mouths the inbred Spanish rednecks have.

The thesis writer admits his own ignorance in the interview. I find it especially disingenuous when he says he hasn't found a single positive example of race in games.

Of course, there are some horrible examples of racism in games. He totally missed Superfly Johnson from Daikatana, for example.

He conveniently leaves out Half Life 2, one of the most popular shooters of all time, because it complicates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Eli_Vance) matters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyx_Vance).

I love it when people complain about Grand Theft Auto. "At one point, the game displays the message, 'kill all the dirty Haitians.'"
or
"Players get points for killing women."

And what about Mario? Everyone in that series is white! Luigi should be retconned to be black. And toad can be, uh, in a wheelchair. They already have a transgendered character (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdo#Gender_and_species).

Again, Warcraft 3???


I suppose you could say the Tauren were offensive to Native Americans or something, but really, the main enemies in that game were undead and a big blonde-haired, blue eyed white guy.