About Damn Time (Score 1)

Diversity is something that was seriously lacking in early video games. The only character you could play most of the time, was the white man main character. Only recently has this changed in any major way. Two very popular games that come to mind are Diablo 2 and GTA: San Andreas. A black Paladin?! How can this be? Can I create a white paladin instead? For the first time, the middle class white gamer boy was forced to cope with the fact that he would have to play a character that was not his race. This is the experience that every other race and the other gender felt when they were forced to play a white male protagonist. GTA pushed it much further on a much larger scale. This game was almost certainly going to sell a million copies just because of its legacy. And Rockstar was actually bold enough to give the lead to a black man, living in the ghetto in the early nineties. Hell, almost none of the characters in that game were white. Diversity in video games is inevitable. The more open-minded companies will realize this and they will give someone other than a middle class white boy a chance to stand in the spotlight. These companies will sell more games because their audiences will be larger, their games will be more realistic, and their creators will be more free to create.