Forspoken Has a Black Protagonist But No Black Writers

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Hope the game flop. Disgusting

My newfound fears weren’t helped when Rymer and Stashwick described Frey’s origin story, which came off as a tired amalgamation of Black stereotypes. Those stereotypes included her “being very angry,” her having “fallen through cracks of society,” and being “on the verge of prison,” before being teleported to Athia. The cherry on top of my newfound dread was motion capture and voice over director Tom Keegan describing Balinska’s mannerisms during her motion capture performance as having a “very hip-hoppy kind of walk.”
 

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Dude said hip hoppy.

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Probably wanted her to walk like this.
 

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I mean it could have a white main character and no black writers. They have to start somewhere.
 

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Are you gonna complain that it has Japanese developers too and no black developers? Or that the company financing and publishing it are not black? Where does it end?
 

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Black video game writers exist. The time to "start" is way in the past.
Should black video game writers only get work when the main character is black? Considering the dearth of black main characters in video games, they must not get that much work.

if I was a video game writer I would want to be hired to write stories about video games not only when the character is black.
 

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Are you gonna complain that it has Japanese developers too and no black developers? Or that the company financing and publishing it are not black? Where does it end?

Should black video game writers only get work when the main character is black? Considering the dearth of black main characters in video games, they must not get that much work.

if I was a video game writer I would want to be hired to write stories about video games not only when the character is black.

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Should black video game writers only get work when the main character is black? Considering the dearth of black main characters in video games, they must not get that much work.

if I was a video game writer I would want to be hired to write stories about video games not only when the character is black.


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