Naughty Dog racist? (Update: Article writer was hired by Naughty Dog)

[Draje]

Was anything I wrote factually inaccurate?

Is the whole game not available an watchable online in movie form?

Stop it. That’s just your angle to try to defend the shyt

Are you trying to imply that they consistently treat black characters differently than white characters in this game? Because the game uses white characters to push the character growth of the main character, they consistently put black characters in positions of power and respect within the world, and they tend to be well developed character.

The Last of Us has fukking disgusting white slavers and presents them as monsters too.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Are you trying to imply that they consistently treat black characters differently than white characters in this game? Because the game uses white characters to push the character growth of the main character, they consistently put black characters in positions of power and respect within the world, and they tend to be well developed character.

The Last of Us has fukking disgusting white slavers and presents them as monsters too.

The black characters exist as stepping stones for other characters development. You don’t get to see them be happy or be human much. They get very little identity or character development of their own. They show up and they die a gruesome death that serves as character development for the other characters. First game not one black character made it to the end.

The scene with Abby and the big scary black man brute might as well have been racist/feminist propaganda. Look how they mutilated that guy. And it was all close up and at your hands as the player. Most in your face gruesome scene in the game. An artist had to draw that mans face cut in half. A writer had to write it, a producer had to OK it and that’s literally the only character in the entire universe they showed that fukked up

They bring Isaac back just to kill him for no reason. And the list goes on.

Again I don’t think any black character lives in any of the games.

Abbys dad was black or a poc when he had to die in the first one. But he’s a pristine white guy when he actually gets to be a human in the second game.

Glaring issues all around.

and it makes it even worse that ND thinks of themselves as socially/politically progressive on a bunch of issues. They put the messaging in the games on purpose for LGBT stuff or they said some of the themes were to reference real life conflicts. But somehow nobody in the development process stops to think about how black characters are treated in their game or the optics of some of the situations they put them in.

Not a good look at all. I stop short of saying it’s intentionally racist. But I will say with all the thought they apparently put into everything else. It shows they don’t give black people and black characters the same careful care and consideration as everyone else.

 

[The Mad Titan]

The black characters exist as stepping stones for other characters development. You don’t get to see them be happy or be human much. They get very little identity or character development of their own. They show up and they die a gruesome death that serves as character development for the other characters. First game not one black character made it to the end.

The scene with Abby and the big scary black man brute might as well have been racist/feminist propaganda. Look how they mutilated that guy. And it was all close up and at your hands as the player. Most in your face gruesome scene in the game. An artist had to draw that mans face cut in half. A writer had to write it, a producer had to OK it and that’s literally the only character in the entire universe they showed that fukked up

They bring Isaac back just to kill him for no reason. And the list goes on.

Again I don’t think any black character lives in any of the games.

Abbys dad was black or a poc when he had to die in the first one. But he’s a pristine white guy when he actually gets to be a human in the second game.

Glaring issues all around.

and it makes it even worse that ND thinks of themselves as socially/politically progressive on a bunch of issues. They put the messaging in the games on purpose for LGBT stuff or they said some of the themes were to reference real life conflicts. But somehow nobody in the development process stops to think about how black characters are treated in their game or the optics of some of the situations they put them in.

Not a good look at all. I stop short of saying it’s intentionally racist. But I will say with all the thought they apparently put into everything else. It shows they don’t give black people and black characters the same careful care and consideration as everyone else.

This is my main point and issue

 

[Koba St]

I don't "look" for anything. This was getting retweeted in the Black game developer community.

You’re also of them Xbots who pretend to be so neutral and rational but we see through your game. You ain’t fooling nobody

Also are people still arguing with Meach? That nikka has literally not played the game. Why waste your time?

 

[Deezay]

I don't live on this forum so I'm not familiar with people's histories

Now you know.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

This game is disgusting. Clearly designed for deviants.

And it's racist and anti-black as well? Jesus

Thank God I have an Xbox.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

I been saying TLOU 1 & 2 was.

Gotta sacrifice all the POC for plot progression for the whites, dykes and the transformers but any shade of brown/black is brutalized.

And then you got cacs voicing black women in Uncharted.

Xbox users been telling y'all Sony is full of anti black racists but you c00ns love your japanophile porn that Sony pumps out ad nauseum.


fukking losers.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

That’s what you weirdos are doing.

You act like the entire game isn’t on the internet to watch.

“You have not played it”

Doesn’t erase the big brute black man stereotype.

What’s crazy is y’all talk so bad about Resetera but even they are able to have a reasonable conversation about this. Fans of the game and nautydog are being honest about the issue and this story.

But you clowns here are upset and calling people stans instead.

Simple negro arguing tactics

 

[Fatboi1]

The black characters exist as stepping stones for other characters development. You don’t get to see them be happy or be human much. They get very little identity or character development of their own. They show up and they die a gruesome death that serves as character development for the other characters. First game not one black character made it to the end.

The scene with Abby and the big scary black man brute might as well have been racist/feminist propaganda. Look how they mutilated that guy. And it was all close up and at your hands as the player. Most in your face gruesome scene in the game. An artist had to draw that mans face cut in half. A writer had to write it, a producer had to OK it and that’s literally the only character in the entire universe they showed that fukked up

They bring Isaac back just to kill him for no reason. And the list goes on.

Again I don’t think any black character lives in any of the games.

Abbys dad was black or a poc when he had to die in the first one. But he’s a pristine white guy when he actually gets to be a human in the second game.

Glaring issues all around.

and it makes it even worse that ND thinks of themselves as socially/politically progressive on a bunch of issues. They put the messaging in the games on purpose for LGBT stuff or they said some of the themes were to reference real life conflicts. But somehow nobody in the development process stops to think about how black characters are treated in their game or the optics of some of the situations they put them in.

Not a good look at all. I stop short of saying it’s intentionally racist. But I will say with all the thought they apparently put into everything else. It shows they don’t give black people and black characters the same careful care and consideration as everyone else.

Naughty Dog looking to me. I don't care if they put LGBT shyt in the game, that LGBT shyt is smoke screen to cover up any accusations as they know they'll have some black queers rushing to defend them like "BlAcKs aRe LgBt toO!"

Their weird reasoning for having a white woman voice a black character in Uncharted 4 was sus but alas it's hard to always prove what is racist.

Also, in Uncharted 4 where Drake and Sully were looking at some portraits of pirates when they get to the Black portrait, it was simply "This guy has a moorish getup".



Of course, the black one had no name and his "getup" was Moorish to insinuate that Moor probably means something else but I doubt the game would even get deep into it and it would probably instead whitesplain Moors as an Islamic, Arabic(in the modern sense) aka not black people to throw you off.

 

[Drizzy Dre]

Naughty Dog is a perfect example of the world we live in today.

 

[8.TRES]

Naughty Dog games aren't anymore racist than the mainstream movies they try to copy. This article is half baked, the Nora bit is especially embarrassing, I get this line of thinking but it's just applied all wrong in this article. There's a conversation to be had about black characters in horror fiction but I can't stand these cookie cutter leftist think pieces and I largely agree with them. Invoking I can't breathe, 'black and brown bodies' all in service of an analysis you could've got in a youtube comment.

this is the best way to speak towards it

its real disingenuous to act as if this issue begins or ends with naughty dog, the same way it was when this discussion was had for all the other studios its been had for (i've seen it happen for cd project red, bioware, bethesda, and especially rockstar); this particular discussion about diversity and treatment of black characters has been had in any medium used to tell stories for years

the problem has always been that you put a bunch of white or white adjacent writers from similar environments in a room and tell them to come up with a product and you know what you're going to get when it comes to black characters

the "question" has been answered and studios continue to bolster the reputation of these white writers who promote the same type of racial dynamics in their storytelling; its no more racist than these individuals writing what they know and not writing what they don't

naughty dog isn't any different from any other studio in that regard, and its laughable to highlight them in particular when ninety five percent of other narratives considered as "good" in video games could be and have been given the same criticisms regarding race (witcher, mass effect, bioshock, fable, resident evil, any final fantasy just off the top my head)

 

[Dorian Breh]

This game is disgusting. Clearly designed for deviants.

And it's racist and anti-black as well? Jesus

Thank God I have an Xbox.

You are the dumbest fukking fakkit on this forum

Kill yourself and rid us all of your stupidity

And you can save the 'yo mama' comebacks too, bytch nikka

 

[Fatboi1]

You are the dumbest fukking fakkit on this forum

Kill yourself and rid us all of your stupidity

And you can save the 'yo mama' comebacks too, bytch nikka

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

And it's racist and anti-black as well? Jesus

Thank God I have an Xbox.

Xbox users been telling y'all Sony is full of anti black racists but you c00ns love your japanophile porn that Sony pumps out ad nauseum.


fukking losers.

So you have something in common with them then?

Exactly. Blacks are just fine with empty symbolism. Pathetic.

And people wondering why blacks stay broke. SMH

Blacks are just cowards. They won't protest and denounce these idiots, but they'll attack reporters and others.

Disgusting

Bu bu bu bu bu it was a bunch of white people shooting! SMH.

Why do blacks hate each other so much? Its so unfortunate.

You notice that? Black folk are only worried about violence perpetrated by white police.

Well, it's black on black crime So no one will give a fukk, especially black folk. Oh well

White folk also don't protest riot and burn when police kill some white person.

Stop deflecting to white people and answer the question. Why do black folk shrug their shoulders when black folk kill each other senselessly, but burn down the city when a white cop does it. Either black lives matter or they don't.


I'm just sick if the callous nature black people can kill each other and no one seems to care. SMH

Yup. Blacks folk are a pathetic lot

Marry a black women brehs..

Simple negro arguing tactics

Nobody refers to a Black person as a "negro" anymore. You do this a lot. You sound like a racist from st0rmfr0nt. I guess that explains why you voted for Trump. You make awful posts in this section and you make awful posts in the locker room. You're a fukking piece of shyt

 

[HiiiPower]

So you have something in common with them then?























Nobody refers to a Black person as a "negro" anymore. You do this a lot. You sound like a racist from st0rmfr0nt. I guess that explains why you voted for Trump. You make awful posts in this section and you make awful posts in the locker room. You're a fukking piece of shyt