Since Black History Month is wrapping up Twinfinite wanted to touch upon an issue that is relevant to it: the general state of minorities in gaming. Now before the article starts, one has to clarify what is meant by the term “minorities.” Since the standard use of the word refers to all people of non-Caucasian origins, that will be the definition this article will be referring to. A couple of weeks ago, Twinfinite released a list counting down the top minority characters in gaming. The response was a little different than anticipated. That surprising response made them take a long and hard look at gaming culture as a whole and they thought that this feature would be a good outlet for them to share their thoughts
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
Danish from eXputer: "Nintendo has historically gone against player-made content and emulation of its games. This has done much to harm the company's image."
They need to stop announcing these mods and fan remakes until they're finished. Finish it, upload it, and then if Nintendo dmca's it tough shit. Once it's online, people can share it around, even if the original download gets taken down.
This is all coming from the mouth of short-sighted fandom and grifting madness.
No.... it wont. There is a clear defined reason why they don't. This is nothing new. Make your own shi7 from your own original ideas especially if you are trying to capitalize of it it. Duh.
Yeah, hire people that have zero respect or understanding for an established process. Wow. Yep. Totally makes sense.
do we really have to bring this article up?
I don't notice anything about the current trends involving the race of main characters in video ganes. If it's a human lead then it's a human lead. Colour / race doesn't matter, right?
Man Asians and Pacific Islanders have it so good. They are a full 25% over what they represent in the real world.
All joking aside though, it is an issue. From your previous article, there really aren't even any good minority characters. The best one was from San Andreas and that was a thug criminal.
For the record European people are the minority, we're only about 8% of world's population so from an objective point of view this article is silly, but we must press on because this is so silly it must be nipped in the bud.
Guys it's impossible to argue with the race griefers they're not rational people. The image of violent White male is a Leftie's ultimate fantasy because it conforms to their warped world view, even though the stereotype is offensive and not at all representative of White men.
Yet here they are complaining that there aren't enough non White or Female characters mowing down hordes of enemies, pulling off carjackings and slaughtering commuters in airports.
Can you imagine the screams of horror from the Race Griefers if "No Russian" was "No Xhosa" and featured African terrorists slaughtering the African patrons at Oliver Tambo airport in Johannesburg.
As I said, they're insane and you can't reason with a Race Griefer, there are certain violent stories and in game behaviours which under their rules you can only do with White characters because they are terrified of "Negative" stereotyping of non whites, yet they complain about games not being inclusive?
Don't look for the logic in it.
Personally I think gamers just need to start being nicer to each other. It's a racist, sexist, homophobic, and generally prejudice issue. My least favorite thing is this idea that just because people are online they can be treated without respect.