I notice that the ongoing cliche in fantasy titles revolving around medieval times is to basically create enviorments with absolutely no African Americans.I think it would be both refreshing and ground breaking if Bioware could figure out a way to incorporate a african American in a game like Dragon Age 2.
Bioware should break a barrier and put a African American character in DA2
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Posté 14 août 2010 - 01:19
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The Free Marches are supposed to be kind of a melting pot anyway, so it's not like the setting as currently described would prohibit them from using a character with darker skin.
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Posté 14 août 2010 - 01:19
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No. There is no Africa and no America and I don't think Thedas needs interdimensional portals.
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Posté 14 août 2010 - 01:20
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Anarya wrote...
No. There is no Africa and no America and I don't think Thedas needs interdimensional portals.
Anarya, dear, didn't you hear the man? Break barriers. Interdimensional portals count.
EDIT: On a serious note, I don't think that this is a barrier, per se. We don't know if any black-equivalent (BTW, not all black people are American) nation/race exists in Thedas the continent. The Rivaini are dark-skinned, IIRC.
I think what you're really saying is you'd like to see a non-medieval Europe based RPG. Which would be interesting, but BioWare didn't do too well with Jade Empire. I'm not sure how much they want to try again.
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Rivaini-Free Marchers, then. (Free Martians?)
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Posté 14 août 2010 - 01:22
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Posté 14 août 2010 - 01:22
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Saibh wrote...
Anarya wrote...
No. There is no Africa and no America and I don't think Thedas needs interdimensional portals.
Anarya, dear, didn't you hear the man? Break barriers. Interdimensional portals count.
Portals? Not in my Thedas. >
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Posté 14 août 2010 - 01:24
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Saibh wrote...
Anarya wrote...
No. There is no Africa and no America and I don't think Thedas needs interdimensional portals.
Anarya, dear, didn't you hear the man? Break barriers. Interdimensional portals count.
"HOLY ****! Where am I?!"
"You're in Kirkwall, poor dear. What's happened to you?"
"I was driving mah cadillac car when all of a sudden I woke up here!"
"Oh.. you must be suffering from the taint, come with me to the Chantry and we'll take care of you."
"**** NO"
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Posté 14 août 2010 - 01:24
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Rivain people are supposed to be dark skinned.
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Posté 14 août 2010 - 01:24
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What do you mean?
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Posté 14 août 2010 - 01:26
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thatbwoyblu wrote...
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What do you mean?
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Posté 14 août 2010 - 01:26
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I'm a big fan of seeing more visual and cultural diversity in DA2.
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Posté 14 août 2010 - 01:26
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NKKKK wrote...
Rivain people are supposed to be dark skinned.
Are you talking about the Qunaris?
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Posté 14 août 2010 - 01:27
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Sure, let's have Jacob as a DA2 party member.
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Posté 14 août 2010 - 01:27
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Posté 14 août 2010 - 01:28
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African Americans, no.
Black people, yes.
Duncan is from a place that I forget the name of, isn't everyone there supposed to have dark skin?
It's also worth nothing that if Ferelden is indeed based on the British isles, that Britain actually had black people as early as the 13th century (mind you, not very many). These people likely came on boats with Mediterranean merchants as sailors or some such so it wouldn't really be that odd to have a couple of black people in Ferelden and Orlais.
Black people, yes.
Duncan is from a place that I forget the name of, isn't everyone there supposed to have dark skin?
It's also worth nothing that if Ferelden is indeed based on the British isles, that Britain actually had black people as early as the 13th century (mind you, not very many). These people likely came on boats with Mediterranean merchants as sailors or some such so it wouldn't really be that odd to have a couple of black people in Ferelden and Orlais.
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Posté 14 août 2010 - 01:30
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thatbwoyblu wrote...
NKKKK wrote...
Rivain people are supposed to be dark skinned.
Are you talking about the Qunaris?
No, the Rivaini. Duncan was half Rivaini, which is why he was darker-skinned than pretty much anyone else you met in Origins.
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Posté 14 août 2010 - 01:32
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NKKKK wrote...
Rivain people are supposed to be dark skinned.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Bioware said that the only reason there were no black people in Origins was that Ferelden was essentially Medieval Europe and that there would definitly be black people in different parts of Thedas.
Anyway, what barrier? Plenty of fantasy books, games and movies have black people in them. Everyone in Earthsea is black (don't quote me on that, I'm pretty sure I read about that somewhere), Tamriel has redguards, etc. I think that more fantasy settings need to either have more black people (many fantasy RPGs have 1 or 2 black main characters and leave it at that, like Fable) or come up with reasons for why they're not there, like DAO.
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Posté 14 août 2010 - 01:34
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I don't understand what people are asking for when they ask for "African American" characters in DA. "African American" is more of a cultural identity than a skintone. Do you want to see more NPCs with dark skin? Are you asking for Sub-Saharan African facial features? People that speak with an African or African American accent? In-game countries based on African or African-American cultures?
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Posté 14 août 2010 - 01:35
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Saibh wrote...
I think what you're really saying is you'd like to see a non-medieval Europe based RPG. Which would be interesting, but BioWare didn't do too well with Jade Empire. I'm not sure how much they want to try again.
There's one RPG that fits into that category that's being produced. It's an indie RPG called Age of Decadence, it's a dark low-fantasy RPG (you aren't going to be casting fireballs in this setting, if you try that, a huge mercenary will laugh at you and stab you with his gladius) based on the fall of the Roman Empire, but there's a lot of influences from Egyptian, Greek, Indian, and Arabic cultures in some areas and in the weaponry and clothing.
IMO, the fewer medieval RPG's with heavy influences lifted from Tolkien, the better.
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Posté 14 août 2010 - 01:37
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Not all black people are African American. They exist elsewhere in the world too, you know?thatbwoyblu wrote...
I notice that the ongoing cliche in fantasy titles revolving around medieval times is to basically create enviorments with absolutely no African Americans.I think it would be both refreshing and ground breaking if Bioware could figure out a way to incorporate a african American in a game like Dragon Age 2.
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Posté 14 août 2010 - 01:38
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Everyone in Earthsea is black (don't quote me on that, I'm pretty sure I read about that somewhere), Tamriel has redguards, etc. I think that more fantasy settings need to either have more black people (many fantasy RPGs have 1 or 2 black main characters and leave it at that, like Fable) or come up with reasons for why they're not there, like DAO.
Most people in Earthsea are black or olive-skinned (think Greek), but Ged does travel to a land where white skin/blonde hair/blue eyes is dominant in the second book and a character he meets there becomes important in later books.
And, of course, any time someone wants to do something with Earthsea they go and make Ged white. Sigh.
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Posté 14 août 2010 - 01:41
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pizoxuat wrote...
And, of course, any time someone wants to do something with Earthsea they go and make Ged white. Sigh.
Yeah that's dumb. I don't know why they do that. Even the Studio Ghibli film made them white. Would have been just as easy to make them dark.
