Let me just say this off the bat, the majority of the people in the comment section also seemed to share my earlier sentiments about this video. That being said there was a serious case of colorism from “woke” hoteps in the comments as well…
Well, the truth is a lot of older games were either hard as hell or just very unforgiving. As a kid a lot of the time they felt impossible to beat but I never stopped playing them because somewhere deep down I thought I could make the impossible happen…
When it comes to the gameplay side of things the combat in the battle network games has always been something that stood out to me. It can be both fast-paced and challenging but at the same time feels rewarding when you manage to just barely defeat a boss…
I mean who knows I could be completely wrong about all of this but the fact that we can connect to this type of media on this level might be worth looking into for reasons other than trying to villainize video games or use it as a scapegoat whenever an unfortunate act of violence breaks out somewhere…
One of my biggest pet peeves in video games is how poorly represented black hair is. Anytime a game has some sort of character customization in it black people are given the same 3 hairstyles…
Growing up black and being into “nerdy” shit has always been somewhat of a struggle for me. A running theme for most of my younger life has been “Too white for the black kids, too black for the white kids”.
So as we all know black history month is upon us once more and I wanted to do something special in honor of that. So I decided to make a video series to showcase a couple of my favorite black main characters in video games because we all know how scarce interesting black characters, or minorities for that matter, can be in gaming…
