You know what's racist? Oddworld. Why did the devs not allow me to choose a slig as player character? They are a sentient species, too!

Consider it payback for all those movies based on Bible stories where everyone is the wrong pigment. :D

Looking at the screenshots on the gamecard, I see several white people. And most of them are men (not sure why it should matter though).

I tend to agree. I'm not gonna blast Battletech for not having white guys just like I'm not gonna blast Kingdom Come for not having black guys.

elves lol
i love beans!

and, by the way i don't entirely disagree, i just feel that many of today's devs are pandering. don't get me wrong i love indie games and i love today's indie scene. the difference between unknowingly (which back then it felt more unknowing but maybe that's because of the 'perceived norm' thing) maintaining the status quo as it applies to game development and inserting x many brown & lgbtq people to knowingly meet a new status quo and appear as diverse as possible just feels entirely disingenuous. seems these days walking the line between being a keyboard politician and someone who makes games that feel natural is near impossible.

i've always known that in the united states that i'm a minority, and i'm not going to wake up tomorrow and have allusions that black people have all of the sudden become 50% of the american population. sure representation is nice but i keep my expectations in check. i don't expect the games i buy to be littered with brown people because you know what, people ultimately stick to what they know, and a lot of game development teams are headed up by white dudes (nothing necessarily wrong with that, and i play many many of these titles). i've been following the indie scene since 2005 and believe me, just out of curiosity i've googled "all black game dev team" a time or two every year since and the results yield nothing of substance.

you know what the indie games scene needs? an indie studio headed by a black person, not white people shoehorning brown people into their games because 'progress.' nothing against white people either, it's just that in my mind the former is better than the latter, because forced representation is just... cheesy and offensive.

Jared Leto joining yakuza - that's racist.

Seriously, not every piece of media needs every race, religion and sexual orientation to be present.

FTFY

That's silly, I've been told you can't be racist towards white people. Some of them, although I'm pretty sure some are lizards. No worries, it takes a lot to get banned on these forums, although the thread might get locked if it gets too crazy.

and i still love brussels sprouts though they are out of season, so the only ones available right now are weird gigantic mutant sprouts grown in ethiopia.

As a white man, I don't give a flying fuck if BattleTech has white men in it. I'm plenty (over-)represented in media as it is, thank you very much.

Umm.. I'm frankly against the forced inclusion of all genres, sexes and races in games\movies just to be politically correct.
Maybe some games that rely on character creation or immersion will suffer by that, but that's the creator's choice.
Some black people piloting mechs doesn't seem a big issue to me O_o

(btw exceptions could exist in the worst cases)

You know what they say.... Once you go black....

Why are you whitesplaining to a POC?

Shouldn't you be shutting up, listening and learning from their experiences?

Check your privilege, you incredibly racist alt-right nazi bigot.

OH YEAH BABY!

You da man!