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Old 08-27-2012, 07:37 PM   #34
Saya
 
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Originally Posted by Versus View Post
Probably because 99% of the video games you've played have a white protagonist. That, and game developers don't spend a lot of time on the details of making a PoC in games with character customization. As an example, there are not any asian character options in vanilla Elder Scrolls games despite that the Akaviri are specifically modeled after asian cultures, there are, I think, maybe one or two hair options that look like they could be a black person's hair, and in every game before skyrim, the darkest character skin tone slider made you look green.

Bioware games are especially bad about it, with The Old Republic being a wonderful exception. But yeah. Just try to make a PoC character in Dragon Age. It really annoyed me about the bullshit justification they gave as to why.
How was Mass Effect? I'm thinking of making a Jacob clone for my male run XD
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