why what games have black girls?

[sodagamerkings889]

so i was talking to my friend and she tells me there are no black girls in video games and i told her there was and can you guys think of black girls in video games os i can prove her wrong? THANK

[sodagamerkings889]

i meant african american black women in video game sorry

[mattimeo310]

so i was talking to my friend and she tells me there are no black girls in video games and i told her there was and can you guys think of black girls in video games os i can prove her wrong? THANK

Greatest sentence ever. Thank you for making my day.

Anyway are we looking for main characters or just in general?

[geezuzkhrist119]

isnt the chick from Heavenly Swords on the ps3 black?

the click that tells you what to do in far cry 2 is african

[SpaceHarrier]

OH SNAP!!

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii158/ayumifanatic/140.jpg

[sodagamerkings889]

Greatest sentence ever. Thank you for making my day.

Anyway are we looking for main characters or just in general?


yeah all of them

[Swamperon]

You want every character...?

Currently playing the latest Mortal Kombat and there's 4 there: Mileena, Kitana, Jade and Sheeva.

PSO III has at least one.

Chrono Cross has several.

I'm sure the Fire Emblem series has several, which currently elude me.

Really this could go on and on.

[sodagamerkings889]

you want every character...?

Currently playing the latest mortal kombat and there's 4 there: Mileena, kitana, jade and sheeva.

Pso iii has at least one.

Chrono cross has several.

I'm sure the fire emblem series has several, which currently elude me.

Really this could go on and on.

what?????? Why would they make kitana and mileena black?! Why???? Wtf??? Nooooo!

[Rickstilwell1]

Uhhh Storm from the X-Men should be VERY obvious. Then Suikoden III has Aila.

[Sysop]

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.

[Enigmus]

so i was talking to my friend and she tells me there are no black girls in video games and i told her there was and can you guys think of black girls in video games os i can prove her wrong? Thank

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Also, Half Life 2.

[RCM]

There's a female African American character in Virtua Fighter 4/5.

[Queen Of The Felines]

Resident Evil 5 and Left 4 Dead 2.

[Ro-J]

Bebe's Kids (SNES)

Edited to add Rap Jam Volume One (Queen Latifa), Catwoman and Beyond Good & Evil, which I believe is the first original IP to star a black woman as the main character.

[LaughingMAN.S9]

That bitch from re5 was black


how in the fuck is that chick from heavenly sword black?

[Drath]

Currently playing the latest Mortal Kombat and there's 4 there: Mileena, Kitana, Jade and Sheeva.


Sheeva, Mileena, and Kitana are not black. Cosidering Sheeva is part of a mythological race, she can't exactly be black? And Mileena and Kitana? Considering Mileena is a clone of Kitana who is clearly white and/or tanned (just look at the movie/animated series), I don't really understand what you are saying. So I guess, maybe all tanned or dark skinned people = black to you?

Having said that, wait, a second... almost everybody in Mortal Kombat are made up races and non-human. Nobody is "black" in that sense at all then.

There is a truly African American female protagonist in Valve's Left 4 Dead 2, Rochelle.

[kedawa]

The Williams sisters in Virtua Tennis.

Tanya from Guardians of the Hood is a sistah.

Storm is African, not American, and I'm pretty sure the MK chicks are from Outworld or Edenia, so also not American.

[ccovell]

Grand Theft Auto and D.J. Boy. Uh.... :|

[Swamperon]

Sheeva, Mileena, and Kitana are not black. Cosidering Sheeva is part of a mythological race, she can't exactly be black? And Mileena and Kitana? Considering Mileena is a clone of Kitana who is clearly white and/or tanned (just look at the movie/animated series), I don't really understand what you are saying. So I guess, maybe all tanned or dark skinned people = black to you?

Having said that, wait, a second... almost everybody in Mortal Kombat are made up races and non-human. Nobody is "black" in that sense at all then.

There is a truly African American female protagonist in Valve's Left 4 Dead 2, Rochelle.

To be honest I wasn't giving it a whole lot of thought. Race is a non-issue for me, as in it rarely crosses my mind until someone points it out to me.

I guess they aren't. If you are meaning black as in the racial colour (non-white) then probably yes but if you take black to mean a certain ethnic race i.e. African etc then no.

This is a very dodgy, easy troll subject!

[VACRMH]

Elena from 3rd Strike.

[Kellhus]

I'm baffled that No More Heroes 1 and 2 haven't been brought up yet.

[kupomogli]

I'm baffled that No More Heroes 1 and 2 haven't been brought up yet.

I'm not. No one likes the Wii.

[allyourblood]

Beyond Good & Evil, which I believe is the first original IP to star a black woman as the main character.

Urban Chaos came out several years before BG&E, which stars Darci Stern as its protagonist.

[Collector_Gaming]

wasn't the boss in "Lets Get Ready 2 Rumble" a big black chick?

[The Coop]

One's I've not seen named yet...

Adam- Streets of Rage
Skate and Max- Streets of Rage 2 (Skate's also in SoR 3)
Cyborg- Any Teen Titans games
Barret- Final Fantasy VII
Shaquille O'Neil- Shaq-Fu
Micheal Jackson- Moonwalker
Sheva- Resident Evil 5
Jax- Mortal Kombat series


Gauntlet: Legends and Gauntlet: Dark Legacy have a number of black characters as well.

Edit: Yes, I know that only a few are girls, but (namely the females in the Gauntlet games and Sheva), but I figured you could use them if she goes the "hardly any black people in games" route.

[Kellhus]

I'm not. No one likes the Wii.

Well you've got me there.

[Gameguy]

The Voodoo Lady from the Monkey Island series.

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/6571/voodoo.gif

[The 1 2 P]

Sadie, the chic in Halo 3: ODST's side story that you learn about thru audiologs.

[Gameguy]

One's I've not seen named yet...

Adam- Streets of Rage
Skate and Max- Streets of Rage 2 (Skate's also in SoR 3)
Cyborg- Any Teen Titans games
Barret- Final Fantasy VII
Shaquille O'Neil- Shaq-Fu
Micheal Jackson- Moonwalker
Sheva- Resident Evil 5
Jax- Mortal Kombat series
Most of the characters you listed aren't women so they don't count, just Sheva and possibly Michael Jackson.


As for Beyond Good and Evil, that doesn't count either as Jade's ethnicity is never really mentioned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_(Beyond_Good_%26_Evil)

Despite discussions and comments about Jade's ethnicity by Wired.com editor Chris Kohler and forum goers, it has been established that because Jade was not from Earth, she had no real ethnicity.

[The Coop]

As I said in my edit, they're there in case his friend goes the "hardly any black people in games" route later.


Also, Raven from Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side (Blade is black as well in that series).

[Collector_Gaming]

oh yea i forgot the voodoo chick from GTA Vice City
who was voiced by none other then "Ms Cleo". Call me now sweety for your free reading!

and take your pick from GTA San Andreas lol

[Orion Pimpdaddy]

I don't know if you guys noticed, but the creator of this thread has already been banned. Maybe it wasn't a serious question to begin with.

[allyourblood]

I don't know if you guys noticed, but the creator of this thread has already been banned. Maybe it wasn't a serious question to begin with.

I caught it but it seemed like a reasonable subject, and was getting some discussion so I posted. I guess it doesn't really matter if the OP is still around.

[Damaramu]

There's Fox from Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3

http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/6817/s340023608.jpg

[The Coop]

I don't know if you guys noticed, but the creator of this thread has already been banned. Maybe it wasn't a serious question to begin with.

This thread's taken on a life of its own, so the OP being gone is more or less irrelevant.

[Orion Pimpdaddy]

http://media.gamestats.com/gg/image/CatwomanBox_PS2boxart_160w.jpg

There were four Catwoman games released around the time of the movie: Xbox, Gamecube, PS2, and GBA

[Drath]

I don't know if you guys noticed, but the creator of this thread has already been banned. Maybe it wasn't a serious question to begin with.

Lies! I will now devote my life's work to furthering the studies and research into this elusive and thought-provoking question.

[Orion Pimpdaddy]

I caught it but it seemed like a reasonable subject, and was getting some discussion so I posted. I guess it doesn't really matter if the OP is still around.


This thread's taken on a life of its own, so the OP being gone is more or less irrelevant.


Lies! I will now devote my life's work to furthering the studies and research into this elusive and thought-provoking question.

I understand

[exit]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned games like Fallout 3, New Vegas and Mass Effect, where you can make your own character in great detail, including race and skin color. I'm currently playing as an African American gentleman in New Vegas, one of the reasons being that I remembered that the last time I played as a black man was in The Suffering and because the caucasian models that were generated for me always ended up looking awkward.

[allyourblood]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned games like Fallout 3, New Vegas and Mass Effect, where you can make your own character in great detail, including race and skin color.

Well, those are current-gen games. I suppose most folks were sticking to the more "classic" titles.

[RJ]

Come on guys!!!

No one said Danja from Jaguar Kasumi Ninja? the streetwise urban DA by day, vigilante by night?

Really, I'm shocked & saddened.

[Darko]

StarTropics anyone?

[Haoie]

A lot of the aforementioned fall into what TV Tropes calls "black but not too black".

[dendawg]

StarTropics anyone?

Wouldn't they be Pacific Islanders?

[Famidrive-16]

I'm not. No one likes the Wii.

watch this guy have a NMH sig once the ps3 version hits

[c2000]

Kimberly in Enemy Zero.

[Gamevet]

Elena from Street Fighter III.

[Ackman]

The black lady in the DJ boy games, on genny she is a Kung Fu master in the Arcade version she is a housewife who has very bad flatulence.

[dgdgagdae]

Checkers for the 2600. I'm not positive those were all girls, but I think so.

[Peonpiate]

Silly question. With the exception of the Japanese, who for whatever choose to make alot of their games with Caucasian characters, most media is going to reflect the designers to a degree. Most western games are made by White people so most of the lead characters are White by default [with a option to change their look added in most of the time now since the PS1 era].

Lara Croft in tomb raider would probably have been black if that game was made in Haiti and by Haitian developers. The lead devs on that game said they designed her after what they felt was their "ideal" woman, im sure for a black dev it would be different than what Laura turned out as.

On topic, Black female characters that I can think of are pretty limited, Shadowman had one I believe and the Suikoden series has some to. Hispanic and Asian females are pretty common in games. Idk why, maybe its just demograghics, Asian devs are very common and Hispanic may be more common than black or African-American devs.

The media reflects the developer base for the most part though, if you want to "diversify" it then look into the development field and try to find work there. Its like asking why most of the back up dancers on rap videos are black...No offense but rap is dominated by African-Americans and they choose Black female dancers most of the time for that reason - its what they prefer and its reflected in the cast.

[Einzelherz]

Alex in Half life?

[isufje]

...why most of the back up dancers on rap videos are black...
I got a better question, why aren't there any white people on BET or in Ebony Magazine??? I mean COME ON!

[buzz_n64]

I got a better question, why aren't there any white people on BET or in Ebony Magazine??? I mean COME ON!

Does Michael Jackson count?
http://cdn.concreteloop.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/mike1.jpg

[Porksta]

Not in a video game, but Jennifer Beals is black. So is Dave Matthews.

DID I JUST BLOW YOUR MIND?!

[RJ]

IIRC Atari 2600 checkers are red & white- not black.

[isufje]

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3229/parkaty.gif

Katy Kat from Parappa/Umjammer Lammy. If she ain't black, I don't know what is. Oh yeah, Neesa from Vagrant Story. She's definitely black... or at the very least, Bi-Racial

http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/3320/vs012p.jpg

[kupomogli]

i meant african american black women in video game sorry

African American is a poor use of words. More than likely, all the black people you know are American. That's it, just American. Also. All African people are not black, so a white person born in Africa(or an Indian or whatever actually) who happened to be a legal resident of the North or South America would be African American.

I already know the op is no longer here, but just wanted to get this out there.

[kedawa]

It's a flawed term, but we know what it means.
Everybody knows that racial labels are flawed and inaccurate. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to how we describe people. Sometimes we use actual meaningful terms, like caucasoid, negroid, etc., sometimes we use country or continent names, and sometimes we use religious affiliations. Outside of physical anthropology, nobody seems to give a shit about being accurate or consistent.
We call Japanese asians, even though japan is not part of the continent, but we don't call indians, russians, or persians asian. Oriental could mean anything from Chinese to turkish, depending on the context. It's all just a mess.

[allyourblood]

Not in a video game, but Jennifer Beals is black. So is Dave Matthews.

DID I JUST BLOW YOUR MIND?!

By that same token, a large percentage of black Americans are also white.

[Queen Of The Felines]

All African people are not black, so a white person born in Africa(or an Indian or whatever actually) who happened to be a legal resident of the North or South America would be African American

Charlize Theron is a perfect example.

[isufje]

http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/76/05v09.gifhttp://img39.imageshack.us/img39/3116/happy01.gif
Casca from Berserk fame (Guts Rage[DC] / Millennium Falcon[PS2])
And don't tell me she's not black, cause that's just BULLSHIT! >_<

[kafa111]

you can be black on soccer on nes

[skaar]

http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv325/skaardragoon/d8.png

I'm reasonably certain the pawn on G7 is female too, but it's hard to tell at that resolution.

[Retsudo]

There's a female African American character in Virtua Fighter 4/5.

Im VF4 she was clearly Black. After that they made her light. They even made her butt smaller.

[dgdgagdae]

IIRC Atari 2600 checkers are red & white- not black.

I must have been thinking of the Intellivision version. Mattel was much more progressive than Atari.

[SONY]

Deus Ex : Human Revolution has a few, I think?

[Zing]

Im VF4 she was clearly Black. After that they made her light. They even made her butt smaller.

I have never played the games, but I checked into this and that is one serious case of whitening!

[alexxx]

How about the girl from Strip Fighter 2 for PC Engine...

[alexxx]

Hmm server errors?

[isufje]

How about the girl from Strip Fighter 2 for PC Engine...

Umm... If you get into adult-hentai and Unlicensed games, the list can go on forever. One that comes to mind is Wordsworth. It has a few black girls in it. I'm sure there are many others.

http://www.animecharactersdatabase.com:81/uploads/1892-1720755584.pnghttp://www.animecharactersdatabase.com:81/uploads/1892-1822138174.png

[SONY]

Hmm server errors?
I've had quite a few as of late. :(

[SONY]

Accidental double post. Please remove post.

[Zing]

Many of those "black" people are just white bodies with brown shading. Does it even count?

[InsaneDavid]

http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/76/05v09.gifhttp://img39.imageshack.us/img39/3116/happy01.gif
Casca from Berserk fame (Guts Rage[DC] / Millennium Falcon[PS2])
And don't tell me she's not black, cause that's just BULLSHIT! >_<

Listen to this poster, their avatar trumps all others!

[scaryice]

Fortune from MGS2