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    Quote Originally Posted by Daria View Post
    Walking Dead: He. And absolutely. Although in the first episode he's on his way to prison for a murder he didn't commit. But the entire game revolves around moral choices and his attempts to protect a little girl from zombies.
    You must not have played the game all the way through. Lee wasn't falsely accused - through certain choices, he openly admits to Clem that he killed the man his wife was having an affair with. That's canon.

    Even so, I still see Lee as a positive portrayal of a black person in games if you choose to mold him that way. You can also make Lee into a silent creep or a raging asshole, it's up to the player. My point is it's up to the player to choose who Lee is after he's convicted of murder and the game begins.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Satoshi_Matrix View Post
    You must not have played the game all the way through. Lee wasn't falsely accused - through certain choices, he openly admits to Clem that he killed the man his wife was having an affair with. That's canon.

    Even so, I still see Lee as a positive portrayal of a black person in games if you choose to mold him that way. You can also make Lee into a silent creep or a raging asshole, it's up to the player. My point is it's up to the player to choose who Lee is after he's convicted of murder and the game begins.
    No I did. Just been a long time. :/ Whoops.

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    My point is, Lee isn't a stereotypical black man. It might seem that way since the game begins with a black guy arrested for murder, but it was a situation that had nothing to do with ethnicity, and I don't think that anything of his character would have changed had be been white, a woman, or whatever. The Walking Dead lets the player mold Lee.
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    Why would anyone say Barrett from FF7? If people weren't already going to consider his Mr. T mannerisms problematic in current year, he's also literally a terrorist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by celerystalker View Post
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    I dunno, I always thought he was a guido who hit the tanning bed a lot, or possibly Hispanic.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Emperor Megas View Post
    Yeah, probably the first ever.
    Not even close.

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