Saw this making the rounds, and it got me thinking again. Even as a Black/Hispanic Man, I don't find it a HUGE deal. But it WOULD be cool if more Black and Hispanic characters were added to these big crossover games, of course Smash is more of a symptom of the lack of main protags in most long-running series as opposed to anything I think intentional. Most of the iconic Black characters I can think of are part of an ensemble cast, Eddy Gordo, Christie, Raven, Jax, Jade, Elena, Adam Hunter, Balrog, Sean, Dudley ect.
I do at least remember why some people got heated over Min-Min being chosen over Twintelle. But to be honest, it's not like the amount of Asian characters was high, let alone ones that were Non-Japanese. Or even darker skinned Asian characters I guess like Dhalsim. I've already talked a lot about how certain iconic third party series/games could use more than one character that's fully playable. This could be a way to deal with that in theory. But I'd also still think it'd apply to cool ass Robots like Mega Man X and Zero.
For mains, I can think of CJ, Franklin(sorta) Elma and I guess Shantae. Some ensemble casts like TF2 or Overwatch could add someone like Demoman I guess. LoL has a few popular Black characters too.
Otherwise we got the GOAT Ganondorf at least.
Remember when licensed games weren’t automatically bargain bin titles and were made by aaa development studios? Of course you don’t because none of us were kids during the nes era.
Comic Book and Anime games get pretty big budgets, all things considered. Stuff like Spider-Man 2, X-Men Legends, and MVC were considered reasonably high profile. That's nothing to say of modern Spider-Man and Batman Arkham, Injustice or DBFZ. And that's been a consistent thing for a while.
Cause if you don't think Arkham Knight isn't a AAA game then I don't know what to tell you.
