Is BSN biased against black characters?

Hey. They did put stereotypes and tropes with the black characters. It's time to call them out

Well, we did make it to 10 pages.... That is something.

Doesn't count when it's the same handful of people chatting back and forth.  

Izzy is obviously a mediterranean caucasoid, I was always dumbfounded by others refering to her as "black".

 

Ah, but here is the question, are bsn posters being racist when they refer to her as a different ethnicity than the one she is?

Ultimately, this is a silly thread. Neither Bioware nor BSN are racist.

Jacob is somewhat dull, but that doesn't make his inclusion racist, it just means he has a dull persona. I actually like the character, if he was in ME1 he'd have been a lot better received, but he first appeared in a game featuring a genetically modified woman, insanely powerful biotics, reptilian assassins, perfect krogan specimens and a geth! No wonder he didn't stand out. Also, a lot of bsn posters seem to play femShep, so their view of him is skewed to the romance where I play maleShep where he is just a guy on the ship. Sure, he's dull, doesn't mean he isn't likeable. He has daddy issues, sure... but so you realise, that's not just for black people. That is something that is worldwide, all cultural groups have shit dads in their midst. Oh, and Jacob's dad wasn't even the worst of the lot (though he was pretty horrendous, its a horrible mission), Miranda's dad was worse by far; he genetically engineered children discarding those that didn't match up, kidnapped his own daughter, lured thousands to a camp to be tortured, experimented on and turned into husks. Was giving his family Australian accents racist against Australians?

Liam is... confusing. He was poorly written, as he seems almost like two separate characters. Does that make it racist? No. It means they wrote him poorly, he seemed to be unbelievable as a former crisis response operative when he can't handle a crisis. When he is being chilled out, he's fine, but he seems to drift from being chilled, to snide, to bitchy, to panicky. They just handled the character badly, I expect if there is a sequel, he'll be a side character but will probably turn out the better for it.

Anderson was a brilliant character, well written, well acted. He wasn't perfect, he was deeply flawed but gracious enough to accept when he was wrong. He gets to be Councillor but admits his inexperience with it and his struggles to deal politically with the other councillors. Bioware doesn't get praised for what a great character he was. In fact, they never seem to get praised by people, at least I never seem to see it.

At the moment, through the media and through overuse of the internet, we are ingrained to look for controversy. The next big thing to get up in arms about, but its just silly. The original trilogy had some truly outstanding characters, and it doesn't really matter whether they are genetically engineered, former corsairs, former spectre candidates, or kleptomaniacs. In fact, ethnicity doesn't come into it at all, and shouldn't.

Back in 2012 someone asked Patrick Weekes what Traynor's background was on Twitter, and he responded that she was British-Indian. 

Bioware should mix it up a bit and have the female human LI in either DA4 or ME5 be something other than white. It is true that they've all been of European or partially European (or their DA fantasy equivalent) so far.

I think going after BW in this case is a tad extreme. Its one thing to accuse the BSN of being biased but to call BW out on it? They just released an entire game where the only white people in it at all are Cora and the default Ryders. You can't even make a white Caucasian Sara in the CC. If anything BW is more biased against white people.

I'm sure whoever created and wrote Anderson is looong gone.

I'm also disappointed that Vivienne is not a love interest and I would love my Inquisitor to romance someone is one of my own. I'm pretty tired of dating outside that doesn't look like me in the game and never have the opportunity to chance to romance a black woman in the game ever.

Jacob is at best forgettable, at his worst a man who cheated on Shep and knocked up another woman. Liam is a man who gets a lot of flack for his meltdown during Habitat-7, but overall he's just a lame character. Vivienne has those who love her, and those who hate her; but it's less to do with her skin color and more to do with the fact that she's a strongly pro-Circle character in a game that hammers you over the head with how "bad and evil the circle is!"

I liked Vivienne. Jacob and Liam were just kind of... boring. Annoying, actually, in the case of the latter. But as someone has already pointed out, Anderson is a fan favorite.