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[Celcius]

I realize this thread is kinda late but with this being Black History Month and all I just wanted to talk about some of the cool Black videogame characters in the history of gaming.

For my favorite, I'll pick Barret from Final Fantasy 7:

FF7 is my favorite game and Barret is one of the main characters. He has a tough exterior but shows his softer side when interacting with his adopted daughter Marlene and he's always hyped when there's a chance to go on a mission and stick it to Shinra. Plus he fights with a cool gun-arm and is great at ranged battle. He's one of the first characters to join your party so you get to know him early on in the story. The Remake of FF7 does a great job of fleshing out his personality and the voice actor (I played in English) does an awesome job. He's the kind of party member to not give up on his goals no matter the odds and won't leave you behind when things get tough.

Who are some of your favorites NeoGaf?

 

[Kuranghi]

Barrett is the best because he's environmentally conscious, a great dad AND he has a chaingun arm.

I'll go with Sylens from Horizon, mostly because Lance Reddick could make even the worst writing ever sound great/epic:

 

[MidGenRefresh]

 

[ckaneo]

Barrett is the best because he's environmentally conscious, a great dad AND he has a chaingun arm.

I'll go with Sylens from Horizon, mostly because Lance Reddick could make even the worst writing ever sound great/epic:

My pick as well

 

[The_Mike]

 

[TGO]

Is it? I'm sure it's October
Thought it was a LGBTQ month again
or is just like the LGBTQ months and it's every other month?

Edit, oh it is in October as well

My choices have been taken.
I was gonna go Sheva Alomar, but that bitch kept stealing my herbs

 

[BlvckFox]

Cool thread. I always enjoyed any dialogue from Rodin. It was always a pleasure getting a break from the action to see what the fuck he was up to. Slick dialogue, really dope voice.

 

[Guileless]

Charles Oakley - NBA Jam

Honorable mention: Zak from DoA series

 

[Jaybe]

Lee Everett from The Walking Dead

 

[Spukc]

JAX

 

[Guileless]

JAX

Damn, that's a good one. Forgot about that.

 

[CatLady]

Martin Hatch from Quantum Break and Sylens from Horizon Zero Dawn because both characters are played by God-tier actor Lance Reddick.

Also Bayek from AssCreed Origins and the always awesome ColeTrain from Gears.

 

[Lokaum D+]

 

[cormack12]

Bayek

Marcus

Non playable- Phin

 

[kingpotato]

Sheva Alomar from Resident Evil 5

Elena from Street Fighter 3

 

[Represent.]

Miles

 

[Celcius]

Another of my other favorites is Drebin from Metal Gear Solid 4:

I always enjoyed the parts of the game where he's on the screen and his monkey sidekick is funny. He has a cool armored vehicle that he lives in and he seems to have eyes on everything going on.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Regardless of how you feel about FF XIII, he's more than comic relief. A great character and the most relatable character in the cast. A single father with something to actually lose. A shame the trilogy done him dirty.

 

[bitbydeath]

 

[TGO]

Can't believe no one posted him yet!

 

[Celcius]

Charles Oakley - NBA Jam

Honorable mention: Zak from DoA series

Zack is always crazy and funny, and I’ll also mention Lisa as being super cool as well

 

[TheGodfather07]

Another of my other favorites is Drebin from Metal Geat Solid 4:

I always enjoyed the parts of the game where he's on the screen and his monkey sidekick is funny. He has a cool armored vehicle that he lives in and he seems to have eyes on everything going on.

i was literally gonna post this exact image. i remember the music that would play when he would show up.

 

[Stephen Curry]

 

[01011001]

"Whadya buyin!? Heard that in a game once."​

 

[Vangellis]

Tyrael, Diablo 3.

 

[DispatchNinja]

I really like Lincoln from Mafia 3 from what I played. Hate the game though.

 

[Alpha Male]

Bayek from Assassin's Creed Origins - one of my favorite characters from one of my all time favorite games. Can't wait to replay it at 60 FPS eventually!

Lance Reddick as Sylens from Horizon and Martin Hatch from Quantum Break - love me some Lance Reddick!

The COLE TRAIN from Gears!

 

[TintoConCasera]

What too much power can do to a hee ho...

 

[Kuranghi]

Another of my other favorites is Drebin from Metal Gear Solid 4:

I always enjoyed the parts of the game where he's on the screen and his monkey sidekick is funny. He has a cool armored vehicle that he lives in and he seems to have eyes on everything going on.

Love this guy! The monkey is called "Little Grey", what great scenes haha.

 

[ACESHIGH]

OG LOC

 

[worldwithpyramids]

 

[Kuranghi]

Off-topic: Is there anyone here whose first MGS was MGS 4?

Also, they should call it Blistory month, sounds way cooler.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

The best part about this video is the guy throwing a "i'm Jewish" sentence to try and save himself, lmao. He was not ready for that.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

I can't remember any prominent black characters in any game.

 

[Larxia]

I really like Lincoln from Mafia 3 from what I played. Hate the game though.

I think Mafia 3 has great characters, great story, really great setting / world, and even great gameplay.

I'm super conflicted about this game because I like a lot of things about it, but at the same time, they completely ruined the game by making all these repetitive terrible tasks which are absolutely awful. I feel like they had a great 10 hours game that they turned into a repetitive, tedious 30 hours game. It needs the opposite of games getting some expanded editions, this game needs an "essential" edition where they remove all the clutter / filler, and just keep the great core content.

But yes, good characters.

 

[TGO]

Jim (My life is shit) Chapman

 

[Perrott]

Lincoln Clay (Mafia III)

 

[CatLady]

Damn, I can't believe I forgot one of my all-time favorite characters in a video game even though he's not a playable character:
The Amazing Sgt Avery Johnson -- he knows what the ladies like

 

[sn0man]

Cole Train and his backstory had some nice Postman vibes going on.

Tyreal from Diablo 3 is a good pull. He is kinda awesome.

I know this sounds like port begging but Nintendo really need to create a couple Black characters for their games. Maybe they can start a new series with a PoC as a main.

 

[TGO]

Deejay

 

[Stamps1646]

I Fking love Cole Train.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Eddy Gordo, Elena, Sheva, Dudley, Murdock, Raven (Tekken) are mine.

Spawn and ShadowMan if you go on technicality since they are actually comic book characters. And Menat on another technicality if you consider her more on the African side of Egyptian (dunno if backstory actually clarifies this, I just know it's a tricky thing to designate kinda like when talking about Brazilians tho in that case it's a lot easier).

Barrett is the best because he's environmentally conscious, a great dad AND he has a chaingun arm.

I'll go with Sylens from Horizon, mostly because Lance Reddick could make even the worst writing ever sound great/epic:

Dude is a great actor for sure.

 

[BigBooper]

Mike Tyson in Punch Out. What a monster he was to fight.

 

[Oddvintagechap]

Sheva Alomar from Resident Evil 5

When you dont have to be half naked to be an attractive character.

That accent though.

 

[Kagero]

Nadine from Uncharted is badass.

 

[isoRhythm]

Bayek

Bayek was so awesome. How did we go from that to Alexios/Kassandra?

 

[Celcius]

Off-topic: Is there anyone here whose first MGS was MGS 4?

Also, they should call it Blistory month, sounds way cooler.

My first MGS was the 4th one and I really like it. None of the others have really interested me though.

 

[cormack12]

Bayek was so awesome. How did we go from that to Alexios/Kassandra?

 

[Sega Orphan]

Bit of a jk, but the way Capcom triggered people for daring to have Black Zombies in Resident Evil 5, which was set in a Black country. They were some kick ass characters.

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[S0ULZB0URNE]

These two....