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Video Games’ Latest Race Problem

Recently, EA revealed that their next war game, “Battlefield 1” would be set in World War I, a departure from previous entries in the series. The announcement sparked controversy because the character depicted on the front of the game is Black.

2pacalypsenow3641d ago

What controversy? Seems like these idiots are just looking for something else to cry about

dcbronco3641d ago

Pretty much a one day and done thing. Some people got stupid, they got called on it and they were forgotten. Nothing to see. Move along.

SolidStoner3640d ago

Hairline or not..

but every next battlefield is a best looking shooter with greatest physics and damage (levolution)..
same will happen with BF1..

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

black or white, who cares its 2016.. I dont recognize color anymore, only what you do, have done, or speak about!

enjoy games!
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Lenrulesdaworld3640d ago

who the black people speaking on the controversy or the people crying fowl over a black guy on the cover?

medman3640d ago

Exactly....there was zero controversy. Unless you want to talk about the loudmouth, inconsequential nobodies who scream online about everything, trying desperately to get the attention they cannot get in real life.

Kalebninja3641d ago

"The Battlefield series was under scrutiny for its 2015 release Battlefield Hairline that also featured a Black character holding a gun on its cover."

Lmao he wrote "Hairline"

Shubhendu_Singh3640d ago

Battlefield hairline - lol
And it's funny also because the article came from AFROdotcom.

Also, was there a controversy ?

Kalebninja3640d ago

I don't remember there being any.

Saijahn3640d ago

Would it be cool to see more main characters that looked like me? Sure, do I care though? No. It always seems like whenever a person of color is featured for a game or any sort of entertainment, the racists folks come out crying. Like when the star wars movie came out, folks cried because the guy was black smh. Now people crying because Battlefield has a black guy on the cover. It's 2016 and it sucks that we still have people that think so ill of others based on the color of their skin.

USMC_POLICE3640d ago

I don't think any of us are upset the main character on the cover is black, I wouldn't care if he was yellow or red or purple. I will enjoy the game if it's CJ from San Andreas or Nathan drake.

kneon3640d ago

The character's race is irrelevant, I'm annoyed that once again game developers feel the need to do a game from an American point of view. For a war in which the US only arrived in the last 6 months, that's especially silly.

2pacalypsenow3640d ago

Yeah tell that to the black lives matter retards

Saijahn3640d ago

Goes to show you don't know anything about it. It's your right though to spew ignorance as fact I guess.

kneon3640d ago

My only issue with the Black Live matter is that they are getting up in arms for any black person killed by cops. Many times it's justified, protesting over such instances damages their credibility, so when they are protesting cases where the cops truly were unjustified in their actions some people won't take them seriously.

2pacalypsenow3640d ago

what ignorance? the fact that those idiots defend criminals and use the race card as a scapegoat, also some of them tend to be the biggest racists too

cfc833640d ago

I don't care much about what race a character is. To me the issue is whether the character is good or not. I like characters that Naughty Dog create as one example, and they have a variety of them. The key is to make gritty characters with good scripts and voice acting.

NerveGearneeded3640d ago

we need a blaxploitation sub genre in games. i'd play BlackField 1 Harlem Hellfighters.

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DICE Needs To Recapture The Magic Of Battlefield 1 In The Next Game

For DICE to succeed with its next game, it has to return to the roots of the franchise. Atmospheric map design, clear and defined class-based gameplay, attention to detail, and total chaos. Battlefield 1 feels like every rock, every glint on your sniper rifle, every falling brick from a collapsing church, has been painstakingly considered. So much care went into the design of the game, from its soundtrack to its costume department. To stand a chance alongside the behemoths of Treyarch and Infinity Ward, DICE needs to recapture what made their old games so brilliant, otherwise it’s all over.

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LordoftheCritics1280d ago

"DICE Needs To Recapture The Magic Of Battlefield 3 In The Next Game"

/Fixed

...on a serious note, DICE needs to remove the Battlefield name.

isarai1280d ago

Eh, bfbc2 was the peak for me, only ad dogfighting and the accommodations that come with it. Every BF after that was such an unsatisfying progression system for weapons and gear for the classes, 90% of the guns feel exactly the same when you unlock them, just felt boring in comparison. Not to mention the gimped destruction as the series progressed

Sciurus_vulgaris1280d ago

I found Battlefield 1 to be overrated. The gameplay was simpler and less strategic than its predecessors. Battlefield 1 did have a woo-factor, but the gameplay got repetitive faster than Battlefield 4 in my opinion.

porkChop1279d ago

If DICE needs to return to the roots of the franchise then why would they look at Battlefield 1? BF1 is overly simplified and streamlined. What DICE should focus on is Battlefield 3 and Bad Company 2. Those two games were the pinnacle of the franchise.

TheEnigma3131279d ago

BC2 was the best. they need to get back to that.

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Battlefield 1, Hardline, BF4 Servers Are Being Taken Offline by Cheaters; EA Silent on Issue

Cheaters & hackers have been causing grief on Battlefield 1, Hardline & BF4 servers, with nonstop DDoS attacks among other things. Unfortunately, EA has remained silent about it.

-Foxtrot1510d ago

Course they are silent, they are hoping people flock to 2042

gamesftw2501509d ago

Maybe it was a inside job then haha.

jeromeface1509d ago

wouldnt be the first time, titanfall 1+2 anyone?

PapaBop1509d ago

Not even if they paid me.. EA always do this with old games with less money potential, if this was Ultimate Team, they'd address and sort it faster than stories could spread. Why invest time in their products when they will just dump it in the following years? Then again EA never could see the forest for the trees.

Inverno1509d ago

I imagine after those games were given out for free a couple months back through Amazon, anything that makes people go to 2042 is a plus for them

XiNatsuDragnel1510d ago

They want people to go on 2042. My theory

excaliburps1509d ago

Nah. I think they can't do anything about it or they want to sink money into fixing it.

Pudge1028881509d ago (Edited 1509d ago )

EA owns all BF servers so yes, they can do something about it but they refuse to because they dont want ppl playing their old games instead of the new one. Its EA we’re talking about here

pr33k331509d ago

if this happened in 2042, they'd have something to say. which is weird, considering battlefield 1 has more players on steam right now.

Pudge1028881509d ago

Its so obvious that EA is doing this or hired ppl to mess up the games so that we’d be forced to have just 1 Battlefield working.

FPS_D3TH1509d ago

Honestly it’s probably the devs themselves. They did an update to bf4 way back that kinda made assault rifles doo doo in hopes that people would flock to BF1 cuz BF4 was too perfect

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Xbox Store Weekly Game Sale Features Deep Discounts On Many X360 Games & DLCs

Daily Video Game writes: "This week’s weekly digital game sale on Xbox Store features deep discounts on many popular AAA Xbox 360 games that are backwards compatible for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S, including Gears of War, Fable, Max Payne, Saints Row, Bully, Catherine, and lots more!"

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MadLad1578d ago

Grabbed Panzer Dragoon, the Darkness, Conker Reloaded, Burnout Revenge, Time Splitters 2, Fight Night Champions, and Stuntman Ignition.

Essentially some of the classics that I can't get on PC, now that I have a Series S.