As you all know, February is Black History Month. In Black History Month, we celebrate those who have paved and change the way of life for African-Americans. Throughout the years, African-Americans have continued to grow and impact in many areas such as politics, sports, movies, music, and even video games. In recent years, there have been great African-American influence in video games. African-Americans have created a name for themselves in the video gaming world. Even though there have been a slowly growth, African-Americans are still the minority in the video games industry. The gaming industry is lacking of African-Americans in both in the game and behind the scenes.
Final Fantasy VII 1997 exceeds 15.5 million units sold worldwide as of February 2026, reinforcing its legacy as the series best selling title.
I’d love to know how many units have been sold of all the Final Fantasy VII franchise games, including the original, the remakes, spin offs such as Crisis Core, and mobile games Ever Crisis. I bet a fair few copies.
Modern day publisher be like: "Failed to meet sales expectations. Pivoting to live service."
It's an absolute legend of a game. And I honestly really love how the remake trilogy is shaping up so far.
Final Fantasy 7 is one of the most iconic video games of all time, with it helping to changed the RPG landscape when it was released in 1997.
If you already own it... There, I saved you the click on a deliberately misleading article.
I bought the game yesterday on steam for $4 because Square Enix is trying to replace it with a version that has no mod support.
Prior to yesterday, I had no idea the game had so many great mods until people started making a fuss out of it.
u get the switch 1 version of the og ff7 for free if you own 7 remake for the switch 2.
lol.
But BG2 didn't emerge in a vacuum, and in a recent chat with Slandered Gaming it emerged that—while we can thank BG2 for a lot of our favourite RPGs since—we have a whole other game to thank for BG2. That'd be Final Fantasy 7, which lit a fire under BG2 director James Ohlen to go all out with the game's structure and companions, per Trent Oster—who worked on the original Baldur's Gate and has since become CEO of Beamdog, the studio behind the BG1 and BG2 Enhanced Editions.
Baldurs Gate 1&2 were my games back in the day on PC. Icewindale and Neverwinter Nights as well
Where is my White History Month?
White history month is all year round, trust me. Don't be afraid.
Matter of fact, look at your dollar bills, white history exchanges hands everyday.
Jacob in ME2 is a great character.
I thought Drebin was a great character considering a Japanese dev created him. To be fair, Kojima has always been fair with his depictions of African Americans. Can't say the same about the rest of japan. Afro men with birds nesting in their hair. Boxers with enormous lips..etc.
I thought CJ from GTA was a good character as well. Let's not pretend like R* cooked up this version of black people as if you've never seen people like CJ. I grew up with dudes like CJ in my neighborhood complete with random shootouts, hookers, and corrupt cops. You can't expect every portrayal of Blacks to be Louis from L4D. People like CJ are real...
which leads me to...
Cole Train from Gears. It's the future, and you have most minorities being portrayed as warriors. Kim, Dom, Tai...and then there's Cole being portrayed as a negro from the late 80's. Kim's not a ninja. Dom isn't from the Barrio, nor is he a gang banger. Tai not an Indian and he doesn't even use a torque bow. Cole is the only minority that's a stereotype.
This might have nothing to do with it but I think the only original depiction of African American in games I've played was Shinobu in No More Heroes .......