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I think it is inarguably laudable that Telltale took the route of making Lee their protagonist. However you might feel about this thread's celebration of that fact, at the end of the day it seems undeniable that this industry continues to have has this perception that non-white-male protagonists are not going to be able to properly connect or resonate with their game's target audience. The Walking Dead's success decidedly contests this notion, and that is worth recognition.

However you cut it, Lee is an atypical video game protagonist. I note there are some in this thread suggesting we ought to stop perceiving him as so great an exception if we are to move beyond this issue of diversity in videogames, but I think that's the wrong way to address the issue. In truth, I suspect there's little those in this thread who celebrate Lee's character want more than for him to be much less the exception he is, but Lee's status as an exception to this rule of white male videogame protagonists is only going to go away if he gets company. So, it is worth celebrating Lee as a character if it might encourage companies to take more perceived "risks" in his vein.

How did this thread get to five pages without anyone calling @Video_Game_King on linking entirely the wrong poem? I don't entirely fault him, but not every sonnet in the popular consciousness was written by Shakespeare. In fact, he's off by about two centuries.

(It's Elizabeth Barret Browning'sSonnet 43, if anyone's interested.)

Ever since I got a kindle it has become my preferred medium for reading, although poetry tends to be a hit or miss experience with it (hard to dynamically format verse compared to prose, understandably). In a lot of ways, it got me reading again after a long stint of reading hardly anything outside of class assignments.

You would have developers arbitrarily limit the amount of content in their games simply so you can have the satisfaction of completing them?

I really hope something insane happens with his career going forward, like some Japanese company hires him as the sort of "Western Gaming Conventions Consultant" he sometimes talked about becoming.

@banishedsoul1 said:

digial games biggest scam ever

I don't understand. How have I been scammed?

I felt compelled to share this given the topic.

Suffice to say, I think videogame protagonists could be much worse than they are.

More detailed thoughts to come later.

that video is positively google

If I could take the face buttons of the dual shock and the Nintendo's DPad and bootstrap them on to a Xbox 360 controller, that would be the best controller.

Let's hope Nintendo's upcoming pro controller comes close.

@Nill said:

Valve's solution to a broken, clogged up rating process is to add "micro-transactions"?

That term doesn't accurately describe anything in this context. It's a one time fee for each individual developer. Even with this, the bar-to-entry to get on Steam remains drastically lower than with every other notable digital distribution platform this side of Desura and the Ubuntu Software Center.