reyairia:

codeinewarrior:

frog-and-toad-are-friends: *sees Fallout 4 main character is a grizzled stubbly white man* *cares even less* so have you ever played fallout

Okay, okay but look here before we all decide to laugh at OP’s post for being ignorant.

There is a deliberate refusal to advertise games with customizeable characters as anything other than the “default” stubbly white man. To the point that if someone sees a trailer, that’s what they will assume they get to play.

Speaking as a Mass Effect fan, if it weren’t for the fandom I would have never had a single idea that I could play as a female Shepard. No fucking idea. Because until ONE Me3 trailer and the back of a game cover, there was no advertising of this fact.

OP shouldn’t have had to play Fallout before to know that you can customize. They shouldn’t have to do research. They shouldn’t have to meet and know people to know that about this game.

That’s the job of the trailers and the marketing and the advertising, they are fucking there and get paid exactly so people don’t have to have played the game previously to know this. But the gaming industry absolutely refuses to do in favor of grizzled, stubbly white men. It’s almost as if they’re… hmm… afraid of showing that the protagonist can be anything else. As if they’re ashamed that they have the option of playing as anything else.

So don’t get mad at the OP because the marketing is racist/sexist/etc. and doesn’t fucking do its fucking job properly.