Ahead of the release of Square Enix's Forspoken, there were concerns about representation. Frey, the game's Black femal…
, and Lopez says she felt similar."If you can have magic, dragons, all of these features, there's no reason why you can't have Black and Brown people in the game," she says."Also, Black and Brown people were around in Medieval and Middle Age Europe, which is where a lot of these fantasy games pull their inspiration from for their setting and lore.
"Game studios need to understand they don't know everything. Just because it's worked in the past, it's not necessarily going to work in the future. They need to understand there will be change, especially since the internet and social media has democratised a lot. "It looks seamless, it feels seamless. And that's how it's supposed to feel because that's ultimately, how white consumers feel all the time. I've never heard a white consumer complain about white representation in a game and how it reflects on them, because they're not marginalised. And because they are 'the norm', they've never really had to think about that.
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