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#1 Jan 07 2004 at 8:21 PM Rating: Default
I watched the beginning movie a few times out and notice that there were black elvans and black humes. Did they all die? "Operation Human Shield" (from South Park the Movie). Even this website shows a black elvann shooting a arrow. That means they did exist at one point.

HOW COME YOU CANNOT BE BLACK???
#2 Jan 07 2004 at 8:25 PM Rating: Default
May be you can apply your own patch and make black what ever character you want to play. Would be neat though.
#3 Jan 07 2004 at 8:25 PM Rating: Good
Probably the same reason you can't be purple or green? The world is called Vana'diel not Earth.
#4 Jan 07 2004 at 8:43 PM Rating: Good
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Probably the same reason you can't be purple or green? The world is called Vana'diel not Earth.


That is very true...lol. I want to make a black Taru and name him Webster. But then if there were black characters there would need to be latin characters and asian ones also then it would be like we are on Earth then can all not get along.
#5 Jan 07 2004 at 8:54 PM Rating: Decent
Black evlaan? Talking about the one that shoots the arrow towards the camera? As in the one shown in the upper left of this website? Hate to break it to ya, but that scene is at night, in a poorly lit area... I have not seen racism in this game, were player or character is concerned.

Racism in a fantasy game can only exits if you don't like the races that are not the norm; Taru's, mithra's, galka's, or evlaans.

Not trying to bash you or anything. But it sounds like you’re trying to draw attention to something that just isn’t there.

Ps. Watched the opener a few times to see if I observed the same things you did. Nice battle scene at night and a gathering of the citizens of Vana’diel sometime later during the day was all I could see. Are your contrast, brightness, and gama settings ok on your monitor?
#6 Jan 07 2004 at 10:11 PM Rating: Decent
All of the elvaan look like dark skinned asians
If yao ming had pointy ears, long hair, and a tan, he would be an elvaan ^^

everyone's asian in this, how can you say you need asian characters when they all are? exept for a few hume models (the bald one, bearded one, tattood one, and black chick one)

#7 Jan 07 2004 at 10:55 PM Rating: Decent
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And they do have a darker skinned hume model.
#8 Jan 07 2004 at 10:58 PM Rating: Decent
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How about SE obesiticim? Is that a word? Where are the fat people? I think SE is being blatantly prejudice here.
#9 Jan 07 2004 at 11:25 PM Rating: Good
You people and these weird *** posts are starting to scare me.

I have never been to any other message boards where so many space cadet posts are made.
#10 Jan 07 2004 at 11:25 PM Rating: Good
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They prob just went mono chrome to try and avoid any "race issues". Im thinking a dark skin Galkan slave in Bastok might cause problems for them.

Its a very tricky subject so they prob just left it alone, personally im all for it this games needs more in the way of customizing chars but meh.

They were actually have Haitian Monsters that everyone wanted to kill but after the GTA:Vice City incident they took those off the list :P (Note the sarcasm, i love haitians, dont want people coming after me cause i made bad reference for a joke, aka Hillary Clinton.....was gonna say i liked Hilary Clinton too but that would be a lie :P)
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#11 Jan 07 2004 at 11:30 PM Rating: Good
Yes and where are all the ugly people? What they got against ugly people anyhow?
#12 Jan 07 2004 at 11:34 PM Rating: Decent
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Yes and where are all the ugly people? What they got against ugly people anyhow?


Have you seen a Galka lately?
#13 Jan 08 2004 at 12:08 AM Rating: Good
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I wouldn't like it if they added a skintone system, think about what people would be doing...a big black Galka calling a hume a dumb H word and what not...a little light furred Taru calling a dark furred Taru the N word lol...and more cyber (wo)man whores,this will bring nothing but discrimination...people will be split up right down the line of black and white...party shouts will be more like this

Tidus83: "looking for lvl 25+ Warrior must be [insert skintone here] if you are [insert skintone here] then we will /emote beat you with anti-[insert negative skintone here] stick then we'll **** on your *ucking [insert negative skintone here] eye"

**Edit**
fixed something that sounded funny

Edited, Thu Jan 8 00:10:27 2004 by Rajinken
#14 Jan 08 2004 at 2:27 AM Rating: Decent
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Yes and where are all the ugly people? What they got against ugly people anyhow?


are you kidding me? theres a ton of ugly people in this game, a few of the hume models, a couple elvaan males, all the galka, the elvaan females. they're pretty damn ugly.

Although, even more customization in character design would be nice, especially with all the players who got the game for christmas and all the players that are gonna join once ps2 version comes out in a few months, because of the incresed player volume on each server there will be WAY too many people who look exactly the same and that just won't be cool, some new faces, and colors would definately make the game more fun.
#15 Jan 08 2004 at 11:22 AM Rating: Good
Elvaan Females are hotties what you talking about Willis......
#16 Jan 08 2004 at 11:34 AM Rating: Decent
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You people and these weird *** posts are starting to scare me.

I have never been to any other message boards where so many space cadet posts are made.


That's Why I come Here... I generally Hate forum sites.


I swear I've seen some dark skinned characters.... maybe it was just the lighting......

I must say though... If I was Black I wouldn't play any of those ****** Elvaan or Humes...

Any players of African decsent out there care to share views?
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#17 Jan 08 2004 at 12:08 PM Rating: Good
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I'm having trouble thinking of black cast-members in ANY of the Final Fantasy games... But then again, my memory may not be that great.

I want black Hume WHM that I can call DrHuckstable. :)
#18 Jan 08 2004 at 12:08 PM Rating: Good
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Ok lets not bash the guy. I think he made a poor choice of words. But i also was disappoint when i didnt see any fair skined characters. I wouldnt say its racism jus unfortunate. So i pick n elvaan . I works out cus when i look at him on the game he appeasrs to be black. Its not a big deal but it would have been nice to have sum fair skinned characters at least 1 hume. HAHA

But i love the game just the same anyway.
#19 Jan 08 2004 at 12:18 PM Rating: Good
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but it would have been nice to have sum fair skinned characters



I feel obligated to inform you that "Fair-Skinned" means White.
pretty much
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#20 Jan 08 2004 at 12:27 PM Rating: Good
averoth wrote:
I'm having trouble thinking of black cast-members in ANY of the Final Fantasy games


As far as I know there've only been 2 black FF Characters. There was Barret (Mr. T) from FF7 and Kiros (I think) from FF8

Edited, Thu Jan 8 12:29:20 2004 by TDarkmoon
#21 Jan 08 2004 at 12:33 PM Rating: Decent
You can't have Black characters in this game because -

1) No Fried Chicken food buff
2) No Grape Soda drink buff
3) There is no Armor Coloring system, so there can be no Gangs.
4) The next time you rented a Chocobo, it would be missing a hub cap.
5) You'd come home to your Mog House only to find a shiv in your Moogle and all of your plants gone.
6) There is no "Samuel L. from Pulp Fiction" hairstyle on any of the current character designs.


Ignorance is bliss.


(please add Sarcasm to all of the above statements please, they are only meant in a joking manner ^^)
#22 Jan 08 2004 at 12:39 PM Rating: Decent
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What about the Mexicans???
#23 Jan 08 2004 at 12:55 PM Rating: Good
There can be no Mexicans because all they would do is sit around in the AH all day looking for work gatehring raw materials, drinking Potions like Cerveca and wearing Sombreros. And they wouldn't even be selling stuff. Lazy bastards.
#24 Jan 08 2004 at 1:03 PM Rating: Good
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LMFAO @ GrayHavens

Man number 5 almost had me on the floor. :-D
#25 Jan 08 2004 at 2:24 PM Rating: Good
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Damn Mithra always eating the fish I catch. They're theives damnit! And what's with those friggen Tarutaru always getting underfoot. And hey, Galkas, just a word of advice: NO ONE ORDERED A MOBILE WALL. Elvaan, you think you're just soooo pretty. And Humes, stop trying to be human, you posers.

There, now real racism can begin in the game! Yaaaay!!

Honestly though, we can't hold the reality of world to the reality of another. It just won't work, and it's kind of non sensical. It's like when people in the USA look at sociaology videos from a country there they do ritual piercing and tattooing. By our standards its wrong, but you can't really apply your standards to a situation which does not now, or ever involve them.

I dunno, I think we should be happy they gave us 5 races to use and not just 1 with different colored skin.

Edit: Took out something a few people found offensive. Sorry guys!

Edited, Thu Jan 8 16:46:37 2004 by scubamage
#26 Jan 08 2004 at 3:21 PM Rating: Default
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Bah, ignore this. I said something but took it out because I didn't want to start a fight.

Edited, Thu Jan 8 15:22:38 2004 by Alethea
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