New FF13 character announced! Looks goofy, but awesome!!!!!

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FF13 will be my favorite game this gen!!!!!!!!!

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Will he be FF's first playable black character (not including whats her name from FFXII)?Cedmln

There is also Berret from FFVII.

[QUOTE="Cedmln"]Will he be FF's first playable black character (not including whats her name from FFXII)?DireOwl

There is also Berret from FFVII.

Anyways does anyone know what that pic on the bottom is for the one with Cloud?

Barret(or Rude for that matter) are not Black. To American and European gamer's they look Black. Barret even "sounds" Black(pssh). But if you seen Advent Children, clearly Barret isn't Black. The first Black character in Final Fantasy was from the 8th installment, Kiros. In Japan(and I wish I knew the term) you'll see young dark skin males sporting a fashion style made popular by Black culture(if you watch Bleach, then there you go). This guy looks like the Lando for Final Fantasy XIII! ROFL

[QUOTE="Cedmln"]Will he be FF's first playable black character (not including whats her name from FFXII)?DireOwl

There is also Berret from FFVII.

wow... and FFXI had black Humes and Galka (if you want to count them :P )

Barret(or Rude for that matter) are not Black. To American and European gamer's they look Black. Barret even "sounds" Black(pssh). But if you seen Advent Children, clearly Barret isn't Black. The first Black character in Final Fantasy was from the 8th installment, Kiros. In Japan(and I wish I knew the term) you'll see young dark skin males sporting a fashion style made popular by Black culture(if you watch Bleach, then there you go). This guy looks like the Lando for Final Fantasy XIII! ROFL

NeoGen85

[QUOTE="NeoGen85"]

Barret(or Rude for that matter) are notBlack. To American and European gamer's they look Black. Barret even "sounds" Black(pssh). But if you seen Advent Children, clearly Barret isn't Black. The first Black character in Final Fantasy was from the 8th installment, Kiros. In Japan(and I wish I knew the term) you'll see young dark skin males sporting a fashion style made popular by Black culture(if you watch Bleach, then there you go). This guy looks like the Lando for Final Fantasy XIII! ROFL

NuclearFreedom

that's what I said :o

I guess I was fooled because he seemed black to me *shrug*

Barret(or Rude for that matter) are not Black. To American and European gamer's they look Black. Barret even "sounds" Black(pssh). But if you seen Advent Children, clearly Barret isn't Black. The first Black character in Final Fantasy was from the 8th installment, Kiros. In Japan(and I wish I knew the term) you'll see young dark skin males sporting a fashion style made popular by Black culture(if you watch Bleach, then there you go). This guy looks like the Lando for Final Fantasy XIII! ROFL

NeoGen85

Come on...

if he's not black, what is he, puerto rican?

there's no way he's not black.. look at him!

he pitties the fool!

[QUOTE="DireOwl"]

[QUOTE="Cedmln"]Will he be FF's first playable black character (not including whats her name from FFXII)?HarlockJC

There is also Berret from FFVII.

Anyways does anyone know what that pic on the bottom is for the one with Cloud?

[QUOTE="NeoGen85"]

Barret(or Rude for that matter) are notBlack. To American and European gamer's they look Black. Barret even "sounds" Black(pssh). But if you seen Advent Children, clearly Barret isn't Black. The first Black character in Final Fantasy was from the 8th installment, Kiros. In Japan(and I wish I knew the term) you'll see young dark skin males sporting a fashion style made popular by Black culture(if you watch Bleach, then there you go). This guy looks like the Lando for Final Fantasy XIII! ROFL

voxware00

Come on...

if he's not black, what is he, puerto rican?

there's no way he's not black.. look at him!

he pitties the fool!

Maybe Barret and Mr. T are Okinawan :P

Barret(or Rude for that matter) are not Black. To American and European gamer's they look Black. Barret even "sounds" Black(pssh). But if you seen Advent Children, clearly Barret isn't Black. The first Black character in Final Fantasy was from the 8th installment, Kiros. In Japan(and I wish I knew the term) you'll see young dark skin males sporting a fashion style made popular by Black culture(if you watch Bleach, then there you go). This guy looks like the Lando for Final Fantasy XIII! ROFL

NeoGen85

Notice his skin, his hair texture, and lastly his hair sty1e. What are you talking about?

Rude is the equivlent of Michael Jackson lol

Barret(or Rude for that matter) are not Black. To American and European gamer's they look Black. Barret even "sounds" Black(pssh). But if you seen Advent Children, clearly Barret isn't Black. The first Black character in Final Fantasy was from the 8th installment, Kiros. In Japan(and I wish I knew the term) you'll see young dark skin males sporting a fashion style made popular by Black culture(if you watch Bleach, then there you go). This guy looks like the Lando for Final Fantasy XIII! ROFL

NeoGen85

Wow, I just looked at that picture and that is a very sterotypical black male as most things in Japanese culture are : Sterotypical.

I'll bet my house that that he is only Black Male in the game.

Wow, I just looked at that picture and that is a very sterotypical black male as most things in Japanese culture are : Sterotypical.

I'll bet my house that that he is only Black Male in the game.

Synthetic_NinJI

no more stereotypical then Asians depicted in western games.

or even a black person in a game like Fable

[QUOTE="Synthetic_NinJI"]

Wow, I just looked at that picture and that is a very sterotypical black male as most things in Japanese culture are : Sterotypical.

I'll bet my house that that he is only Black Male in the game.

FragTycoon

no more stereotypical then Asians depicted in western games.

or even a black person in a game like Fable

Link

FF13 will be my favorite game this gen!!!!!!!!!

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Squall18

Is there a FF character that doesn't look goofy?

[QUOTE="NeoGen85"]

Barret(or Rude for that matter) are not Black. To American and European gamer's they look Black. Barret even "sounds" Black(pssh). But if you seen Advent Children, clearly Barret isn't Black. The first Black character in Final Fantasy was from the 8th installment, Kiros. In Japan(and I wish I knew the term) you'll see young dark skin males sporting a fashion style made popular by Black culture(if you watch Bleach, then there you go). This guy looks like the Lando for Final Fantasy XIII! ROFL

gamefan67

Forgive me if I turned this into a what's Black...what's Black-African...or whatever debate. I think when a lot of people talk about "Black" we think of African descent. :P

The reason why I said that was because before www.adventchildren.net shut down, there was a discussion in the forums about the samething. And someone stumble upon an old article with a interview from Nomura of him also discussing his character design of Rude and Barret. He drew on his inspiration from Black-American culture aka Mr. T(joke), but he was looking for a more Japanese appoarch which was becoming more apparent in the country amongst young Japanese people. Then he refered to a term(regarding Rude) describing a darker skinned Japanese man.

I didn't think everyone was going bring up the images of Barret and....stuff. lol

updated: About Mr. T and Barret being Okinawan. That made me laugh. That reminds me of this guy my father use to hang out with when he was stationed at the Navy base there. He was a Okinawan that look almost like Barret, but he shaved his head.

w8 a minue, in advend children, da japanese dub, wasnt barret talking like a normal person would?

[QUOTE="Synthetic_NinJI"]

Wow, I just looked at that picture and that is a very sterotypical black male as most things in Japanese culture are : Sterotypical.

I'll bet my house that that he is only Black Male in the game.

FragTycoon

no more stereotypical then Asians depicted in western games.

or even a black person in a game like Fable

I have no idea what all the rage is about with Final Fantasy.

I tried playing FFX and it was just way too corny for me.
Samox

[QUOTE="FragTycoon"][QUOTE="Synthetic_NinJI"]

Wow, I just looked at that picture and that is a very sterotypical black male as most things in Japanese culture are : Sterotypical.

I'll bet my house that that he is only Black Male in the game.

Synthetic_NinJI

no more stereotypical then Asians depicted in western games.

or even a black person in a game like Fable

I SPEEL MY DRINK!

I have no idea what all the rage is about with Final Fantasy.

I tried playing FFX and it was just way too corny for me.
Samox