Topic is very simple: There are many western games coming nowadays that are plain unfun, boring, or shoved with ugly people and certain politics. TLOU 2receiving GOTY was a joke. Is there a game, if any, coming from the west, that you are kinda hopeful about?
Some of the western games I enjoyed playing this year were Deep Rock, Synthetik, Desperados 3, Children of Morta, Satisfactory and Hitman 2, though they are hardly recent. I’m kinda hopeful about Hitman 3 but I heavily dislike the “always online” game model.
What about you guys, though?
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I'm a bit surprised by lots of black characters. Where in Faerun is BG3 taking place? If it is in BG then having a bit of diversity makes sense as BG is a port town, although the location would make it very hard to get there from Chult having a few traders or maybe a business office set up would make it realistic. Faerun is not the regular modern day diversity melting pot that globalists are thriving for. In fact DnD forums had a problem with the fact that DnD campaigns, books and games are Medieval Europe focused and as everyone knows white men are bad.
I don’t know if it really says where you are, without going in to too many spoilers you start out washed up on a beach on some Island. I haven’t played much BG aside from 1 and 2 years ago so I can’t really speak for demographics, but I definitely don’t get the feeling that you’re supposed to be in some kind of especially exotic area, which is why all of the non-white characters stood out to me. But then again I also raised an eyebrow at the fact that the default male and female human character models are both black so I don’t know if they’re really pushing something or I’m reading too much into things.
I've finally managed to get the pirated version to work.
My conclusion: The action is close to BG so the demographic makes little sense. I assume they just glossed over the fact that black people are from Chult and arab looking tend to be around Thay. Faerun regions are inspired from Earth regions, so they tend to have similar racial + culture mix. For globalist however they came to the conclusion that white focused regions in games must be described as diverse in order to not be racist. As for the Thieflings, they are meant to represent the immigrants that came in to Europe. They use the same tactics of using children to manipulate emotions and how persecuted and good they are etc. The good thiefling archetype is so used, always the same, good innocent but prejudice because they look like devils, it stop being interesting a decade ago.
But is not that bad, I am enjoying it so far despite this things but I would like for once to stop having everything European culture related black washed. Both BG1 and BG2 had black characters but they had a nice story about how they got there. In BG3 they just assume modern day diversity.