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?
Also, to mods, add a gaming/ geek culture tag or whatever. Options here are limited as it is.
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.