As I was playing modded Skyrim the other day I was remembering how at one time I thought how epic it would be if it was made into a movie. Definitely not not anymore. If made today, how do you think they would butcher it? Obviously the main character would be female and the Dunmer in Windhelm would be the focus of the story.
I still think it would be cool if a great fantasy author wrote a 12 book series about the history of Tamriel or a series on the adventures of past Dragonborns or Morrowind. So many possibilities
What sucks is you could have an interesting game in Hammerfell if they ignore the kind of people you are talking about. I liked the Redguard woman quest. It’s interesting how that quest has no definitive right answer. I hope you are wrong about ES6 but everything is pointing to them going crazy with the message
Yes I agree, Hammerfell could be interesting, but it won't be, this is something that really gets noticeable when you play story heavy classic games. The story writing is just so much more mature than what we're exposed to today and they're not doing anything revolutionary they just weren't as pussified back then about topics. u/Daucus9 made some great points about all the cringey girl boss stereotypes that plague modern writing but there's all sorts of bullshit they pull along racial lines as well.
I think the worse part is it's incredibly predictable, this is why stuff like anime is always a breath of fresh air because they tend to fall along the lines of traditional masculine/feminine archetypes which can be expanded on in an entertaining way rather than this one dimensional bullshit shoved down our throats constantly.
I've been playing BG2 recently and it got my brain chugging when it came to stuff like lore and story writing.
The guys who grew up with Flash Gordon and Gunsmoke gave us Star Wars and Star Trek, the guys who grew up on Star Wars/Trek just gave us worse derivatives.
I’ve been diving deeper into anime and manga and heck, I’ll read an old Superman comic or something and it’s so refreshing to see masculine men being heroic or feminine women who work with men to achieve something
Oh! Totally been there, I've been watching the old justice league cartoons LOL. This is another reason why I've been so biased against live action these days because at least if they're 3D/2D you can keep them looking the same and boot any voice actors that misbehave. I seriously need to get into my sculpting workflow now I have the time and start messing with character design more for my work.
I was flicking channels today and Teen Titans was on one channel - I listened for 5 seconds before throwing up. THey'd made on of the characters a 'free-thinker' - then poured shit on him as a flat-earther. In a kids cartoon FFS!
Imagine if instead of Cyborg they would’ve had Jon Stewart green lantern in the Justice League movie? Obviously they wanted one black super hero on the team so why not pick the one that is well liked by a generation of us who watched the cartoon. Dumb dumb dumb. I’m currently going through Batman the Animated series