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Dude is king but they are about to kill his legacy with Kingdom Come: Deliverance II going the way of Mafia III.
It is going to be a multi-ethnic medieval world set in Bohemia and anyone not liking it is a bigot.
Nobody had a problem with Mafia III's protagonist, gang culture starting to integrate into the wider social themes of those times were appropriate and the success of GTA: San Andreas showed that there was a big market for games rich in downtrodden criminal types finding themselves in a story arc which took out bad guys. The game itself though was repetitive and lacking any imaginative depth in its world.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II though has very little, to no, reason for racial inclusion of folks in a real world at the time setting and any intention to try it has to be in a tribal conflict setting, or at least have derogatory slurs towards the new-coming outsiders - which will, of course, not be met favourably by those who comment but never buy regardless on such matters.
Still, 3 great games under his belt and he stepped away just fine. Good for him!
I didn't see the diversity in the KCD2 trailer. Where are you seeing it?
Kotaku had a piece out on it which was discussed on Hypnotic last night (28 mins and 25 seconds if the timestamp in the link isn't working).
Nothing concrete but it looks like ESG/DEI funding rather than crowdsourced which is causing come caution with those who have seen it before.
I’m not going to believe Kotaku. At this point I think it’s safe to assume it’s just fud. A smear from leftists still mad about the first game. The first game was diverse, it had Hungarians, Germans, Cumans, Czechs, etc. For now I will assume that is what the developers mean when they say KCD2 will be diverse. BTW you are playing right into the leftist’s hands by amplifying this fud.
i think i read here that the company got sold and is now under deep silver (koch media) who might dictate certain topics.
Thanks for the links.
No worries, I hope you get to see what the worry is all about.
You must have been under a rock. It was pretty controversial at the time to move to a generic black guy protag, the culture war just wasn't loud enough to push it to mainstream media coverage.
The entire game suffered for that change. Now every single villain and half the fucking game is a long "RACISM BAD BAD BAD." It beats you over the head with it every possible fucking second. Including a lot of bad guys whose only crime was not liking niggers, who are in fact committing lots of crime as part of the story and setting, and they must be wrong because of that.
It can join Prototype 2 in the pile of "taking an established franchise, replacing the MC with generic angry black man, and then nobody cares anymore" IPs. And at least Prototype still had a unique idea under that instead of being a worse GTA.