Anonymous ID: 9d8b10 May 11, 2022, 9:32 a.m. No.16254287   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>16254250

 

Have you ever played any of the SoulsBorne games? DS2 is really fun PvP. All of them are great for different reasons. I find the ES games to be too overwhelming, as there is always so much to do and see, while DS/BB allows you to focus on one particular play-style, which I enjoy immensely. It's more like the Mana series games in that sense, but I guess you can also argue the same for ES, depending on how you choose to play it.

Anonymous ID: 9d8b10 May 11, 2022, 9:40 a.m. No.16254331   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4361

>Just DM'd Total War this, and I'm curious what y'all think of it.

 

>"Hello, I'm a big fan of the franchise, in particular the Warhammer series, which I play frequently. I think they are great games, and you all did a fantastic job translating that fun and interesting setting into a video game.

 

>I have been wondering, though, why are all the humans white in the games as of now? I understand that the setting was centered on the Old World, in the first game. And I don't expect any halfhearted diversification of, say, the Empire or Bretonnia; Obviously, it wouldn't make sense in the setting and probably just **** off the fascists in the GW fanbase.

 

>But I am curious if the lack of diversity within human factions is something you've thought of, something which concerns you, or something you plan to change in the future? As a non-white gamer and fantasy lover, I've always been disappointed by how white the most popular fantasy universes are. Be it Warhammer or LoTR, they center white people as the baseline for what "human" means, and often have those white people fight races of inhuman monsters and corrupt men who may or may not be based on racist real world stereotypes (the Easterlings and Haradrim in LoTR; the Skaven, to me, could read as an analog for the Nazi's perceptions of jews infiltrating society with criminal conspiracies).

 

>Of course, I know you all didn't create these worlds, but, given the increasingly global (in-game) nature of the Warhammer games, I would really like to see more human factions not based on European cultures. Geographically the realms of Araby are already part of the TWWH2 setting. Perhaps the third game will expand eastward? If it does, I think it would be amazing to see human factions which already exist in the lore (Araby, Cathay, Ind) or even new ones based on real-life cultures (men of the southlands based on the old Ghanaian empires, maybe) added to the game.

 

>I recognize it could be hard to make respectfully, seeing as what I know of the original GW lore portrays these cultures in a way that's often a little stereotypical… but given the ridiculousness of the setting I don't think it would be too hard to adjust and expand the canon so that it is respectful, but still over-the-top and fun, like Bretonnia and the Empire.

 

>I know that this is a just a videogame, and not that important in the grand scheme of things. But I think there is an opportunity in game 3 to subvert the, in my view quite harmful, trope of ultra-whiteness/eurocentrism in high fantasy."

 

>Would love to hear the community's thoughts!

 

https://forums.totalwar.com/discussion/270102/why-is-warhammer-so-white