DonFerrari said:
SuperNova said:
Out of curiosity, is there a female playable character?
Because 'historically accurate' is not at all a blanket excuse for the mechanics and portrayals you put into your games. While it might me true that most women in the 1400 didn't have combat roles, Joan of Arc being one of the most famous ones and Elise Eskilsdotter who became a pirate to avenge her husbands death perhaps the most badass one, that does not mean that it would be impossible to struckture a game around non-combattive roles either.
Integrating black characters or asian charaters, while staying historically accurate would also not have been impossible. There was a substantial enough black population in Denmark around the time for example that portraits of black noble danes exist, setting the game in Denmark or close to the danish border would have allowed for black characters.
There were also active trade routes into Asia and east Asia. I mean, Marco Polos famous travels took place around 100 years earlier. There was enough contact that the black death was able to spread into europe from Asia, and it is not just likely, but proven that trade delegations from Asian countries came all the way to continental Europe, so if you WANTED to have an asian character in the game while stil staying historically accurate, you could.
The developers evidently didn't want to do any of that, and that's fine, it's their game.
The 'in the name of historic accuracy' excuse however is not sufficient on any of these points. The developers made choices and the game is the result of these choices. |
So basically you want devs to limit themselves and choose instances where they could satisfy your demands.
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No. And I didn't say anything to that effect either. I also didn't demand anything at all. Please don't let your offense blind you to a reasonable post.
All I did say is that clearly this dev made choices of what they wanted in their game and these choices didn't include a desire for diversity or female representation. I then proceded to say, and I quote: 'That's fine.'
The reason these are not in the game is not 'historic accuracy' it is that they didn't want to include them as part of their vision and that's fine.
