haxxiy said:
If there is a desert right next to a rainforest, with no rainshadow etc. between them, I'll be intrigued if the developer has any idea of what he's doing. Same if there were bananas and palm trees growing in the tundra, cactuses in swamps, or there are lizards and amphibians strolling in the snow. That would just scream of laziness and incompetence. If you are OK with it and think I'm "locking" developers instead, well, I'm just reply you have a low threshold for idiocy then, and we'll settle it right there. Fantasy does not give one a carte blanche to do any of this. Those worlds have all apparently the same laws of physics as ours, so I'm judging based on what I know is logical and makes sense. Most of them, indeed, do not even bother to set air density, gravity, axial tilt, day length etc. any different from Earth whatsoever, and it's not just about physical attributes, since social institutions, technological development etc. all often follow the same damn path as ours. For instance, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea, for some reason, has light-skinned and blonde people living east of the same archipelago, the only land in the planet, as the dark-skinned protagonists. I'm bothered by their existence, since there's no reason whatsoever for both groups to be that different given the role of pigmentation on humans. Although, unlike Dragon Age: Inquisition, Le Guin actually created a good work of fiction, and did not have Google or Wikipedia to research in a few minutes information she might have ignored. |
I have no idea why you are introducing 'laws of physics' into a complaint about demographics. Nor, frankly, do I understand a concern about laws of physics in a world with dragons and where drinking blood can give a Grey Warden a form of telepathic power. If that's really the concern, then the existence of a middle ages themed world where a number of races and cultures mixed is the least of the series' flaws.
