Recent content by Stefan Eriksson

Quite possibly so; I have only briefly looked at both of them (I don't have time for another RPG). :) Anyway something else that popped into my head: Regarding Female / Female romances in Bioware games... Over here the female critics go the opposite way: WAY too many lesbian relationships...

The only thing that really stood out to me in this panel was, unfortunately, the extreme case of Completely Missing The Point when it comes to Enslaved. Seriously. I could see the point of the hatred flying by a quarter of the inch over the head of Every. Single. Member. Of. The. Panel. and...

I think you are looking for something we who play WRPGs don't need. We don't NEED Empathy for the main character, because we ARE the main character. It is a totally different concept. The lack of empathy is not a sign for weakness, since it instead is replaced by a sense of self. On the other...

I take it you never played Dragon Age: Origins? Or you are confusing it with a different game? Almost every decision you make in the game have consequences; side with the wrong king and you doom the dwarven kingdom to slowly collapse. Support the wrong character and they will be doing even...

Another thing that just struck me: The original author says he need something more than just Skin Deep. Okay, fair; but how do we do it? Having a black character with an African-American inner city slang accent would be awful. Now if you got an actual *African* accent, then it I can accept it...

But this is different from my point. My point is that if you do a detailed fantasy version inspired by Norse and Celtic medieval Europe, such as say Dragon Age or LOTR, there is a reason why "people of color" do not appear. The fact that too many games focuses on that cultural area is a...

Personally I am finding this to be one of my axes to grind, but from the opposite perspective. I find people complaining about this issue are *deliberately* not getting the point. Now I do not know where the author grew up, but my guess would be somewhere across the pond (aka not Europe...