Oscar Ben Newton said:
I first realised this just after I picked a race. I chose to play as a Nord which immediately brought the guard with the check list great joy. He was also very taken aback when after he gave his "Norse power" speech the front woman still ordered me to my death. This made me realsise that this game might have a slight Norse supiriourity thing going.
After surviving the dragon onsluaght I was sent to Riverwood, where another man sent me to Whiterun. When I reached Whiterun the first thing that I encountered was a squatter camp filled with Khajiit. I went closer and over heard two of them talking about how the Nords would not let them into Whiterun because they think all Khajiit are rapists and theives. They then went on to say that all they are trying to do is raise a family.
When I entered Whiterun I saw a group of Redguards being herassed by Whiterun guards. The guards where going on about how the Redguards only wanted to come in to rape children and abduct woman to sell into slavery. When I went up to one of the Redguards, he said that they where just looking for a friend and if I could help.
Things like this kept happening throughout the game, and I didn't make a post about it earlier because I thought Yatshee would bring it up in his review of Skyrim but he didn't. So I want to know if I am the only one who has experienced this racism, and if you have, share your tales of witnessed racist actions within Skrim.
yes... we have... it's one of the main themes of the game... you know, with the civil war going between the all powerful empire and the extremelly racist rebeld group.
What's the point of this thread really...
Anyway: Racism in this game is nowhere near as strong as it should be. You shouldn't be able to join the stormcloaks if you are not a nord. You should not be allowed to enter some cities if you are not X race. You should not be able to enter a Thalmor embassy while being a wood elf. You should not be able to do a lot of things that you are able to.
If you are a Khajiit or argonian, you SHOULD be kicked out of some places. Wouldn't be epic to have to infiltrate a city through the sewers and have to walk around at night avoiding wards, habiting clandestine hoods to do your quests, and never being able to do the quests that the jarl has to offer? It would encourage people to have multiple characters.
With the current system, you can just create one character and explore EVERYTHING. I mean, the game itself is big and vast, and I am nowhere near of discovering everything it has to offer, but yeah, being the leader of the dark brotherhood, thieves guild, mages college and companions is sort of ridiculous.
You shouldn't be trusted right away by some random stranger when you have a criminal history of thievery and assasinations. You should be attacked on sight by some people, and you SHOULDN'T be attacked on sight by others (Forsworn is the most clear example. What about a friendly bandit camp for once? What if I actually want to join their cause?). If I'm wearing an imperial armor and I enter a stormcload camp, they should turn hostile on me.
I mean, come on, we had this in Fallout New Vegas. I know it's not the same developer, but just how hard would it be to replicate that faction system?
The problem of this game is that it lets you do anything, but none of it really matters afterwards.
YOU SAVED THE WORLD! Yeah, those arrows are gonna be 50 gold a piece. What was your name again? Listen I don't care who you are as long as you bring me some random item lost in a sealed ruin north of here.