Chaosritter said:
Fun aside, Risen 2 is a classic RPG that continues an existing story, spontaneous gender swaps would be kinda irritating. Especially since the world has been heavily influenced by medieval Europe (in contrast to the Tolkien-like fantasy worlds), it just wouldn't work with a female PC. Women in this world are usually found in the kitchen (I'm not kidding), aside from a female hunter apprentice and a pirate daughter in the first Risen. I guess a boozing, scuffling and boar disembowelling chick would kinda ruin the atmosphere.
This is mostly a problem with you. Evidently, you do not want a realistic portrayal of a european fantasy setting, and instead cling to a hypermasculine "ideal", since real women seem to scare you a lot.
"a boozing, scuffling and boar disembowelling chick" would not ruin the atmosphere. Quite the contrary, it'd create it, because it's realistic. 10-15% of pirates were women. We see this with every pirate mass grave we discover. These women had typical wounds and bone wear for serious seamen and fighters.
Women in this world are usually found in the kitchen (I'm not kidding),
This actually destroys atmosphere right there, and fits into a crappy Tolkien RPG, not serious work set in a setting influenced by medieval europe. Only a game catered to women-fearing nerds would have this (and considering the artwork, this group is probably Risen's main target demography).
In the time period this alludes to, about 27% of the blacksmiths in britain were female. "Women only in kitchen" would be completely stupid. This is an ideal that came up with the rise of the rich(!) middle class during the industrialisation, it never was the case earlier, nor was it ever the case for the majority of the population pre 1900, because you couldn't just discount half of your working force. Women had less rights, but so did jews. That didn't stop either group from doing things, as much as sexists or racists want this to be the case.
Quite simply, that you are so afraid of female characters that you don't even want them playable by
other players is quite embarassing.
This thread shows how sexism is festering among some male nerds. It also shows how desperate nerds cling to sexism, even when it directly contradicts historical facts (which is hilarious when these very players then cheer the game for "staying close to medival europe"). It's sad. No wonder gamers get looked down upon so much with attitudes like this in plain sight. Only in very few other places do people deny reality as much as some male gamer nerds do.
