To be honest as much as I used to love to read I don’t read all that much anymore. It feels a bit hypocritical given how much I love to write. That said this games story has latched onto me and whenever I play now I can’t help but hope to pick up journals and notes so I can learn more about this setting. I haven’t been this invested in an arpg since Torchlight and Diablo II way before that. I think the lore is great and I love learning the history of this setting even if it is indeed quite grim.
I only have a few minor issues with it. The first is the lack of diversity among the characters. There don’t seem to be any non-white characters. Forgive me if I’ve missed any. I’m not expecting the setting to reflect real world cultures but a little variety would have been nice. The second is that while the overarching lore is great the individual characters feel a bit shallow. The lore is interesting and game play is great but there are few reasons for me to connect with the denizens I’m helping. I think part of that is because the writing leans on a few too many stereotypes-the woman who becomes a prostitute for survival’s stake and her male rescuer being a perfect example.
That brings me to my last and probably biggest issue-the way females are depicted in this game is via the use of some rather archaic tropes. Said desperate woman presents herself to her rescuer? It’s implied she sleeps with him. I couldn’t help groaning at that. There are a number of female characters and they all seem like either frail mothers or fallen maidens in need of rescue.
That sounds a bit harsh now that I look at it but yeah-you have great lore but the characters aren’t very deep and there are some groan worthy characterizations. I still think it’s pretty good all things considered. I just wish the characters were a bit more polished (and there weren’t as many repeated lines of dialogue). Again-I really love this game and think there’s far more good than bad. It’s just the stuff that’s not so good takes away from the rest a bit. Not a lot but enough I felt I should mention it.
Perhaps I’ve missed some. The only characters I’ve met so far are the ones in Devil’s Crossing. Care to explain who you mean? I don’t mind spoilers and would love to be proven wrong. Just please label it as such.
There’s Elsa, who goes out of her way to gain her independence and rid herself of a chivalrous/doting father figure. She’s not a bad sort, she’s just seems very competitive and wants to join the fight against the Aetherials.
There’s Captain Somer, leader of the Black Legion in Homestead. She’s basically a female grizzled warrior/general.
From lore there’s the Nightblade master Nidalla, whose methods were so effective that all Nightblades now consider her teachings part of their core training. The Arcanists have many female masters, from Iskandra to Olexra.
There’s basically a lot of important females in the Cairn, from all walks of life.
As for race, I was actually under the impression that everyone in Cairn was brown, in varying degrees.
Thanks for the feedback. From now on I’ll wait until I’ve met more of the characters before I go criticizing. As far as varying degrees of brown go-Heh fair enough? Again-this is an initial impression. I’m only level 30 and only just reached the ruins beneath old Arkova.
You’ve played very little of the game. Elsa is probably the first strong female lead you will meet and I wouldn’t be surprised if the devs have a special something planned for her in the expansion.
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I agree with Ceno, I think you missed a lot of the power-females.
That’s all very well and good, but I’m still appalled at the lack of gender diversity in Detonation and Bridge Repair Sites. :mad:
In all seriousness though, I think lack of diversity in Cairn is pretty much a non-issue - if there were even any minorities in the first place, they’d be even harder to find now that 99% of them are dead. Then again, stuff like this has never bothered me much - I’d rather have a solid artistic vision than one catered towards appeasing the hot minority of the week. That said, I do like me a good strong female character, so I’m glad we ended up with a bunch of 'em (not that strong females are a minority anyway, but y’know).
…and yeah, everybody is so dirty-looking you can pretty much imagine them to have any skin colour you want anyway.
It’s easy for the majority to be represented in the vast amounts of games that exist. Too bad, they feel that game companies are appeasing people by trying to get what any person wants - characters that represent them (the player). To see oneself in a character in a game, book, movie, etc. is a wonderful and powerful thing.
Too bad people in majority can’t empathize with that, or understand it.
Having said that, these types of issues should fit within the storyline and not be shoe horned in. It should make logical and creative sense.
Do I think Cairn needs a more diverse group of people? I don’t know, it’s never crossed my mind. I play the game to help the people of Cairn and try to find a solution to the issue at hand - how to get rid of the Cthonians and the Aetherials. Seems top priority!
Amongst the supporting characters are also numerous women: Darlet (DC), Dahlia (sort of ;); Mountain Deeps) and Daila (Homestead), and names not starting with D Sahdina (DC), Alicia (New Harbor), Lisandra (Homestead) and Rallia (Blood Grove).
If anything I feel human females are underrepresented in the enemy factions. Not saying there aren’t any, but they are scarce.
I’m a minority myself, so I definitely understand the feeling - but as you say, it shouldn’t be forced in where it doesn’t belong. Considering how Grim Dawn has more or less avoided such topics so far, I don’t want to enter Act 5 and suddenly be greeted by the black trans leader of the local Ugdenbog cult and her racially-varied selection of gay best friends. The final(?) act of a game about dropping meteors on monsters’ heads isn’t really the best place for that, and I suspect Crate know this too. I’m happy with the way things are now, and if there are ever to be any based-on-real-life minority characters in the game I’d rather they only have as much or as little attention brought to them as any other NPC in the game would.
There is a whole lot of appeasement going on, across the board in movies and TV and other areas. I’m fine with “diversity”, just don’t so obviously cram it down my throat coughJessica Jonescough 24/7. And then you get the ones that want to tell me I’m bad because I happen to be in the majority and should be ashamed of that little fact?
Anyway, that’s my thought on that particular issue. I’ll cut myself short before the cuss words start streaming out.
I’m not sure about Jessica Jones and how anything was crammed down anyone’s throat. Any specifics there?
The only cramming I saw was the sex scene between her and Luke Cage.
My post doesn’t talk about if people should feel shame or what not. It expressed a sense that certain people don’t seem to have much empathy or understanding from those who are not like them.
The lesbian love scene between whats her name (chick from the matrix) in the very beginning of the very first episode. It was obvious to me what they were really doing there.
Anyway, I think there’s a bit too much empathy happening these days. A symptom of the Everybody Wins ideology. Except in the real world not everyone wins.
Don’t mind me. I have “feelings” about the topic. Not all of them nice or PC.
As for GD, yeah… Too late I feel to be adding it in without it being forced tho they could technically add in a new “people” in the expansion just fine I would think if they really felt it added to the world.