Amber's Interview with Cracked
Chidojuan
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I've been watching for this and only just recently spotted it. In case anyone is interested.
http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2284-i-put-trans-character-in-game-gamers-went-insane.html
Not trying to create another controversy, just felt like people would be interested.
http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2284-i-put-trans-character-in-game-gamers-went-insane.html
Not trying to create another controversy, just felt like people would be interested.
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Lets go full Sony and blame it all on sexism and bigotry.
Indeed, the majority of the criticism of SOD overall that I have seen is specifically about Mizhena. The rest is a smattering of other issues... none of which make people remotely as angry as Mizhena did.
So no, it's not ALL just sexism and bigotry. But having watched it all unfold myself, I know that sexism and bigotry are at least 51% of the flames that Beamdog has received.
If Beamdog had created a game, something new say "Game X" (which had nothing to do with an already established title) and put a transgender character in it, it would have been a completely different story. Obviously haters would have hated and conservative people would have gone crazy about the idea itself, but, - and this is a big BUT - that wouldn't have hurt the feelings of thousands of fans who expected a Baldur's Gate game but got something else.
If somebody buys the licence to make a Baldur's Gate game, then they have to remain loyal to the game's every aspect even if it includes sexism or other things they believe could be "improved on". If your ideas or believes aren't compatible with this, then by all means, make your game the way you want but don't call it Baldur's Gate!
I've played Bioware games like Dragon Age or Mass Effect that featured gay characters and had no problem with it whatsoever. I wonder what would a true Dragon Age or Mass Effect fan say if a new company came along and made a racist expansion featuring only white males and then to ease the tensions give an interview saying well if you don't like it then it's too bad...
Anyway, I'm not having a go at Beamdog because in my opinion they have done a pretty good job with the enhanced editions, bringing my beloved games back to life. I don't even want to over-critisise Dragonspear as it isn't a bad game at all; just shared my thoughts on the topic of this article.
But I'm pretty sure that entire article was abusive to people who criticised SoD.
Murica, fuck yeah!
Who is going to be the judge of whether new content is "compatible" with the original games? I would assume that WOTC reviewed the content and approved it before Beamdog was allowed to publish it. Is your personal opinion of what is compatible more genuine than WOTC? I can't tell if you're being serious or not. The only thing that article did was repost the hate quotes people had written to Beamdog and Amber and came to a conclusion. They even mentioned that they were only addressing critics who only complained about the transgender character and not that anyone who provided criticism was being awful.
The notion that someone is actually trans, now *that* offends people.
I was not pleased...
Baldur's Gate is a Dungeons and Dragons licensed game. They use the rules outlined in the Player's Handbook and other official D&D books to keep it as faithful as possible to the base game.
Here is an except from Character Creation for the latest Player's Handbook (5e) regarding gender:
any special benefits or hindrances. Think about how
your character does or does not conform to the broader
culture’s expectations of sex, gender, and sexual
behavior. For example, a male drow cleric defies the
traditional gender divisions of drow society, which could
be a reason for your character to leave that society and
come to the surface.
You don’t need to be confined to binary notions of
sex and gender. The elf god Corellon Larethian is often
seen as androgynous or hermaphroditic, for example,
and some elves in the multiverse are made in Corellon’s
image. You could also play a female character who
presents herself as a man, a man who feels trapped in a
female body, or a bearded female dwarf who hates being
mistaken for a male. Likewise, your character’s sexual
orientation is for you to decide.
Thanks for playing!
~
@ajwz not really he had one line about real criticism (since that isn't what the article was about) going like
Followed by one example.
But ok:
Point #4:
"And now here are some players reacting to that brief conversation as if the game required them to pledge allegiance to ISIS before proceeding"
"Any attempts to "protect video games" might be a bit undercut by 74 percent of readers considering "Hurr durr!" valid critique"
"serial killers would find the comments a bit much"
"It's called Siege Of Dragonspear: Corrections, because apparently there was a competition to make the Skyrim horse vagina mod look classy."
Point #3
"The reaction reveals a striking persecution complex"
"An angry mob decided that one minor employee was responsible for their inability to caress underage cartoon girls (seriously, it was a face-touching minigame),"
"Finally, a game called Pillars Of Eternity included a quick little transphobic limerick"
"Their goal is to be outraged, no matter what. If the situation doesn't justify it, they'll twist it until it does"
"Advancement is met with walls of fiery hate hiding behind a thin veneer of "tradition" or not wanting to get "political""