To be fair on Dunmer they hate each other just as much, if they’re the wrong kind of Dunmer, Outlanders, Ashlanders or a rival house etc

Listening to Dr Janega’s podcast how a guy from China who was actually a Nestorian Christian, traveled to Europe and got to meet the Pope, Eastern Roman Emperor, Holy Roman Emperor, King of France before heading home.

Or how Ibn Battuta travelled from Morroco all the way to China via the Maldives. Or famously Mansa Musa travelled from Mali to Mecca causing a financial crisis from giving away too much gold.

Vikings travelled all the way to Constantinople to fight in the Varangian guard. Like people travelled. Non white people would be uncommon but they’d be there especially in bigger cities.

Also it created a new god out of the super powerful emperor from a few centuries ago (except now he’s retroactively always been a god), don’t think about it.

My favorite is probably anything from TES. Explaining CHIM or mantling or even breaking down this diagram

The uncensored titties thing was also a way around censors too in certain countries I believe. Like the base game gets reviewed then the “dlc” is “optional”

Oh fuck I didn’t say Arcanum because I assumed we are always thinking about it

I loved the Saboteur they should have made a bunch of them.

I liked all 3 Army of Two games for split screen coop.

Battle realms the Asian themed RTS that’s probably problematic but had so many neat things and quirks.

There was a Fire and Sword spin off for Mount and Blade based on the book of the same name. Not the 30s years war but just after in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth.

The first Mistborn era seems like it would be perfect for a prequel game where you take part in the internecine house wars between the nobility. It would be an open world stealth/action super-power game. Great setting, the large sparling inspired city of Luthadel, a fusion of Victorian and gothic aesthetic. With blanketing ash from regular volcanic eruption and the ever-present mists at night. The crushing misery the nobles inflict on the Skaa (serfs) under the ever watchful eye of the immortal Lord Ruler and his inquisitors.

It would have unique gameplay mechanics. Burning iron and steel to push and pull off metal in structures to fly through the sky and over buildings. Pulling and pushing your enemies who are holding metal. Or deflecting/firing metal objects large and small at your enemies. Using pewter to make your character tougher, tin to enhance their senses. Use zinc and brass to sooth or riot enemies. So you can slip by them or you can make them panic and flee. Using copper to hide yourself from seekers and brass to detect other mistborns and mistings.

Likewise enemies would vary, from simple guards wearing metal armour and holding metal weapons (which they will abandon if you start pushing and pulling them for wooden clubs), to the more professional haze-killers with no metals on them and their wicker shields and dueling canes, to mistings who only have one of the 8 powers to use on you (coinshots who fire objects at your, lurchers who pull you, pewter arms who are extra tough, etc) to enemy mistborns who have all the same powers as you, then maybe at the end of the game you might even fight an inquisitor with their enhanced powers and gruesome metal spiked eyes.

Oh that’d be so good.

Yeah I loved high luck breaking the gambling. I used mods change the lockout to be a few days not permanently. I was also playing on survival with a mod that gave nearly every item weight including money and caps. So I’d carry a hundred caps or so, a few wads of NCR 100s and a dozen legion aureus. But when I needed a big infusion of cash to buy gear, my character would hit up a casino.

I’m learning there was a WiiU today. Oh I was really busy 2012 that makes sense.

I mean he’s a short king with a mustache who wears overalls. I kind of already assumed he was a trans man.

Cullen becomes a grey warden if surviving the deep roads or a templar if left behind.

The best compliment I can give DA2 is I liked the idea of a fantasy where you aren’t presented with the main quest immediately.

Like Hawke is just some girl or guy trying to survive as a refugee, then trying to hide from templars/get rich, then just hanging around when they get swept up in history because they’re locally famous.

I remember back in the day one of the metas was playing a girl, because the highest heels you could buy made you harder to head shot (auto aim locked to a certain height on enemy players and heels made your head higher than normal)

Yeah I had to return Cyberpunk on my original PS4 because it was unplayable compared to the fancier versions.

I’ve said this before but Fallout 4 came out nearly 10 years ago. And in a just world there would have been 3 New Vegas style spin off sequels of variable quality and a 4th on its way.

Saints Row 2 was amazing, the gender slider, that you could pick any voice, wear all clothing, have any hair style/makeup, no gender restrictions, could change gender presentation at any point through plastic surgery, pronouns were simply The Boss.

I really have to wonder if there’s was a trans or NB person involved in the decision process, even if it was an egg going “haha would this be funny right? To give the players full gender options lol”

The killing kids in Fallout 1 and 2 is complicated. Because I think the edgiest people do it for a joke.

But I remember one time when I was playing the game when I was probably too young for it, I had a random encounter with Raiders attacking farmers. I swooped into rescue the farmers and as we moped up, one of my companions let burst with an SMG, missed a raider and killed a child instantly. Then the enraged farmers, men and women, turned and starting attacking us with their fists, and my other companions started gunning them down, as I genuinely panicked. In a cold sweat I looked over their dead bodies and reloaded my save.

And like I still remember that now, as a powerful random moment in a videogame.