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Message: [QUOTE="Strategist, post: 185469, member: 767"] Well, I mean it is a complicated subject. I think it really comes down to bad writing and bad corporate policies instead of anything political. Like I said before, there were leftist/liberal political messages in RPGs since the dawn of them and it wasn't a major problem before. The creators of the RPG genre were generally liberal hippie nerds who read Tolkien and fantasy. But nowadays, there are corporate mandates to make the messaging very upfront and explicit and they force the designers to include every minority or disability even if it doesn't necessarily make sense within the context of the universe. It feels contrived and forced because it is forced. The beautiful character thing is complicated. I agree that games should have a diversity of personality types and looks, the characters shouldn't all look like supermodels. But when it comes to romance and stuff like that, people want to see good looking characters fall in love, not uggos, lol. And characters who are recognizable are more likely to be popular and that's why character designers use famous Hollywood actors as references. Heck, I think the main guy for Clair Obscur kind of looks like Robert Pattinson. [/QUOTE]

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