…has anyone ever seen/written commentary on the way the Guild Wars campaigns handled race? Because there’s the two campaigns where if you start a character out in those campaigns as opposed to carrying your character over from the first campaign, you play a PoC character by default, which I always found interesting. And while I admittedly do not know enough of the different African cultures to critique (what I’ve played of) Nightfall, and (what I’ve played of) Factions is a bit hit or miss sometimes (I’m not real fond of how it’s random Asian mishmash, for one, unlike say A:TLA which more carefully molded each kingdom after specific cultures and history), I always really enjoy that when I’m in Factions most of the NPCs are (East) Asian (pretty much except the ones who crossed over from the other campaigns) and all the environment is clearly designed to evoke a feeling of fantasy-world (East) Asia, and the music is Asian (mostly it’s all Chinese, but again, they throw in random Japanese and Korean references, so), etc. And Nightfall seems similar about the way it handles (probably generic) “Africa.”
And not really being an expert in either games or these cultural references, I was wanting to see if anyone had a better critique of the games than my vague “well some things seem kinda cool and some seem kinda suck,” but in my searching I kind of just pull up comments on ingame racism of players. Not so much a critique of the worldbuilding, which is what I’m curious about. Also because I have also never seen comments of the “but what about the white people?! D:” lines about them, and wondered if that ever came up or if this somehow just slid under the radar (maybe partly because the other two campaigns do feature white people and you can always carry your white char into the next campaign? IDEK) or if I just. Have been living under a rock. I mean I probably have, but still.
So yes, link me if you know of anything, please?
(If you don’t know what I’m referring to in the title, check out The Arkh Project, because it is looking pretty cool so far.)