Thoughts on non-human player characters in videogames?
>Do they contribute anythung to the lore or setting?
>Are they a creatively bankrupt cop-out?
>Is everyone who plays them a degenerate?
OR
>Do they enhance the lore or setting through variety?
>Are they a recognizable way to succinctly categorize character types?
>Is their target audience people who want to experience something different than what they are in real life?
Thoughts on non-human player characters in videogames?
Dylan Jackson
Nathan Morgan
that's one fluffy boi
Tyler Davis
>creative race with unique abilities and drawbacks due to their physiology
Good!
>”beast” race that is just bait for virgin furfags and has nothing else going for it
Bad!
Jason Brown
Examples of the former?
The latter is all too common.
Daniel Morales
Old school fantasy like baldurs gate
John Wilson
Anything modern?
Christian Morgan
Literally nothing. Maybe divinity original sin 2 with the undead race
Xavier Morgan
Rainworld. You COULD do it with a human, but slugcat's advance platforming, and tunnel manuvering would lose a lot in translation. It would also take a way from how alien the ecosystem is, which is the entire fucking point of the game.
Nolan Turner
Too bad rainworld isn't very fun...
Carter Price
What did you expect from a game about the budhistic concept of endless suffering?