I like how Bethesda manages to be more progressive than most of the games industry by doing as little work as possible.
Unnamed npcs like bandits are randomly assembled from the available body features, which inadvertently leads to more balanced gender and race representation, because every physical attribute has an equal chance to be chosen. In Skyrim, marriageable npcs are marriageable no matter what the player is, because having a single “marriageable” box to tick when coding npcs is easier than having to check for multiple variables like race and gender in the player.
No one in any bethesda game will treat you any differently or even speak differently other than “he” or “she”, and even then a lot of dialogue uses “they” or your characters titles rather than your pronouns to save dialogue lines.
It is literally less work to just represent everybody equally. The next time a game dev tries to say they don’t have the resources to include more diverse representation, you push that shit back at them because that shit is bullshit.
fallout
Good morning Vaultimore
Vault-Tec Workshop continues to be mostly awful/a huge missed opportunity, but do you want to see my Vault anyway?
BAM! Enter Vault 88, follow some arrows that I can’t get to light up, and you find yourself in THE ATRIUM. Acceptable-ish clinic is to the right
office of evil overseer woman, toilets, and stairs to the left
barbers next to the clinic, currently featuring Nick
View from the second floor
awesome nautical-themed bar on the second floor
Top floor has houses and a garden
The houses are pretty darn cosy, as far as Fallout houses go
they even have SEPARATE TOILET CUBICLES. LUXURY. Please note, also, that it took about eight months for Bethesda to add sinks to the settlement systems
and here’s my mutant dog Gracie, Vault 88′s most cuddly inhabitant
Initial thoughts on Fallout 4 Vault-Tec Workshop: god, no wonder the Vault-Tec Corporation turned into a bunch of murdering, callous bastards
I only got it today and haven’t tried it yet, but this does not give me confidence.
It’s not….exactly great? Far fewer quests than expected and the vault-building is REALLY frustrating at times. They could have least put a tutorial stage in…
(Bah.)
