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Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Started by Norgy, May 06, 2015, 02:16:58 AM

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Valmy

The last game had non-white characters  :lol:  One of the things I really liked about the first game was the inclusion of the Cumans.

Oh well.
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That's an amazing thread given that the sturm and angst is driven by an anonymous Saudi poster claiming that a game whose release hasn't even been announced was banned by Saudi.
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I didn't have a problem with the fact the KC:D didn't include certain races and depicted gender relations in traditional ways because that was in accord with the vision of the development team in giving a particular sense of the historical time and place.  I don't think it would have been horribly immersion breaking to do it another way, but I respect their right to follow their own vision on that. Obviously, there is ample evidence of gay relationships in medieval Europe such that its inclusion in KC:D2 follows logically and even inevitably from the developers long-stated conception of the game. The hysterical reaction from the anti-woke brigade exposes their supposed adherence to historical fidelity as cover for bigotry. 

I had intended to wait this game out until the deep discounts kicked in 2 years down the line but now I am sorely tempted to preorder. :)
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Quote from: The Minsky Moment on January 17, 2025, 11:52:05 AMI didn't have a problem with the fact the KC:D didn't include certain races and depicted gender relations in traditional ways because that was in accord with the vision of the development team in giving a particular sense of the historical time and place.  I don't think it would have been horribly immersion breaking to do it another way, but I respect their right to follow their own vision on that. Obviously, there is ample evidence of gay relationships in medieval Europe such that its inclusion in KC:D2 follows logically and even inevitably from the developers long-stated conception of the game. The hysterical reaction from the anti-woke brigade exposes their supposed adherence to historical fidelity as cover for bigotry. 

I had intended to wait this game out until the deep discounts kicked in 2 years down the line but now I am sorely tempted to preorder. :)

I think my issue was how they presented their vision as the historical depiction with their first release.
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Tamas

Yeah no black Czechs is one thing but the whole depiction was such an idealised version of the middle ages that it felt very juvenile

Threviel

Listened to "The history of Byzantium" podcast going over the sack of Constantinople.

Apparently a "Nubian" christian was present in the city, on some kind of pilgrimage. The Latins were mighty surprised at his appearance and it was deemed strange enough to be noted in some chronicles at the time.

So, in the early 1200s at least it was probably quite rare with visitors from the southern parts of Africa in the European Mediterranean world.

garbon

Quote from: Threviel on Today at 04:33:08 AMListened to "The history of Byzantium" podcast going over the sack of Constantinople.

Apparently a "Nubian" christian was present in the city, on some kind of pilgrimage. The Latins were mighty surprised at his appearance and it was deemed strange enough to be noted in some chronicles at the time.

So, in the early 1200s at least it was probably quite rare with visitors from the southern parts of Africa in the European Mediterranean world.

I'm not sure that's the evidence you think it is. The one research article I quickly found said "the visit should be seen as a representation of the historic ties between Nubia and the Mediterranean."

It also noted that it appears only one knight alluded to the episode.
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Threviel

Yeah, and if he was on a pilgrimage then he would have passed by Jerusalem. Ethiopians (or whatever he was) would presumably be present in some number in Outremer, so it shouldn't be that rare for crusaders to see them.

I just listened to this in the car going to work today, thought it was tangentially relevant for this thread. Not trying to make some point here.

Tamas

I don't think it's that controversial to claim that as a rule there was no Black population in Central Europe in the 1200s.