Lae’zel and Shadowheart can be mean sometimes, and it’s okay to embrace women in video games like them.
Nobody’s afraid of them. This article created its own problem to complain about.
You never met one of those capital G Gamers who have never seen a woman that’s not their mom? The ones that get mad if there are black/gay/trans people in their videogames because of “muh escapism”?
Nope!
Then you are luckier than me.
I’m
arousedimpressed by strong women, physically and emotionally. And in a world that can do better by them, this is balancing the scales.I also want to say that as we saw with Legend of Korra, if they’re interesting characters and are ‘cool’ nobody will care about gender.
Minthara, a companion who could previously only be recruited by joining her side and more or less committing genocide on a grove full of tieflings, can now simply be knocked out and talked to at a later point in the game where all of that drama can be ignored.
Minthara was being mind-controlled. When she’s free, she’s still evil but not that evil - she even asks the player character what his excuse for killing the tieflings is, since he wasn’t mind-controlled.
(Knocking her out still doesn’t make sense, but mostly because at that point in the game the player has no in-character reason to think that she’s special aside from the fact that all the other enemies are goblins and she’s a
Forgotten Realms BDSM sex symboldrow.)Yeah, I blew her the fuck up. I didn’t think she was a companion until I looted her and she had underwear and a backpack. Strangely only companions wear underwear in BG3. I don’t know what’s up with that.
