Ima just be real, Larian dialed the fantasy racism up to 10 with Baldur’s Gate 3. I get mfs reacting to your race is cool and adds flavoring, but in most these games your race doesn’t really impact that much social interactions. You’ll get a spare acknowledgment or maybe new dialogue option with one character or so, but it’s a lil treat when it comes up and it’s not like they’re mean to you (or other characters). I wouldn’t say the relations between said fantasy races aren’t touched on in a lot of cRPGs, but it’s all pretty tame. Not BG3 level. It really doesn’t come up that much. Usually, If characters have conflicts with you, or each other it’s because of personality clashes or differences in ideology. It’s not like mfs are at each other’s throats because of their said fantasy race.
Like I’ve never played a cRPG where your chosen fantasy race gets discriminated against like it does in BG3. Dawg, mfs like Lae’zel and her distain for tieflings (or astarion and his gnome racism, etc) do not really exist like they do in BG3 in other games. That’s why I would always kill Lae’zel in Early Access because I always play Tieflings and I had never encountered a mf like her before. I didn’t like her
I know that some people are like “lol chill out its fake. Toughen up” but mf I had never had an NPC call me a “foulblood” as tiefling (or “knife ears” as an elf, etc.) and I have hundreds of hours in WOTR, a game about a crusade against demons and devils. Mfs in WOTR and Kingmaker did not call my character fantasy slurs, they didn’t even really acknowledge the fantasy race I was.
I gotta just state bluntly that fantasy racism isn’t really a thing in most cRPGs. I think that it’s for the best tbh.
I’m not tryna drag Larian but I don’t think they made the right choice by doing this. There’s a reason why most of these cRPGs hardly acknowledge the player character’s chosen race. Yes, it’s fake, but people already get called names in real life so why would they want this in their video game?
