The point I’m trying to make, I guess, is that the concerns about the racial diversity in TW3 appear in the context of a very valid cultural discussion American white privilege, and making minority Americans feel like outsiders in their own country.

“Well if everyone in Jade Empire is Asian in the same way that everyone in The Witcher is white, I could maybe see your point. If there is only one single race for humans in the game’s world, then I haven’t really reached a conclusion on that. But again, I haven’t played it so I don’t know if there are any non-Asians…

“It may have magic, but I’m assuming all the characters are human and it’s based on a real location.”

I brought it up because it seems like a good analogy — Jade Empire is to China as TW3 is to Poland. Both are mythical, but both are heavily influenced by racially homogeneous cultures.

“Now we’re back to the fallacy of equating fictional worlds to the real one. That homogeneity makes sense in feudal-era Japan.”

In one sense you’re absolutely right — unlike, say, a modern Bioware RPG, TW3 forces you to play a straight white male, gives you the option of indulging rather graphically in his SWM sex life, and will show you unclothed women pretty much whether you want to see them or not. That will alienate players who would…

“Hair splitting because he wants to prove the point that it’s a ‘white washed’ world.”

“I said that it would be nice to have one character who *wasn’t white*. That could mean they are black, Latino, Elf, blue, robot, etc.”

“And this here really is the crux of everything. If the authors themselves regret their own lack of diversity and took steps to correct it, that nullifies any counter point and acknowledges that there was objectively a problem in the first place.”

I dunno. The developers obviously regret not including nonwhite characters in the game — after all, they used the first expansion to insert some — but it really is an ethnic game, motivated by the experiences and neuroses of 20th century Poland (persecution of Jews, pogroms, etc.), which is a really really white…

I would stay away from TW1 unless you have a high tolerance for outdated RPG systems. TW2 is a good game, and relatively short, but really neither is essential to understanding TW3, which is a vastly better game than both.

Did you play past the prologue (which, by the by, is a dream sequence — Geralt is imagining his ex-lover naked in his dreams because he has a literal and figurative hard on for her)? I have a really hard time following the logic allegations of sexism in the Witcher 3. By my reading, although the cultures depicted in…