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DoesntMatter posted...

no, he didn't ever "pretend black people didn't exist", he just said that not a lot of black people were living in the backwoods areas of 15th century Bohemia, which is pretty much true. the only difference this time is that part of the game takes place in Kuttenberg, which was a major metropolitan area and overseas trading hub at the time, so there is a black character who is a traveling tradesman in this game. which, again, is realistic, but it upset the anti-woke chuds who saw this as Vavra going back on his "basedness", but he was never "based" and he was never one of them like they thought he was.

There's been a serious over-correction in historical representation where some people have argued for a level of diversity that didn't actually exist across medieval Europe, and think portraying it as anything but is something acceding to the right wing. See the Guardan's wretched review of the Northman which should have forbid anyone from taking the reviewer seriously ever again.

People came at Vavra with bad arguments and sources and got schooled for it when he actually knew his history and had actual sources. He just wanted to do a specific game in a specific period and the racists thought he was one of them.

Like not everything needs to be representative of everyone. It's fine to have a medieval game that's predominantly white as long as that's not all the market's putting out, just like we should also have films about Afro-British people during the Blitz, games set in medieval Japan or China, and we should have more games with Black characters that feature in history as well. Like I'd love if Assassins Creed hadn't gone to shit for that reason, but AC IV captured the diversity of the 18th century Caribbean quite well.