The Elder Scrolls (and Adventure Construction Set) should be lauded as some of the greatest games of all time with regard to representation
The Elder Scrolls Arena let you play as a black woman in 1992. Name another game that did that.
Pretty much every game has offered a world where both races and sexes participate equally, and no one really cares (*Morrowind*’s racism is always made alien and upsetting thematically).
In *Morrowind* you can’t be a lesbian with Ahnassi (although the guy who wrote *The Lusty Argonian Maid* is an equal opportunity HR disaster). One of the rare characters *Oblivion* bothers to spend time on in a faction quest line is very clearly gay. Skyrim everyone is pan.
And a lot of this is just the same in *Adventure Construction Set* a series Howard explicitly took inspiration from. The game doesn’t really give that much of a shit about what you look like. It’s far more effort to code in racism, when you start with that kind of open world model.
Pretty much every game has offered a world where both races and sexes participate equally, and no one really cares (*Morrowind*’s racism is always made alien and upsetting thematically).
In *Morrowind* you can’t be a lesbian with Ahnassi (although the guy who wrote *The Lusty Argonian Maid* is an equal opportunity HR disaster). One of the rare characters *Oblivion* bothers to spend time on in a faction quest line is very clearly gay. Skyrim everyone is pan.
And a lot of this is just the same in *Adventure Construction Set* a series Howard explicitly took inspiration from. The game doesn’t really give that much of a shit about what you look like. It’s far more effort to code in racism, when you start with that kind of open world model.