Also I can’t help but notice that redguards had lower intelligence, willpower and personality
To be fair, they are generally regarded as excellent swordsmen in the lore, so for balance reasons I could understand them lowering more mage-oriented attributes and skills,. Case in point: they have a bonus to long swords. At any rate, I don't think he was involved in the more technical points of the gameplay. He was mostly a concept artist and writer, from what I understand. He also wasn't the only writer on the project - another big name is Ken Rolston, who is extremely talented in his own way.
The orc depiction, taken together with how orcish armor appears and the related context of all the heavily orientalist tropes surrounding the akaviri (How responsible is MK for this shit?), certainly feels like a racist caricature.
Only if you look at it from a Tolkienist perspective. Orcs in TES aren't mindless brutes. They're downright just humans (or, rather, elves, to be specific). Then again I might be biased because I think Samurai Orcs are fucking cool as hell.
To be fair, they are generally regarded as excellent swordsmen in the lore, so for balance reasons I could understand them lowering more mage-oriented attributes and skills,. Case in point: they have a bonus to long swords. At any rate, I don't think he was involved in the more technical points of the gameplay. He was mostly a concept artist and writer, from what I understand. He also wasn't the only writer on the project - another big name is Ken Rolston, who is extremely talented in his own way.
Only if you look at it from a Tolkienist perspective. Orcs in TES aren't mindless brutes. They're downright just humans (or, rather, elves, to be specific). Then again I might be biased because I think Samurai Orcs are fucking cool as hell.
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