If you can't portray cowboys because all your white protagonists would have been incredibly racist, maybe it's time to start making games about maroon colonies and Indigenous resistance instead.
I mean, I'd play the fuck out of a game where I capture Detroit as part of Tecumseh's army.
A game where you play as a Seminole in the Second Seminole War would be a perfect fit, tonally, for the Red Dead franchise. Bop around pre-Civil War Florida with a band of escaped slaves and the remnants of several tribes destroyed by the Trail of Tears, get a foothold in a new area and build up your camp over a couple chapters of side quests and world building, just as things seem to be settling in start clashing with local militias and eventually the US Army. It'll have a downer ending but not before all of the principal characters have a badass moment - write the main character as having some kind of drama with the Seminole leader that gets resolved right around when they both go down shooting and you've got the game of the year.
We can start them off with something that'll prime the broader audience for indigenous struggle: Bouddica's rebellion against Roman imperialism and brutality. It'll infuriate the chuds to go from that to killing Custer with a through-line.
If you can't portray cowboys because all your white protagonists would have been incredibly racist, maybe it's time to start making games about maroon colonies and Indigenous resistance instead.
I mean, I'd play the fuck out of a game where I capture Detroit as part of Tecumseh's army.
Or a game about Jamaicans overthrowing their European slavers
There's so much material from anti-colonial history, but I guess another game about how cool America was in WWII would be cool too.
:so-true: Cool!!! Omaha beach on D-Day for the 283,104th time!!!!!!!!!
NOPE WE NEED THE 4000000000th SKYRIM CLONE :lmayo:
also it's Asian people who aren't creative and curious, unlike me
A game where you play as a Seminole in the Second Seminole War would be a perfect fit, tonally, for the Red Dead franchise. Bop around pre-Civil War Florida with a band of escaped slaves and the remnants of several tribes destroyed by the Trail of Tears, get a foothold in a new area and build up your camp over a couple chapters of side quests and world building, just as things seem to be settling in start clashing with local militias and eventually the US Army. It'll have a downer ending but not before all of the principal characters have a badass moment - write the main character as having some kind of drama with the Seminole leader that gets resolved right around when they both go down shooting and you've got the game of the year.
That would also be in keeping with the series' themes.
We can start them off with something that'll prime the broader audience for indigenous struggle: Bouddica's rebellion against Roman imperialism and brutality. It'll infuriate the chuds to go from that to killing Custer with a through-line.
There was a game about Indigenous resistance in North America, but I think it ended up kinda sucking. :yea: