Review Lots of Potential, Lots of Questionable Design Decisions: Destructoid Reviews Risen 2

[Oriebam]

I google'd spearchucker

I thought you wouldn't need to do that, since your kind apparently likes choking on spears olololo

 

[HanoverF]

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/214912/

 

[OSK]

Look at all these Codexers not knowing that spear chucker is a racial slur.

I thought this was a prestigious magazine.

 

[Micmu]

a bunch of monkey-raping spear chuckers.

 

[Mozgoëbstvo]

Speaking of amusing, Risen 2's idea of what is and isn't an acceptable joke raises an eyebrow at times. I'm all for tasteless gags, but some of the dialog in this game may cross the boundaries of acceptably risqué patter and fall firmly into offensive territory. One early quest involves trying to force your companion into a kitchen job for no other reason than she's "a woman." Later on, characters openly refer to black natives as "spearchuckers" (a racist term in Europe) while several homophobic jokes crop up. One can argue that these characters are steeped in a world of piracy and such ignorance is expected, of course, though the fact that the comments are regularly presented in a matter-of-fact manner, with absolutely no sense of criticism or complaint, and sometimes come from the hero's own mouth, remains faintly alarming. It wasn't enough to offend me personally, but I certainly was surprised and I'd recommend those with rawer nerves keep their shields up.​

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Fuck you, Jim Sterling, you weekend edgy man. That's EXACTLY what makes a world believable. I'm fucking tired of these worlds where the age paraded (middle ages or renaissance or whatever) that don't have any resemblance to the real thing except for (some of) the technology.​

Why should people from a backward age have postmodern politically correct sensibilities? Why should only "bad guys" do things that are commonplace in certain contexts (outright racism, belittling women).​

Fuck you, Jim Sterling. You play edgy 'cause you flop giant dildos around at The Shitcapist Magazine but when it comes to the core you're a small minded bourgeois shit like everyone else.​

 

[Oriebam]

I call it The Escapee's Magazine

 

[Johannes]

Well, to be honest the difficulty curve in Gothics always sucked.

 

[Admiral jimbob]

I recommend Mr Sterling cast his attention to games more attuned to his fine tastes

 

[SCO]

I think people that support the "olden times were more racist/sexist whatever", might be slightly disappointed by their misogynist paradise reality...

The same ratio of shit people (you) and normal people existed - there was just less accountability, less information, less support structures. Also this wasn't universal or even a progression from less civ -> more civ, just like today.

It's actually pretty likely that beating your woman in the village could lead to your disappearance at the hands of the aforementioned family.