AdamReith
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The guys that did Bloodlines 1 strike me as classical liberals.
Why do you people say this about anyone with a potentially offensive sense of humor? Classical liberalism is just libertarianism with less marijuana. Classical liberals are committed to free markets, free trade, limited economic regulation and low taxes above all else—I really didn’t get that vibe from Bloodlines. They’re also called 19th century liberals because in the 20th and 21st centuries they are simply conservatives (sometimes people who’ve been raised in an anti-conservative environment will call themselves classical liberals to avoid cognitive dissonance).
Neither Mitsoda nor Boyarsky come off as libertarians. Bloodlines was made by Southern California Democrats with a bit of a gen X anarchist streak. The game is laced with straight political partisanship. It’s just that the game was made in 2004 so the issues that were salient then are not necessarily salient now. And stuff that was merely normal then—a little racism, a little sexism—comes off as a lot more politically charged than it was fifteen years ago.
Brian Mitsoda hired Cara Ellison, so I really doubt he considers her politics antithetical to the spirit of the franchise he created.
Whatever flavor of liberalism they adhered to it definitely felt grounded in common sense. Honestly I don't care what a persons politics are if they are capable of intelligent, clever writing that is able to immerse me. That Generation X stuff for example has always really appealed to me and fits so well into an RPG despite the fact that I would find anyone holding those opinions in real life incredibly naive and unbearable company.
Cara Ellison does not seem grounded in common sense or capable of separating a fantasy world from her own issues based on this interview. That's before I apply all my personal bias against people like her of which there is a lot in fairness.