What is Most 'Racist' RPG Ever Made?

[Nos]

Think Arcanum takes the Gold medal for 'Gnome Jews' who seem to run Tarant aside from Bill Gates steam engine guy. They even have a breeding program for mindless mulatto Half-Ogre muscle slaves on a secret island!

And I recall some Obama like half-orc labor organizer hero...

Then VtMB where both the professional criminals are black (and quite charming sociopaths)...

Any other candidates?

 

[Maxie]

Races are a social construct

 

[Cryomancer]

Morrowind.

• Breton start with 50 INT. Redguard with 30.
• Foreigners are called N'wah
• Dark Elf has dark skin thanks to a Azura curse
• Slavery is common
• One of the Telvanni quests involve quelling a slave rebelion

 

[Lhynn]

Whatever DEI slop gets released nowadays, its all racist, its all retarded and its all cringe.

 

[Beastro]

You need to differentiate between a deliberately racist work and one that has racism as a crucial element of the setting "in-world".

Both TES and Arcanum mentioned above are in the latter category.

A major element of all TES games is the social tensions around the races, above all between Men and Mer, that could be a cosmological conflict that goes back to the very origins of its world. Arcanum was created wanting to explore how the Victorian Era would be if there was a conflict between magic and technology in a generic fantasy world undergoing an Industrial Revolution, and again, race was a crucial issue of the era so it is deliberately included. The Gnomes as Jews things has to do with adapting the world views of the 19th Century and mating them to the setting rather than Troika wanting to make the comparison themselves out of a genuine belief that they hold.

Sadly, today, so few care for this differentiation now...

If you're seeking the former, then to put it one way, you need to find the racism version of "rape games" like the Rance series instead of bringing up games that contain rape as a story component and want to delve into its impact seriously, like Fallout NV did with that one NCR quest.

 

[Dark Souls II]

A properly Racist RPG would have to implement a heritability system. Like in Crusader Kings, but with trait modifiers for each ethnicity. For example, >80% of newborn Niggers would be either "Dull" or "Slow", while in Whites this would only be <20%. Similarly, ~20% of newborn Whites would be "Quick", while for Niggers it would be only ~2%. 0.0001% of Whites would be a "Genius", but for Niggers it would be 0.0000001%.

This would be Scientifically Accurate Racism, reflecting the fact that dozens of genes correlated with higher IQ have been conclusively identified, and we know these genes occur in Whites and East Asians at much higher rates than in Niggers. Conversely, gene mutations correlated with low IQ and other detrimental traits such as aggressiveness have also been identified, and we conclusively know that these gene mutations occur at a much higher rate in Niggers.

To express this in an RPG form, a game would have to span through generations. It would take millenia of in-game time to even finish a playthrough. On player character's death, you would be able to reincarnate as one of your descendants. Elaborate genocide mechanisms and eugenics systems would have to be implemented.

 

[Thalstarion]

Whatever DEI slop gets released nowadays, its all racist, its all retarded and its all cringe.

Yeah, this.

There's nobody more racist than a progressive.

They hate themselves. They hate their culture. They hate other cultures.

Yet they think it makes them a good person if they pretend to be super enthusiastic about whatever they deem to be 'exotic'.

This manifests in one of two ways. Either the culture depicted is completely sanitised of any shady elements or it ends up being leaning laughably into the most stereotypical and nonsensical depiction possible. There is no middle ground.

You can count on there being an unhealthy obsession with 'visible' diversity, though.

Which means any gay or bisexual character is given that godawful 'campy' attitude and any 'diversity' takes the form of dark skinned characters with the rare Asian thrown in here and there. If they're feeling bold they might throw in a hot headed Latina who'll either be a misunderstood criminal or a maid.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

the fact that dozens of genes correlated with higher IQ have been conclusively identified

Name one.

 

[Skinwalker]

There's nobody more racist than a progressive.

They hate themselves. They hate their culture. They hate other cultures.

Well, let's try to be fair and not generalize shitlibs too broadly.







A lot of them are actual non-Whites who simply hate White people because of good old-fashioned envy, and want to rapelace them and take credit for their accomplishments by taking full advantage of the white shitlibs' self-hatred. It's calculated, intentional evil, not the fanatical self-destruction of brainwashed huwite leftards.

"What's that, white progressives? You huwites are a bunch of uniquely-racist colonialist over-privileged genocidal maniacs who invented slavery and are torturing all black and brown people with your continue existence? Why yes, yes you are. Now pay me and kill yourselves faster, bigots. Heh." - some sheboon online

 

[Nutmeg]

a game would have to span through generations

Romancing Saga 2

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Realms of Arkania HD

 

[oscar]

Planet Alcatraz

The first African character you meet is the affectionately-named "Blacky" (with all the melanated characters you meet either stoned rastas or cannibalistic rapists). A quest you need to keep two negro tribes working in the mines. All the Chinese characters have ridiculous accents. Faction of German Nazis (in the alternate history lore the far-future Russian Empire is at war with the space Fourth Reich). Faction of homosexual radiers that requires you to crossdress as a manwhore to enter their camp. The very few amount of females in the game (well it is a prison planet) are sex slaves.

And that's in the censored English version (the Russian one apparently is much more explicit).

In fact the very reason you were given this crummy assignment was failure in a previous role as an informant in a black nationalist organisation (geez I wonder how that went wrong).

Our glorious Russian protagonist (probably one of the few RPGs where making charisma your dump stat fits perfectly)

Time for a re-play I think.

 

[octavius]

Dark Souls II

 

[Beastro]

Whatever DEI slop gets released nowadays, its all racist, its all retarded and its all cringe.

They hate themselves. They hate their culture. They hate other cultures.

Urban Monoculture does not like other cultures, it wants everyone to be the Urban Monoculture.

The people who long one day for everyone to interbreed to the point that everyone is the same lowest common denominator skin colour are not for diversity, they are against it because they want to destroy distinctions and not leave them their place to allow for variety, actual diversity, to exist. They're like someone who says they're for diversity in different kinds of cuisine until you look closer and find that what they really want is to throw all food together into a blender and serve everyone the same slurry it produces as their only source of sustenance.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

Concord. Its a clear parody of minorities. Too bad it flopped.

 

[Konjad]

Think Arcanum takes the Gold medal for 'Gnome Jews' who seem to run Tarant aside from Bill Gates steam engine guy. They even have a breeding program for mindless mulatto Half-Ogre muscle slaves on a secret island!

And I recall some Obama like half-orc labor organizer hero...

Then VtMB where both the professional criminals are black (and quite charming sociopaths)...

Any other candidates?

None of these example is racism. These games don't tell you any of races is inferior, only some particular NPCs at best.

Morrowind.

• Breton start with 50 INT. Redguard with 30.
• Foreigners are called N'wah
• Dark Elf has dark skin thanks to a Azura curse
• Slavery is common
• One of the Telvanni quests involve quelling a slave rebelion

But Redguard has other advantages
Hating on foreigners is not racism
Okay, but what does it have to do with racism
Slavery is not racism
Slavery is not racism

 

[Fargus]

My personal top:

Olympus 2207 - Played russian version. Protagonist can hate on niggers and use slurs in dialogue. It's all choice driven.
Dungeon Cleaners\Planet Alcatraz (russian version) - Hilarious stereotypes, nigs are portrayed like superstitious primitives, rapists and cannibals, they are also forced to work in the mines by blatnye. That's just all i remember but there is plenty more.
Arcanum - Fantasy racism, racial science and gnomes plotting for domination are obviously jews.
Morrowind - Slavery and a lot of fantasy racism and xenophobia. Beast races are considered subhuman by dunmers.
Bloodlines - Full of amusing stereotypes. Especially Chinatown.

I can't remember playing anything that comes close.

 

[Humanophage]

Dungeon Cleaners\Planet Alcatraz (russian version) - Hilarious stereotypes, nigs are portrayed like superstitious primitives, rapists and cannibals, they are also forced to work in the mines by blatnye. That's just all i remember but there is plenty more.

One of my favourite location intros is this. I like it because it taps into the crucial conflict between the lust for enrichment and racial interest (as in e.g. the Muskian desire for a new brown elite).


[The sign reads 'whites only']
Chinese merchant (with a Chukchi accent): I has wares. Let me in to trade, sir.
Aryan guard: Can't you read, baboon? It's written special for you.

 

[Harthwain]

Hating on foreigners is not racism

This is xenophobia, but when foreigner is basically "anyone who is not a Dunmer", then the line gets really blurry. Also, Dunmers straight up view Argonians and Khajiits as inferior races (because they think of them as animals) and make them work on plantations. For example; on Dren Plantation all slaves are Khajiits or Argonians. So, yeah, it is a mix of xenophobia and racism.

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Planet Alcatraz is dancing nigger slave, chinks, Fags, trannies, females, etc all get shit.

Dark Secrets of Africa - literally hire slaves to carry your water while you go exploring to pitch your tent, carry your stuff, etc

Blog Post by some fag about it

"You have to approach the elephant in the room head on when discussing a game like Dark Secrets of Africa, and we're not talking about literal ones like those roaming the continent's jungles. The elephant here is the potentially insensitive portrayal of black Africans during the colonial era. It's a story that portends to be a historical fantasy in the same vein as Indiana Jones or King Solomon's Mines, but there's no getting past the obvious and arguably problematic racial elements."

"They are black men void of any personality or agency programmed to assist the fictional white lead. Even if they were unambiguously slaves, simply adding their voice to the narrative beyond "I need water" may have led to some interesting conversations both in out of the game, but there was little room in 1999 to have such sensitive and emotionally complex topics in this medium. From a 2023 point of view, this seeming lack of awareness is glaring. Back then, the shallowness on display was more or less the norm."

 

[Konjad]

Hating on foreigners is not racism

This is xenophobia, but when foreigner is basically "anyone who is not a Dunmer", then the line gets really blurry. Also, Dunmers straight up view Argonians and Khajiits as inferior races (because they think of them as animals) and make them work on plantations. For example; on Dren Plantation all slaves are Khajiits or Argonians. So, yeah, it is a mix of xenophobia and racism.

Hating and enslaving furries is not racism, it's common sense.

 

[Falksi]

Pathfinder Kingmaker takes some beating. Not 1 traditionally straight white human male companion from the 12 available. The 3 whites are a gnome, dwarf and a bummer. The two strong guys are black and a half orc (so black).

Blatant racism.

 

[Serus]

Hating on foreigners is not racism

This is xenophobia, but when foreigner is basically "anyone who is not a Dunmer", then the line gets really blurry. Also, Dunmers straight up view Argonians and Khajiits as inferior races (because they think of them as animals) and make them work on plantations. For example; on Dren Plantation all slaves are Khajiits or Argonians. So, yeah, it is a mix of xenophobia and racism.

Those are nor races but different species. If i believe that dolphins are inferior, does it make me a racist?

Time for someone to make a 'Custer's Revenge' remake - but with stats and bear rape.

 

[Fargus]

This is xenophobia, but when foreigner is basically "anyone who is not a Dunmer", then the line gets really blurry. Also, Dunmers straight up view Argonians and Khajiits as inferior races (because they think of them as animals) and make them work on plantations. For example; on Dren Plantation all slaves are Khajiits or Argonians. So, yeah, it is a mix of xenophobia and racism.

There are dunmers that hate other races and consider them inferior. There is general racial dislike and stereotyping not exclusive to dunmers = all khajiits are thieves, all dunmer women are whores, all orcs are retarded and dangerous savages etc.

There are also those dunmers who hate foreigners not because of their race, but because of how they act on dunmer land. After Morrowind was conquered by empire it was flooded by waves of foreign asshole adventurers and Johnny Somali types that spit on dunmer traditions and loot their ancestral tombs meanwhile empire steals their natural resources and rewrites their laws.

 

[Harthwain]

Those are nor races but different species. If i believe that dolphins are inferior, does it make me a racist?

Everyone is classified in game as race in character creator, because it is a useful shorthand (and the term "race" - quote, unquote - is also used in the book titled "Notes on Racial Phylogeny, Seventh Edition"). Whether you would be racist or specist for hating on Argonians or Khajiit specifically is really a cosmetic difference at this point.