Game designers sure can, but are they allowed? I recently was researching a topic of humour in games and in an interview Tim Schafer said something along the lines of that companies are so self censoring out of fear to be offensive that they just can't allow games to be funny. I think the same stands for the roleplaying element. In part I blame shareholders pressure to please everybody and in part modern fan culture. When actors or writers are receiving death threats or face cancelation over the villainous roles/hot topics they are playing or writing, it's hard to blame the developers choosing to play it as safe as possible. That's why we can't have agency to fully support the cause or be a total jerk about it as a the guy in the video says as well. At least not in a Bioware game unfortunately.
Game designers sure can, but are they allowed? I recently was researching a topic of humour in games and in an interview Tim Schafer said something along the lines of that companies are so self censoring out of fear to be offensive that they just can't allow games to be funny. I think the same stands for the roleplaying element. In part I blame shareholders pressure to please everybody and in part modern fan culture. When actors or writers are receiving death threats or face cancelation over the villainous roles/hot topics they are playing or writing, it's hard to blame the developers choosing to play it as safe as possible. That's why we can't have agency to fully support the cause or be a total jerk about it as a the guy in the video says as well. At least not in a Bioware game unfortunately.