Playing an evil bastard can be a lot of fun! As long as the table has the consciousness to acknowledge the actual realities of those prejudices and separate them from the players and the inherent fabric of the setting, in my experience anyway.
Smeagolicious
joined 4 years ago
I can't begin to describe how much it makes me want to strangle someone when I say the racial elements in DnD (etc.) are off putting and reminiscent of real life discriminatory ideas, and they respond
"What about Orcs/Goblins/Kobolds/etc. make them like black people /Jews/indigenous peoples/etc?? Sounds like you're the real racist 
"
It's so lazy that I don't know who would find it compelling to just walk into a cave and obliterate a bunch of what are basically flesh automatons set to kill rather than have the chance to talk to some characters with even minimal depth
One of my favorite parts of LotR was that conversation between orcs complaining about their shit bosses and lamenting having to be part of Sauron's stupid war! It's so humanizing, and yet Tolkien still couldn't commit to that because of...Catholic guilt & anxiety?
I've had this conversation a good dozen times; always evil races put me off games real hard sometimes. When I run standard fantasy settings in RPGs, even fi there are like "orc raiders" or what have you, they at least have reasons for doing what they do! If you're a bunch of mercenary adventurers, no matter how "good" you are, you're probably going to run into someone you are at odds with enough to come to blows with. I don't see why so many people are attached to "the orcs are evil because they are", it strikes me as such a boring excuse.
This issue is also why I love running the FFG Star Wars rpg, because aside from the built in huge narrative flexibility, you've got the blatantly Nazi Empire and shit like pirate slavers who are not a problem to blast on sight. Even fun for campaigns where the party are playing morally ambiguous smugglers and pirates, since they inevitably end up shooting the fascists anyway! Hell, I've run setups for "evil" party campaigns (playing sith, inquisitor recruits etc) with 100% expectations for the players to defect and start shooting fascists, because there's been a 100% success record of that happening in every "evil" themed campaign too.
I would fuck up a new Tenchu or a remake of the OG. If a new one let you 
I’d be full sicko hype mode
I’m gonna start calling ninja games like Sekiro what they really are, Tenchu-likes
Funny as hell we got Kanye stans here
36, copepod
Don't be a shit
Bro the US has terrible internet infrastructure! It's actually criminal, and you're complaining about China?? I'd regularly be completely unable to play online games because of a baseline 300ms delay, thanks to the (only available) ISP throttling speeds like an absolute MF. But its the damn CCP who use their...delay due to geographic distance to...cheat and steal...?
Was very disappointed that I couldn't really make an evil scheming necromancer, it felt like the only choices were to be nice and recruit companions, or be a murderhobo and piss everybody off.