Either they should be, or they should drop the pretense of being so while actually being subversive and revisionist.

>>737077531
when it means there will be fewer africans on my screen, yes.
if it means there will be more africans on my screen, no.

It's crazy that jews are still assblasted about Titus burning their tiny ass temple and stealing their chandeliers 2000 years later lmfao.
Unbelievably petty and indignant people.

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>>737077630
Kek
That said I liked Civ 7, it was just a massive step down. The Zizek quotes were the worst part.

>>737077531
What, you haven't heard of Harriet Tubman of Rome, and how she freed Black Jesus from slavery?

I know this is a unsubtle /pol/ thread but as someone who genuinely gives a shit about history and archeology and cares a lot about how specific periods and regions get handled in pop culture

It's less about "accuracy" and more about authenticity. Unless you're going out of your way to have an overtly historical game with a high degree of accuracy, it's fine to have some deviations from history and to have some artistic liberty, especially in a fantasy setting.

What's important is that what you are doing feels grounded and doesn't erode the suspension of disbelief in your own setting, and if you are trying to evoke a specific history culture, period, or region, that you are intelligently playing into their actual aesthetics, iconography, symbolism and cultural traits in interesting and smart ways. You can, again, have your own artistic liberties, but they should ideally be liberties that still play around with and tie into real historical and cultural details, or at least evoke them

What you shouldn't be doing is inserting shit that errodes all the other creative choices you've made (IE throw in aliens out nowhere in an otherwise non-sci fi fantasy setting) or basing your historical influences on pop culture tropes rather then the real historical details, at least not out of ignorance: At least do the proper research and THEN decide to put your own creative spin on it, don't make deviations out of not knowing better, do it out of intent.

It's just racial "quota". And yes, this applies to characters too, there are countless papers published by American universities discussing the importance of representing minorities as characters in mass-market products. It's not random, it's not without thought behind it, it's rooted in culture, especially American culture.

Look at how in Vasara 2 you have feudal Japan, full of historical characters, but everyone is fighting using futuristic technology, and you even face off against Yasuke (in sun glasses) piloting a fucking mecha, and nobody gives a fuck, on the contrary, it's fucking cool.

But Americans aren't in this same space. They're engaging in political activism, as evidenced by the papers written by activists at their activist universities. It's a rotten country.