If Gamers Want More Powerful Women Then Stop Being Afraid Of Them
If Gamers Want More Powerful Women Then Stop Being Afraid Of Them
Lae'zel and Shadowheart can be mean sometimes, and it's okay to embrace women in video games like them.
Lae'zel and Shadowheart can be mean sometimes, and it's okay to embrace women in video games like them.
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Minthara, a companion who could previously only be recruited by joining her side and more or less committing genocide on a grove full of tieflings, can now simply be knocked out and talked to at a later point in the game where all of that drama can be ignored.
Minthara was being mind-controlled. When she's free, she's still evil but not that evil - she even asks the player character what his excuse for killing the tieflings is, since he wasn't mind-controlled.
(Knocking her out still doesn't make sense, but mostly because at that point in the game the player has no in-character reason to think that she's special aside from the fact that all the other enemies are goblins and she's a
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Yeah, I blew her the fuck up. I didn't think she was a companion until I looted her and she had underwear and a backpack. Strangely only companions wear underwear in BG3. I don't know what's up with that.