Thanks to Molly McArdle for this great review of my Baldur’s Gate II at Brooklyn Magazine, and for sharing her own experiences playing (and playing against) the game. I <3 Matt Bell’s writing, I <3 Baldur’s Gate. What Does It Mean to Love a Video Game?: Talking to Matt Bell about Baldur’s Gate II | Brooklyn Magazine Even in this alternative space, where-thrillingly-the powerless became empowered, we were bound by the limitations we carried with us. (Drizzt Do’Urden is like D&D’s one black friend.) Bell also rightfully points out the lack of queer romances here, unsurprising and disappointing in equal measure.
Don’t even get me started on the drow: D&D’s only elves of color and subsequently only population of straight-up evil elves. Halflings, dwarves, gnomes, and half-orcs are out of luck, which says a lot about how beauty, humanity, and YES race (real world, not D&D) affect the kind of romantic stories mainstream white American culture is willing to tell. Also that these four can only fall in love with avatars on the human-elf continuum. Click yes when windows confirms and follow the installation prompts. Extract the file, make sure it is inside of your game installation folder (thanks Divic), and then right click the modmerge.exe and click 'Run as administrator'. He also notices something I never consciously did-that all four of the potential love interests are elves or humans or a combination of the two. Installation: make sure you have baldurs gate and baldurs gate 2 installed.
Baldur’s Gate II, Bell observes, brought to the series and to the broader field of RPGs the option of romantic storylines.
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