First you claim the game is too much of modernity, and now you complain that the big bad is a necromancer that came to the most radical anti-materialist conclusion after visiting all stages of the afterlife and finding tranquility only in a final death? Something that would be so sympathetic to both the Desert Fathers, and even Orthodox Christians today, Death to the World, that it became a source of heresy, with the Cathars and many others.
It absolutely wouldn't. Orthodoxy is vehemently opposed to anti-natalism and hatred of the physical body. You're confusing it with gnosticism. Which has a great deal to do with modernity.
Oh no, they would realize exactly what the horrific gnome subplot (that goes nowhere, thanks, Troika) was about, and make sure to either ignore its existence, or completely invert it.
You're giving Larian too much credit there.
What about the Atom team?
I don't see it.
Eh, if Disco Elysium, Kingdom Come: Deliverance or Hogwarts Legacy are any indication a "media chimpout" is more beneficial for your game as free advertising than it is harmful to your sales.
Wouldn't be so sure about that, KCD2 seems to be getting the DEI treatment by its own studio based on their promotion of "wide range of ethnicities". Seems like there is more money to be gained by satisfying DEI requirements than not. Of course, we will know for sure only after launch.
Have you played Skald? It's a very atmospheric game and definitely memorable.
Worth noting that Dark Elves in Arcanum aren't actually another race of elves, like in most universes, but a racial supremacist group of Elves.
