Institusion
IAIN Surakarta
Author
Nur, Rochim Adiyanto
Nur, Asiyah, M. A.
Subject
604 Special topics
Datestamp
2017-08-24 02:13:16
Abstract :
Key words : Video Game, Racism, The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim
The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim is most open world game by Emil Pagliarulo.
This game was released in 2011 and become famous game that dominate in the
circle of RPG game. The researcher was interested to analyze The Elder Scrolls V
Skyrim by employing Racism theory and the aspect as formulated for finding the
data as long as pictured or implied in the gameplay of skyrim that consist of
corversation/dialogue and visual action. One of his famous works is entitled The
Elder Scrolls V Skyrim, an open world game that have some uniqueness because
we are free to choose our destination as the gamer. The researcher formulated the
problems into: 1) How is the racism portrayed in bethesda’s the elder scrolls V:
Skyrim? 2) How does racism in the bethesda’s the elder scrolls V: Skyrim reflect
racism in the world? This research aims at identifying and analyzing how the
racism in the game is reflected in the gameplay by using three aspects of racism
and to prevent the world from suffer the same conclussion as Skyrim aftermath.
The research is a descriptive qualitative research. The data are the
dialogue, conversation, visual, and sentences conforming the Racism found in the
game. The source of data is a game entitled The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim by Emil
Pagliarulo. The researcher examined the race in the game reflecting the Racism to
make it to be three aspects and the correlations of Racism in the game to the real
world event.
The result of this research the researcher found total of the data 30. The
research shows that there are Racism event, as long as Discriminatin, Stereotype,
Prejudice are found in The Elder Scrolls V Skyim Video Game consisting of main
quest, sub quest, and visual action in the gameplay: Discrimination Racism: 19
data, Stereotype Racism: 7 data, and Prejudice Racism: 4 data. Then the
researcher take some data that was found in the game to be correlated into the real
world racial event. The researcher found 3 data of racial event or conversations,
and the reseacher tries to explain to the reader depiction racism in the game with
the real world. Based on this research the researcher found that racism in the game
happens because uniques factor, the racism is to describe the feeling of injustice in
their game. It means that the gameplay also describe the way people lives because
the inspiration of this game came from the habit of the people today. Gamewriter
tries to describe it in a game that of course we are as gamer/player have many
selections because of the current development.