So what is the point they are trying to make in that video?
Is it just listing facial changes since Witcher 3? Or is it whining because the girl became less fappable in their opinion and claim it is woke?
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Well you see, she isn’t wearing bikini armor and flirtatiously interacting with everyone in the trailer, so it is woke. Wokedy woke woke.
Determining if games are any good is getting really tiring because it involves wading through an insufferable number of manchildren whining about stupid things.
Essentially you need to find some influencers you agree with. That are willing to call out a game for being shit, too.
Wait for game to be out, wait for your favourite YouTuber to review it. Read Steam reviews that aren't oneliners or religious rants
Just don't preorder. You know what I told my friends several years ago?
"Cyberpunk 2077 is the first game I'm actually considering preordering because it looks so awesome"
I didn't. And I'm glad I didn't. I still enjoyed the game a lot, just later, after it had been patched to hell and back.
It's worth noting as well, you don't even need to agree with the reviewer, you just need to get to know their tastes. If they always negatively review games you like, then a negative review from them is basically an endorsememt.
I finally decided to watch the trailer. Here's what really bothers me:
CDPR give us our first glimpse into the world of The Witcher 4 as Ciri takes on a fearsome monster called the Bauk in this trailer pre-rendered in a custom build of Unreal Engine 5.
I know it's just the first trailer, but this tells me nothing about what the game will look like, or run like. UE5 is notoriously hard to optimize properly for, and this is CDPR's first game using it. I'm already pretty sure my 3060Ti won't run it, but I'm sorta worried that we're talking 5090Ti if I want to run it on my 1440p 120Hz screen, which isn't even a high resolution or refresh rate nowadays.
I also don't like that they replaced the voice actor, but then I think this is supposed to be a more mature Ciri, whereas Witcher 3 Ciri was still pretty young. So it makes sense.
this tells me nothing about what the game will look like, or run like
I mean... This was the first trailer to stir up a bit of excitement for a game that has only just entered full-scale development. They probably don't even yet know themselves what it will look like and how it will run on what hardware. Expecting that kind of info at this point is unrealistic
Fair enough, I just hope that future trailers will be actually rendered real time. Scripted sure, but at least real time.
I love that they moved to an engine that they can find competent devs and artists for rather than having to train everyone in-house, but UE5 in particular seems to have so many issues. I think it might just be too much engine for some projects.
They will have to make sure it runs on current-gen consoles, so it will probably also run alright on mid-range PCs.
Yeah games using UE are always worth waiting a bit on, so many of them run poorly, either low fps or stutters and other weird issues.
Stands to reason she's has her face broken once or twice.
The skin looks a bit too smooth for a medieval setting, but maybe its magic 🤷
Maybe it’s Maybelline
she is so magical that the biggest baddest faction was hunting her most of her life, only fair it also grants perfect skin.
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This is more psychotic than any of the dialogue in American Psycho.
Oh, it is not. It is on par with the book.
The book is faaaaaar more psychotic than the movie.
I feel like the author wanted me to get bored by the over the top depravity and violence as part of the feel of the book and the characters mindset.
On the plus side, it was an effective technique that worked and added to the character of the book.
On the downside, it worked and made the later parts of the book obscenely tedious.
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Bet this guy can tell someone’s IQ by their ~~skin color~~ skull shape.
oh noooo a fictional female character that is not catered for my wanking needs boohoo
I'm more worried about her having mutation potions (and them working instantly, but that's more expected), they better have a damn good reason for her body not melting
They pretty explicitly make it sound like she underwent Witcher mutations in the meantime. How that happens, I have no idea, maybe it'll be a plot point in the game? If they hand-wave it away I'll be disappointed
I think this is from the movie Thank You For Smoking. I think about it all the time. They were discussing having a paid advertisement of an astronaut smoking in a space station. One character points out it wouldn't work because of the pure oxygen environment being explosive. The other character responds "We'll just say 'oh thank God we invented the whatever device!'" It's sort of become an in joke with my wife about rough edges of plots in sequels.
I haven't played any of the games, so I don't really know why they couldn't.
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She looks 40, now as a 30 year old I couldn't have less of a problem. At this stage of my life I prefer my women to look like they've been an adult for a while.
I find her extremely well made, kinda like I imagined when reading the book: full of scars, beefy, and angry at the stupidity of tradition (recurring theme in the books)
Women bad.
One of the reasons I avoid the gaming communities. So much complaining / whining / negativity / cynicism.
Misogyny, racism, transphobia, toxicity, unfunniness, bullying. Fuck gaming communities. I'll play my single player games and seldom post anywhere about them.
When you get so into looksmaxxing that you start sounding like you're going through psychosis
This is like the lame version of those people who can locate your position on the globe by analysing the only visible cloud in one of your photos.
more like mentally unwell people who get that invested in the media they come to analyze the bone structure of a character and link it as a reason to some imaginary wokeness
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