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[Malcador]

3 hours ago, bugarup said:

But seriously, what's with all this incel rennaissance? Nobody gave a sh†t Shepard could be a woman, Lara Croft's a woman, all party based RPGs let you play as a woman or even full party of them since forever, why NOW it's a problem? 

Crappy parenting and probably too much porn, I guess.  Kids raised by the Internet are older now.

2 hours ago, BruceVC said:

It shouldn't be a  problem if there is a choice around gender or if the characters gender\race  is accurate around lore or history

As seen with the female Custodes, some people confuse lore with history

[kanisatha]

I'm on the fence about playing as Ciri, but the trailer looks good to me. I agree that story-wise, how do they square the ending of TW3 with this?

[kanisatha]

Here's the trailer for Solasta II. I'm stoked for this game

 

 

[Mamoulian War]

6 hours ago, bugarup said:

I was more about recent-ish general atmosphere regarding woman characters, because it seems there's now a vocal minority of baboons who start howling and throwing sh†t whenever there's a woman in a game who does something, anything else than boob jiggle physic. Maybe my youtube algorithm is broken and thinks that whenever I mute yet another "WOMEN BAD" offer it means I want a different flavor. I wish it was the case, but I suspect it ain't. 

Not wanting Ciri for a protag I agree is nothing special, for a large number of people it's just that they want their Geralt back just like they wanted their Shepard, Warden Commander or any other Charname back. People growing attached to things is the most normal thing ever. 

You are not alone on this. The algorithms are really terrible at offering decent content. You have to search for good content yourself, and even after that you are offered trash content. The best example from me would be Dragon Age: Veilguard. I am “progressive”, but for the very same reasons, as Zorraptor mentioned few posts above, to not be trapped into my own bubble, I am following 2 or 3 “conservative” youtubers, which I consider to be as objective as possible from the perspective of my worldview. So on the date of the release of the Veilguard, I have of course watched a video made by one of the. Up until today, Youtube algorithm offers me probably the worst “incel” **** about games… And I can’t get rid of it as well. And after that episode, it almost never offers me “woke” content, in which I was and still am interested

[Mamoulian War]

I am surprised no one linked this yet

 

[Also gorgon]

On 11/27/2024 at 8:56 PM, Lexx said:

Damn, MW5: Clans is already on sale. Didn't it came out just recently?

It's not that special, don't waste money.

[Also gorgon]

1 hour ago, Mamoulian War said:

I am surprised no one linked this yet

 

That's the nameless king. It's definitely that model, i would recognise it anywhere. Cool factor is maxed to the max.

Other than that I'm kinda worn out on elden ring now to be honest, I would prefer another similar darksoulsy setting. 

[Also gorgon]

10 hours ago, Lexx said:

Ciri was the most meh part for me in Witcher (books and game). So for now I'm meh about it.

well, we didn't really get to know her. not like Geralt. If they can find a good voice actress it's up in the air i think.

btw this has all been known since late 2016, so hardly a shocker. 

[Hurlshort]

I appreciated Ciri a lot more after the Netflix show. Freya Allan literally grew up in between season 1 and 2 and it was a fantastic way to develop that character. It made me enjoy the Ciri parts of Witcher 3 more.

Granted, I don't actually like Geralt.

[Humanoid]

10 hours ago, Zoraptor said:

You might not Bruce. Ciri is at least technically bisexual.

Would it be morally wrong to boink Shani as Ciri?

[HoonDing]

Solasta II: Girlboss

[Sven_]

4 hours ago, Also gorgon said:

well, we didn't really get to know her. not like Geralt. If they can find a good voice actress it's up in the air i think.

btw this has all been known since late 2016, so hardly a shocker. 

One of the biggest entry level hurdles when getting into the Witcher 3 -- even if you played prior games. It's only in the books that she was much of a character until that point. And then the entire base game narrative depends on chasing her. Every time you think you're close, well you aren't. If they hadn't introduced the perspective changes (you playing Ciri briefly), that would have been an even tougher sell.

It's a bit like Super Mario Bros: "Sorry Geralt, but your princess is in another castle." Except probably even Mario had more characterization at the start to get you into the "mood" of actually chasing that pretty princess -- like two lines in the manual dedicated to her Peachness. And Mario also didn't need to chase her for dozens of hours. He could even use warp zones to make the process even shorter. Mario had it good. We had it good.

 

If only we knew back then.  

Edited Friday at 10:40 PM by Sven_

[Wormerine]

5 hours ago, Also gorgon said:

That's the nameless king. It's definitely that model, i would recognise it anywhere. Cool factor is maxed to the max.

Is it? It looks to me incredibly cynical - like how much more we can recycle and sell. The only thing about this trailer which gives me any faith if "FromSoftware".

[Also gorgon]

1 hour ago, Wormerine said:

Is it? It looks to me incredibly cynical - like how much more we can recycle and sell. The only thing about this trailer which gives me any faith if "FromSoftware".

I kinda lost interest when I noticed it was 3 player coop. roguelike, designed to played in endless iteration with randomized loot. No PVP, all PVE.

It's a multiplayer forever game, only missing the micro transactions. Sony will probably insist on those soon enough.

 

[Also gorgon]

2 hours ago, Sven_ said:

One of the biggest entry level hurdles when getting into the Witcher 3 -- even if you played prior games. It's only in the books that she was much of a character until that point. And then the entire base game narrative depends on chasing her. Every time you think you're close, well you aren't. If they hadn't introduced the perspective changes (you playing Ciri briefly), that would have been an even tougher sell.

It's a bit like Super Mario Bros: "Sorry Geralt, but your princess is in another castle." Except probably even Mario had more characterization at the start to get you into the "mood" of actually chasing that pretty princess -- like two lines in the manual dedicated to her Peachness. And Mario also didn't need to chase her for dozens of hours. He could even use warp zones to make the process even shorter. Mario had it good. We had it good.

 

If only we knew back then.  

I always thought the Ciri portions needed more time to really pay off.  you weren't even allowed to use the inventory playing as Ciri.

[Zoraptor]

At least they were better than the equivalents in TW2. Having to play some random dude with a claymore and no skills/ powers for a bit was not exactly the single greatest idea mankind has ever had.

[LadyCrimson]

On 12/7/2024 at 1:40 PM, LadyCrimson said:

In terms of upgrading GPU's - I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist but it does make one feel like AAA devs/nvidia are working together to force people to buy the top tier cards

Requirements for FF7-Rebirth are RTX-2060/RX-6600. eg, no GTX. Also, 12gb VRAM for 4k, possibly even for lower resolutions depending on settings, who bloody knows.It's not about RT - theory from some is need a gpu that will support DX12-Ultimate mesh shaders and other other features.
https://fullcleared.com/news/here-are-the-pc-requirements-for-final-fantasy-vii-rebirth/

...it's just that time where gpu tech/game dev tech standards is finally changing over. Had that long period of "my gpu/pc is 8-10+ years old and still does everything!" - but that's going, going, gone. Well, outside of indie games. And eventually that'll go to, for more graphic indies/A/AA, I would bet on it. At least the vram req. part. My 2080ti purchase, for time period I bought it, looks better all the time. If only I could hold out for the 60xx/whatever period....

Edit: at least that Arc B580 looks like a good budget 1080p card. Maybe Intel really will light a little fire under Nvidia's butt ... probably not. Nvidia obviously doesn't care about low budget gpu's.

Edited Saturday at 04:44 AM by LadyCrimson

[BruceVC]

8 hours ago, Hurlshort said:

I appreciated Ciri a lot more after the Netflix show. Freya Allan literally grew up in between season 1 and 2 and it was a fantastic way to develop that character. It made me enjoy the Ciri parts of Witcher 3 more.

Granted, I don't actually like Geralt.

Why wouldn't  you like Geralt, he saves people terrorized by monsters, he has a  deep kindness and empathy for those that suffer and that includes certain monsters , he rejects elitism and privilege, he has a belief in real justice, he is authentic, he builds real friendships and helps those friends  and he  demonstrates love  for people in his life like Ciri, Trish and Yennefer despite everything he has gone through around being  a Witcher  

He  has more humanity than those he often works for 

What wouldnt you like about him that in anyway is worse than his positive qualities?

 

 

[Sven_]

1 hour ago, LadyCrimson said:

Edit: at least that Arc B580 looks like a good budget 1080p card. Maybe Intel really will light a little fire under Nvidia's butt ... probably not. Nvidia obviously doesn't care about low budget gpu's.

AMD actually aren't that much better, funnily enough. At least over here, the 7600 XT is currently priced too high for what it is (basically a slightly improved RX 7600, just with more VRAM... an alternative RX 7600 /12GB would have been a way better option). And the only reason that older cards fall in that price range is because they're selling them off cheap... the 6750XT, if still available, goes for like half the price of which it started. Which was well over 600 Euro -- just a good two years ago! 

Computerbase.de ran an analysis on Nvidia a while ago: between the GTX 1060 and RTX 2060 there was still a big jump in performance. After that, it was but ~20% on average in between generations. What's more, the RTX 3060 until Arc was the only and first entry level card with 12GB -- oddly enough, given Nvidia's reputation to cheap out on VRAM. AMD didn't make any big jumps between 5600/XT / 6600 / 7600 either anymore. 

Meanwhile, the performance levels in the higher end are through the roof. It's a GPU class war truly now -- and Intel have arrived to throw the beggars some coin.   

Edited Saturday at 05:59 AM by Sven_

[uuuhhii]

21 hours ago, bugarup said:

I was more about recent-ish general atmosphere regarding woman characters, because it seems there's now a vocal minority of baboons who start howling and throwing sh†t whenever there's a woman in a game who does something, anything else than boob jiggle physic. Maybe my youtube algorithm is broken and thinks that whenever I mute yet another "WOMEN BAD" offer it means I want a different flavor. I wish it was the case, but I suspect it ain't. 

Not wanting Ciri for a protag I agree is nothing special, for a large number of people it's just that they want their Geralt back just like they wanted their Shepard, Warden Commander or any other Charname back. People growing attached to things is the most normal thing ever. 

 

the poison exist for long time

seen the exact same thing in many forum 15 year ago

now it is spread so wide it is inescapable on place like ytube

[Humanoid]

I've always wanted to play as Roche, where instead of choosing to level up and use various Signs, you would level up and use various expletives and insults.

[Lexx]

You know what. After thinking about it for a while (not really), I feel like it could be interesting to play as an actual older warrior-like woman. I mean, old disgruntled dudes with big beards are in style already, so why not do the equivalent of that as a woman?

[Mamoulian War]

This one jumped at me on my YT feed

 

[Lexx]

lol people are malding so hard about Ciri in Witcher 4, I'm totally into it now and will for sure play it when it's releasing.

[uuuhhii]

On 12/14/2024 at 5:02 PM, Lexx said:

You know what. After thinking about it for a while (not really), I feel like it could be interesting to play as an actual older warrior-like woman. I mean, old disgruntled dudes with big beards are in style already, so why not do the equivalent of that as a woman?

 

cassandra of dragon age maybe fit that bill

terrible game but have very unique companion

especially for such high budget game