Years ago most of the heads of Witcher 3's development already left the company. The current ones have a diversity page where they signed a diversity charter with the Polish government enforcing them to hire a certain amount of foreigners. The company is dead.
I'm not even mad the game is about Ciri, I just don't like that they have degraded her character into something she isn't.
You got a unique character with the combat training if a Witcher, the magical abilities of a witch, and the abilities of elder blood to boot (though supposedly limited in power post Witcher 3, I am unsure of the canonicity of that). And instead let's just reduce her to Geralt with tits. Also probably butcher her personality too, and give her no femininity too. Its just tiresome slop.
True, it's a really rich character, and they've decided to butcher her for their own fantasy. If it didn't have Witcher on the title, would you play it? Then it really isn't worth it.
Full stop: I’m done with female protagonists. They did it with ghost of Tsushima. They did it with Witcher. Naughty Dog is seemingly incapable of creating a male lead at this point. The industry is obsessed with female characters. It’s gay and retarded.
I don’t relate to any of these girl bosses. They’re insufferable. And their physicality and capability and heroics don’t reflect what I see from women in the real world. It was one thing when every tenth action protagonist was a woman beating up dudes twice her size. It was a novelty, a little harmless subversion. Now? AAA gaming is mostly women crushing men.
Meanwhile, the audience is still 90% male. What other industry is like this? Who else looks at their customer base and says “fuck all these people, we’re gonna focus on a completely different group”?
I’m not touching Witcher 4. Because I don’t want to roleplay as a woman. Because I’m not a woman.
What other industry is like this? Who else looks at their customer base and says “fuck all these people, we’re gonna focus on a completely different group”?
Her whole shtick was always her not being particularly feminine, so I can't even gripe about that. But yeah, such wasted potential with her backstory and powers. Like, they had a legitimate Mary Sue and they chose to dial her back? They better have a good fucking lore reasonable explanation how she took the trial of grasses.
At first when I saw the googly eyes on the thumbnail I thought it was Nerdrotic. Then I saw the youtuber and thought it was Doomcock. But no it's some other character.
Guy makes good clips, always has a based take, and openly calls himself an A-hole 😆
I’d take him over that faggot ActMan or Soyboy Luke Stevens any day. The algorithm keeps pushing their shit at me no matter how much I ignore or downvote
The algorithm keeps pushing their shit at me no matter how much I ignore or downvote
I don't login, I clear my YT site cookies every few weeks, sometimes a couple times a week if I had been looking for a specific tutorial (bc then it will just feed me that over and over) and I use Block Tube browser extension.
Not 100% sure how it works honestly, since I'm never logged in, but when the algorithm feeds me shit, I block most/all of it, and then leave the site.
YouTube's algorithm is almost completely designed around keeping you on the site consuming more videos (and ads), so they'll only feed you what keeps you there longest. If feeding you woke shit doesn't keep you there, the cookies know that, and the algorithm will lament that you left and feed you what you actually want next time you're there... at least for a day or two.
After clearing cookies, I immediately search for and watch at least 1 video from my regular dozen or so channels, and then it's feeding me something new. And when it starts feeding me shit, I block and leave.
I started doing this a while ago. After years of not clearing YT site cookies it started feeding me 100% woke shit and MSM news from local news channels (since I had blocked all the others) as far away as New Zealand and UK and Canada. So I logged out, w/o clearing cookies, and it treated me like a bot constantly telling me to login.
Then I started doing this and it's recommending based content 85% of the time. Weird isn't it?
they had a great character in ciri to build the series around, but in one trailer they made her ugly, bitchy, unlikeable, manly, and than they shoehorn in her undergoing the trial of grasses and becoming a witcher which clearly doesn’t make sense considering she’s already more powerful than any other witcher
Imagine that same trailer with a more conventionally attractive Ciri - matching her previous design - and then she’s more feminine, more graceful, more effective in manipulating the townsfolk, leaning heavily on her magic instead of turning into a Witcher. People would be obsessed with the game right now.
I hope the crash and burn of Ubisoft, who were one of the strongest standalone brands at one point, scares the absolute living shit out of every studio and publisher out there. They need our approval more than we need them in business at all.
Love the design, and the character looks masculine and competent. Hate that it's on UE5, but it's faster than building their own proprietary engine right now. Maybe for their next game they can go proprietary and ditch the poorly optimised mess that UE5 has turned into. Hopefully the gameplay can compensate.
All they had to do was let you create your own Witcher or just bring back Geralt again and they would have printed money even if it was pozzed.
Established lore. Established fanbase. An ocean of goodwill and anticipation.
This was an easy layup and they wiped their ass with it.
Years ago most of the heads of Witcher 3's development already left the company. The current ones have a diversity page where they signed a diversity charter with the Polish government enforcing them to hire a certain amount of foreigners. The company is dead.
Their stock has lost 40% in value since it peaked in 2020 with the launch of Cyberpunk 2077. It's been downhill since. Another Ubisoft.
Menstrual leave for blue-haired charlatans. That's what CD Project Red is.
I'm not even mad the game is about Ciri, I just don't like that they have degraded her character into something she isn't.
You got a unique character with the combat training if a Witcher, the magical abilities of a witch, and the abilities of elder blood to boot (though supposedly limited in power post Witcher 3, I am unsure of the canonicity of that). And instead let's just reduce her to Geralt with tits. Also probably butcher her personality too, and give her no femininity too. Its just tiresome slop.
True, it's a really rich character, and they've decided to butcher her for their own fantasy. If it didn't have Witcher on the title, would you play it? Then it really isn't worth it.
Hehehe they butched-her.
I will see myself out.
Full stop: I’m done with female protagonists. They did it with ghost of Tsushima. They did it with Witcher. Naughty Dog is seemingly incapable of creating a male lead at this point. The industry is obsessed with female characters. It’s gay and retarded.
I don’t relate to any of these girl bosses. They’re insufferable. And their physicality and capability and heroics don’t reflect what I see from women in the real world. It was one thing when every tenth action protagonist was a woman beating up dudes twice her size. It was a novelty, a little harmless subversion. Now? AAA gaming is mostly women crushing men.
Meanwhile, the audience is still 90% male. What other industry is like this? Who else looks at their customer base and says “fuck all these people, we’re gonna focus on a completely different group”?
I’m not touching Witcher 4. Because I don’t want to roleplay as a woman. Because I’m not a woman.
Movie industry is following suit, look at Star Wars, MCU, hell anything Disney at this point.
The Nineteenth Amendment and its Consequences have been a Disaster for the United States.
Magic, Wizards of the Coast, the entire table top sphere outside of 40k.
Comic books? Hollyweird? BBC?
Her whole shtick was always her not being particularly feminine, so I can't even gripe about that. But yeah, such wasted potential with her backstory and powers. Like, they had a legitimate Mary Sue and they chose to dial her back? They better have a good fucking lore reasonable explanation how she took the trial of grasses.
Why are they nervous? Isn't this the "right thing" to do? Aren't these DEI narrative the "necessary representation" of the times?
Who gets nervous about doing the "right thing," unless ... 🙄
At first when I saw the googly eyes on the thumbnail I thought it was Nerdrotic. Then I saw the youtuber and thought it was Doomcock. But no it's some other character.
First video I saw from this guy. The "schtick" that some YT personalities do is pretty ridiculous tbh.
It grows on you after a while. I like him.
Guy makes good clips, always has a based take, and openly calls himself an A-hole 😆
I’d take him over that faggot ActMan or Soyboy Luke Stevens any day. The algorithm keeps pushing their shit at me no matter how much I ignore or downvote
More like Act Ma'am.
I don't login, I clear my YT site cookies every few weeks, sometimes a couple times a week if I had been looking for a specific tutorial (bc then it will just feed me that over and over) and I use Block Tube browser extension.
Not 100% sure how it works honestly, since I'm never logged in, but when the algorithm feeds me shit, I block most/all of it, and then leave the site.
YouTube's algorithm is almost completely designed around keeping you on the site consuming more videos (and ads), so they'll only feed you what keeps you there longest. If feeding you woke shit doesn't keep you there, the cookies know that, and the algorithm will lament that you left and feed you what you actually want next time you're there... at least for a day or two.
After clearing cookies, I immediately search for and watch at least 1 video from my regular dozen or so channels, and then it's feeding me something new. And when it starts feeding me shit, I block and leave.
I started doing this a while ago. After years of not clearing YT site cookies it started feeding me 100% woke shit and MSM news from local news channels (since I had blocked all the others) as far away as New Zealand and UK and Canada. So I logged out, w/o clearing cookies, and it treated me like a bot constantly telling me to login.
Then I started doing this and it's recommending based content 85% of the time. Weird isn't it?
It takes me back to the olden days of YouTube.
It's only slightly less gay than vtubers.
I watch his videos every now and again and he does good reporting but I'm not a fan of the whole act. Whatever.
they had a great character in ciri to build the series around, but in one trailer they made her ugly, bitchy, unlikeable, manly, and than they shoehorn in her undergoing the trial of grasses and becoming a witcher which clearly doesn’t make sense considering she’s already more powerful than any other witcher
Imagine that same trailer with a more conventionally attractive Ciri - matching her previous design - and then she’s more feminine, more graceful, more effective in manipulating the townsfolk, leaning heavily on her magic instead of turning into a Witcher. People would be obsessed with the game right now.
i know i would, it’s almost like the people working there now have no understanding what made her popular
I disagree. They know exactly what made her popular, and they hate it.
This is how subversion works.
For those interested, here’s the trailer for Dawnwalker.
Looks awesome imo. Added it to my watchlist for future releases.
I hope the crash and burn of Ubisoft, who were one of the strongest standalone brands at one point, scares the absolute living shit out of every studio and publisher out there. They need our approval more than we need them in business at all.
https://youtu.be/HkICrJEVTjI?si=OHfa_YQ-rPe9bjOB
Teaser for said Rebel Wolves game.
Love the design, and the character looks masculine and competent. Hate that it's on UE5, but it's faster than building their own proprietary engine right now. Maybe for their next game they can go proprietary and ditch the poorly optimised mess that UE5 has turned into. Hopefully the gameplay can compensate.