• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    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.

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      Oh, it is not. It is on par with the book.

      The book is faaaaaar more psychotic than the movie.

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        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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    Determining if games are any good is getting really tiring because it involves wading through an insufferable number of manchildren whining about stupid things.

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      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.

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        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.

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    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)

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    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

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      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

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        Yeah I was also wondering as soon as I saw her cat-like eyes… Thought it’s not possible anymore but let’s see. Hopefully they’ll explain it

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          Wasn’t one of the endings of Witcher 3 that Ciri goes through the trial of the grasses and becomes a witcher? Seems pretty damn possible to me.

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            I can’t remember but I thought that for the Witcher ending I had she didnt go through the trials. I mean one reason is iirc that there is noone knowing how to do it.

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          And even if it was possible, why would it be done to her given the high mortality rate of that ritual?

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        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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    When you get so into looksmaxxing that you start sounding like you’re going through psychosis

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      I know of orbicularis oris. It’s your “ring muscle” that enables you to move your lips, basically, and make shapes with it

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    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.

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      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.

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    Witcher 4 comments are bad, but Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is getting a lot worse heat. You would think that a new IP by renowned devs who have not made a single bad game would be hype.

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      Man, I just watched the trailer and that was a trip. I think they nailed the character: just the right amount of cynicism and hard edges without dipping too far into quippy one-liners.

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    I don’t want to sound like a neck beard but I would prefer her character model to look like her w3 one with just age applied. This one looks like someone doing cosplay and they also have Botox. It was cool trailer … excited about Ciri … just hope they improve her model.

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      you’d sound a lot less like a neck beard if you just didn’t comment on her looks?

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          I mean. Shading, shadows, lighting. How she looks I’m comparison to the previous game depends on like, more than just her base model.

          It’s also kinda weird to say you want her to look the same but also older. People’s appearance changes as they age.