mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
It's so annoying.
Watch State of Unreal tomorrow, Witcher fans
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It's so annoying.
RetroGamingUK
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Angry_Megalodon
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This is a tech demo, not the real game. I'm amazed CD Projekt still can trick people into believing this.
skit_data
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Do it. I waited the whole last gen and played it on PS5 when that version dropped.
Easily one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. It really is as good as people always said it is.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
She looks horrible and as a huge Witcher fan, this is an instant skip
Insane Metal
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Yeah, it's been announced 3 years ago.
New Witcher Saga Announced. CD PROJEKT RED Begins Development on Unreal Engine 5 as Part of a Strategic Partnership with Epic Games - CD PROJEKT
CD PROJEKT RED today revealed that the next installment in The Witcher series of video games is currently in development with Unreal Engine 5, kicking off a new saga for the franchise and a newwww.cdprojekt.com
I didn't remember, sorry.
But this is bad news, no? UE can create amazing looking stuff but isn't it plagued with some stuff like stutter, nanite issues etc?
Herr Edgy
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No, my thread is better
Bernardougf
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Wrong thread
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R6Rider
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Bernardougf
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The "reasons" for it have been many in the last years. So right now if you're going to vegas to bet your life savings .. you bet on "nice looking female model with feminine features and a well developed feminine-like character" or "a little fugly almost male-like model with very little female features and a girlboss attitude with no character development"
I know were my money would go...
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crackajack
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Unreal 5 broke a lot of work pipelines from 4, so the transition is still not entirely done. I think they are getting there, but unless you were a big team you could produce very fast a nice screenshot game that just ran always bad. Kinda like Unity is too. Easy to make something, but still takes some or a lot of your own work to work around stuff that the engine can't do out of the box. Or maybe can do, and you just don't use the right settings for your specific situation. whatever...
They addressed some stuff in this tech demo and insisted on 60 fps so it is clear they are well aware of a lot of stuff, but I guess 5 is just a bigger increment from previous stuff than 4 and 3 were. So it takes a lot longer and Unreal 5 should maybe have been cooked longer only in Fortnite before giving it to every dev, but a couple more upgrades and it might reach the potential the earlier tech demos promised.
I am not exactly sure why CD Project chose to switch engines right when Cyberpunk was THE "RT on" game and probably mastered their own tech. Epic might have offered very close cooperation and a ton of specific support to sweeten a deal.
Cryengine seems to be nowhere, idtech might be possible to license but no one does, Unity is also not used much or never in bigger games, so Epic removed a competitor in this way. No idea if anyone could license Red Engine but when their creators jump ship it won't survive. Valve seems to like their Source Engine and Ubisoft has a couple of homegrown engines but it is more and more a monopoly.
DeafTourette
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Nowhere and at no time in my history of gaming have I thought "I want to bang that videogame chick" mostly BECAUSE I like real life women with real life faces and bodies.
And story is more important to me, as a life long book and comics reader, than if the female character in my game looks like Angela Bassett or Jaz Sinclair.
Bernardougf
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And thats got fuck all to the character being a insufferable girl boss or not.. so nice strawmaning
DeafTourette
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Hence my focus on story. If you can't get that, just say that.
ResilientBanana
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Voxels rather than LOD should save a significant amount of memory and is something UE needed.
Bernardougf
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And in my question I used terms like character development , attitude and traits.. all pertaining to story and not looks....you deflected to strawmaning about wanting to bang virtual characters. So try to answer that question honestly if you are able to do it which I doub it.. until then happy purple life
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Trilobit
Absolutely Cozy
You didn't even add a link to your own thread? Do you even have the energy to breathe or do you rely on an iron lung to do that too?
DeafTourette
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Most of these comments are about whose more feminine and bangable... So I'm not strawmanning.... Look at the comments saying one looks like a man and who's more attractive.
One character can ruin a story, yes. One that doesn't have any development (Rey in the sequel trilogy) or acts in a way that says they can't be touched or their pain is the only thing that matters (lead character in Gladiator 2)... I don't like when a character thinks they're better just because of their sex, male or female.
But is that what's doing on in Witcher 4? Is that what went on in Fable? Lack of character development? "Girl bossing"? What about those characters were or will be bad? I haven't played Fable and I still haven't finished Witcher 3 (lost my dang copy) and NONE of us have played Witcher 4.
But based on the tech demo yesterday, if Ciri was a man, would you have objected this much? Is it so much that she has a masculine face as it is that she's the main character?
Herr Edgy
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Since when do commanders provide instruction manuals? I fully believe in your ability to use YouTube or Google
Bernardougf
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I agree we still dont know how the character will behave ... but thats not the question I made .. Ill make it easier for you with a simpler question
Do you think in todays western gaming landscape, a female lead has more or less chance of being written as a girlboss ?
DeafTourette
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It depends on the skill of the writers. There are absolutely characters being written as infallible (Rey) but there are others like in Sinners who are not and they add to the overall story.
As far as videogames, Samus is a well written character ... she may not have a lot of dialogue but she goes through character progression, falls and stumbles and then rises.
From what I've read online, Ciri is well on her way to what we see in the tech demo: confident and experienced. That doesn't scream "girl boss"... Not in my opinion.
Like I said, it depends on the story being written... And, I suppose, what the writer's intentions are for the main characters
DeafTourette
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Let me be a bit more clear ..
In today's world, I think it's 50/50 that a female lead will be written that way. Some people can write characters well and understand character development... Others can't and write infallible characters that ruin a story.
Bernardougf
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I would put the odds well above 50/50 but that can be subjective ...
Adding the recent history of CDPR full embracing DEI and inclusion politics, their studio opening in california and adding Insomniac devs.. it all points to a more "modern" shift, than you add that to the decision of swap the lead very popular male character for a female one and make her definitely uglier than her last interation (Although better in the tech demo).. well there are enough red flags for people to think "shit another girlboss story for modern audiences" ..
So all in all those who want to say "wait a minute.. wait for the game and see" have their reason .. but the ones worried about something they are seeing again and again in westerm media and saying "fuck!.. another girlboss story" have their reason too.
Time to see who is right...and this time I really wish Im dead wrong and can eat lots of crow.
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