Ngl, C&C Generals also started the ball rolling with my China-pilling. That bulldozer was so hopeful and optimistic for China’s future that it got me thinking too.
Chinese Video/Computer Games
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At least it might do well in the PRC because it emasculates the Japanese and drags Japanese culture through the mud…
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"Yasuke's romance options are a guy, a guy that doesn't want to identify as a guy, and a historically married woman. Bravo Ubisoft."
Who knows maybe the samurai were kind of gay like that, a bit like the sacred band of Thebes.
It took a band of gays to fuck over the spartans....
LMFAO!!! Hardcore Chinese nationalists are probably the only people who will buy this shit…
Come on, most Chinese wouldn’t touch crap like this, we have standards for crying out loud. Nowadays, Chinese demand quality in games, not some random idiot game that is choked full of DEI and political bullshit. It’s like a more funded version of Dustborn or some garbage
It’s rated the same as BM:W on Metacritic. What a sick joke.
The only thing I'm looking forward to from Ubish*t is their bankruptcy and forced sellout to Tencent. Buying this game from them will only delay the inevitable transfer.
Also, Ubisoft has literally just formed a group of lawyers and teamed up with the Canadian government to sue anyone criticizing their game for harassment and slander. I REALLY hope to see them sue the Japanese government and prime minister since they just shatd on them yesterday.
Yeah, kinda makes the whole rating thing a worthless piece of crap
Lethe
Captain
Returning to a conversation from some months back...
Well, having now spent some 200 hours playing through The Witcher III over the past three months, the "controversy" over Ciri being a witcher and the main character in The Witcher IV makes less sense to me than ever. Ciri is de facto Geralt's adopted daughter, and her growth over the course of TW3 culminates, at least in the most compelling ending for the game, in her stepping directly into the role of witcher as Geralt's apprentice. Meanwhile, Geralt's estate at Corvo Bianco in the Blood and Wine expansion, while not directly announcing his retirement, clearly implies that he has more witchering adventures behind him than remaining ahead of him, a theme that is reinforced throughout the expansion with its focus on the echoes into the present of things past, and the notion that idyllic, apparently unchanging appearances must inevitably give way to change.
From the perspective of TW3, that TW4 is shifting to Ciri as the main character, and as a witcher, seems not only reasonable but the natural and almost inevitable extension of the story already told. Of course that may not fit with the book canon. I haven't read the books, though I'm intrigued to do so, so I can't speak to that aspect of things. Changes are inevitable in adapting one medium to the other, the only question is whether those changes are good or bad, both in and of themselves and in the broader context of the narrative goals they advance. If the complaint is that Ciri hasn't gone through or shouldn't be capable of surviving the Trial of the Grasses and so shouldn't have access to the full suite of witcher mutations, that strikes me as a very thin objection. I mean, this is a girl who was wandering through multiverses in order to avert the apocalypse, and folks are quibbling about witcher mutations? The real narrative challenge is to de-power Ciri enough from her end-TW3 state that she can be credibly threatened by a hostile world and have a narrative of personal growth/discovery in TW4. It's also clear that Geralt will still be part of the story, and that will be great to see.
Attached are a couple of clips from the "Ciri as Witcher" endings for the base game and Blood and Wine expansions respectively, of which the Witcher IV trailer released a few months ago seems a natural extension:
In any case, TW3 was an amazing experience from start to finish. But with that colossus out of the way, minus a few map markers remaining to clear up, I want to get to Black Myth: Wukong and Control before Switch 2 arrives and likely brings Metroid Prime 4 and a new flagship Mario title with it...
Well, having now spent some 200 hours playing through The Witcher III over the past three months, the "controversy" over Ciri being a witcher and the main character in The Witcher IV makes less sense to me than ever. Ciri is de facto Geralt's adopted daughter, and her growth over the course of TW3 culminates, at least in the most compelling ending for the game, in her stepping directly into the role of witcher as Geralt's apprentice. Meanwhile, Geralt's estate at Corvo Bianco in the Blood and Wine expansion, while not directly announcing his retirement, clearly implies that he has more witchering adventures behind him than remaining ahead of him, a theme that is reinforced throughout the expansion with its focus on the echoes into the present of things past, and the notion that idyllic, apparently unchanging appearances must inevitably give way to change.
From the perspective of TW3, that TW4 is shifting to Ciri as the main character, and as a witcher, seems not only reasonable but the natural and almost inevitable extension of the story already told. Of course that may not fit with the book canon. I haven't read the books, though I'm intrigued to do so, so I can't speak to that aspect of things. Changes are inevitable in adapting one medium to the other, the only question is whether those changes are good or bad, both in and of themselves and in the broader context of the narrative goals they advance. If the complaint is that Ciri hasn't gone through or shouldn't be capable of surviving the Trial of the Grasses and so shouldn't have access to the full suite of witcher mutations, that strikes me as a very thin objection. I mean, this is a girl who was wandering through multiverses in order to avert the apocalypse, and folks are quibbling about witcher mutations? The real narrative challenge is to de-power Ciri enough from her end-TW3 state that she can be credibly threatened by a hostile world and have a narrative of personal growth/discovery in TW4. It's also clear that Geralt will still be part of the story, and that will be great to see.
Attached are a couple of clips from the "Ciri as Witcher" endings for the base game and Blood and Wine expansions respectively, of which the Witcher IV trailer released a few months ago seems a natural extension:
In any case, TW3 was an amazing experience from start to finish. But with that colossus out of the way, minus a few map markers remaining to clear up, I want to get to Black Myth: Wukong and Control before Switch 2 arrives and likely brings Metroid Prime 4 and a new flagship Mario title with it...
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