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Cyberpunk 2077's E3 demo was amazing, but one element of it was particularly jarring.www.rpgsite.net
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RPS: Cyberpunk 2077's E3 demo has weak gunplay and unimaginative stereotypes
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Placide is a Haitian name, and one of the features of African-American Vernacular English (a common black dialect/accent in the US) is that speakers ofter replace their "th" with a "d". The protagonist is mocking a black dialect.
TL;DR Communism really did a number on them, the Catholic Church is a huge influence in the country as they were quite instrumental in opposing communism, their political parties are quite confusing (Ie the socially conservatives party is fiscally liberal (not neo-liberal) and the socially progressive party is fiscally neo-liberal) etc etc
All this (and a lot more) means that they've not had much room to "catch up" socially and they remain pretty conservative, with exceptions of course there are progressive people living there.
Dude I lived there for 4 years and I can tell you that seeing a PoC in Krakow was an event for me.
It's hard to be progressive and empathetic to other cultures when your country is so homogenized. Visiting Poland with a black friend of mine was eye opening.
Yikes. Didn't even notice that until now. I was quite confused.
I have always been very puzzled over the "CyberPunk looks amazing" posts....we have seen nothing of the game and how it plays.
The ad seems to be a gross representation of a trans character
Now you sound like xenophobe. Once again - what does it change? I linked you an article that clearly states that people who work on the game come from different cultures and countries. More than half of their team isn't Polish and you still make some weird generalization and implication.
I wonder if he's even at E3. Would be nice for someone to ask him.
Just so we're clear, you seem more offended that this poster is stating facts about Poland, than you are about how CDPR seems to be handling certain things in the game. That's not xenophobia.
Of course he is. He took big part in finishing the script.
At the end of 2017. Group employed people from 32 countries around the world. Most of them, except for Polish, comes from the UK (15 people), the US (11 people) and Canada (10 people).
Not sure that's a ringing endorsement of being particularly multicultural.
I haven't followed the game too deep, but is V a more well defined character with his/her own personality like Geralt or do we play a more blank slate character where you role play as the character like skyrim games?
Sorry but as a very straight very white male I am happy to use my privilege to point out that the majority of games critics are disproportionately white and male. Meanwhile the dominance of the enthusiast press means a lot of reviews don't delve very deeply into elements like themes when it comes to reviews but focus on content and gameplay.
Edit: for reference, I hope the game is really great. I love Witcher 3 for all its faults but I'm just increasingly concerned it's going to very thematically shallow and critics will ignore that.
Then someone should ask him about this. Hint hint press sneak fuck.
I also wonder how many of those 32 countries are predominantly white countries.
CDPR has a history of transphobic nonsense and their seemingly only trans representation in his game is a feshistic "Big Dick Girl" from the poster.
A comically large penis.
good writeup. i'm honestly not expecting cdpr to do better. they became famous for a game where you receive nudes of the female npcs, and marketing for gog, which is under the same corporate umbrella, has aligned with gamergate
i'm passing on this game
i'm passing on this game
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When the Witcher was criticized for its lack of diversity, one of the defense was "it's because Poland is so homogenized so the developers don't know better." So apparently that's just a bunch of nonsense, then?
Not surprised about the gunplay....witcher 3 was great but damn did it have some mediocre gameplay and many of the quests were follow the witcher sense. Hoping it's better in this.
It's a joke about gender fluidity and shows a massive penis under the unitard with the headline "mix it up" and a drink name that evokes hormone therapy.
Chronosome, emphasis on the word MAN and then cure in the drink name.
Given their "history" with trans rights it's a real not great look.
Yeah, the gunplay I saw in that big gameplay video from last year was decidedly lacking. Borderlands type weak sauce. Chipping numbers out of bullet-sponge healthbars.
I'm hoping I can avoid that bullshit by wrangling some kind of high-lethality or stealth build from the RPG elements.
I'm hoping I can avoid that bullshit by wrangling some kind of high-lethality or stealth build from the RPG elements.
Last year's gameplay looked pretty good but a shame if the shooting is off. Will have to read more impressions.
With all my respects to polish people but is eastern Europe not western Europe.
The problem is, you can't just narrow it down to a country. There are some cities in the United States, Canada and the UK that are some of the diverse spots on the Earth. Then there are the more rural areas that tend not to be.
I work with over 200 web developers in and around Katowice, and they are some of the most talented developers around. Unfortunately, also in my experience, I've felt the way some of them treat women on the team extremely problematic. It was very much a dominant vs. subservient relationship which really skeeved me out.
Also don't joke about National Donut/Fat Thursday to them. They didn't appreciate it.
Stereotypes are really disappointing, this was a good chance for them to do a good portrayal of trans characters.
Most of the seminal Cyberpunk works like Gibson's Sprawl trilogy are full or stereotypes, but that was 30+ years ago, CDPR devs should definitely be more sensitive regarding these issues. Also, the main character is a hardened criminal and a jackass apparently but I hope there's some character arc or calling out and pointing out of why this is wrong, else it's just pointless bigotry.
I feel like the majority of the criticism after launch is going to be on the handling of stuff like that. I rolled my eyes when the Jackie character was as originally revealed. It's just such a tired stereotype for a Hispanic character to speak like that. GTA games also do this in their satire filled open worlds. It was more toned down in RDR 2.
Looks like they need a staff meeting with Hollie B setting the standard. I don't like what I'm seeing here.