Blood for the Potato God.
Also, I can kind of understand the Assassin's Creed comparison. The fight just seemed a bit too clean and tightly choreographed. Sure, Witchers are basically medieval Jedi, but it seemed out of place in such a grimy, dirty setting. This kind of choreography also invariably results in a definite lack of momentum and impact to the attacks. Show us some teeth cracking, bones breaking, daggers ripping flesh as they're pulled out of wounds. You know, actual combat, and not some kind of Tai Chi inspired fantasy about ninjas.
The trailer could've easily been made more in line with the story's central themes:
2. Have the woman start looting the corpses as Geralt and Vesemir leave. This suggest that she could really be guilty of what she was accused of, and provides a measure of moral ambiguity that the trailer severely lacks. Also hints at the ultimate futility of saving a single person in a war that is likely claiming tens of thousands, which is another idea continuously brought up in the Witcher books.
For the life of me I don't understand these high budget CGI trailers. They reveal nothing of the game and cost a fucking fortune. Use gameplay footage and spend your money on the damn games development.
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I haven't played part 1 or 2, but I will buy the shit out of this game just for that cinematic.
Hey, she had a fair trial. She was duly sentenced and taken to be executed. Russky read her charges to her "murder of wounded, looting, cannibalism - sentenced to death by hanging or torment". And they carried out their sentence.OK so the girl is supposed to be a cannibal. Hmm, yeah, I'll take your word for it, russkies!
Do you think they made it just for this occasion, never to be used again? It's an intro/cutscene cinematic that Platige are producing for the game, which is good to know because the original TW2 cinematics sucked. On the other hand filming and arranging gameplay footage actually takes resources away from game development.For the life of me I don't understand these high budget CGI trailers. They reveal nothing of the game and cost a fucking fortune. Use gameplay footage and spend your money on the damn games development.
I liked the trailer, until the SUPER-COOL-AWESOME fighting scene. Meh.
I liked the trailer, until the SUPER-COOL-AWESOME fighting scene. Meh.
The games contain super-cool-awesome combat so at least it's honest. Not sure what you guys were expecting.
Hey, she had a fair trial. She was duly sentenced and taken to be executed. Russky read her charges to her "murder of wounded, looting, cannibalism - sentenced to death by hanging or torment". And they carried out their sentence.OK so the girl is supposed to be a cannibal. Hmm, yeah, I'll take your word for it, russkies!
This is three blokes trying to do a good day's work to earn a living and they just get slaughtered by some random prick because he's a better swordsman and the women is attractive.
Where's the justice in that? Supposedly she's poor and desperate, just tyring to make a living. But then you're saying it's ok for a woman to kill, steal and eat human flesh if she's poor and desperate - but it's not ok for men to take a decent, honest job because they're poor and desperate too.
All this video does is reinforce sexist cultural stereotypes that men are evil and attractive women are innocent "damsel's in distress" that need to saved by sword wielding heroes.
Anita Sarkeesian would be most upset.
Or maybe the point could be that Geralt simply didn't give a flying fuck about how true those accusations were and if she was innocent, because regardless of that the brutality of those men was pretty much an injustice in itself.All this video does is reinforce sexist cultural stereotypes that men are evil and attractive women are innocent "damsel's in distress" that need to saved by sword wielding heroes.
It's from Platige Image, a polish studio, so probably a fifth of what it would cost if it was created by the american Blur Studio.How much money do you think they spent on that video?
The trailer could've easily been made more in line with the story's central themes:
2. Have the woman start looting the corpses as Geralt and Vesemir leave. This suggest that she could really be guilty of what she was accused of, and provides a measure of moral ambiguity that the trailer severely lacks. Also hints at the ultimate futility of saving a single person in a war that is likely claiming tens of thousands, which is another idea continuously brought up in the Witcher books.
This idea sounds way better.
Appeal to people who only want to see the actions, as well as portraying deeper themes to people who want to see more story.
Being rude (to a presumably cannibalistic serial murderer) is a capital offense now?Or maybe the point could be that Geralt simply didn't give a flying fuck about how true those accusations were and if she was innocent, because regardless of that the brutality of those men was pretty much an injustice in itself.
Take a look at the best rated comment, it's pretty representative of the current state of the industry.
Hey, she had a fair trial. She was duly sentenced and taken to be executed. Russky read her charges to her "murder of wounded, looting, cannibalism - sentenced to death by hanging or torment". And they carried out their sentence.OK so the girl is supposed to be a cannibal. Hmm, yeah, I'll take your word for it, russkies!
This is three blokes trying to do a good day's work to earn a living and they just get slaughtered by some random prick because he's a better swordsman and the women is attractive.
Where's the justice in that? Supposedly she's poor and desperate, just tyring to make a living. But then you're saying it's ok for a woman to kill, steal and eat human flesh if she's poor and desperate - but it's not ok for men to take a decent, honest job because they're poor and desperate too.
All this video does is reinforce sexist cultural stereotypes that men are evil and attractive women are innocent "damsel's in distress" that need to saved by sword wielding heroes.
Anita Sarkeesian would be most upset.
I agree with that. I mean, by medieval and even TWitcher (novels) standards these guys are on the level. That sergeant dude actually bothers to read the sentence, the blokes are not raping the woman, or anything - they try to execute justic and instill order in a war-torn region. Granted, they might be doing that for all the wrong reasons, but they do lack the sadistic glee about them which reflects positively upon them. I could understand the disdain the protagonist feels, but not what pushed him to murdering "honest" soldiers. That's why I said this scene is over the top and sensationalist nonsense - it takes the situation out of context and puts contemporary tropes ("oh a poor, attractive woman, abused by gruff blokes with the looks of russkie peasants") so that trailer has clear, relatable but ultimately shallow message behind it.
Hey, she had a fair trial. She was duly sentenced and taken to be executed. Russky read her charges to her "murder of wounded, looting, cannibalism - sentenced to death by hanging or torment". And they carried out their sentence.OK so the girl is supposed to be a cannibal. Hmm, yeah, I'll take your word for it, russkies!
This is three blokes trying to do a good day's work to earn a living and they just get slaughtered by some random prick because he's a better swordsman and the women is attractive.
Where's the justice in that? Supposedly she's poor and desperate, just tyring to make a living. But then you're saying it's ok for a woman to kill, steal and eat human flesh if she's poor and desperate - but it's not ok for men to take a decent, honest job because they're poor and desperate too.
All this video does is reinforce sexist cultural stereotypes that men are evil and attractive women are innocent "damsel's in distress" that need to saved by sword wielding heroes.
Anita Sarkeesian would be most upset.
I agree with that. I mean, by medieval and even TWitcher (novels) standards these guys are on the level. That sergeant dude actually bothers to read the sentence, the blokes are not raping the woman, or anything - they try to execute justic and instill order in a war-torn region. Granted, they might be doing that for all the wrong reasons, but they do lack the sadistic glee about them which reflects positively upon them. I could understand the disdain the protagonist feels, but not what pushed him to murdering "honest" soldiers. That's why I said this scene is over the top and sensationalist nonsense - it takes the situation out of context and puts contemporary tropes ("oh a poor, attractive woman, abused by gruff blokes with the looks of russkie peasants") so that trailer has clear, relatable but ultimately shallow message behind it.
You mean Nilfgaardian justice? The justice of something that made more problems for Geralt and those he loves than all Northern Kingdoms combined.
Geralt of the books has impulses, I cant see any sensationalism and damsel in distress, in the books he reacts to a raped lass, despite claiming to never meddle, because he sees Ciri in her, he rescues Anguleme because she reminds him of Ciri, the Witcher2 showes teh "badass" Nilfgaardians down the players throat, and a very non-responsive Geralt that often doesn't question anything, ponder the idiocy of "Conspiracy Theory," in Witcher 2.
This is so back to the books that it's great. Raping the lore for the sake of user-oriented writing is a one way ticket to BiowEAr.
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Raping the lore
Who cares about your shitty books?