Well, it's not just trans people that are disappointed with the character creator. It's impossible, for example, to make someone that looks like me.
And some of that is justified because it's a first-person perspective game. And the reality is that the more character assets and variations one adds, the more complexity and bugs get added to the game. And there are already some compromises - for example I've seen it reported that if you pick a female character the breast size is always "medium" when clothing is worn regardless of what you actually pick in the creator.
Resources and modeling are also likely why there is only one body type (ie. muscular and fit) with no options for height, weight, etc. And I can understand those compromises for a first-person perspective game.
As nice as it would be to have representation for everything and everyone in the character creator, it's not a realistic goal. I'm personally glad they spent more time and resources on the story, environments, characters, and gameplay instead of character creation. They could have easily gone Witcher 3 route with an established protagonist and I don't think it would have made much difference.
That was my first impression too. My hopes of making a "Dad Bod" netrunner were dashed. Overall the character creator is underwhelming.
Other than that my biggest complaint is input lag I can't nail down. It makes gunplay super annoying to where I can't even consistently plant hits with a shotgun at close range.
The only bugs I've experienced are some relatively minor visual bugs. The most annoying is that dead people still move around on the floor and it looks like they are trying to get up, so I waste a lot of ammo.
Overall I'm impressed with game, but only have about 4 hours in so far. I'm kind of already wishing I'd done my original spec differently, so may start over with a different attribute mix.
Interesting. I'm in the middle of that demographic (born 1968) and only know a handful of Trump supporters among my cohort. Very few of us are gamers and I'd be surprised if even 1% had even heard the term gamergate.
The vast majority are primarily concerned about the kinds of things that most people in middle age are concerned about - spouses, kids, work, getting older, etc. The notion that people in this narrow age range spend any time in misogynistic 4chan gaming circles is kind of laughable actually.
One thing that helps me is patience. Very very rarely do I buy a game when it first gets released (another exception I'm making for CP2077). After a few months or even a year, the release hype is gone and the merits are clear. Plus it saves money too.
I tend like like certain studios as well, but there is always churn in the industry and even the best studios will have a flop. Bioware, Bungie, Bethesda - all used to be greats at one time. CDPR is pretty amazing right now, but it's really hard to make that last long-term.
Then there is EA and the less said about them the better.
I'm 52 and have been an avid gamer since the original Atari VCS (2600). CP2077 is honestly the game I've been waiting for since the original Deus Ex.
I also agree with your criticism of gaming journalism which is why I tend to ignore most of the mainstream writers and outlets. Journalism is a market like everything else these days and it seems like a lot of these major gaming publications and journalists do not consider mainstream gamers to be a core market.
Instead, I rely on independent voices, mainly on youtube, who are actually passionate about gaming and understand the genre's they are passionate about. Over time I've come to trust their opinions, or at least understand where they are coming from which makes me understand the games they are reviewing much better. Their reviews and opinions have given me good expectations for the game - enough that I violated my long-standing principle of not pre-ordering games.
I was fortunate that I came to the Mass Effect universe long after the game's major problems - including the endings - were changed through DLC. I did really enjoy that game and think it was one of the better RPG's once it was fully developed.
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Well, it's not just trans people that are disappointed with the character creator. It's impossible, for example, to make someone that looks like me.
And some of that is justified because it's a first-person perspective game. And the reality is that the more character assets and variations one adds, the more complexity and bugs get added to the game. And there are already some compromises - for example I've seen it reported that if you pick a female character the breast size is always "medium" when clothing is worn regardless of what you actually pick in the creator.
Resources and modeling are also likely why there is only one body type (ie. muscular and fit) with no options for height, weight, etc. And I can understand those compromises for a first-person perspective game.
As nice as it would be to have representation for everything and everyone in the character creator, it's not a realistic goal. I'm personally glad they spent more time and resources on the story, environments, characters, and gameplay instead of character creation. They could have easily gone Witcher 3 route with an established protagonist and I don't think it would have made much difference.
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Great, I look forward to it!
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That was my first impression too. My hopes of making a "Dad Bod" netrunner were dashed. Overall the character creator is underwhelming.
Other than that my biggest complaint is input lag I can't nail down. It makes gunplay super annoying to where I can't even consistently plant hits with a shotgun at close range.
The only bugs I've experienced are some relatively minor visual bugs. The most annoying is that dead people still move around on the floor and it looks like they are trying to get up, so I waste a lot of ammo.
Overall I'm impressed with game, but only have about 4 hours in so far. I'm kind of already wishing I'd done my original spec differently, so may start over with a different attribute mix.
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Interesting. I'm in the middle of that demographic (born 1968) and only know a handful of Trump supporters among my cohort. Very few of us are gamers and I'd be surprised if even 1% had even heard the term gamergate.
The vast majority are primarily concerned about the kinds of things that most people in middle age are concerned about - spouses, kids, work, getting older, etc. The notion that people in this narrow age range spend any time in misogynistic 4chan gaming circles is kind of laughable actually.
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One thing that helps me is patience. Very very rarely do I buy a game when it first gets released (another exception I'm making for CP2077). After a few months or even a year, the release hype is gone and the merits are clear. Plus it saves money too.
I tend like like certain studios as well, but there is always churn in the industry and even the best studios will have a flop. Bioware, Bungie, Bethesda - all used to be greats at one time. CDPR is pretty amazing right now, but it's really hard to make that last long-term.
Then there is EA and the less said about them the better.
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I'm 52 and have been an avid gamer since the original Atari VCS (2600). CP2077 is honestly the game I've been waiting for since the original Deus Ex.
I also agree with your criticism of gaming journalism which is why I tend to ignore most of the mainstream writers and outlets. Journalism is a market like everything else these days and it seems like a lot of these major gaming publications and journalists do not consider mainstream gamers to be a core market.
Instead, I rely on independent voices, mainly on youtube, who are actually passionate about gaming and understand the genre's they are passionate about. Over time I've come to trust their opinions, or at least understand where they are coming from which makes me understand the games they are reviewing much better. Their reviews and opinions have given me good expectations for the game - enough that I violated my long-standing principle of not pre-ordering games.
I was fortunate that I came to the Mass Effect universe long after the game's major problems - including the endings - were changed through DLC. I did really enjoy that game and think it was one of the better RPG's once it was fully developed.
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