just reached for my coffee on my wifeâs crochet pattern next to me on this sectional and
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no this is bothering me too, not even just the overtly racist stuff but also the talkin was just real dull as hell
i admit i only skipped through a bit
they also picked the absolute least interesting thing to show as part of their demo, but it was cool because it did make the game seem like they really put a lot of thought into it and that it isnât gonna be just shooting dudes punctuated with some generic hacking minigame
honestly I think â1 vagina optionâ is a very durable meme
slam that pear tree into your partridge,
etc
how many hours into the witcher 3 do I have to play before I get to the good dialogue
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This has all (?) of the b-roll footage they showed bits and pieces of during the presentation.
love how CDPR was like âdonât worry body doesnât determine your gender!â but then made a binary voice pitch toggle determine your gender
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They were on fucking notice, too
The same year we get they in Animal Crossing this feels like a deliberate snub
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saints row somehow managed to avoid this pitfall over a decade ago
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How hard is it to just let you choose a pronoun in your character status menu? Like, thatâs the part I really donât get: why is gender mandated at character creation? I should be able to change genders whenever I fuckin want in a game called Cyberpunk
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Itâs a significant amount of work at the scope of their game
Itâs worth it! and everyoneâs on board. But in AAA voice-acting land we had to account for it right away and keep updating cost estimates
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right but they already put the work in to record lines for two genders where you choose an option at the start of the game. Why canât they just let me swap between those two line readings whenever I please?
ah, updating post-character creation
Thatâs a good idea, it might have big content ramifications (if there are NPC reactions or relationships that are gender-aware)
I feel like we are at a level of technology where it should be possible to just record a couple of baseline audio options but then let you customize your voice further with subtle pitch shifters and stuff right?
has any game ever tried that
i love how any time i suggest âhey we shouldnât just have gender as a goddamn boolean flag in our databaseâ on a work project i always get some variant of âacknowledging your existence isnât cost effectiveâ. feels great
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I think Iâve seen this before but I canât bring to mind what game I am thinking of
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Practically every MMO from the last like 15 years but I think Sunset Overdrive also did this? Or something?
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look if everyone is going to freak out over how they recorded two takes of spider-man for when heâs breathing heavy and when heâs not the last thing i want to hear is how itâs tough to do so for gender
iâm the person who has to wrangle all that and i donât care
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Ever notice how game dev is the only job that gets to get away with âbut itâs haaaaardâ
Yeah I know you hired me to paint your house but those bushes were too close so I just painted around them. Painting is hard, you just donât get it
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and yes it actually is possible to do the pitch shifting thing on a bunch of different line deliveries, the only issue would be animations getting out of sync if you get too far away from the original delivery
like even if you didnât plan it out in advance even fmod has preset fx and parameter automation that you can just drop on events and you can just set up a global parameter to track it
none of this is actually as hard as people say it is, itâs just that AAA is afraid of people being mad at them because the animation isnât frame perfect with the VO
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