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Anyone here play fighting games? I'm thinking of picking up a new one. I will probably get Street Fighter 6. If I do I will use Chun Li or maybe Kimberly.

>>440790
You can tell Witcher is retarded moidcore since one of its fundamental premises is the "tragic" (omegafuckinglul) "tradeoff" in which you lose your fertility in exchange for becoming gorgeous, forever young, practically immortal and insanely powerful. Like WOW what a heart wrenching deal with the devil there! Only a moid's life is so hollow and disposable he'd find all these things to be worthless in the face of COOM! POZ! BREED!

>>441698
NTA, yes the books are insanely misogynistic and Sapkowski is a jobber and an incel. His female characters that aren't innocent waifs for Geralt to fuck are so cartoonishly evil they actually turn around and become complex female characters with their own agency, however. It's a fascinating paradox. Like Yennefer and the witches of the Lodge are all morally grey, have their own politics and their own plans and their own schemes, and other than the obligatory sleep with Geralt moment they're all fantastic characters. In the games they really toned it down too which greatly elevated the source material even further. The only one I slightly dislike is Triss.

>>441709
Does it even make sense to call them mysogynistic if the female characters are written so well?

>>441536
>damn did we have to do those first two quests as basic ass Excal
i know, right? i wish they'd use umbra for something already, they totally forgot about him. being a warframe yume is suffering

>>441716
They didn't forget Umbra, his story is just completely self contained to the Sacrifice mission. I guess technically he's more sentient then other Warframes because of his special ability, but that's also sorta just a gameplay mechanic to separate him from regular Excal.
But anyway, it was more that took way too long with Excal's basic ass skills, especially since I kept accidentally hitting the wrong ones…
I guess we actually just created that Excal there when we first appeared, but I would have loved to see them react to my ridiculous purple bunny ears Nezha.
Started the chats, and immediately messed it up with Arthur cause he doesn't like Boy Bands, c'mon I can like both NIN and silly boy band songs.
But now I have to figure out how to get easy ability kills against these new enemy types. What a pain.

>>441719
>I guess technically he's more sentient then other Warframes because of his special ability
that's what bothers me, i feel like he's enough of an individual character to at least be considered part of the cast…i don't even have a base excalibur! and the quest just throws me in one for no reason.
good luck with arthur! i was going for amir but it bothers me that he's the only one who doesn't actually flirt with you, i was expecting him to have some cute awkward moments and not just meta jokes on warframe's development. boy better step his game up soon or else

>>441714
Of course. The story still has many misogynistic elements. For instance, Yennefer before becoming a sorceress is described as being ugly, and her current appearance is the magical equivalent of plastic surgery. When Geralt meets her he notes this and says that despite changing her appearance with magic she couldn't change her eyes, and that when he looks at her he sees the eyes of an ugly woman staring back. All of the women in the series are hypersexual, and every one of them wants to fuck Geralt. Yennefer and the sorceresses are painted as being so comically evil because they're infertile, and Yennefer herself is especially bitter because her life long dream is to have children. Geralt however is a walking dildo irresistible to women exactly because HE is infertile, and thus fucking him doesn't risk pregnancy. Ciri is the only non-sexualized female character until she ends up with the Rats, is immediately raped by a woman into lesbianism, and temporarily becomes another comically evil hypersexual woman except that she's a teenage girl. Triss has a decades long feud with Yennefer over Geralt, and fucks him behind her alleged best friend's back whenever she can. The first two games she's taking advantage of Geralt's amnesia to have sex with him. At one point in the books she's dying from dysentery while they're traveling and is completely delirious, Geralt takes her into the woods so she can have diarrhea and she literally jumps on him and begs him to fuck her. I could go on but you get the gist. This is a case of "it's so bad that it's good".

>>441683
I like fighting games, and I've played a bit of SF6. I quit after the newest season reveal, though. The game is fun, I do recommend it. Do you like playing any older fighting games?

>>441683
Do you like beat em ups? There's co-op too.

>>441749
I used to be into Soul Calibur but outside of playing it at parties at home it's kind of dead online so it's time to move on and try something new. Right now SF6 and Tekken8 are the big ones. Neither game has art direction I'm in love with but I like Street Fighter's art direction just a bit more.

>>441767
never played the genre, I will look into it.

Is the ai somnium files worth buying? I think I heard there's troonshit in it but is it something minor overblown or?

>>441993
People have talked about it in some previous threads. Maybe the VN thread.

>>441993
The first game is pretty good imo. The troon shit isn't that bad eveb if it's definitely there, it's not too important. There's an okama who's friend with the MC, he shows up fairly often because he's an informant and the MC is a detective but you can just interpret him as a drag queen. The MC being a slut could be more off putting if you don't like seeing dick jokes all the time. The second game sucks, the story contradicts things from the first game and one of the big mysteries is so stupid yet weirdly convenient for the rest of the plot it seems like the writer just wrote half of the story for the sake of making the audience surprised. As opposed to telling a good story that happens to have surprising and smart twists. I really liked the new MC from it though, Ryuki, and one specific ending but I don't want to spoil that for you if you want to give it a try. They're just not enough to compensate for the rest of the game for me but that's subjective.

>>441993
AI the somnium files the first game is fantastic imo. There's an okama hsts character but other than that, it's pretty easy to ignore.
I second >>442016 that the second game isn't worth it unless you really wanted to see what happens.

Currently taking a break from the yakuza series with a bunch of "no thoughts head empty" type games and forza horizon.
I want to treat myself to hades 2 this christmas, need to check the sales

>>442073
I recommend Hades 2, especially if you liked the first one. I'm enjoying it, but the story isn't complete.

>>442125
loved the first one even iff i havent unlocked the epilogue yet. did you mean not complete as in sequel hook or early access?