Eventually maybe?
I dunno. I've been excited about this game since the announcement (and learned that Archive is a band I like in small doses). I really liked all three Witchers (and hear the gwent isometric RPG was fine?)
Did a replay of The Witcher 3 a few weeks/months back (time has no meaning) because I kind of knew that was my last chance as I would never replay that for... a lot of reasons after CP came out. And that game went a long way toward making my mostly cis ass be warily pessimistic on how the trans stuff would be handled. Yeah, there is some shit and the elf tailor was clearly played for laughs. But depending on dialogue you also get a pretty decent response that highlights Geralt and Dandelion kind of just viewed him as "a dude who is in to stuff we aren't". Which reminded me of The Witcher 2 (and even to some degree 1) where it is clear there were some shitheads on the team but there were also people who clearly felt those guys were shitheads.
More or less came to a head last week when I cancelled my amazon pre-order though. Did a deep dive of some of the more anti-trans marketing stuff and that combined with people clearly not being able to tell if the bathroom cam fuckface being in the game was a joke or not really soured me. Not going to pretend that it isn't at least partially motivated by this not being PS5 friendly until probably late '21 and me not having a new GPU until probably at least April. But it was just kind of a culmination of "don't buy this yet"
And the J&J Jacking yesterday kind of validated this. Sounds like CDPR regressed and are even more childish than Sex Cards in TW1 and this is closer to a Knock Knock Keanu than a Johnny Mnemonic Keanu.
So we'll see. Give it a few weeks for hype to cool down and the longer form articles on transphobia to come out. See if CDPR even acknowledge it (ha, they won't). Wait a few months for the patches to make the game playable. And make a decision then.
But this is rapidly starting to feel like another Kingdom Come for me. On paper it is very much a game for me (janky combat, star wars kid dancing, incredibly systems heavy, and high budget eurojank spirit) spoiled by toxic assholes.
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