Please stick to this, I don't want this thread to be locked. I know there have been similar ones in the past but I feel we need to have a fresh discussion concerning recent developments.
Please be cordial and respect others opinions/views
This game is incredible and I'm glad to see it sell over a million copies so quickly.
Maybe if it reaches 10 million sales GB will deem it worthy of taking a look at.
I agree, and a lot of reviewers that initially dismissed it e.g. Gamespot, turned around to liking it. Again jank in open world games is nothing new (Witcher, Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3,4 etc) so that should not be a reason for dismissing a game.
The ethnic origins of the Cumanians are uncertain.[20]:30[8]:279[31][need quotation to verify] The Cumans were reported to have had blond hair, fair skin and blue eyes (which set them apart from other groups and later puzzled historians),[13]:36[25]:43[32] although their anthropological characteristics suggest that their geographical origin might be in Inner-Asia, South-Siberia, or (as Istvan Vassary postulates) east of the large bend of the Yellow River in China.[6][7][33][34] Robert Wolff states that it is conjectured[by whom?] that ethnically the Cumans may not originally have been Turkic.[3
Pretty much what you say, really. By the time they are involved in this game at any rate, they are by culture Turkic.
The Cuman language is attested in some medieval documents and is the best-known of the early Turkic languages.[4]:186 The Codex Cumanicus was a linguistic manual that was written to help Catholic missionaries communicate with the Cuman people.
At least that is what historians have settled for, for now. And yes, their origins are uncertain at this point and I agree with the guess that Cumans might have 'originated' in the more northenr parts of Asia. It's been theorized that humans developed paler skins (and with that lighter hair) in areas were sun exposure was not as high (northern areas). Pales skin allows for better Vitamin D absorption.
Recent analysis and recreation of the "First Brit" also known as the 'Cheddar Man' show that first migrants into Northern Territories might have had black skin before evolving pale skin.
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