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The Witcher on Netflix prompts hundreds of thousands of fans to return to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (92k concurrent today on Steam)
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I'm right there on the bandwagon.
Bought and installed Thronebreaker last night (which is on sale on XBL for like £12 atm) and reinstalled TW3. Never did finish Blood and Wine.
Going back to it after all this time and there still being new content is madness. I also didn't know there was a NG+ either, though I'm not sure I'll carry enough steam to do both.
Bought and installed Thronebreaker last night (which is on sale on XBL for like £12 atm) and reinstalled TW3. Never did finish Blood and Wine.
Going back to it after all this time and there still being new content is madness. I also didn't know there was a NG+ either, though I'm not sure I'll carry enough steam to do both.
We may have to agree to disagree; if this is the show's intent, I'm not sure how well it's communicated. If they wanted to emphasise her will to power...
...then why ignore her three decades as a court sorcerer (where she had the ear of kings and queens) in favour of a scene where she flees from a rented assassin and leaves him to murder an innocent woman and her child?
Why have her placed under house arrest by a local mayor only to waste her time arranging bizarre orgies and helping troubled husbands with their impotence?
Why have her almost kill herself mistakenly assuming that the genie's wishes had been given to Dandelion and not Geralt (this would have been a good chance to demonstrate how much smarter she is than Geralt, but alas...)? It's Geralt who figures this out and, as any buff male protagonist should, risks life and limb to save her in a bold act of heroism (after which, she beds him, obviously).
Why continually strip the poor woman down to her draws and have her offered up as a sexual curiosity to the male characters (she's bedded as part of her sorcery initiation for some reason, slips into the tub with Geralt and is remarked on only with reference to being a possible conquest by Dandelion when he wakes up next to her topless and gyrating on his bed).
Why have her placed under house arrest by a local mayor only to waste her time arranging bizarre orgies and helping troubled husbands with their impotence?
Why have her almost kill herself mistakenly assuming that the genie's wishes had been given to Dandelion and not Geralt (this would have been a good chance to demonstrate how much smarter she is than Geralt, but alas...)? It's Geralt who figures this out and, as any buff male protagonist should, risks life and limb to save her in a bold act of heroism (after which, she beds him, obviously).
Why continually strip the poor woman down to her draws and have her offered up as a sexual curiosity to the male characters (she's bedded as part of her sorcery initiation for some reason, slips into the tub with Geralt and is remarked on only with reference to being a possible conquest by Dandelion when he wakes up next to her topless and gyrating on his bed).
It can be argued that this is all consistent with her character, but the problem is, I've seen it all before - women defined by their looks, their motherhood and their subjection to male sexual interest - and I might be asking too much of a 'tits and wyverns' style fantasy romp, but if CDPR can manage it, I'd think Netflix could.
All that said, I don't honestly knock anyone who had a great time with the show and found a lot to like - these are things that I look out for in storytelling and not necessarily what anyone else should look out for. The show has attracted a lot of commentary both positive and negative and I hope they get a second season to develop what they've got and broaden the scope for the series.
About 3-4 hours into the Switch version from hype for the show. First time playing it ever and I'm definitely fighting through the controls a bit but I love the world.
I started playing it about a week with the goal of finally finishing the main game and all the expansions. Such a fantastic game so far and I'm only about 12 hours in.
Both series are technically story-heavy, open-world, third-person action RPGs in the fantasy genre, became popular around the same time, and over the years have CONSTANTLY been compared to one another. Is it only nonsensical because you think my opinion is wrong?
This fucking place. People don't ever like to have actual conversations as to why they think someone else is wrong or right, they just shout at them in hopes they'll get riled, feel bad, or shut up. Because then they might have to back up their claims with anything besides raw, subjective emotion. Passive-aggressive bullies, the lot of you.
EDIT: I'm just not going to lurk or post on the forum anymore, I know no big loss, who cares fuck off junior. You all genuinely terrify me.
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I also started watching the show and it is indeed a strong motivating factor in making me finish The Witcher 2 (I had a problem booting up the game which I resolved so it's time to finish it). Later this week I'll play the DLC of TW3 while watching the show as well. :P
The story and voice acting to Thronebreaker is awesome even if the actual gameplay is a bit of a drag.
I'll have the discussion with you. It is an interesting comparison for sure.
Are we comparing Witcher 3 to Dark Souls 1?
Guilty. Fired it back up yesterday. I'd completed main campaign and started the dlc but left off to play other stuff and just never got back to it. The dlc is weird to me cz my ending in main game was more or less happily ever after with Yennefer but now in dlc she's nowhere to be found and Geralt is banging a hot redhead nurse in a rickety boat.
Yeah, each their own. I personally think the way the main story is written is much better in The Witcher 1 than any other Witcher title (note: main, because Hearts of Stone obviously is better than any Witcher storyline in any game). Sure, it's a bit silly lorewise to just introduce a not-Ciri (Alwin) and to, for some reason, decide to merge Yennefer into Triss, but the actual main story is in my opinion much better executed than that of The Witcher 3 simply due to the fact it totally nails its ending. I adore The Witcher 3, but the main story totally falls apart at the ending. Witcher 1 totally nails the ending and even contains a surprise twist for the people who pay attention to the dialogue and some in-game items.
The main villain is not-Ciri aka Alwin.
Witcher 2 in general is just an inferior game IMO and the weakest in the Witcher franchise, despite me still generally liking it. It's just feels so awkward to play, probably because it was made with consoles in mind even though CD Projekt RED didn't actually have any experience working on consoles. Also, while the way the story was told was quite ambitious, I do feel that it was maybe a bit too ambitious and didn't quite work out how it was presented.
Not saying that The Witcher 1 is some unknown masterpiece, because it also has some very glaring flaws. The graphics and voice acting are hilariously awful (though I can overlook that as it's a small indie RPG from a poor Eastern European country and hey, it wasn't nearly as bad as Two Worlds) and the sex card business is, well, embarrassing to say the least.
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Haven't watched the show yet.
Own it on PS4 and have played 0 minutes of it.
Gonna buy it for Switch for a few International flights coming up.
The hype is real.
(But, in all seriousness, it's a desire to be a part of a phenomenon....my wife, who doesn't like video games, saw the trailer for the Netflix show and was really into it! I really feel like The Witcher is surpassing where it once was!)
Own it on PS4 and have played 0 minutes of it.
Gonna buy it for Switch for a few International flights coming up.
The hype is real.
(But, in all seriousness, it's a desire to be a part of a phenomenon....my wife, who doesn't like video games, saw the trailer for the Netflix show and was really into it! I really feel like The Witcher is surpassing where it once was!)
I want to play it again when I finish all the books, I'm interested in Throne Breaker though how do people here like that?
I played a few hours on pc a few years ago but I stopped playing for some reason, now thanks to the show I picked it up during the current eshop sale on switch, I always prefer the portable experience.
I call it nonsensical because I think the comparison assumes only one format is the "proper" way of doing narrative, and I think both games prove exactly that there's a case to be made for both formats. They coexist, they don't trumple each other and you can like both. I would be sad if the industry created a consensus that Witcher 3's approach is "inferior" to doing the item-lore approach of Bloodborne and vice versa.
Random people on the internet told me it's good, they must be absolutely right
Yeeeeeeeeesh
The poster tried to engage with you in their next post, but you couldn't even wait to throw this out😂
Not surprised, been wanting to as well now.
I'm more considering Witcher 1 and 2 though as I never beat them. Witcher 1 I recall annoying me almost immeadiately gameplay wise, but I'll try again. Witcher 2 I thought was good enough to play so can imagine going though that.
I also noticed I have Witcher 3 GOTY, compared to the original version I had, on GOG which I'm tempted to play through again on it. I've still been gutted about the ONE underwater cave that never completed due to bug so I could never 100% it on my 200+ hour save..
I'm more considering Witcher 1 and 2 though as I never beat them. Witcher 1 I recall annoying me almost immeadiately gameplay wise, but I'll try again. Witcher 2 I thought was good enough to play so can imagine going though that.
I also noticed I have Witcher 3 GOTY, compared to the original version I had, on GOG which I'm tempted to play through again on it. I've still been gutted about the ONE underwater cave that never completed due to bug so I could never 100% it on my 200+ hour save..
I started replaying after finished the show too lol. I had actually began another play-through months ago but stopped while doing one of the Keira quests so I was basically still at the beginning of the game. I'm also a lot more impressed with the world this time around because I've been exploring and go after more markers in stuff in this playthrough than my first. I found them overwhelming the first time I played the game and didn't really do any sidequests until I got to the city. There's so much life and detail, for instance:
I actually ran into another witcher, helped him out, and convinced him to go to Kaer Morhen. I never met him in my first playthrough so that was really cool to me.
All completely valid an well put. I appreciate your thoughts on it. I also thought the orgy was a head scratcher, but ultimately I didn't mind it all too much.
On the gin episode, she had no reason to not believe Geralt, he turned up with dandelion and his throat damaged...she had no reason to think it was geralt...he didn't even know tbf.
Anyway, enjoying the show and can't wait for them to continue it.
Dark Souls isn't 'story-heavy' or open world though. The games are completely different in their gameplay and delivery of narrative.
Its definitely got some issues but as a fan of the games, I liked it a lot.
No Coincidence that it recently dropped on Xbox game pass as well...it's a game I missed out on back in 2015. 3 episodes in so far, I'm going to actually play it at some point.
The hard part of getting into this is the lore. If you've played the games, it's like watching on easy mode, then you can focus on the action instead of wondering who is who.
The first ep is the worst one so if it doesn't put you off it only gets better.
This show has made me REALLY wish Thronebreaker had gotten a Switch port. I love the game, but for whatever reason it's not the sort of game I wanna sit at my desk or my TV and play for extended periods.
It's true and you should say it! Triss is fanfic for people who's two main fetishes are redheads and bad voice acting
My cousin is playing Thronebraker just because of that.
Also, more people should play Thronebraker, is about Queen Meve before she gives Geralt his Geralt of Rivia title.
So it comes before and mid books amd its pretty great. Not a lot of people have played so if you are a fan of the books and games (and now of the netflix series) you will probably love it.
Also has a great and powerful main female character with Meve.
Also, more people should play Thronebraker, is about Queen Meve before she gives Geralt his Geralt of Rivia title.
So it comes before and mid books amd its pretty great. Not a lot of people have played so if you are a fan of the books and games (and now of the netflix series) you will probably love it.
Also has a great and powerful main female character with Meve.
If youve read the books you are going to enjoy it inmensely.
Meve is an awesome character.
Isn't Thronebreaker been announced recently for the Switch?
Edit: Ah, still unconfirmed, but rumored!
I tried that a few weeks ago but it just felt so disconnected. Didn't help that I can't use my old save game with my GOTY edition on PS4.
I will do a clean restart someday with both DLCs.
I started watching the show and had the same feeling. I wanted to reinstall Witcher 3 but not because the show is good. I think the show is really bad. I made it through 3 episodes, but then called it quits. I never read the books, so I don't know how it compares, but the show made me really appreciate how great of a game it is. Reinstalling now.