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[Revan Reborn]

That reminds me, I CAN be ok with an antagonist that is not a piece of man meat, but I'd prefer a very specific archetype.  The wizened old mage.  A gandalf type figure, or Tellah of old, or Jolee Bindo.  Not some raw grizzled soldier type.  And frankly, Geralt basically looks like a standard soldier.  Yes he has powers, but he does not look like a wielder of arcane power.

 

Every single rpg I have ever played, I had my primary character be some kind of mage or power wielder.  In mass effect it was an adept.  The one exception was in baldurs gate 2 where I rolled a monk a couple of times, but the monk is not a standard fighter in that his power is HIMSELF, not in what metal stick he chose to pick up / finds.  HE IS THE POWER.

 

Nothing about the aesthetics of Geralt convey that, he LOOKS like his primary source of danger is in his martial skill.

Well really witchers are a jack of all trades. They are expert swordsman certainly. They are also experts on sign usage, have incredible strength and rapid reflexes, as well as create concoctions to bolster their abilities based on proper preparation and depending on who their target is. They are mutants. Super humans. So yes, Geralt in many ways is a mixture of a solider as well as a mage. It's necessary in order to slay the kinds of creatures he hunts.

[GenericEnemy]

I was pretty indifferent on Geralt's aesthetics before, but then The Witcher 3 happened.

 

 

*fans*

[I SOLD MY SOUL TO BIOWARE]

I was pretty indifferent on Geralt's aesthetics before, but then The Witcher 3 happened.

 

*snip*

 

*fans*

 

TW3 Geralt is even more proof that beards will always make you look better. 

[GrayTimber]

I like DA more because of the easy combat, honestly. I tried the last Witcher game.

 

The combat was really weird and it just couldn't hook me in. 

[skulldogx]

I want to try the witcher series people have suggested to me many times I should try the game  like since am into Dragon age....

[dantares83]

oh noes, here we go again.

 

although i have never played the witcher series, they look completely different from me.

 

lets hope this thread don't get deleted....

[Sylvius the Mad]

I love the aesthetics of The Witcher.  I think the setting is really interesting.

 

But the combat is just unplayably awful.  It actually made me stop reading the books, because the books describe a world that would make for such a great game, but I hate the games, so the books now just make me angry.

[Han Shot First]

Oh boy, here we go.

 

The Witcher and Dragon Age are my two favourite modern RPG series at the moment. Don't make me choose. That's like asking me which child is my favourite. 

 

I'd go with Mass Effect as my number one and those two as tied for second place. I'm not sure I could choose either. 

[Revan Reborn]

I like DA more because of the easy combat, honestly. I tried the last Witcher game.

 

The combat was really weird and it just couldn't hook me in. 

It's very awkward and the learning curve is a bit ridiculous. Thankfully, it's getting a makeover and hopefully will be more akin to a Batman: Arkham where it's very intuitive yet offers deep complexity and tactics.

 

I want to try the witcher series people have suggested to me many times I should try the game  like since am into Dragon age....

Well Dragon Age and The Witcher have nothing in common. The only similarity between CDPR and BioWare is the fact that The Witcher 1 used BioWare's engine and CDPR are major fans of BioWare, which is clear given how their games are similar in terms of the choice-driven storytelling.

 

I love the aesthetics of The Witcher.  I think the setting is really interesting.

 

But the combat is just unplayably awful.  It actually made me stop reading the books, because the books describe a world that would make for such a great game, but I hate the games, so the books now just make me angry.

I'd give the series one more try once TW3 is release. It is fixing all the issues TW2 had as the combat wasn't user-friendly and was rather unforgivable in many regards.

[Ashelsu]

Haha, yeah, I agree with you, Oberyn...I think the Witcher 2 is a beautiful, atmospheric game,and wev, I'd bang Geralt. (Although I don't really enjoy him so much as tolerate him). But I do prefer to create my own character and not be a dude and still get to bang ladies and like... most things about DA tbh, although Witcher is fun too. 

 

However, OP, I don't know if we needed another thread to talk about Witcher v DA....ever again....lmao. 

Well, one can hope next serie we will have Ciri as a protagonist Ah, who I'm kidding.
Anyway, Witcher 3 Geralt looks hot (and he has a beard!) and I can't wait to meet Yen.

Oh boy, here we go.

 

The Witcher and Dragon Age are my two favourite modern RPG series at the moment. Don't make me choose. That's like asking me which child is my favourite. 

Yes. I don't understand how people go to war trying to belittle one of them.

[Sylvius the Mad]

I'd give the series one more try once TW3 is release. It is fixing all the issues TW2 had as the combat wasn't user-friendly and was rather unforgivable in many regards.

I didn't even get to TW2.  Click-to-attack isn't something I'm willing to endure.  I can only do Skyrim because of Archery and Conjuration.

[I SOLD MY SOUL TO BIOWARE]

Well, one can hope next serie we will have Ciri as a protagonist Ah, who I'm kidding.

 

I actually really hope this happens.

 

She could take the protagonist reins after TW3 is done, and the series could still more or less get away with being called 'The Witcher' afterwards. 

[pengwin21]

I disagree, and this is coming from a straight dude. The reason why I'm perfectly fine with Geralt the way he is has more to do with how his looks are incorporated into the story and the lore. Geralt is not supposed to be incredibly attractive. He's getting old, been through more battles than he cares to remember, and he's tired. You can compare him to a Solid Snake of sorts.

 

His looks fit in perfectly with his personality and demeanor. Characters on occasion even mention (I believe it was the first game) that he is ugly and not easy on the eyes. It merely adds that much more depth, imperfection, and complexity to the world. Geralt is far from a knight in shining armor, and that's the point. That's what makes him a great anti-hero. That's what makes The Witcher series worth playing to begin with.

 

I remember when CDPR was first showing screenshots of TW2. They made Geralt much more attractive and there was an outcry from the fan base to make him more like his TW1 appearance. It's just not true to the source material and you are merely cheapening a large part of the experience and story by making everybody beautiful and no one can be ugly. The world of The Witcher is a very ugly and imperfect place. It's just nice to see CDPR isn't afraid to depict it without censoring it.

 

It should also be mentioned that Witchers are more or less universally hated and despised as being necessary evils to hunt monsters. They have little respect and are constantly judged as being alien or mutants. It wouldn't make any sense at all for Geralt to look like a model when everybody treats him like trash. The Witcher series and books are just not that kind of experience.

 

The problem I have with this is how 'conventionally attractive' the ladies of the game are, particularly the ones Geralt can be romantically involved with. It's common in video games and other media that it's "in character" for men to be unattractive and ladies to be attractive and it just seems like a hollow excuse honestly.

[LostInReverie19]

Um, am I the only one who strongly prefers Geralt's appearance in Witcher 1 over TW2 and TW3?

[Darkly Tranquil]

I think they're both great games with different qualities. DA has a lot more customisability, but Witcher has more consistent design and a more integrated protagonist. For me, Witcher's great strength is it's grungy, more adult world; it pulls no punches with its depictions of sex, violence, the cruelty of feudalism, etc.). DA tends to suffer from a certain squeamishness about dealing with these issues honestly (probably due to different ratings; I would love to see DA go balls to wall as an R18+ game). But DA has a more interesting world design, and offers far more replayability due to the range of characters you can play in it. I played Witcher 2once, and while I really liked it, I never felt like doing it again. I have played DAO 14 times, and DA2 four times, on the other hand.

[GenericEnemy]

I actually really hope this happens.

 

She could take the protagonist reins after TW3 is done, and the series could still more or less get away with being called 'The Witcher' afterwards. 

 

I'm pretty sure CDPR said the series would continue after TW3 but Geralt's story would be concluded, so I can literally think of no one better to take up the protagonist role than his badass adopted daughter. In fact, I'll be pretty disappointed if they don't do it. 

 

And I have to say I really like how she looks this game, to boot.

 

[Nefla]

I enjoy the political intrigue of The Witcher, but I prefer making my own character, having companions and NPCs that I can really get to know and team up with, and not having to play in a sexist world where women are mainly there as damsels and eye candy.

[MarchWaltz]

I can't play Witcher because it gives me no CC. I just hate RPG games that are based around choices...and yet, they do not give you the choice of how your character looks. How you look.

 

To hell with Witcher, long live Bioware.

[Revan Reborn]

I didn't even get to TW2.  Click-to-attack isn't something I'm willing to endure.  I can only do Skyrim because of Archery and Conjuration.

Ah. The combat in TW2 is much better than the first game. At the very least, I'd just play the game on the easiest setting and plow through it for the story.

 

The problem I have with this is how 'conventionally attractive' the ladies of the game are, particularly the ones Geralt can be romantically involved with. It's common in video games and other media that it's "in character" for men to be unattractive and ladies to be attractive and it just seems like a hollow excuse honestly.

Depends on the women we are talking about. If we are referring to the sorceresses, there is actually a lore reason for that. They will depict themselves as attractive woman in their early twenties in order to entice men to get what they want. It's purely political as all the sorceresses are trying to gain influence on the court with the king they are representing. That's straight from the novels.

 

Um, am I the only one who strongly prefers Geralt's appearance in Witcher 1 over TW2 and TW3?

I thought Geralt looked a bit more unrefined with his hair down. I thought his facial appearance was more or less identical in TW1 and TW2.

[Revan Reborn]

I enjoy the political intrigue of The Witcher, but I prefer making my own character, having companions and NPCs that I can really get to know and team up with, and not having to play in a sexist world where women are mainly there as damsels and eye candy.

Most of the female characters generally tend to be quite the opposite actually. In fact, often the female characters are more stronger than the male characters, and Geralt actually points this out on a variety of occasions. It's certainly a sexist world, but the women portrayed in it are generally far from victims in it.

[GenericEnemy]

I enjoy the political intrigue of The Witcher, but I prefer making my own character, having companions and NPCs that I can really get to know and team up with, and not having to play in a sexist world where women are mainly there as damsels and eye candy.

 

The Witcher has plenty of great female characters, and I actually end up appreciating them more because it takes place in a grittier medieval world full of sexists, racists, etc. 

[pengwin21]

 

Depends on the women we are talking about. If we are referring to the sorceresses, there is actually a lore reason for that. They will depict themselves as attractive woman in their early twenties in order to entice men to get what they want. It's purely political as all the sorceresses are trying to gain influence on the court with the king they are representing. That's straight from the novels.

 

 

 

Yeah, this is one of those 'excuses' to make women attractive that frequently come up and just because the novels did it too doesn't make it any less...tiresome. Women being 'powerful' because men find them attractive is a very worn-out trope in my opinion.

[Darkly Tranquil]

I'm pretty sure CDPR said the series would continue after TW3 but Geralt's story would be concluded, so I can literally think of no one better to take up the protagonist role than his badass adopted daughter. In fact, I'll be pretty disappointed if they don't do it. 
 
And I have to say I really like how she looks this game, to boot.
 

[Nefla]

Most of the female characters generally tend to be quite the opposite actually. In fact, often the female characters are more stronger than the male characters, and Geralt actually points this out on a variety of occasions. It's certainly a sexist world, but the women portrayed in it are generally far from victims in it.

Triss is a damsel the whole game, Phillipa gets locked up, tortured, and needs to be rescued by Geralt, Baroness LaValette is tortured (naked) and needs to be rescued by Geralt, Sabrina is burned alive on a wheel, Saskia does the whole sleeping beauty routine and needs to be cured by Geralt, Vess is raped and needs to be saved by Geralt, etc...and all of them are wearing sexy clothing. The game portrays them as damsels and objects of desire. No thanks.