The problem is, you don't know he likes killing women before you get to his hideout. It could've been anything, but they just took the easy way of making you hate him. I personally think it would've been better if they took the women-killing stuff out, and just left you with the choice of snitching him to Dijkstra, or keeping his secret. Dat twist was really heavy-handed, and unnecessary.
I generally believe that context matters (actually my main problem with a lot of Sarkeesian's work is how often she overlooks context in order to make a point, but that's a whole other discussion). There's a clear difference to me between something like Duke Nukem Forever, where sexism is pictured positively as being fun and "manly", and The Witcher which does contain sexism but never makes it look acceptable. With all the choice you get in the dialogue, I don't think there's a way to make Geralt sound like a sexist/racist asshole - I never came across such an option I think. In fact I'd go as far as saying that the way he treats everyone equally is one of his most important traits, that most set him apart from the rest of the world he lives in.
Bottom line, I never felt like playing a Duke Nukem game - as a woman, I feel like it's a "boys club" of sorts where I have no business going. And I really love The Witcher games' setting in a way - as much as I'd hate to live there.
Great comment. I agree fully with it. (it also partially echos my comment on the last page)
- On the side, it is also interesting to note that in the books, Geralt in general comes accross as such a level headed guy when it comes to questions of gender as well.
I just think using some of these tropes are lazy writing.
Now, I realize CDPR are kind of trapped in a few things because of the source material. And then I also forgive some things because it's obvious Andrej and them were both heavily trying to get a realistic time period fantasy with spritzes of Polish mythology.
But I think they failed in a few things. The end of the Whoreson Junior was rather problematic to me.
They literally used women's bodies to make you dislike him. It's like they couldn't think of anything else and said hey let's just throw in some dead women!
. That was incredibly lazy writing, especially coming after some of the good writing earlier int he game.
Think I've run into the xp bug. On the broken flowers quest and the first few npc chats gave me xp but the last few haven't. Won a horse race and all I got was a stinking saddle and no xp
The problem is, you don't know he likes killing women before you get to his hideout. It could've been anything, but they just took the easy way of making you hate him. I personally think it would've been better if they took the women-killing stuff out, and just left you with the choice of snitching him to Dijkstra, or keeping his secret. Dat twist was really heavy-handed, and unnecessary.
One of the plans to getting inside of the hideouts is telling the guards that you're there to bring in more women for him. I believe it's even said that women would enter but never leave.
They also repeatedly talk about how insane and dangerous he is.
attached to her after doing all of her side quests
.
I told her we could try again after helping the Mages escape and was so glad when she decided to stick around.
I've been to Skellige but still haven't met up with Yen again yet. The writing in this game is exquisite. I'm really expecting the eventual conversations with Yen will make me feel regret but such is CDPR writing.
The scene where you can ask
Dudu to transform in to Ciri
was unexpectedly hard hitting. Geralt's reaction and instant regret is clearly visible.
This is GOTY and is fighting to get a spot on my Top 5 of all time.
I recovered Philippa's Crystal and the quest log says to take it to one of sorceresses. Already sent Triss to Kher Mohrn, so Yen is my only option. Now I've travel to Skellige, killed the Werewolf and can now start the Last Wish quest. Exactly when can I talk to Yen about the crystal
?
I really want to head back to Novigrad and clean up quests before getting deep into Skellige.
He was one of the very few characters I decided to kill when given the chance. It wasn't even a hard choice for me after I realized what kind of psychopat he is.
Knowing The Witcher games and how your decisions always end up fucking things up despite good intentions, I'm kinda scared at how that decision might pan out later on.
I recovered Philippa's Crystal and the quest log says to take it to one of sorceresses. Already sent Triss to Kher Mohrn, so Yen is my only option. Now I've travel to Skellige, killed the Werewolf and can now start the Last Wish quest. Exactly when can I talk to Yen about the crystal
?
I really want to head back to Novigrad and clean up quests before getting deep into Skellige.
I freakin' LOVE the little overview you get after you've cleared out an abandoned area and all the villagers come back. Geralt always looks so pleased with himself.
One of the plans to getting inside of the hideouts is telling the guards that you're there to bring in more women for him. I believe it's even said that women would enter but never leave.
They also repeatedly talk about how insane and dangerous he is.
ONCE. By Radovid. And it could've been easily left out, you already know he's a crazy sadist, putting women-killing-for-sexual-reasons-or-whatever on top of that is just piling on and making him more one-dimensionally bad which is at odds with The Witcher series. It just felt like they didn't think I hated the guy enough and threw everything and a kitchen sink at him. I didn't kill him, for plenty of reasons, one of them admittedly being not having any of it. They just had to go for a trope. Him and Dijkstra had the most disappointing twists in the game. That's too sad because the rest of the game is so on point.
Just found the best buyer for the hides I have. Near Odrin by the docks in Novigrad. Sold 3 white bear hides for 500 orens or so. The Merchants inventory is nothing but empty bottles.
Turn the PoI's off is all I can say. It's nice to sometimes stumble upon them but I can see how hunting down all question marks a la Ubisoft style would be frustrating filler.
This might be the best game I've played in 14 years since Shadows of Amn. I mean it is a close contest between the Street Fighter series, Baldurs Gate and perhaps Kotor.
I am just amazed how much work and dedication the boys at CDProjekt have shown. This is a fucking flawless product and I love the plot, the personal emotion and all the drama involved.
I have invested a lot of emotion in order to immerse myself in this world.
I teared up when Geralt was finally reunited with Cirilla in that hut. It was a hard pill to swallow, even the possibility of her being dead.
Question for people passed Velen/Novigrad into Skellige. I'm level 18 at the moment, doing some of what I'm assuming are final side quests in Novigrad right now (until later on probably), and receiving no more XP. Will I be at a huge disadvantage if I traveled to Skellige to keep playing? I just can't wait for this patch its driving me nuts that I can't play right now.
I've put more hours into this last night and today. While I like the game overall, the movement (especially while swimming) and combat need a lot of work. I dread fights due to how awkward and sluggish the combat system is. In addition, all the bugs break the atmosphere and immersion the developers worked so hard to build. I know it's the nature of the open world beast, but there are so many glitches that pop up, it can get quite distracting.
If it wasn't for the masterful story telling, I'd have been done with the game a few hours after purchase.
attached to her after doing all of her side quests
.
I told her we could try again after helping the Mages escape and was so glad when she decided to stick around.
I've been to Skellige but still haven't met up with Yen again yet. The writing in this game is exquisite. I'm really expecting the eventual conversations with Yen will make me feel regret but such is CDPR writing.
The scene where you can ask
Dudu to transform in to Ciri
was unexpectedly hard hitting. Geralt's reaction and instant regret is clearly visible.
This is GOTY and is fighting to get a spot on my Top 5 of all time.
The problem is, you don't know he likes killing women before you get to his hideout. It could've been anything, but they just took the easy way of making you hate him. I personally think it would've been better if they took the women-killing stuff out, and just left you with the choice of snitching him to Dijkstra, or keeping his secret. Dat twist was really heavy-handed, and unnecessary.
His name is Whoreson Junior. The entire name could be an affectation, but I took it to mean he was a son of a whore. It could be called tropey but there have often been portrayals of gynophobes being sons of prostitutes.
You probably will miss on a bunch of formulas and diagrams, however, I suspect many of the alchemy formulas have multiple sources and the other copies just disappear as you get your first one.
I know this is the case with less important crafting diagrams because I remember seeing 2 early game smiths sharing the same diagrams, and once I bought them from one, the other stopped selling them as well.
Man patch 1.03 on ps4 has the game running like shit for me now. Shit is popping in like crazy. I've got to run around in circles some times for 10-15 seconds before I can talk to a merchant/quest giver before it will work. Water in Skellige was looking flatter than usual and I was feeling even more disappointed about the water until it finally popped into its usual self (Water graphics are the the most disappointing looking thing in the game imo) npcs are glitching all around, had the Madame at a whore house glitch into the only exit in the place, completely locking me in lol.
But otherwise the game is a top 10, maybe top 5 of all time for me. A fuckin' collectible card game in my Open World, and its as addicting as the rest of the game. Writing/quests have been kinda weak. Nothing like doing a couple hour quest and it climaxes with gold and xp and not a word said otherwise.
Game says I've got like 4+ days in already and I just don't believe it. I'm guessing it glitched out and I've got 60ish because it jumped by like 16 hours one day. Was going to try and 100% all the quests or most of them but now I'm thinking I'll save some for a future run. Its not gonna have the replay of New Vegas but its fun/addicting and beautiful. I think I'm on-board for buying the season pass, would be my first. Only regret so far is not starting it on the hard mode.
How is that even possible?
You have to hold R2 and hope the enemy attacks instead of standing there.
While you can dodge forward and side step into a lunge attack and continue to swing while the enemy is attacking into space, scoring so many critical attacks in the process due to attacking the enemy from the back/side.
I want some health I use the shield, how is that not godlike? I'll play the way I want to play, which happens to be reckless and aggressive. So having regen with the shield is godlike. How you much worth it has to you doesn't really matter. Useless for you? Sorry to hear it.
Eh, you are contradicting yourself. How can you be reckless and aggressive if you are holding down the shield? Reckless and aggressive would mean you go in swinging and countering back by trying to score more critical attacks before the enemies can react and lowing your HP that you need to heal up. Every second you stand still to regen then you are being passive.
Honestly I think the developers are kind of to blame for most of the confusion here, as far as I know CDPR wasn't allowed to use Yen in the Witcher 1? So they went with Triss in the Witcher 2 as well.
But if you think about the whole romance problem in the Witcher 3, the actions in the Witcher 2 make no sense.
There are NPCs everywhere that know of Geralt and Yen and talk about it constantly and in the Witcher 2 barely anyone mentions her. The fuck is Dandellion doing, shouldn't have he of all people at least mentioned her, since I assume that he is the composer of that Priscilla song.
It kind of makes either Triss look very shity in the Witcher 2 or everyone is a dumbass in the Witcher 2. Pick your poison.
Maybe I missed something but doesn't almost everybody think Yen died with Geralt 5 years ago? Shouldn't both Triss and Dandelion think she's dead during the Witcher 1 and the first part of Witcher 2? Phillipa knew she was in Nilfgaard but she also makes it clear that Triss wasn't in on all of the Lodge's plans.
I freakin' LOVE the little overview you get after you've cleared out an abandoned area and all the villagers come back. Geralt always looks so pleased with himself.
Maybe I missed something but doesn't almost everybody think Yen died with Geralt 5 years ago? Shouldn't both Triss and Dandelion think she's dead during the Witcher 1 and the first part of Witcher 2? Phillipa knew she was in Nilfgaard but she also makes it clear that Triss wasn't in on all of the Lodge's plans.
Letho reveals to Geralt that she is alive. Not to mention Geralt only starts thinking about her and looking for her when he gets his memory back fully.
Holy shit that was some epic stuff coming from the Ladies of the Woods quest mixed with the Whispering Hillock quests.
Some pretty wicked character designs
. Anyone else immediately try and mind control Black Beauty if you freed the spirit in the tree? Lol. I was so hoping that would work. Then the damn horse took off fast as hell but I lost It when I tried to call my own horse. Too bad there isn't a way to get on your horse while sprinting.
Maybe I missed something but doesn't almost everybody think Yen died with Geralt 5 years ago? Shouldn't both Triss and Dandelion think she's dead during the Witcher 1 and the first part of Witcher 2? Phillipa knew she was in Nilfgaard but she also makes it clear that Triss wasn't in on all of the Lodge's plans.
Yeah. Everyone does think she is dead or missing. Until Letho tells Geralt she was in Nilfgaard, whereupon he probably tells everyone else that he is going to look for her.
You probably will miss on a bunch of formulas and diagrams, however, I suspect many of the alchemy formulas have multiple sources and the other copies just disappear as you get your first one.
I know this is the case with less important crafting diagrams because I remember seeing 2 early game smiths sharing the same diagrams, and once I bought them from one, the other stopped selling them as well.
His name is Whoreson Junior. The entire name could be an affectation, but I took it to mean he was a son of a whore. It could be called tropey but there have often been portrayals of gynophobes being sons of prostitutes.
Sarkeesian is becoming increasingly irrelevant and is just trying to gain attention via such messaging.
This is a mature game with a very dark world. The main female characters are extremely well written though and they have strong personalities. I suppose you can make an argument that Lady of the Lake and various other characters are sexual but they are goddesses. Making them look like farmers (lots of hard working and normal looking people around if you are willing to look) would make no sense.
"In The Witcher 3 you get to play as Ciri for short segments but be warned enemies will yell nasty gendered insults at her while she fights." - FemFreq
