it is a fairly good video games as far as video games go but it doesn’t do anything particularly mind blowing. I still love it bc the level design is great and the navigational gimmicks are fun and the world is decently crafted. it’s excellent escapism tho.
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I would play death of the outsider if you’re only gonna play one fwiw
they’re all only good at the end of the day but that one is the tightest by far
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i have been talking about it in discord a lot
things i like: level design is strong, lots of options, fun to move around, blinking onto stuff, climbing, sneaking, all good
things i dislike: the world-building doesn’t really work for me, overall. nothing feels like a real place, the anachronisms chafe rather than inspire, and my immersion is frequently broken by the hamfisted environmental storytelling and how in-your-face they get. it feels extremely 2012 video game.
in other words, way too much of this:
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yeah the worst part was how 2 didn’t really improve that much
doto did though
It’s been a good few years for FPS gaidens
this is the best way to describe the issues I’ve had with the writing in Witcher games overall. The dude who wrote all the novels and short stories these games are based on is totally a Garth Marenghi type. I think I can actually get into the games now if I just imagine Geralt is Witcher Rick Dagless
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thankfully the games have never been quite as goofy as the books
if it’s too much for you then fine, it’s definitely like standard wish fulfillment male fantasy tropes but at least these media were made in the 2010s and not the 80s
(and we’ve already discussed several times how the first one is a lot worse in this respect than the other two and how maybe cdpr isn’t the best choice for cyberpunk 2027 if people want to see something that’s a little less male fantasy done well)
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the best thing I can say is that it’s a case of male characters being written as sexist and the women characters are generally written as annoyed by it all, so there is some self awareness at least. but there’s never really any narrative challenging of this dynamic and it’s already getting really grating. at least it’s so loafy and stupid that it’s funny most of the time but that doesn’t really excuse it.
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Everything about the Witcher is Only Good except for one thing which is very important to me, which is that every time it gives you a choice none of the choices are good. All the choices are bad, you can only choose which kind of bad you want and many times you can’t even anticipate what kind of bad you’re going to get. You add that to a bunch of game systems that are Good and that’s enough for me.
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the thing that bothers me most about the witcher was that he says ‘roach’ but apparently the correct translation is ROACHIE and i hate that im missing out on the parallel universe where gerald says roachie lovingly to his horse over and over
ive only played the witcher 3 is roachie in 2
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gerald voice Thanks bunches.
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In an effort to extract the most value from the $5 I gave to Microsoft I’ve downloaded and am playing ReCore. It’s very simplified combat + simplified platforming + really simplified exploration, etc., etc., at least in the early going. And I am quite early in the going but I do wonder if the game will open up a bit now that I’m through the introductory portion. It’s a bit like Lost Planet & Metroid Prime had a baby but like, when you have two beautiful people that wind up with sort of an ugly kid.
I lol’d a little as I started to slap disparate upgrade bits onto my robodog Mack and he just looks like a total train wreck. I like all the stat boosts though, and don’t see the need to go for a matching set of upgrades – I’d rather my robodog be a Mack of all trades than just have totally upgraded X attribute.
The only thing I like about the protagonist’s character design is that her shoulders and upper arms are sunburned on top.
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i bought 3 months of game pass for a dollar and i keep thinking about playing recore but always end up talking myself out of it
This piece of shit appeared out of no where offering me promise of a new, better life, and then just left me hanging.
So I killed it.
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i wasnt huge on gerald the witcher when i started playing witcher 3 because the first game fucking sucks and i bounced off of 2, but heres a collection of some of my favorite gerald moments
i need to finish this game
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I won’t go so far as to recommend it, yet. I haven’t really had my mind blown. I’m going to press on, though, so final impressions are TBD.
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I still think Witcher 2 is a little underappreciated but mostly in the sense that not everything it did well wound up in 3 which everyone and their brother adored and because it like singlehandedly got me interested in big RPGs again after close to a decade of being equally bored by Bioware and Obsidian
it was a stepping stone to bar getting a lot higher but it wasn’t only that
I’m not a big The Witcher fan. But, Geralt is a character in Soul Caliber 6 and he’s a great addition to the series.
Sigil.
My love of Romero levels and my hatred of crusher ceiling puzzles are dueling. I’ve been killed by ceilings twice now. I might cheat my way through this level, or at the very least save-scum it.
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