The Witcher is one of those games that isn’t spoken about a great deal, mostly because the majority of gamers didn’t know what it was. That is until The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings was released on the Xbox 360 a few years ago. After that I started to see it everywhere, I even started hearing people talk about it in the game stores around here. My experience with The Witcher started years ago when I bought the first game for my Wife on her birthday. She played it for about two weeks and quit which is something we both do with a lot of games. This was kind of a special game for me though, not the kind of special like a particularly enjoyed it but special in a way that made me want to try and stop a moving Semi-truck with my face. Don’t misunderstand me though I think this series is amazing and its leaps and bounds ahead of the vast majority of RPG’s out today.
At the time of writing this the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be out in four days. I most likely won’t be buying it. Not because I don’t want to but because I do things like write blogs that no one reads instead of actually working, so I don’t have the money to keep buying games. That’s okay though because if I want to get really pissed off about dying every few minutes I’ll just go back to playing Bloodborne. I have seen a decent amount of the game already though, thanks to IGN and various other game news companies. As impressive as the game is the one thing that I can’t wait for is Geralt’s beard and if that sounds weird just hear me out on this. His beard actively grows as the game progresses. Now I’m no Game Designer but I have to say, a lot of people must be kicking themselves in the ass for not having thought of something like that first.
The Witcher was also the first game I had ever seen a boob in. Not to say that it was never shown in a game before, because I’m sure we all remember Dave Mirras BMX: XXX. But this was a first for me and after I got over the initial shock I began to realize that this wasn’t going to be a normal game not because they showed full nudity, but because they did it in a way that wasn’t obscene. Rather it was setup in a way that seemed natural, just two people waking up in the morning after spending the night together before the start of a very long war. If it had just been two people Bangulating for the hell of it I don’t think the series would have had such a profound impact on the industry as well as how Game stories are told.
If you should take anything away from this article, let it be this
Don’t mess with the Witcher.
At the time of writing this the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be out in four days. I most likely won’t be buying it. Not because I don’t want to but because I do things like write blogs that no one reads instead of actually working, so I don’t have the money to keep buying games. That’s okay though because if I want to get really pissed off about dying every few minutes I’ll just go back to playing Bloodborne. I have seen a decent amount of the game already though, thanks to IGN and various other game news companies. As impressive as the game is the one thing that I can’t wait for is Geralt’s beard and if that sounds weird just hear me out on this. His beard actively grows as the game progresses. Now I’m no Game Designer but I have to say, a lot of people must be kicking themselves in the ass for not having thought of something like that first.
The Witcher was also the first game I had ever seen a boob in. Not to say that it was never shown in a game before, because I’m sure we all remember Dave Mirras BMX: XXX. But this was a first for me and after I got over the initial shock I began to realize that this wasn’t going to be a normal game not because they showed full nudity, but because they did it in a way that wasn’t obscene. Rather it was setup in a way that seemed natural, just two people waking up in the morning after spending the night together before the start of a very long war. If it had just been two people Bangulating for the hell of it I don’t think the series would have had such a profound impact on the industry as well as how Game stories are told.
If you should take anything away from this article, let it be this
Don’t mess with the Witcher.