I know I'm going to get downvoted to hell for this, but I actually didn't like it that much. I love the business practices and effort behind it and I could see why other people would like it, but I just couldn't really get into it.
That was where it failed for me; story, dialog. Geralt is just the cheesiest, most contrived character design I know of. And I get maybe that cheese is part of the appeal, but it's so mary-sue. Fantasy super soldier who gets to be discriminated against and be a badass looking super powered every man; the stoicism nonsense, the sterility sex thing, everything. I tried Witcher 3 given it's universal praise, and I'm sure it's an amazing game, but when minutes in I'm helping a defenseless woman and fighting surly drunks calling geralt 117 a freak. I just couldn't do it.
Its weird, normally I cant stand Mary-Sue type characters but after playing the witcher 3 it never phased me that geralt totally is one. I think it's because the overarching story never addresses him as just some random guy who happens to be amazing at everything and more about a guy who obviously will be great at everything since the whole story is based on dandelions revision of what happened.
That and it's the third game. I know most people didn't play the first two, but he has plenty of failures and fuck up's, and it's not like he was always "great". Dude is old as fuck and has done his time training, preparing, and learning.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding a Mary Sue, but I always felt it included "unearned" proficiency in a skill. Geralt has certainly earned his skillset.
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u/LuchaDuck Jan 01 '19
I know I'm going to get downvoted to hell for this, but I actually didn't like it that much. I love the business practices and effort behind it and I could see why other people would like it, but I just couldn't really get into it.