Yeah lol, the first book “The Last Wish” was actually originally just a small short story about Geralt that the author wrote for a contest back in like the 80s lol. It was popular enough that he added more short stories to it and compiled that into a book. The extra other short stories for it he wrote in segments so…

oh she’s hella stressed, don’t worry she warms her icy exterior

I chose Triss, because she had a prominent role in Witcher 2 (which I absolutely loved) and I wanted to see that through. Having never read the books or played Witcher 1, I didn’t really have much reason to care about Yen.

Oh friend, soon you too shall know the pain of wondering why every game just isn’t The Witcher 3.

You should check out the books, their in audio books as well. Geralt is such a wonderful character, but he and all the others are captured much better in the book. Ciri is by far my favorite character. My personal opinion about them is you will not truly get some of these characters without knowing their backstory…

I was also late to the Witcher 3 party, and have most of the same thoughts as you. Geralt definitely seemed to be just another male power fantasy but there’s some incredible depth to the writing, especially if you play all the side quests.

I chose Yen and its a very nice relationship arc

by far the worst part, just 300' to a “?” up a vertical slope and I’d get so close only to do this otherwise cool snowboard style slide down the mountain. I don’t normally get angry when playing games, but i wanted to thrown my controller through the television.

Keep it up, the game comes w/ significant pay off in the end! Reading all these late playthroughs is really tempting me to give it another run through.

You’re not reading into it. Of course he has depth to him, he has multiple books and two games behind him. It’s only the first impression that’s the “generic Batman”-type character. Also, his VA, Doug Cockle, had two games to practice his Geralt so he can pull off those nuances. Still a pretty bad voice actor, but…

Envious of your first run through this epic game, you are playing it a good way. :)

The thing that really sold my cynicism was the fucking hat. Like... you see a body, you want to sell yourself as remotely human? Take off the stupid fucking hat. Be dramatic about it, even. It’s not hard.

Ugh, you’re like almost perfectly decent, and I appreciate you expressing honest tolerance, but ugh. As a gay man, knowing this about you, I would never want to know you or help you or treat you the way I treat my loving friends.

Brian Chow (cinematic artist). www.chowb321.com.

Of course had I been thinking I would have said

“Time to change my avatar, that it is”

**** YOU HAVE DIED ****

You might be eaten by a grue.

Extremely relevant:

Thank you for posting what you’ve been through. I was thinkingabout posting something similar since this guy isn’t getting it.