The Video Game thread

[Andrew]

Ahh geeez. Missing serial keys for old boxed PC games really sucks.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Just got the witcher 3. Couple of hours in and loving it! Very impressive quality, it looks amazing, and though I'm still terrible at it the combat seems fun.

[UglyCasanova]

I wish I could enjoy those games. I just can't stand Geralt. One of the worst videogame personalities I've ever come across.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Hmm, haven't really played much to find out a lot about him other than he is Stoic, Gritty and Tough as per usual for game/action movie heroes.

[UglyCasanova]

It's just super ironic that in a world full of interesting characters and personalities, you get to play a disinterested and irritated bore with the personality of a brick.

[coldbrightsunlight]

That does sound annoying. I guess I'll find out in a bit whether it gets to me!

I can understand why they might do it though, I imagine there's probably a large urge when creating a player character not to have too many strong personality traits in case it annoys people. Bland is probably safer from that perspective. Maybe he's like that in the books too.

[UglyCasanova]

Maybe he's like that in the books too.

Oh, he is. I just think it's lazy writing/playing it too safe.

[coldbrightsunlight]

I don't disagree at all. That sort of (non-) character is far too common in games, films, books of certain genres... It's a shame it continues to be successful (and here's me, buying this game and contributing to the whole thing. ) because I'd much rather see interesting characters or at the very least a larger list of boring archetypes to choose from.

[UglyCasanova]

I'm not saying I only play games with interesting characters either, haha. It's just that the Witcher games have such great characters populating its world that Geralt sticks out like a sore thumb, to the point that I personally can't enjoy playing as him. The games are really good though, so I don't blame you for enjoying it one bit! It just seems like such a missed opportunity. Maybe I'm just old and grouchy.

[oscillateur]

I think you're just grouchy.

[UglyCasanova]

Please elaborate. I would love to hear your take on Geralt.

[foomanfat]

Isn't that the thing with being a Witcher? Genetically altering and dulling your personally and emotions?

[backwardsvoyager]

is anyone else annoyed at physical releases of PC games nowadays often just being a dvd with an installer and like 20% of the actual data?
i like buying physical copies because my internet connection is unreliable at best and i'd like to not have to wait a few days and keep close track of my download cap just to play a game i paid for, but i'm yet to find anything with a huge file size where there's been a blu ray release or enough dvd's to cover the file size.
like Mad Max was 4 discs and it still needed an extra 14gb download to complete it.. whyyyyyyy are we still using DVD's in 2015... anyone with a decent enough computer to run this shit can get or will already have a blu ray drive.. there has to be something i'm missing..

[UglyCasanova]

Isn't that the thing with being a Witcher? Genetically altering and dulling your personally and emotions?

Vesemir manages to be both a witcher and an interesting character. Geralt does not, IMO.

[Eivind August]

like Mad Max was 4 discs and it still needed an extra 14gb download to complete it..

Yeah, but can't you just go outside if you wanna play Mad Max?