Interview The Story Of The Witcher 3: Geralt's Midlife Crisis

[WhiskeyWolf]

They did it in the first game, so...

 

[Sceptic]

You mean japing about it, not actually delivering on it.

This. Bioware may have tracked "thousands of variables" but how many had any effect again? Hell even the council in ME3 would spontaneously get new personalities so as to fit all the possible outcomes from ME3 - never mind the "all human council" from ME1 suddenly turning into same-old in ME3. And, TBH, if I never cared that my failure to get the blackrock serpent statue in UW2 didn't stop it from being in my inventory in SI, I'm not gonna start bitching.

Anyway a game that deals with protagonist's mid-life crisis would be tremendous incline over save the world from Foozle.

 

[RK47]

I guess he wants to cure his impotency.

 

[Gerrard]

Geralt has had a midlife crisis pretty much since the beginning of the novels.

 

[Lautreamont]

Geralt has had a midlife crisis pretty much since the beginning of the novels.

Why? The guy sleeps with more women than most of us meet in our entire life and kills hundreds of monsters for sport. I'm having a midlife crisis right now because I haven't done such things.

 

[Grunker]

I'm having a midlife crisis right now because I haven't done such things.

 

[Kahlis]

I don't really know anything about the TW world beyond what's covered in the games, but for some reason there's a lot of fan speculation that Geralt should be ~106 years old. That might just be from trying to link the time period of the games to past events and characters he knew in the books, though. Sapkowski says he'd be in his 50s or 60s. I also heard that sorceresses use a lot of magic to maintain their appearances, so who the hell knows how old anybody is in this series.

 

[Cowboy Moment]

His mid-life crisis made more sense in the novels, where he strongly emphasized the importance of staying neutral and detached from social conflicts, partially because the witcher code of conduct demanded it, and partially because it was a convenient defense mechanism against the shittiness of the world around him. So basically, he was bitter and tired of constantly risking his life for other people, while any major conflict caused more casualties than all the monsters in the world put together, which he couldn't do shit about. He was realizing that the calling he dedicated his life and death (he even says at one point that not a single witcher has ever died peacefully in his bed, all killed in action) to was antiquated and useless. The fact that his single meaningful relationship with a woman wasn't exactly on the happy side didn't help either.

In the games, on the other hand, he's basically butting in and taking sides left and right, and presumably making a difference, so I don't know what he has to be butthurt about.

 

[Kahlis]

He sort of laments getting tied up in everybody else's affairs in TW1, along with those nice philosophical conversations with Zoltan. But currently I haven't seen any of that in TW2.

 

[Infinitron]

He sort of laments getting tied up in everybody else's affairs in TW1, along with those nice philosophical conversations with Zoltan. But currently I haven't seen any of that in TW2.

Talk to Zoltan and Dandelion some more.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Man, that title is boring. They missed an opportunity to go with something a bit more sleazy and eye catching.

Witcher 3: Geralt and the Wild Cunt...

 

[RK47]

He sort of laments getting tied up in everybody else's affairs in TW1, along with those nice philosophical conversations with Zoltan. But currently I haven't seen any of that in TW2.

Talk to Zoltan and Dandelion some more.

He pretty much wanted out after he solved that one King's succession problem in TW2 but another witcher cancelled his holiday plans.

 

[odrzut]

Man, that title is boring. They missed an opportunity to go with something a bit more sleazy and eye catching.

Witcher 3: Geralt and the Wild Cunt...

The Witcher 3: the Wild Cunt Hunt