The Witcher The Witcher IV - The Ciri Saga Begins

[Vincente]

Protagonist in 2015: Max from Life is Strange

Protagonist in 2025: Doomguy and Bigby Wolf

Gaming is healing????!111oneone111

 

[Mauman]

Protagonist in 2025: Doomguy and Bigby Wolf

They are going fuck over Bigby so hard. They have to since Fables is an inherently conservative media.

edit - unless of course the Fables author has control...which I hope he does as I'd rather not see Bigby or Fables in general be "re-imagined for modern audiences".

 

[Skinwalker]

Witcher 3 criticized religions adequately, like the greedy satyr, who was masquerading as their god, kept demanding more food from pisspoor starving peasants.

That was literally a vile necro parody of the Christian God. Witcher 3 does what all shitlibs do: criticize ONE specific religion. Rabidly.

Everything else is ok, tho. Believe in ANYTHING but Christianity, goyim.

 

[Naraya]

I'm really out of the loop and it feels good.

From all these faces, I only recognize Batman, the AC protagonist, Geralt and Ciri.

 

[Skinwalker]

I'm really out of the loop and it feels good.

From all these faces, I only recognize Batman, the AC protagonist, Geralt and Ciri.

You recognized the AssCreed Syndie Cat guy, but failed to recognize the Bloodborne protagonist and Solid Snake? You should feel bad.

Also, I don't recognize a single face out of the bottom row. I wouldn't recognize fat ugly Ciri either, if it wasn't for the RPG Codex.

Thanks, Godex.

 

[Vincente]

That was literally a vile necro parody of the Christian God.

Do you also think the Udalryk questline was a parody of Christianity? Or the Morkvarg quest where you learn he actually didn't get cursed by Freya, thus proving her worshippers literally died for nothing?

 

[Skinwalker]

That was literally a vile necro parody of the Christian God.

Do you also think the Udalryk questline was a parody of Christianity? Or the Morkvarg quest where you learn he actually didn't get cursed by Freya, thus proving her worshippers literally died for nothing?

That has nothing to do with the point. The greedy satyr posing as a "god" is deliberately written as an obvious parody of the Old Testament worship of YHWH, I guess it completely went over your head with its tiny little brain.

 

[Vincente]

That was literally a vile necro parody of the Christian God.

Do you also think the Udalryk questline was a parody of Christianity? Or the Morkvarg quest where you learn he actually didn't get cursed by Freya, thus proving her worshippers literally died for nothing?

That has nothing to do with the point. The greedy satyr posing as a "god" is deliberately written as an obvious parody of the Old Testament worship of YHWH, I guess it completely went over your head with its tiny little brain.

You said the game criticized only one religion, I'm asking if you think the Udalryk and Morkvarg questlines criticized paganism or not.

 

[Skinwalker]

That was literally a vile necro parody of the Christian God.

Do you also think the Udalryk questline was a parody of Christianity? Or the Morkvarg quest where you learn he actually didn't get cursed by Freya, thus proving her worshippers literally died for nothing?

That has nothing to do with the point. The greedy satyr posing as a "god" is deliberately written as an obvious parody of the Old Testament worship of YHWH, I guess it completely went over your head with its tiny little brain.

You said the game criticized only one religion, I'm asking if you think the Udalryk and Morkvarg questlines criticized paganism or not.

No, not at all. The cult of Freya is actually portrayed sympathetically in the werewolf quest, when they are shown to be understandably irate over Yennefer destroying their sacred garden with her literal vile necro (that even made Geralt uncomfortable). The self-harming jarl isn't connected to any particular god, it's just a generic delusion/deception. No attempt to make any moral point is made in either of those cases, it's in the category of "shit happens". Overall, paganism is portrayed fairly sympathetically, although the main underlying worldview is "muh power of secular humanism".

Compare and contrast with the transparent disparagement of the Old Testament religion in the satyr quest, and the RCC with everything connected to the Eternal Fire.

 

[Naraya]

You recognized the AssCreed Syndie Cat guy, but failed to recognize the Bloodborne protagonist and Solid Snake? You should feel bad.

Yeah, I knew I've seen the guy before but couldn't put my finger as to where. This is probably because I've never owned a console in my life.

 

[Ryzer]

No, not at all. The cult of Freya is actually portrayed sympathetically in the werewolf quest, when they are shown to be understandably irate over Yennefer destroying their sacred garden with her literal vile necro (that even made Geralt uncomfortable).

Yennefer does that not because she enjoys necromancy but because she loves Geralt and Ciri so intensively, she would do anything for them. Triss would never do such a thing for him.

 

[Hace El Oso]

Yennefer does that not because she enjoys necromancy but because she loves Geralt and Ciri so intensively, she would do anything for them. Triss would never do such a thing for him.

Hmm, but she does it deliberately refusing to tell him the truth, without soliciting his consent or asking for forgiveness or even understanding.

Even more importantly, she’s a colossal Bitch on Wheels all the time.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Witcher 3 criticized religions adequately

The Fedora part is critisizing religions at all.

Geralt in the books appear to be one cynical bastard so far. I mean, so is everybody else around him but he appears to go one step further than the rest.

That said, there's clear biases. Geralt doesn't believe in the existence of gods, but he is still friends with that Melitele priestess, which is a partial concession to paganism. There's also a bit of class bias. Nobles are degenerate and vile, but lower class people (the ones that aren't utter morons) are frank and down to earth, basically honest crooks as opposed to the hypocritical princes etc.

Now there's nothing new about this mindset, one can find it all the way back to Frank Herbert and there's echoes of this even in the writings of Robert Howard (and in the world of literature i guess Hemingway?), but i wonder if this series is what actually inspired Martin?

 

[Skinwalker]

Geralt doesn't believe in the existence of gods, but he is still friends with that Melitele priestess, which is a partial concession to paganism.

Told you.

 

[Lyric Suite]

I guess fatalist would be a better word than nihilist to describe Geralt now that i think of it.

In either case, the author's atheism is showing.

 

[Harthwain]

I'm really out of the loop and it feels good.

From all these faces, I only recognize Batman, the AC protagonist, Geralt and Ciri.

I think it's Batman, Snake (Metal Gear), Assassin's Creed, Bloodborne(?), Geralt. Ciri looks a lot like that female viking from Valhalla and very unlike herself from previous games. No idea who the rest are. But I guess this is what happens when you don't use staple characters for your game (Batman, Geralt and Snake are pretty much like a brand by now).