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[-] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

I won't even go into what a dull slog the actual combat was,

Yeah it was very rough, especially early on. The Witcher 3 has one of the worst opening stretches of any game I've ever seen and I bounced off it hard the first time I tried it.

giving few options in many cases except "help the cops or leave"

I do not remember any scene like that. Cops are antagonists with very few exceptions and those few exceptions all either quickly become ex-cops or die.

"if you want to do this expansion you're going to need to lick some fed boots."

The opening to Phantom Liberty is pretty cringe, yeah, but it does take the mask off pretty quick and show them all to be vapid toadies and/or complete monsters before long. The best of the feds pretty much tells you outright "yeah I don't care about any of this, I just want a cushy retirement that gets me out of here, btw we've got an office betting pool on how long it takes you to die so pls stay alive a long time so I win it lol." The NUSA president literally sends in death squads to No Russian the Night City aerospace port in one ending and shows up in person to oversee the slaughter.

To some extent, I feel like it hasn't actually stopped and it's even somewhat here in this exchange right now, especially the prior assumption that I must be a baby brained delicate snowflake idealist that wants sunshine and rainbows because I can't handle the cold hard and very mature truths waiting for me in the One True Leftist Materalist Valhalla known as Murderfuckland, or something.

That's not what I'm saying at all. I contextualized the history of discourse around the specific plot point you seemed to be referencing. Most of that focused on the Witcher's moral choices as being dark and edgy and how cool it is that "good intentions have bad consequences" in a way that was pretty much just western gamers raised on hollywood slop drawing exactly the wrong conclusions from something that didn't follow the sort of narrative tropes they expected.

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