What Corylea said!!!! Doubled.I too have been around since forever, and I am one of the old-school feminists. I also write romance novels with strong women taking charge of their own lives and having some fun along the way. The way The Witcher handles relationships is one of the best things about the game, IMO. Cheers, and :-*FAM
I think they discontinued it. I don't know if they got too busy to keep it up or if we didn't say enough clever things.Starwolf said:
You can find the thread here: http://www.thewitcher.com/forum/index.php?topic=6394.0Oh thanks! that earned an oren for just doing a find for that, even though it was a pretty small item I was wondering, still helpful and appreciated!Pity it hasn't been kept up. I still got a couple giggles off of it, on the revisit.Corylea said:I think they discontinued it. I don't know if they got too busy to keep it up or if we didn't say enough clever things.Corylea said:
What worries me is that someone here wants to see two animated characters having sex....
It's funny! It's a rather silly-looking activity to begin with, and if one isn't participating, this becomes all the clearer.WitcherGirl said:
While realism is nice....The Witcher is not based on reality and to be honest Id rather have 5 minutes more gameplay than 5 minutes of a sex scene
/secondI would rather have more content than to watch a simulated computer sex scene. If I want sex on the computer, I can go elsewhere.
If the sexual encounters were missing, I think this game would not had this feeling of entering the world of the witcher, as his romantic endeavours are a certain pert of the books (at least in the frist three, haven#t read farther). Geralt is a bit of a cassanova type, and this is a responsible for the sympathy this character creates in the reader. Okay, people, who haven't read the stories yet might not miss them, but if they later start to read the stories and novels, they would certainly say that something is missing in the game.The actual "act" is not shown (sometimes you have cutscenes during it, which are mostly funny), and the conversations that lead to them are nice interactions with the game environment (take Morenn or the female in the Temple quarter for example). Another point for the romantic encounters is that it adds diversity to the game. If you only had quest that revolve around killing certains monsters, the game become boring at one point, because all you do is basically the same. In the game, as it is, you have the fight-quest, you have investigation-quests, you have some riddles (could be more), you have fistfight, poker, the "romantic conquests", some fun with (some) drinking (the scene with Zoltan and Dandelion after chosing between Shani and Triss is great), in a few words, a colourfull mixture, which keeps the gaming going from one aspect to others and keeps you interested.It is just a more complete world this way.
There was a softcore sex scene in Mass Effect and it stirred quite a mess (which was ridicilous mess to start with and end with those who started it apologizing in public) Don't think implementing soft sex scenes to a game would be impossible, but yeah its a good amount of extra work and I wouldn't expect more than one scene per game or so. All the trivial ahem, encounters, might as well be sex carded out but a defining moment could indeed be made in a proper scene to increase the roleplay immersion eace:
eace:Both my girlfriend and I are feminists (no, I am not a Lesbian, I am a male, SHOCK, men can be feminists too!), and we get a kick out of the sex stuff, but we don't find it overly mature. Its kinda misogynist, but that's the world it is in. Can't expect a world filled with plagues, racism, and deception to hold women on a pedestal now can we? Wouldn't make much sense to have that in the game. The women CAN be strong, but we find it hilariously ironic they all want to sleep with a butt ugly mutant when everyone else would gladly rip out his throat (this MAY happen, but I am only in Chapter 2 so don't ruin it for me ). A game about a depraved world shows the ugly side of existence, and you can get "enlightenment" about feminism out of it. A feminist piece of work doesn't need to have strong women to be a feminist piece at all, if you get what I mean.The "problem" we have with it is that its very immature by nature. I get a kick out of it, and every time I am about to sleep with the next girl, I call in for the gf to come in and laugh about it. I love the journal entries ala "She likes me a lot", and it seems everyone is Geralt's true love, of whom he consummates that love, a LOT. It's just funny, especially when half the game I am trying to get in girls pants.To us its a goofy kinda funny, not really "gritty" or "mature", just awkward. This is ignoring the epic amounts of cleavage I have ever seen in a game, but that's for the shut in nerds is our guess . Easiest way to a nerds wallet is through boobs right?
). A game about a depraved world shows the ugly side of existence, and you can get "enlightenment" about feminism out of it. A feminist piece of work doesn't need to have strong women to be a feminist piece at all, if you get what I mean.The "problem" we have with it is that its very immature by nature. I get a kick out of it, and every time I am about to sleep with the next girl, I call in for the gf to come in and laugh about it. I love the journal entries ala "She likes me a lot", and it seems everyone is Geralt's true love, of whom he consummates that love, a LOT. It's just funny, especially when half the game I am trying to get in girls pants.To us its a goofy kinda funny, not really "gritty" or "mature", just awkward. This is ignoring the epic amounts of cleavage I have ever seen in a game, but that's for the shut in nerds is our guess . Easiest way to a nerds wallet is through boobs right?