<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\nOn the other hand, developer CD Projekt released, for free, a revamp of the game that fixed many of my other problems with it. (Including awful translation and long load times.) They put out a rough game, but they made things right in the end. They made a deep gameworld with thought-provoking choices and thought-provoking situations. They also run Good Old Games, the DRM-free, bargain-priced utopia of retro PC titles. How could I not<\/em> love these guys?<\/p>\n So I’ve been wondering what to do about The Witcher 2. Do I ignore one of the most important RPG developers in operation, or do I suck it up and support the good guys by buying a game I will probably loathe?<\/p>\n Now I encounter this story<\/a> at Rock, Paper, Shotgun, which gives us a look at the new Geralt…<\/p>\n Geralt = Clint Eastwood (more Unforgiven-era than Rawhide-era). I wasn't sure about him in the first game \u00e2\u20ac" he seemed a mix of tortured hero stereotype and cocky lech, but he's had a bit of a character redesign as well as a new face for thes second game. He's still macho and self-assured, but resigned and battered, not too talkative, even a little bit torn about what's the right thing to do, rather than just a surly hard-nut with a mysterious past. He does a wee bit of wise-cracking, and he's also prone to rolling eyes about other people's fancy talks and stupid ideas. Rather than forever being \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI am master of all I survey', he's got a vague air of “oh for God's sakes, not again.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Sold.<\/strong><\/em> Let’s do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m sort of infamous for my seemingly incongruous dislike for The Witcher, due mostly to the fact that I hated the protagonist. I hated his leathery, lecherous greaseball guts and I didn’t care to steer him through the world. I didn’t care. Also, his head was too small for his body, and it bugged me. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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