Posted June 04, 2015
Spoiler spoiler spoiler. Witcher 3 spoilers below:
Fever_Discordia: The only part I'd quibble is above - I don't get how the girl deciding that her getting tortured is the best way forward and her actively trying to convince you not to prevent it hurts rather than confirms and explains Gies statement
"One sequence seemed specifically designed to see how long I could listen to a major female character have her fingernails pulled out"
her deciding that that's what she's going to have happen to her certainly seems like it's one way to reach the situation Gies describes to me... Just to help clarify (I hope), the scene involves needing to get some information from a certain individual who also has a bounty on this girl's head. There are too many guards to fight their way inside, and the girl insists the only way for Geralt to get to talk to this man is by pretending he caught her and is delivering her for a reward. She pressures Geralt to do this, and says she is a big girl who knows what she is getting into and can handle herself.
Once inside though, you are free to interfere at any point and prevent the girl from being taken away or stop the torture at any time. The ability to do this is provided multiple times as if the game is encouraging you down this path, although of course it is up the to player in the end.
If you instead let the scene play out and reach the point Gies is talking about, it ends in a twist that he carefully left out of his review. The girl turns the table on her attackers and kills them all herself without Geralt's help. Like she tells you earlier, she's a big girl, she can handle herself and she rightly does so.
That is really the problem with all this. Gies makes it sounds like this game is little more than torture porn for people to enjoy when that could not be further from the truth. Torture turned into all the men getting killed BY the lady in question. How is this in any way "oppressively misogynistic?"
As a completely unrelated side note, here is a screenshot for those feeling that women are unfairly treated in the game. Here we have Triss holding a man by the balls with magic and causing a great deal of agony because she is tired of dealing with peoples' crap. Between her and the other main female characters you run into, much of this game could be seen as female empowerment. These women are ass kickers, not victims.
"One sequence seemed specifically designed to see how long I could listen to a major female character have her fingernails pulled out"
her deciding that that's what she's going to have happen to her certainly seems like it's one way to reach the situation Gies describes to me...
Once inside though, you are free to interfere at any point and prevent the girl from being taken away or stop the torture at any time. The ability to do this is provided multiple times as if the game is encouraging you down this path, although of course it is up the to player in the end.
If you instead let the scene play out and reach the point Gies is talking about, it ends in a twist that he carefully left out of his review. The girl turns the table on her attackers and kills them all herself without Geralt's help. Like she tells you earlier, she's a big girl, she can handle herself and she rightly does so.
That is really the problem with all this. Gies makes it sounds like this game is little more than torture porn for people to enjoy when that could not be further from the truth. Torture turned into all the men getting killed BY the lady in question. How is this in any way "oppressively misogynistic?"
As a completely unrelated side note, here is a screenshot for those feeling that women are unfairly treated in the game. Here we have Triss holding a man by the balls with magic and causing a great deal of agony because she is tired of dealing with peoples' crap. Between her and the other main female characters you run into, much of this game could be seen as female empowerment. These women are ass kickers, not victims.
