I haven't watched the Game of Thrones yet, but I like the lead actor. I agree with you though that source material is very important, but I may have been given the wrong impression of the books because, in my opinion, the overuse of sex and profanity just seemed tacked on. Its not so bad like the latest Leisure Suit Larry games, but its noticeable. Maybe Witcher 2 is improved and closer to the source material than the 1st game?

Not going to happen. Even the censored North American release of the first game got an M, to get down to T would probably require removing all of the swearing, sex and gore in the game. Which would essentually involve remaking the game from scratch.

And calling it Wii Mario.

I agree to a point. A videogame has to stand on its own apart from the books because many gamers may not know about the source material, don't read books, hate to read books, don't care about books, etc. Its like when they released the Lord of the Rings movies, my friend had NO clue there were books about the movies done more than 50 years ago. My friend just enjoyed the movies as they were presented without knowing nothing of the source material. Yes, the source enhances the experience, but when presenting it in a different medium where the art is presented differently (sometimes drastically) there may have to be 'modifications' made so that most will grasp the whole game. However, 'modifications' shouldn't be an excuse to crucify the story, etc. A good example, in my opinion, is how they presented Dragon Age 2 which feels COMPLETELY different from the first game. Don't dumb it down, but also have a balance of certain elements so that its not a schizophrenic offering (how I felt playing Witcher 1).

You'll either need to find a mod, man up and deal with it, or just stop playing. Plenty of other games out there.

It depends though on the context of the killing, right? I felt good when I killed evil creatures, but felt bad if an innocent got killed. Unless of course you play the Witcher character as totally evil without morals and LIKE to kill innocents. Again, it all boils down to context. In my opinion, the way they did the sex scenes and profanity was silly, but the violence and action scenes were right on target because of context (gritty setting, scary monsters, evil people).

Did you just say Dragon Age 2 is better than the Witcher?

Excellent post. Amen on the last sentence.
Lol, I think you missed my point (however, I would LOVE if they did a Witcher 1 parody in EXACTLY the way you described it!). I was just trying to make the point that there are different ways to go about making a person seem badass: Darth Vader was a case in point. Do you think Darth Vader would have been more of a badass had he slept with countless Stormtrooperetts and cursed up a storm? Nah. I think there is a line between tasteless and tasteful and, in my opinion, Witcher 1 crossed it many times. There are too many examples to quote besides Darth Vader, in fact, I can name another character to make my point very well: Clint Eastwood's character in High Plains Drifter. There were times when Geralt would come oh so close to that character only to have it ruined by him saying something silly like "Abso-F--" you get the point.

Seriously? What did you think you were going to get with a game that is rated "M for Mature", rainbows and ponies? Do you expect to go to a NC-17 or R rated movie and not have things like blood, boobies and bad words? If you are offended by contextually appropriate nudity, gore and swearing, then the solution is simple: don't buy mature rated games; stick with the "T for Teen" and lower rated games, they shouldn't offend your fragile sensibilities. The developers of The Witcher games don't need to be wasting their time or resources on creating a "don't offend the repressed American" patch just for you, they have much better things to do, like working on DLC for the Witcher 2 or starting on the Witcher 3.

That's fine, I am not judging you for your tastes at all. I, personally speaking, enjoyed the Witcher's setting, gameplay, etc, but it was hard to stomach the constant stream of profanity that removed me from the immersion. Different strokes for different folks :)

Hey, I haven't ruled out hope that they'll fit a sci-fi RPG in between there somewhere.

"You only have to look at the increasing amount of bisexual, homosexual, and lesbian encounters in Bioware's games over the year." There I fixed it for ya :)

Come on. Just because there are relatively few games out there with 'Adult' content doesn't mean you have to jump on the bandwagon and out do them for sensationalist reasons. If anything, I believe that mature content is increasing and not only for games but for movies. Some of the stuff that goes for R these days is basically porn. If you did some research, I bet you would find that PG movies were much more prevalent decades ago than are now. Its either all R rated or G rated Pixar knockoffs.

I also don't mean to come off like I want to censer anything, not at all, I just wish that designers would offer a simple damn button that took out the profanity if not all the gratuitous sex scenes. I just ask for options, that's all! Why not sell both a PG-13 rated game and an R rated game? You might actually get a wider audience because you are casting the net out wider. Alot of TV shows do that where the show on TV is rated PG, but there are uncut and uncensored DVDs out there. Just gimme options to how much 'Adult' content I would like in the game rather than force me to endure through it, ESPECIALLY if its tasteless, which, in my opinion, I believe Witcher 1's Adult content was.

I don't disagree with your assertion that The Witcher isn't quite as adult as it thinks it is, but I don't see what you'd get out of a chopped version. Just going through the game and extracting material the way you're describing is just going to leave noticeable holes. It's not the same as if the game had been better handled in the first place.

I thought Black Swan would have been a much better movie if they'd left out all the pointless schizophrenic crap and psycho-thriller pretensions and focused on making a more grounded dark drama. That doesn't mean I would want to watch a version of the film with all the CGI and dementia scenes cut out, because then it would just be complete nonsense.

Yeah, I ruined the fun for everyone by pointing out the Witcher 1's gratiuitous and pointless sex scenes and immersion ruining stream of voice-garbage/profanity ruined the game for me. Whine much? All I ask is that designers either make better design decisions with regards to Adult material (tasteful), or at least give the option in-game to tone down some of the needless and pointless stuff (sex-scenes, profanity). Seriously, I ruined your fun? Wow. I bet to negate that, you downloaded the extra pr0n and heavy-duty profanity MOD huh?