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some_stars) wrote2011-08-07 11:48 am
some_stars) wrote2011-08-07 11:48 am
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I've started playing The Witcher, because apparently I needed a fresh new way to waste my life. I bought it over a year ago, after falling in love with Dragon Age and deciding I should look into this gaming thing, and then forgot to play it...ever. I forgot about it so thoroughly that when the sequel came out, I nearly bought the original a second time before Amazon helpfully reminded me that I was an idiot.
Anyway I'm about six hours into it, and having mixed feelings that probably don't have much to do with the quality of the game itself. There will probably be a post on this later when I've played more than 10% of it. For the moment I will only mention that Dragon Age (the first and until now only RPG I've ever played) spoiled me in so many ways, not least of which is that non-heterosexuality existed. Not just for the PC but it existed in the fictional world, just, you know, here and there. But also for the PC--I've been playing for about six or seven hours and the game's already suggested three different women for me to have sex with. FUCK ALL Y'ALL, HE'S GAY, I know that explicitly contradicts what's probably going to be a major plot point but I don't care, I'm not letting him even flirt with any women purely out of spite. (Next playthrough of course I will weaken, because playing a character as celibate when he could be having SEX is not something I can bring myself to do twice. And also I actually have no inherent objection to heterosexual male characters in non-RPG stories, which I think might be a more accurate/useful description of this game but that's for the potential later post. But right now, gay as a fucking window, because I have to take a stand, dammit.)
(Uh, to clarify, it's not that I think not being able to make the PC queer means something isn't a roleplaying game. I should probably hold off on saying stuff until I have that whole post ready.)
ANYWAY, I have encountered one thing I really deeply enjoyed. I was wandering around some woman's home, while she was still in it, and I looted all her crates and cupboards without her protesting or apparently noticing--and this is of course perfectly acceptable videogame protocol because how else do you get THINGS; I'm not criticizing at all. But I was kind of amused, because I'd started in a part of the map with only abandoned houses, and then the next one I walked into had surprise homeowner in it and I felt kind of tentative about taking the food from their cupboard while they were right there, and even saved first in case this was one of those games where they try to upend convention by having people actually call your PC on taking shit--but of course they didn't give a fuck.
So I stole my way merrily through about three houses like that, and went into the fourth and looted some more and then, just to see, clicked on the woman to talk to her. It didn't actually open up a dialogue, of course, just made her say her one line. And her one line, spoken in a shucks-don't-scare-me-like-that tone of voice, was: I thought you were a bandit! Dear video games, never change, love always, me.
Anyway I'm about six hours into it, and having mixed feelings that probably don't have much to do with the quality of the game itself. There will probably be a post on this later when I've played more than 10% of it. For the moment I will only mention that Dragon Age (the first and until now only RPG I've ever played) spoiled me in so many ways, not least of which is that non-heterosexuality existed. Not just for the PC but it existed in the fictional world, just, you know, here and there. But also for the PC--I've been playing for about six or seven hours and the game's already suggested three different women for me to have sex with. FUCK ALL Y'ALL, HE'S GAY, I know that explicitly contradicts what's probably going to be a major plot point but I don't care, I'm not letting him even flirt with any women purely out of spite. (Next playthrough of course I will weaken, because playing a character as celibate when he could be having SEX is not something I can bring myself to do twice. And also I actually have no inherent objection to heterosexual male characters in non-RPG stories, which I think might be a more accurate/useful description of this game but that's for the potential later post. But right now, gay as a fucking window, because I have to take a stand, dammit.)
(Uh, to clarify, it's not that I think not being able to make the PC queer means something isn't a roleplaying game. I should probably hold off on saying stuff until I have that whole post ready.)
ANYWAY, I have encountered one thing I really deeply enjoyed. I was wandering around some woman's home, while she was still in it, and I looted all her crates and cupboards without her protesting or apparently noticing--and this is of course perfectly acceptable videogame protocol because how else do you get THINGS; I'm not criticizing at all. But I was kind of amused, because I'd started in a part of the map with only abandoned houses, and then the next one I walked into had surprise homeowner in it and I felt kind of tentative about taking the food from their cupboard while they were right there, and even saved first in case this was one of those games where they try to upend convention by having people actually call your PC on taking shit--but of course they didn't give a fuck.
So I stole my way merrily through about three houses like that, and went into the fourth and looted some more and then, just to see, clicked on the woman to talk to her. It didn't actually open up a dialogue, of course, just made her say her one line. And her one line, spoken in a shucks-don't-scare-me-like-that tone of voice, was: I thought you were a bandit! Dear video games, never change, love always, me.