Yes, apparently I'm a lumpen, troglodytic American philistine.

All kidding aside, I don't have any objection to six scenes in movies, which are able to convey eroticism well, not least because they use actual people in them. They also spend more time working to do these things well.

In games, it always is fairly clumsy. Witcher 2's scene is, by any standards beyond the rather forgiving standards of video games, silly and run-of-the-mill. I kept expecting the usual skin-movie music to start playing in the background.

So it's a bit silly to sacrifice all sales to thirteen year olds just to shoehorn in a rather lame six scene to attract a handful of nineteen year olds who have access to far better sixual entertainment material in movies and on the internet.

You mean the first Mass Effect? What was "shameful" about that one? Not sufficiently explicit?

You didn't play the game your opinion on the Witcher 2 is based your problem with sixual content in videogames not on the game itself. You said it yourself it might well be a fun game but you don't know because of YOUR issue with six,women whatever.

That's probably because they used 3D models instead of a 2D anime style.

A thought crosses my mind here...

What were sales like for The Witcher 2?

I wonder why?

The Witcher 2's story themes are far more than I would have been able to handle at 13. the Witcher one was pretty silly in my opinion

To the people saying it ruins the lore: I really don't see this? There was very little lore on the areas it deals with, so it had more than enough room to grow. The only instance I could think of would be the Blades originally being dragonslayers. That was a bit of a shoehorning, but to be fair we were never really told of their foundation before so it fits. Dragons were a legend until now (yes I know "some in the empire" that was obviously a rumour even when it was written)

At least Skyrim stayed snowy and didn't get a climate swap...

I dare you to takea look at the demographics o both games.
I d-a-r-e you.

well it was pirated about 4 million copies and only on PC upon release you do the math.Will be interesting to see what it sells like on Xbox when it is released in April

Why do I have "an issue with six or women"? Just because I think it was catering purely to adolescents? As I said, leave the six scenes to movies, where they're well done. The silly fan service nonsense of satisfying adolescent players' lust to see the heroine naked is utterly juvenile. It's a cheesy Skinemax-level six scene that is shoehorned in purely to pander, and it does so at the expense of younger players.


I couldn't say. It still would just be the developers saying "Well, the marketing research guys keep telling us the fans are demanding more boobies. What have we got in development, boob-wise? We need to get 20% more boobs in within two weeks, how can we make that happen?"

I didn't give any reasons, nor draw any conclusions... but one must wonder why it sold so many copies with so little press.

*cough*

I

I will sent a special request to CDProjekt saying Skyrims approach to love and marriage is what they should concentrate on since it's so in depth and a reflection of the real thing.

Little press?

You've got to be kiding me.
It's a ludicrous correlation, the one that establishes a cause and effect connection between The WItcher 2's six scenes and its sales figures.
I'm sure you don't really mean that.

Shouldn't you ask them for a character creation aspect?

Oim not quite sure u've got the joke guvna.

Carry on.

Ahhh...cheap shot.
KIck to the groin.

Touché!

Elementary my good sir, the old bait and switch. Good day!

Look how off topic you've driven this post. Well done.

Who ever said marriage in Skyrim was worth a crap? I sure didn't. Saying "Witcher 2's six scene was a blatant attempt to pander to adolescent desires to see an animated pair of big bouncy [censored]" is not the same thing as saying "Skyrim's marriage system was awesome".

In any event, I think the stories contained in Skyrim are excellent. No complaints here.

To you it's a gimmick to someone else it's a fun romance option. Personally i'm not buying your reason's unless your to young to be playing a mature rated game.

I just want to point out something you managed to miss earlier, the games are based on a series of novels, in which the character is predefined, and his role in society is as well. The six scenes in the Witcher games are quite similar to the ones in the book, and the book was written in the 1940's, so not trying to pander to teens then.

LOL

I'm 42, dude. But I also know pandering to nineteen year old adolescents when I see it.


Why not? If it was some pulp fantasy novel then it could well have been trying to attract the teenage audience. And somehow I have to doubt that a novel written in the forties was as explicit as the scene in the game.

It is exactly as explicit. I have the novel next to me. Two things you have to realize;

1) This is a POLISH story, and not to be racist, but they always seem to have a more viking approach to things,

2) The Witcher Books and the games are considered national treasures. So they are definitely not trying to use a gimmick to sell