TOSS A COIN TO YOUR WITCHER, O VALLEY OF PLENTY O VALLEY OF PLENTY

[CatsCatsCats]

Worst part was when there weren’t any more episodes

[BlueTsunami]

Just finished episode 3 and I still haven’t seen a single hog yet

Get on HBOs Watchmen, like, now

[thisismyusername]

Just finished episode 3 and I still haven’t seen a single hog yet

Get on HBOs Watchmen, like, now

Apparently Manhattan has a Magnum Dong now?

[Madrun Badrun]

Worst part was when there weren’t any more episodes

I was kind of so-so on the books, but after finishing the TV show has made me itchy to go back.  I don't know when I'll get back to it though because I have to read certain books first to do the r/fantasy bingo card lol. 

[BlueTsunami]

Just finished episode 3 and I still haven’t seen a single hog yet

Get on HBOs Watchmen, like, now

Apparently Manhattan has a Magnum Dong now?

That dick prob requires a whole new category of size

[Potato]

Something that this show illustrates really well is how terrible video game writing is in the grand scheme of storytelling.

To my knowledge, The Witcher games are often held up as being "among the best" when it comes to quality of writing. In contrast, most people are judging this to quite rightly be super pulpy and mindless fun; the books too are not even considered more than "OK" among fantasy novels.

What is basically considered "average" writing in all other formats is being hailed as "groundbreaking" in video games.

I know there is more to it, but I just thought it was an interesting.

Full disclosure - I've never read the books or played more than an hour of The Witcher 3, so make of my comment what you will...

[Lonewulfeus]

Just finished episode 3 and I still haven’t seen a single hog yet

Get on HBOs Watchmen, like, now

Don’t have hbo, but I googled it and yea

[Don Rumata]

There's also the fact that when you write for the Witcher 3, you write for a 100+ hours game.
It's definitely more challenging than to write 8 hours of tightly controlled and paced television (let alone a 2 hours movie).

[Madrun Badrun]

Ya its more an apples to oranges thing, not only in terms of quantity but what the writing is meant to do (tell as story vs give people enough information to tell their own story).

[thisismyusername]

I mean 8 episodes seems enough to do a meta-plot, to me.

[D3RANG3D]

This made me feel like installing the first game lasted about 5 min then uninstalled it, I have unlimited bandwidth but still felt like a waste.

[BIONIC]

This made me feel like installing the first game lasted about 5 min then uninstalled it, I have unlimited bandwidth but still felt like a waste.

I’m having a pretty good time with the first game, but there’s no way in hell I'm ever going back to it once I’m done. Lots of little annoyances that make playing the game a slog to get to the good bits. Really appreciate what they tried to do with it, but it really shows that this was their first big game at that point.

[D3RANG3D]

I finished the game long ago and liked it, I just noped.

[toku]

Back in my day we played through The Witcher 1 multiple times and praised the experience. I still have swamp induced ptsd flashbacks but the cards, the cards.

[thisismyusername]

"I may be ugly as hell, but at least I'm not--" *hawks spit* "--A MUTANT!"

[Madrun Badrun]

TBF, having never seen a witcher, I'd image that me and my gang of thugs could take one swordsman too.

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Especially when the gang leader is also a skilled swordsman and sitting right next to the witcher.

[close]

[thisismyusername]

TBF, having never seen a witcher, I'd image that me and my gang of thugs could take one swords man too.

Geralt basically throws THREE swords up into rafters in a post office in "Season of Storms."  So those townfolks that don't know of a Witcher, a hired monster-killer, are fucking idiots. But that's neither here nor there. The issue is that Witcher's work is very rare now since humanity (post-Conjunction of the Spheres) has spread out around the Wticher world to where Monsters have kind of fled. Similar to how wild-animals did it. But like wild-animals there is times where they encroach into these places, thus calling for a Witcher.

[toku]

https://twitter.com/mrgracemugabe/status/1208667036932427777

To quote a great film, "Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill."

[Nintex]

Watched 2 episodes.

Intrigued by the mystery of the mages and you can tell Cavill really played the hell out of Witcher 3.
At times it looked like parts of the video game. With that said, good show, I'm having a great time watching it.

The haters can suck a fat monster hog and choke on it while Geralt beheads them.

[toku]

I'm about halfway through and it's fun. I'm glad they went this live action seinen anime route instead of trying to class it up. Enjoying it more than I thought I would tbh.

[BIONIC]

[Crash Dummy]

I'm about halfway through and it's fun. I'm glad they went this live action seinen anime route instead of trying to class it up. Enjoying it more than I thought I would tbh.

feel pretty much the same, though i don't think i'd like this much at all if i wasn't a fan of the games. truly the dark souls of games of thrones

[Ghoul]

It’s good enough to probably be the best gaming adaptation done. I too am glad it didn’t try be super serious, it actually captures the world well enough to keep you interested, I enjoyed hedgehog man.

[Bebpo]

I wanna watch this but I only played the first game and wanna play 2&3. Would this spoil anything?

[thisismyusername]

Would this spoil anything?

If you TRULY don't want to be spoiled: Get out of this thread, go read the novels over this holiday weekend and the come back.

There might be some parts from the stories (especially Ciri here) that are big in the novels and games, but not EARTH SHATTERING REVELATIONS if you did get spoiled. (Like Ciri being in the novels and games. oops!)

[Crash Dummy]

I wanna watch this but I only played the first game and wanna play 2&3. Would this spoil anything?

eh not really, watching this before playing 2 & 3 won't really make a difference other than recognising some names of characters and places. if anything, you'll probably appreciate cavill's portrayal of geralt more like his delivery and frequency of saying "hmm"

[Nintex]

It mixes up things from the games and the books. From what I understand the books also had short stories that they turned into quests in the games but not necessarily in the same locations or order.
The games were all loosely based on the source material and the series is loosely based on the books and the games.

In the series for instance, they combined certain characters or put them in different locations.
So you won't get any heavy spoilers.

Still, it's quite obvious that Cavill is basically acting out his own Witcher 3 play through 

[kingv]

It mixes up things from the games and the books. From what I understand the books also had short stories that they turned into quests in the games but not necessarily in the same locations or order.
The games were all loosely based on the source material and the series is loosely based on the books and the games.

In the series for instance, they combined certain characters or put them in different locations.
So you won't get any heavy spoilers.

Still, it's quite obvious that Cavill is basically acting out his own Witcher 3 play through 

So he fucks the goat chick?

[toku]

[chronovore]

Watched the first ep today. It's sparse on its worldbuilding, felt like a frail lattice on which Dark Fantasy was being glibly hung.

WHICH IS FINE. IT'S MY ADULT REPLACEMENT FOR BEASTMASTER AND HAWKE THE SLAYER.

Also, yes, screw that sorceror who has illusory naked ladies all over his courtyard, and then also imprisoned and killed women, and then held private autopsies to prove that he was correct to mete out his own justice.

Also-also, Geralt talking to his horse, Roach, is super-charming.

I'M ON BOARD.

[Potato]

Hawk the Slayer.
 

[CatsCatsCats]

I really liked with narrative jumping in time they didn’t feel the need to hold your hand about it

[Pissy F Benny]

Watched 3 eps it’s decent, the first one is rough though with how cheap it looks   

Like some late Saturday afternoon bbc dogshit 

[Madrun Badrun]

ummm, you say 'late Saturday afternoon bbc dogshit' like its a bad thing. 

[toku]

Watched the first ep today. It's sparse on its worldbuilding, felt like a frail lattice on which Dark Fantasy was being glibly hung.

WHICH IS FINE. IT'S MY ADULT REPLACEMENT FOR BEASTMASTER AND HAWKE THE SLAYER.

Also, yes, screw that sorceror who has illusory naked ladies all over his courtyard, and then also imprisoned and killed women, and then held private autopsies to prove that he was correct to mete out his own justice.

Also-also, Geralt talking to his horse, Roach, is super-charming.

I'M ON BOARD.

Yeah it's basically a 90s adventure show for modern tastes and standards 100%, nicer budget.

[Madrun Badrun]

Watched the first ep today. It's sparse on its worldbuilding, felt like a frail lattice on which Dark Fantasy was being glibly hung.

WHICH IS FINE. IT'S MY ADULT REPLACEMENT FOR BEASTMASTER AND HAWKE THE SLAYER.

Also, yes, screw that sorceror who has illusory naked ladies all over his courtyard, and then also imprisoned and killed women, and then held private autopsies to prove that he was correct to mete out his own justice.

Also-also, Geralt talking to his horse, Roach, is super-charming.

I'M ON BOARD.

Yeah it's basically a 90s adventure show for modern tastes and standards 100%, nicer budget.

Agree 100%  But because I am young and youthful, instead of BEASTMASTER and HAWKE THE SLAYER, it's XENA, HERCULES, and SINBAD.

[curly]

Yennefer was way hotter as a hunchback

[Transhuman]

Yeah I liked her a lot better before she was all angsty

[brawndolicious]

This show is wonderful so far, I do have one more episode left. I already knew the story but the pacing is really on point and lets you fill in how the timelines are intersecting.

Also, holy crap at the production values. I was wondering how they could afford all those costumes and sets but then I looked it up and it has the same budget as Game of Thrones.

Okay, don't have a Netflix subscription right now, but some 1980s hack and slash combined with cinemax late nite style gritty titty action does sound appealing

It's like Spartacus without dongs but slightly better writing.

[thisismyusername]

It's like Spartacus without dongs

What's the point then?

(I kid.)

[Don Rumata]

Huh?  Doesn’t look cheap to me at all.  Looked fine.

I only watched one episode.
The cheapness definitely shines through in how sparse and limited outdoors shots and landscapes are shown.
Sets feel tiny and essential, probably what gave people that "Hercules/Xena" vibe, especially compared to Game of Thrones later seasons, where they could just be obscene about that shit, because they had money out the ass.
Even the battle scene against Nilfgard looks kind of cute, compared to the various skirmishes in GoT.

That said, the tone worked well for me, and i'm sort of hooked already, besides, the final butchery of Blaviken (finally got to see where that line from the game was from) was quite cool and gore-y.

I thought it was going to be utter shit, but i'm positively surprised.
Seems like schlock of the entertaining kind.

[shosta]

Something that this show illustrates really well is how terrible video game writing is in the grand scheme of storytelling.

To my knowledge, The Witcher games are often held up as being "among the best" when it comes to quality of writing. In contrast, most people are judging this to quite rightly be super pulpy and mindless fun; the books too are not even considered more than "OK" among fantasy novels.

What is basically considered "average" writing in all other formats is being hailed as "groundbreaking" in video games.

I know there is more to it, but I just thought it was an interesting.

Full disclosure - I've never read the books or played more than an hour of The Witcher 3, so make of my comment what you will...

Those people are wrong and dumb.

[BlueTsunami]

Yens arc in this is so fucking good. And id totes get in that ass pretransformation.

[thisismyusername]

I love that Geralt is this.... all politics and politicians are the same neoliberal antihero and he keeps getting sucked into massive genocidal conflict between empires

Being fair, he's forced into those political conflicts. It's not like he openly goes around and screams "IS THERE A KING THAT NEEDS ME TO KILL THEIR CHILDREN OR THEIR CHILDREN NEEDING ME TO KILL THEIR KING AROUND HERE!?" He generally gets pulled in by the lodge of mages into these political things as a "fuck you" to Yennifer.

[BlueTsunami]

Exactly 

It's more the mixture of her being such a powerful being with her sense of humbleness due to her affliction. It's endearing 

[HardcoreRetro]

Is Abigail in the show? I liked that card from the first game.

[nudemacusers]

Yens arc in this is so fucking good. And id totes get in that ass pretransformation.

What that mouth do 

[BlueTsunami]

resting bitchface

One of life's pleasures is getting a woman with a severe case of RBF to smile

[curly]

Honestly though this show is pretty trash aside from Cavill. Swears and production value all that distinguishes it from basic cable fare. Naruto>>>>

[Potato]

resting bitchface

One of life's pleasures is getting a woman with a severe case of RBF to smile

I can think of at least one thing that is more pleasurable to do to a resting bitch face...

[curly]

I was promised pulp trash but where was the bad pussy? Where was the weird sex? This skinemax shit doesn't cut it 

[curly]

I don't care

[Transhuman]

What are your thoughts on neogaf dying

[BlueTsunami]

Yen genuinely being able to get under The Butcher of Blavikins skin 

[Potato]

Just finished episode 5.

Dem tiddies...



 

[BlueTsunami]

[Great Rumbler]

[BlueTsunami]

I'd totally catass a witcher based Temeria procedural

[Don Rumata]

Binged it.
I had a lot of fun with it, more than the last season of GoT anyway.
I'm not sure i would've as much, if i didn't like the games though, part of the fun was recognizing the various characters, or finding out about events hinted at in the games.

My main issues with it:
Costumes were kind of shit, with the Nilfgaardian armors being the worst fucking shit i've ever seen on screen (including student films).
Yen's and Geralt's love plot was a bit rushed through, even counting the time skips and Djinn thing.
The various timelines thing was kind of confusingly handled, thankfully they converge by the end, so in a season 2 we won't have to deal with it.

[Transhuman]

The worst part was they didn't even try to make it seem like people had aged