Is Geralt of Rivia a Mary Sue?

"Hurr durr kill monsters and screw women."

I suppose those are already two dimensions...

I think I'm finally getting my hand on why Witcher is so bad. Unfortunately, what's the point of sharing in this world we live in?

Is that the depth of character though, or is it the good quest design when the player can pick multiple quest resolutions and see what happens. In other words, if you make all quests linear, will Geralt still be complex?

And the example would be?

But that's normal for any game's protagonist, that it can be infused with the player's emotions and motivations. Where does Geralt show as much or as little depth than any other VG protagonist independently of the game's quest design?

In the games with the custom protagonist, it is up to the player to create a Mary or not by bringing in whatever features into the character. The more fixed the protagonist is, the more the writers's intent shows through and overpowers the player's decisions. So, the question is, did Spakowski wrote up his own power fantasy in Geralt, and does it come to the fore in the game's Geralt.

No, thank you.

Yare Yare Daze.

Well, I figure there is a way for people to describe the impact the quest and characters have on them emotionally without making the other person to go experience it for themselves and form their own opinion.

Actually, yes. My main problem with the Witcher fans is that they are not normally conversant and do not try to show what is so great about the game they love by sharing their own impressions in details. Instead, they adopt the militant stand and their one and only thesis is "it is great because it is better than everything else, certainly better than < insert trashing of your favorite game >, < insert trashing of you personally >."

If I saw the selling pitch that appealed to me, I'd have bought it.

I do not read the PT thread, because that's for the folks hanging out, that's the last thread I would go to. I am more interested in sort of expanded player impact reviews, more than simply "go buy the game and then you will see".

That's because Technomancer checked out all the boxes of what I like about the video games save for the main character being a male called Zach. I need a lot more to get into the game that does not go well with my laundry list of a: customized lead, party-based, unusual non-medieval setting, artistic graphics with a flare, linear/hub, limited length of a PT, quest choices, many cool male characters, no debasing of female characters. So, yeah, getting into technomancer was easy, heck, they even let me romance a male. I do play games that are not like that, but I have to be sold on the game by something really cool/special about it.

Geralt may have left bit shallow image after the first two games, second to a lesser degree, but the studio's ability to portray the characters and bring out more sides soared to great heights with the third game. I must admit that while I enjoyed Witcher 2 in the end and learned to enjoy it despite early struggles with the combat system, the third game and its characters completely blew me away.

Finally introducing Ciri and Yennefer in the TW3 brought even more layers to Geralt, at least to my Geralt. Playing through the game for first time was possibly my fondest gaming experience so far. I wouldn't call Geralt Gary Sue in really any sense of the word, even in the books (at least what I've read), while he was capable he wasn't flawless. Nor is he so in the games.

I always saw the way I played Geralt to be at times slipping bit close to an antihero, not quite, but pretty close.

Anyway, how you play the game may influence the way the character comes across for many. The woman you have him end up with ( or neither) and how you play the relationship with Ciri are big factors in the game, at least for myself. I didn't have a very strong reaction to the previously mentioned Baron quest line, I did like it though. As someone who's always had a weakness towards stories of protective fathers and their daughters ("adopted" or not) it made the Ciri aspect my primary focus.

I used to kinda hate the Witcher games at least the second one, I played the first one quite long time ago, when I got my hands on the second one I had hard time getting into the gameplay. I didn't make it past the first mission/area it just felt weird to me and a lot of people calling it a great game rubbed me off the wrong way. I am really glad I was able to figure things out, when I did I completed the second one two or three times before I was happy with my save for the third one. If I had let my initial troubles keep me from finishing the second and especially the third game, I would've robbed myself from an amazing story and a great gaming experience.

Nobody owes it to anyone else to change their minds into giving the game(s) a try, if you don't want to, it's your loss. When it comes to strangers I don't really care whether they like it or not, but I would think anyone who's played them and generally enjoys fantasy games/stories and doesn't like the game(s) at all has really weird ass standards or is simply bit wrong in the head.